Instructors

Pendekar (Senior Instructor) Dr. Hamid Slimi has been practicing Martial Arts since his childhood and has more than one black belt in different styles of Martial Arts (Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and Indonesian/Malaysian). He is a certified senior Instructor with the equivalent of Sixth Dan degree black belt in Pencak Silat Al-Azhar (Pendekar) and Sixth Dan degree in Silat Jutsu system. He is the Canadian representative of the Indonesian Pencak Silat Alazhar Seni Bela Diri which was founded in 1970 by late Marhum Muhammad Sufiyono and Djauharul Abidin Bakir. He is also a Certified Coach Referee/judge (Jury wasit) for Al-Azhar SBD Silat competitions.  

Dr. Slimi is also the current president of the Canada Pencak Silat Federation which is a member of the International Pencak Silat Federation known as Persilat and also the Secretary General of the Pencak Silat Federation of the Americas.

In addition to Silat World, Prof. Slimi is also a certified Kickboxing Coach, a certified Judge and a certified Referee by the World Association of Kickboxing organizations and a certified Referee by the International Mixed Martial Arts Federation.

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Pelatih Haytham (Instructor) is a Second Dan Black Belt in Pencak Silat. He is also our Youth Coach for  for Kickboxing and Kumite Karate. Haytham won a good number of Silat competitions (Tanding) locally and internationally and he has also won Ontario Championship for Kickboxing for 2005.