Silat Tempur is a mini silat olahraga sports that focus to the children between aged 7 to 13 years old.
The purpose of this combat sports is to improve the martial arts techniques for young exponents particularly to those who still new in competition.
The scoring points and round of match were same as Silat Olahraga.
The techniques used were punch, kick, catch, block and topple down which less than Silat Olahraga. The high intensity and intermittent nature in Silat Olahraga suggested that the competition is not appropriate to children.
The arena of Silat Olahraga was big (9 x 9 meter) compared to one straight-line (4 x 9 meter) for Silat Tempur. The arena of Silat Tempur was similar with fencing platform which aimed to ease the exponents to perform the simple silat techniques such as punching and kicking in competition.
Moreover, the movements of both silat exponents will be controlled to for consecutive strikes for each exponent and limited to avoid injury.
This competition was in line with the national Seni Silat Malaysia curriculum which emphasized on blocks, punches and kicks for the first two levels (lower phase; white to blue belt and blue to brown belt).
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