Silat Seni Gayong Ireland: May 2011

Monday, May 9, 2011

Silat Seni Gayong Ireland Today...

From left: Cikgu Zul, Janis, Cikgu Radzwan and Cikgu Anuar

After over a year we started promoting Silat Seni Gayong in Ireland, we are very happy with the development. Been recognised and invited to several demonstration at Dublin and Belfast, Silat Seni Gayong Ireland moving on the right track. We have been invited to participate in a seminar and demonstartion in europe country such as France, Holland and Belgium. Nevertheless many students from European came to Ireland to share the knowledge, which comes from Spain, France and from North Africa such as Algeria to seek and sharing the knowledge of Silat Seni Gayong.

Silat Seni Gayong Ireland (SSGI) now has running in 2 counties in Ireland. It is Limerick and Dublin. A lot of people started recognise us and try to know about our style of self defense. It is very unique and very practical for all level.

Cikgu Anuar

Class at Limerick is conducted by Cikgu Anuar Ahmad. His experience in Silat Seni Gayong it about 20 years. Now he hold the 1 Chula Black Belt. He start it when he was so young. For this moment, class has running at his private residence in Castletroy. Any information about class in Limerick, can contact him via phone (+353 876185498) or email (gayongschool.ie@gmail.com).

Cikgu Radzwan

Class at Dublin is conducted by Cikgu Radzwan Razak were holded 6 Chulas Black Belt. A master with a knowledge directly from the founder and well known Gayong Masters and a vast experiences teaching Silat Seni Gayong in variuos countries such as Australia, Syria, Tunisia, Mauritius, Turkey and many more. A presentable facilitator in seminar on Silat Seni Gayong worldwide. Class has running at Rathmines, Dublin 6. Any information, please feel free to contact via phone (+353 871 457591) or email (gayong_school@yahoo.com).

Friday, May 6, 2011

Lessons Package Already Started

The first lessons package already started on 30 April, 2011. At my private residence at Castletroy, the class has running smoothly and it was great. The training is about 1 and half hour start 2 a'clock afternoon.

Class was begun with a brief introduction of Silat Seni Gayong. After that, we start the training with warming up exercises. About the training modules, we already cover 4 basic movements of Senaman Anak Harimau (Stage 1).

The second class for this lessons package on 7 May, 2011.

History Gayong of Ireland

Silat Seni Gayong Ireland (SSGI) was formed by combining PSSGM Ireland, RCSI and Silat Gayong Club Limerick on April 2010. Now SSGI running in two cities in Ireland, there is Dublin at RCSI and Limerick.

Pertubuhan Silat Seni Gayong Malaysia (PSSGM) Ireland was created in year 2007 as sport society club in Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). The idea is come from a group of Malay students studying at RCSI. PSSGM Ireland was started by 14 silat practitioners at the time. They started training and polishing the art of silat moves during their training sessions.

Among the members, they have no qualified instructors. PSSGM Ireland decided to invite Cikgu Shaiful Hakim Mohd Noor from Paris as instructor because he is the nearest they have. He is a student in Paris and also silat Gayong instructor at France.

PSSGM Ireland is participating in college events and performs special demonstration upon invitation from inside and outside college. Since our officially under RCSI, our club have proudly represented RCSI in various functions such as the Islamic Awareness Week in University College Dublin (UCD) and International Cultural Night at Trinity College Dublin (TCD). Our biggest achievement was being invited to perform at International Paris Open Pencak Silat (IPO) in Paris on March 2008.

When the new semester of 2008/2009, PSSGM Ireland has been frozen because misunderstanding of the RCSI officer for the training activities by using a real weapons. Budget proposal to run our club for this semester was declined from RCSI. We have a problem to cover up the expenses of Cikgu Shaiful Hakim to come and run the training as usual. Therefore, many members were losing their spirit and withdraw from PSSGM Ireland. Finally there are only few members remain. So PSSGM Ireland is not actively running anymore.

On October 2009, Cikgu Radzwan Razak aka Kumbang Hitam visited Ireland. Cikgu Anuar Ahmad currently working at Limerick. They met and discuss the future of Gayong in Ireland. As agreed they went to Dublin and track down PSSGM Ireland members where is still remain and they met Mohd Firdaus Che Ani, Presiden of PSSGM Ireland club in RCSI.

After discussion, Cikgu Radzwan and Cikgu Anuar agreed to give an assistance to activate Gayong in Ireland. An agreed to share the knowledge of Gayong to the remain members. At the same time Gayong Club Limerick was form on November 2009 and started the first training on 29 November 2009 concentrating mostly on Irish students.

In March 2010, Cikgu Radzwan has visited Ireland again for a seminar. We had the meeting and agreed to form Silat Seni Gayong Ireland (SSGI). The proposal was submitted to The Embassy of Malaysia in London. On that particular date, officially Gayong in Ireland was recognised as SILAT SENI GAYONG IRELAND.

At present SSGI was instructed and handle by Cikgu Anuar Ahmad.