Pukulan Tjiminde was developed in the small town of Tjiminde in West Java.  A Chinese Master and an Indonesian Master combined a style of Indonesian Silat and a style of Chinese Chaun-Fa (also called Kung-Fu).  It took them three years of daily study and practice to develop our style of Pukulan.

Pukulan Tjiminde was brought to this country by Mas Guru Agung Willy Wetzel.  Guru Willy Wetzel was ninth degree Golden Dragon Black Belt.  He opened the first Pukulan school in Beaver Falls, PA in 1956.  Guru Willy Wetzel continued teaching until his death on March 16, 1975.  Although he is gone, his teaching and spirit lives on in all of his students.

A Sixth River School...

At Golden Naga, when we refer to rivers of practitioners, we mean blood-lines, or generations of teachers.  Guru Willy Wetzel’s teacher was taught by the “well,” meaning the original source of the art, and so was ‘first river’.  This means that Guru Willy Wetzel was second river, and his students are third river.  Students at Golden Naga are all sixth river practitioners.