Founder of Kun Tao Silat de Thouars

Born in 1936 in Paree, East Java, Uncle grew up in a Dutch-Indonesian family of renowned martial artists and fighters. While he also studied with great Indonesian silat masters of the time, he primarily practiced Chinese Kuntao, a combat-oriented mixture of old Shaolin and internal gungfu systems of Tai Chi, Hsing-yi and Pakua.

His system, Kuntao Silat de Thouars, combines "old school" Chinese gongfu, Indonesian silat, Western fencing, boxing, grappling, and animal energies, always rooted to the realities of life and death combat.

His mottos, "Internal cultivation, external manifestation" and "struggle with it!" explain it all.