Ganda is a Pencak Silat competition category in which two Pesilats (two contestants) of the same team perform their skills and demonstrate the richness of their attack-defense Jurus techniques. The attack-defense movements are performed in a well-planned, effective, aesthetic, stable and logical manner, well-organized, whether it is a powerful and fast movement or slow and contemplative movement, bare-handedly and armed.
Regu is a Pencak Silat competition category in which three Pesilats (three contestants) of the same team perform their skills in Jurus Baku Regu (Team Jurus) in an accurate, exact and stable manner, along with soulfulness and harmony, bare-handedly.
Tunggal is a Pencak Silat competition category in which a Pesilat (one contestant) performs Jurus Baku Tunggal (single jurus) skill in a proper, accurate and stable manner with soulfulness, bare-handedly and armed.
Pencak Silat broadly describes a form of indigenous martial arts that originates from parts of Southeast Asia. Pencak is the performance aspects of the martial art, while Silat is the essence of the fighting and self-defence.
There are many different forms and techniques in Silat but focus is concentrated on strikes, joint manipulation, throws and bladed weaponry.
Pencak Silat competitions consist of 2 categories:
Match category: Tanding
Artistic category: Tunggal (Singles), Ganda (Doubles) and Regu (Team)
Match category events consist of a sparring match between two contestants. Artistic category events consist of 1 to 3 contestants demonstrating their skills in a series of pre-planned movements.
There are 13 events for Pencak Silat in the 28th SEA Games:
Men’s:
• Tanding Class A (45kg to 50kg)
• Tanding Class B (50kg to 55kg)
• Tanding Class C (55kg to 60kg)
• Tanding Class D (60kg to 65kg)
• Tanding Class E (65kg to 70kg)
• Tanding Class F (70kg to 75kg)
• Tanding Class H (80kg to 85kg)
• Tunggal (Singles)
• Ganda (Doubles)
Women’s:
• Tanding Class B (50kg to 55kg)
• Tanding Class C (55kg to 60kg)
• Tanding Class D (60kg to 65kg)
• Regu (Team)
Tanding is a Pencak Silat competition category which presents a match between 2 (two) Pesilat (contestants) from different teams. Both contestants confront each other using defense and attack elements i.e. repulse/dodge/hit/attack at the target and drop the opponent; using competition tactics and techniques; maintaining stamina and fighting spirit; applying principles (kaidah) and steps patterns (pola langkah) by demonstrating the richness of jurus techniques, in order to score the most.
Men's Tanding Class A (45-50kg)
Diep Ngoc Vu Minh (Vietnam) vs Nur Awaluddin (Indonesia)
