PESILAT. A Life as a Martial Artist

When I was 16, my elder brother asked me to join a sportsclub together. The sport was called 'pencak silat', something we had never heard of before. It was the late 90s; the Internet was in its infancy and we didn't have social media. It was a time of peace and optimism. Where my brother stopped doing 'pencak silat', I continued. Later, where he stopped doing 'kenpo', I continued. This is my life story in martial arts, in the heart of Western Europe, in a time of constant societal change.