The Musafir
Human Establishment
as the name implies, Human Establishment is a science formed based on the attachment of beings named humans, which is no longer mixed with the attachment of other creatures.
Everything in the book is about man and humanity. Unlike the other books of silat that actually imitate the movements or way of life of other animals for the sake of creation, Human Establishment actually contains all the movements and ways of human life that are as they are, without imitating the movement or way of life of the animal at all.
If humans and animals are different beings, both intellectually and physically, for what is it that man imitates the behavior of animals and even applies it to his behavior, while man already has his own behavior?
Let no animal imitate a human being by sitting on a bench, trading or selling in a supermarket, wandering in search of knowledge, striving to live a quieter life, talking, crying, laughing, grieving, rejoicing, walking upright, or something like that which is the nature of a human being in the act of life.
So man with all his humanity must be preserved. Mantingan preserve it into a silat science, so that more warriors in the future who realize the closeness of humans as a creature that is different from other creatures.
However, all that does not mean that the Mantingan will strip off all the science of animal imitation that has been mastered such as the Style of a Pair of Storks Snatching Fish and Science of Fish Up the Waterfall. All that science is still needed, because one of the human nature is to imitate the environment around it. Is not a difference indeed created so that each element in it can know each other and learn from each other?
Because no matter how human with all humanity, still living side by side with animals with all their charms. If the measure between humanity and its equal wonder, then there will be peace within and within the universe. Such is what is written in the Book of the Lotus:
...No matter how human...
...with all the hubris over her identity...
...so that the pride has become his identity...
...still no one will be able to live alone...
Such is what Mantingan applies in Human Establishment, which is not only filled with one fighting style, but three fighting styles that each have their own shortcomings and advantages. But the three movements that are still being developed are not separate from each other, remain united in the Founding of Man, as described in the Book of the Lotus:
...In one human body...
...not necessarily one soul...
...but in a group of people...
...who have united goals to achieve together...
...then no matter how much the body...
So even though the three fighting styles have different movements and formations, with different advantages and disadvantages, but have the same and definite purpose, applying humanity to martial arts. No wonder if the three fighting styles contain natural movements that only come from humans.
The three fighting styles are Slashing Attitude, which is by raising the sword to head high with one hand, and with the tip of the blade facing forward; Stance Stabbing, namely by grasping the sword in reverse, which is where the tip of the blade faces down or backward so that it can stab the opponent perfectly; and the Attitude to Stall, which is to throw the sword forward with the hand tightly grasped the handle, and, so that it is able to quickly protect the front of the body from the opponent's attack.
Surely the Human Establishment with its three fighting attitudes was not immediately able to master all Mantingan perfectly, because the science had just been created in his head, which must be poured first into the empty ejection sheets that will be arranged into a book, before finally being able to be practiced into a real form.
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BACK a full moon passed, so fast that it felt nothing. The mantle with White rushed out of the Thousand Drops of Water vault after encasing the gloved Savrinadeya Sword and lacking that sharpness in his waist belt. Always on this day, Tapa Balian came to deliver the supplies, he said, which hopefully it is only brought in the form of food supplies only because the Thousand Drops of Water will look like a slum environment if entered various other items.
It did not take long for Mantingan to get out of the dark passage, because he was used to passing through it hundreds of times. Not far in front of the mouth of the cave, seen Tapa Balian with his grandson was tethered three horses to a nearby tree trunk. The mantle immediately greeted them with warmth, as if the frost in the Thousand Drops of Water had never affected his warmth.
“O Mr. Balian, I miss you.” The coat exclaimed lightly as it continued walking towards him.
“Ah, Son of Mantingan, you always say like that, make me overwhelmed, because memamg no longer miss the existence of these useless parents.” Tapa Balian laughed widely in return.
The mantan stopped stepping with a fading smile as it looked at the three horses tethered to the tree trunk. “Father carries three horses at once, this is too much for me.”
“I brought something special for you, so that extra horses are needed.” Tapa Balian smiled widely before pulling a sword sheathed in the saddle of his horse. Initially Mantingan thought that the sword was meant as something special and would be given to him, but his guess was in fact wrong. “But before I give you that item, beat myself up first.”
Tapa Balian jerked the handle of his sword, pulling out his blade which immediately glittered in the morning sunlight. That was how it was then that the sword was drawn towards Mantingan.
While the Mantingan took a few steps back. May he never think that Tapa Balian will challenge him to fight and even demand to be defeated. It is not at all ready. He was not ready to fight, nor was he prepared to kill Tapa Balian.
As if it could read the young man's mind, Tapa Balian immediately chimed in, “This fight will only be a match practice, which is really far from a fight between a life and death. I only ask to be defeated, not to be killed.”
Mantingan was silent for a while before smiling awkwardly as he realized his mistake in thinking. Vigilance in the life of a swordsman is important and needed, but he forgets that the Talent of Balian with all his goodness does not include people who must also be put on alert by him.
