In Search of Lost Thumbs 22

Disregarded communication and the layers of the body

The other day I participated in a course on the Indonesian martial art called silat. Usually I train in Okinawan karate or Chinese martial arts, so this was another quite different cultural experience—I’m one of these people who does things they like even though they’re not very good at them. 

Silat has many different “schools” (what in Japanese we would…