Woof Nasigoreng:
As I mentioned previously, this is a very good question. I've woken up a little early and will take a stab at beginning to answer:
Bataanvet writes "Nothing against DBMA but in my opinion DBMA does not really offer traditional PS training (djurus, salutations, adat, hormat, etc) I haven't seen any of it in their vid clips. Maybe it would worthwhile for a notable group like the DB to establish some formal PS trainng as part of their growth."
He is right that we do not offer a lot of traditional PS training. First, please allow me to point out that we do not see ourselves or present ourselves as a one-stop shop for all things. My teacher, Guro Inosanto, is readily available to any who are interested in this. Many of our people come from Guro I. or someone trained by him and with my abilities and proclivities with regard to traditional PS I would feel quite inadequate in teaching it.
Second, while we do not have traditional djurus, we do have our own seguidas/djurus. We do have our own salutation. I forget what adat means (See! I'm not the right man for teaching traditional PS!
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As for hormat, if I remember correctly, the term refers to imparting values, including spiritual matters. IMHO we do offer this, and rather extensively. I would go so far as to say hormat is woven through most everything we do from the Dog Brothers credo "Higher Consciousness through harder contact" (c) forward. Look at the powerful spiritual effects from fighting as we do: "No judges, no referees, no trophies. One rule only: Be Friends at the end of the day." (c)
How liberating to fight without keeping score!!!
No judges: The meaning of the experience is what each fighter makes of the experience. He does not submit himself to the judgement of others.
No referees: Even in full blown adrenal state, the fighter remains morally responsible for his actions, for in what we do a referee cannot intervene in time. To experience simultaneously high adrenaline aggression AND the calmness required to not do what would be too much, is a duality of powerful tranformational qualities. It is to what we refer when we use the full statement of our credo "The greater the dichotomy, the profounder the transformation. Higher consciousness through harder contact." (c) Our intention is that a warrior tested and seasoned through the Dog Brothers experience is one who can step forward as a member of "the unorganized militia" in a moment of trouble to act with wisdom and morality-- as well as fighting skill.
No trophies: The fighter does not do this for hierarchical reasons or the approval of the crowd. He does this for himself.
Be friends at the end of the day: No matter who our teachers or what our system may be, We are all members of the same tribe, preparing each other to stand together to defend our land, women and children. We learn to fight so that we have maximal ability to win without lastingly damaging our opponent at the Gathering or an adversary in the street-- and have the ability to go as far as necessary to defend our land, women and children. We prepare ourselves for the true Warrior's mission: To Protect and Serve.
I also submit that our hormat can be found in what many have come to call "The Dog Brothers philosophy"-- a mad blend of evolutionary biology/pyschology (especially Konrad Lorenz), Jungian psychology (and some of its offshoots such as Robert Bly and Joseph Campbell), and elements of various spiritual disciplines. The DB philosophy seeks to offer DBMA practitioners a context in which and a framework with which to think about the biology of aggression, the pyschology of aggression, and the morality of aggression.
Many elements of our hormat which I discuss here also can be seen in our clips "Rambling Ruminations", "Knife Ruminations", and "The Unorganized Militia".
Lets turn now to the matter of teaching methodolgy. Traditional PS tends to be highly secretive, even to its own students until they "prove their loyalty". I too have my secrets and hold the instructors I develop responsible for maintaining certain things secret. (Indeed, as I will discuss a bit more fully below, if I am any good at keeping secrets, people will not realize when I am doing it.)
That said, the mission statement of DBMA is to help good people "To walk as a warrior for all our days". There is so much to learn, far more than can be learned in one life, that it makes little sense to me to tarry, dawdle and mislead in the process as I saw done in one traditional PS system. And because tomorrow is promised to no one, I want people who train with me to get functional fast as well as "to walk as a warrior for all their days". As a teacher I seek to establish long term benefits from the beginning even as I help our people become functional fast. Growing in the art of doing this is an adventure for me every time I teach.
Because life is promised to no one, I seek the most effective teaching methods I can. If they are traditional, I use them. If they are not traditional, I use them.
It is time for me to turn to family matters of the morning and to prepare myself for a full day of teaching. I am blessed.
More later.
The Adventure continues,
Guro Crafty