The Thousand Mask Warrior

The Tiger of Pattani

“I stand before thee, warrior, as a shameful man bearing a title that seems no longer worthy of me, the Tiger of Pattani. My name is Jonah, brother. Please be kind to me to give enough and valuable knowledge,” said Yunus, one of the four Gayong Malay Tiger disciples Baharuddin Labbiri while respecting, clenching his palms in front of his face.

All three of his comrades who had already been first defeated by Jayaseta in a surprising manner snorted almost simultaneously. “Smart once Yunus plays the word. He only tried to hide his shame if he lost,” said Mansur jeered but in jest. His words overwritten the faint smile and laughter of his comrades agreed.

Jayaseta returned Jonah's respect by also clenching his palms. “All right my brother, Jonah. I'm Jayaseta. Also please do not hesitate to share the experience of kanuragan with me,” said Jayaseta steady excited. Of course this inevitably makes Jonah a little bit scared of his guts, although on the other hand, as a swordsman, he is also just as excited because he is curious to try out the magic and share the style with Jayaseta.

It didn't take long for Jayaseta to storm Jonah. This sudden attack is unmitigated. Jayaseta delivers one straight and fast hard punch even with a little gushing inner force. Perhaps this is what Jayaseta meant by sharing the canuragan experience. He did not want the enemy just busy thinking about how to show his characteristic moves without really fighting the enemy. So Jayaseta increased the burden on his attack.

Jonah swiftly took a step back so that Jayaseta's fist did not hit him. But as a result, Jonah realized that Jayaseta could not play games. The deep wind of energy that blew itself away was felt once. Moreover, Jayaseta then followed with the next attack. Yunus retreated back but jumped while brushing off Jayaseta's fist. The clash of both hands explains more deeply how truly Jayaseta is. There was something different about this clap of Jonah's arm. The movement is so gentle but able to dampen the energy in Jayaseta.

After doing a pat, Jonah went back backwards and lowered his head so low. Both hands are attached to the ground, one leg stretches straight while the other arches supporting the body. Jayaseta realized, this is one of Pattani's tiger horses. But just now Jayaseta found out what happened, Jonah jumped up by jumping his body using one leg that supported his body earlier.

Jayaseta is now retreated two steps back due to two consecutive strikes in the form of one straight fist and a circular punch. Not until there, Jonah jumped and threw a round kick towards Jayaseta's head. Jonah unceasingly flowed the energy in pure into his kick.

All the spectators held their breaths as Jayaseta held back the hard kick with her arm, forcing her to be pushed to the side and forced to roll on the ground. The three fellow Tiger Gayong Malay swordsmen joined in pounding watching this match. Baharuddin Labbiri smiled widely.

Jayaseta was smiling, but in her heart. His face was fixed in earnest. This was to provoke Jonah's attacks to be bolder so that Jonah could unleash all his abilities and skills.

Sure enough, Jonah this time roared forward. He again began the attack with a jump that was intended to thicken the strength and speed of the attack. Three direct assaults were awarded to Jayaseta. One sideways punch that started from a gentle movement that was then blasted off quickly. So does one straight punch and a low kick that all start with a slow motion that is blasted violently.

Jayaseta repelled and repelled all of Jonah's attacks. As a result he looks backward and desperate. This he did deliberately to re-find Jonah. Not just jemawa and underestimate Yunus by playing tricks on him, but Jayaseta does want a true lesson from the silat-jurus Gayong Malay Pattani which is also called the Pattani Tiger silat. When in Sukadana first, he tasted Pattani silat in the form of Silat Pulut taught by Datuk Mas Kuning. Although not the meaning of Silat Pulut does not mean to him, but he still wants to get more knowledge.

Silat Pattani who gained great influence from Hindustani martial arts in the archipelago is still mostly embraced Hindu religion is much take philosophy and style and moves based on the Ramayana story which is also well known in the stories of puppetry on the island of Java. In the Malay world, the story and story of Ramayana is known as Hikayat Seri Rama or also known by the people of Siam as Ramakien.

Jonah's attacks were straight and fast, then forward and backward as fast and agile as they really were

imitating the style of the Seri Rama, or in Javanese culture known as Sri Rama, while pulling an arrow and releasing it. While the initial softness of Yunus punch and kick attacks refers to the wife of Seri Rama, namely Sita Dewi – known on the island of Java as Dewi Sinta – is soft but

very compact. The style imitates the softness of Sita Dewi is what Yunus used to brush off the powerful fist in Jayaseta at the beginning of the fight earlier.

The last element that Yunus used in these Pattani-influenced styles of Ramayana is

the power of the great ape, Hanuman or Anoman in Javanese culture. Not surprisingly, Jonah doubled his attack power by frequently jumping like a strong and agile Hanuman. It can be said that these Gayong Pattani silat moves consist of female male elements as well as hard soft that complement each other. No wonder, because in addition to being influenced by Hindustani martial arts, Pattani silat also get the influence of the Chinese silat known as Xingyiguan which focuses on energy explosions after previously starting with gentle movements.

Jayaseta mounted the horses again when Jonah finally felt his confidence increase and did not hesitate to use other important elements in the demands of his moves, namely the style of shining by imitating the movements and characteristics of animals.

Jonah again jumped forward attacking although his jump this time was slightly different because it was lower but faster. That is the first style that imitates a deer or in Malay is called ruso. These jumps are used to aid rapid fist and site attacks, mimicking a kero or ape and ape. And so the combination of deer and apes made Jonah's attack full of leaps and lightning-like attacks.

Jayaseta flinched backwards, even almost falling.

The spectators gasped, holding their breath, seeing the unknown warrior as if in an unfavorable state against Jonah, their elder brother and peerage.

Jonah is becoming. Three-fowl force in one movement is launched. A hele or an eagle makes

Jonah slid forward towards Jayaseta like flying. One leg is raised and the other sustains balance like a stork. The raised leg is released quickly to target Jayaseta's stomach like a rooster or a rooster that plays his stool in a cockfight.

BUGS!

Jayaseta was pushed back and rolled back.

Unarrestable, some spectators, the disciples of the silat Baharuddin Labbiri cheered joyfully, proudly and passionately to Jonah.

Jayaseta instead was overjoyed. Means he can see and experience for himself the great moves of the gayong Pattani silat. Then he won't lose anyway. Jayaseta wakes up quickly, then tries to avenge Jonah's attack by using the Bogem Watu Gunung which is energized in large enough to get the best results.

Jonah turned round with ease. He brushed off Jayaseta's upper arm, then one leg flapped the opponent's calf. That is the movement of the nago or dragon skill that wriggles his body while the sweep of Jonah's legs is useful as a tail.

Jayaseta fell, but did not fall because he had rolled back on the ground.

This time even the three fellow Gayong Malay Tigers could not bear to clap and cheer. The low voice of the spiritists of Jonah watched as it seemed that the air of excellence and victory was in Jonah the Tiger of Pattani.

Jonah himself had returned prepared with his horses. Jayaseta got up, stood relaxed almost without horses, looked at Yunus straight sharply then said slowly, “This time is a tiger style, is not it, Jonah?”

Jonah gasped and was surprised. How does the opponent understand that he has used all elements of the Gayong Pattani silat style except the tiger style?

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Welcome back to the follow-up episode of Jayaseta's journey in the martial world. Sorry for not being able to update the episode immediately because there are some episodes that I have written that are missing. It's really doom. As a result I had to rewrite the episodes, and it was a job full of suffering. Second, there are indeed some busy writers who make the continuation of the story becomes stagnant. But don't worry, Jayaseta's long plot, though still long, has been printed clearly, measured, structured and contained in the book of stories in my soul and brain. So, he will not disappear even though the details of the story will get a variety of changes and adjustments here and there.

On this occasion, I also want to wish you a Happy World Puppet Day which is celebrated every November 7, where as we know that Wayang Indonesia is recognized as a world heritage by UNESCO. Incidentally, in this episode there is a little theme of Malay version puppetry in relation to the style or style of gayong silat. So I think it's quite related to World Puppet Day celebrations.

Once again thank you for the patience and loyalty and appreciation of dear readers for my work that is not so much.