Pencak Silat word "pancha" meaning five, or from the Chinese term "pencha" or "pungcha" which implies parrying or deflecting, and striking or pressing. Other terms may be used in particular dialects such as "silek", "penca", "mancak", "maen po" or "main-po". Dutch East Indian newspapers of the colonial era recorded the terms for martial arts under Dutch spellings. These include "silat", "pencak" (spelled in Dutch as "pentjak"), "penca" ("pentjah"), "mancak" ("mentjak"), "manca" ("mentjah"), and "pukulan" ("poekoelan"). In 1881 a magazine calls mancak a Batak fencing game "with long swords, daggers or wood ("mentjah")" These papers described mancak as Malayan ("Maleidsche") suggesting that the
Pencak silat at the 2018 Asian Games – Men's tanding 75 kg from ten different countries competed in this Class F event, limited to fighters whose body weight was less than 75 kilograms. Trần Đình Nam from Vietnam won the gold medal after defeating Mohd Fauzi Khalid from Malaysia in the gold medal match by the score of 3–2. Daniiar Tokurov from Kyrgyzstan and Amri Rusdana from Indonesia finished third and won the bronze medal after losing in the semifinal. Pencak silat at the 2018 Asian Games – Men's tanding 75 kg The men's tanding 75 kilograms competition at the 2018 Asian Games took place from 23 to 29 August 2018 at