Untuk rekan-rekan IBP, sekedar membantu menyebarkan undangan dari Bali.
Ada
perguruan silat baru di Bali yang memadukan silat tradisional Bali dan
bela diri manca negara yang di sebut Mempatigan. Pernah saya liput
untuk National Geographic Indonesia.
Secara visual silat mereka menarik sekali untuk di
foto. Kalau ada rekan-rekan yang berminat datang kontak saja langsung
bossnya, Putu Witsen, alumnus SMAN70 Bulungan.
Salam
Feri Latief
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CELEBRATING BALINESE CULTURE AND MARTIAL ARTS
Green School Hosts the 1st open Mepantigan Bali Championship
Sibang
Kaja, Bali,July 15 2008 – Green School and Bali Mepantigan Arts proudly
present the 1st Open Mepantigan Bali Championship. This historic event
will be held at Green School's innovative and spectacular bamboo
coliseum in Sibang Kaja, Bali on Friday, August 15th and 16th ,2008.
Mepantigan is
a from of Balinese martial arts that involves techniques of throwing
and securing one's opponent that is found in self-defense traditions
around
the world. Mepantigan also includes Balinese drama, contemporary dance,
and Balinese gamelan music. Participants wear uniforms consisting of
bebuletan (sarong), kancut (sarong ornamental border), guladginting
(undergarment), and udeng (head-dress). These martial arts can be
performed on the beach, in the mud of rice fields, or in any open space.
Practitioners of Mepantigan gain physical fitness, release stress, and learn
valuable lessons in
camaraderie and sportsmanship. In addition to gaining valuable skills
and agility, both emotional and spiritual intelligence is emphasized.
According
to Putu Witsen Widjaya, the founder and senior teacher of Bali
Mepantigan Arts and a martial arts champion, students of Mepantigan
develop
important characteristics and avoid violence while cultivating
compassion. As he observed, "Wherever proper martial arts develop, evil
will diminish and a respect for others will grow. This is particularly
true for those who practice Mepantigan, which is a celebration of the spirit".
To reserve your tickets, please contact:
Meliana Salim
Marketing and Public Relations Manager
+ 62 361 469 875 / 780 5260
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.greenschool.org/mepantigan
To participate, please contact:
Putu Witsen Widjaya
Founder of Bali Mepantigan Arts
+62 361 297 863 / +62 818 352 471
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.balimepantiganarts.com
PROGRAM "1stOpen Mepantigan Bali Championship"
Friday, 15 August 2008
4:00 pm.: Greetings by Founders and Director at Director's house. Welcome
drinks
Followed by school tour.
5:00 pm.: Opening Ceremony at Mepantigan Centre. Introduction to Mepantigan
Art
by Putu Witsen Widjaya
5:10 pm.: Offering to Dewi Sri (the Goddess of rice field)
5:25 pm.: Si Bolang – The children from Pejeng Village will be performing a
fighting
Scene wiyh dry coconut leaves and shields or perang danyuh
accompanied
by traditional Balinese song.
5:35 pm.: Demonstration of Mepantigan Martial Arts – Performances by young
people
Sibang Kaja Village lead by instructor, Wayan Sumertha, a
teacher at
International schools in Sanur, Nusa Dua, Canggu and Green
School.
5:45 pm.: Mepantigan Championship: 1st Fight
6:00 pm.: Kul-Kul performance,Warior Dance or Baris and Shadow Puppet or
Wayang
6:15 pm.: Mepantigan Championship: 2nd Fight
6:30 pm.: Dinner
7:00 pm.: Mepantigan Gedeblag-Gedeblug – performance consisting of the
following:
*Traditional Balinese Tatto / Body Painting Orchestra
*Kecak Bamboo Fire Ball – fighting with dry coconut leaves
and torch
(perang danyuh), fighting the fragrant pandanus
leaves(perang pandan) ,
Fighting with bamboo (perang bamboo).
*Puppet and Dewi Sri poetry about the morality and
conservation rice field
in Bali.
Saturday, 16 August 2008
2:00 pm.: Meet and Greet at Mepantigan Center
2:00 pm.: Mepantigan Championship: 3rd Fight
3:00 pm.: Fun Mepantigan activities:
*Watching some people climb coconut trees to get young
coconut.
*Snacks and refreshments
*Buffalo rides, pillow fighting in the mud, Catching eels
at rice field
*Releasing gold fish for good bay
4:00 pm.: Closing Ceremony and Prize distribution:
*1st prize presented by John & Cynthia Hardy
*2nd prize presented by Brad Choyt
*3rd prize presented by Putu Witsen
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