Kahir won the fight and made himself more popular among the people in Cianjur region. In order to prove Kahir's his skills, the mayor challenged him to a fight against a Chinese master of Kuntao Macao in alun-alun (park) Cianjur. Raden Adipati Wiratanudatar knew that Kahir is skillful in playing maempo and he asked him to teach him and his family, all regional and security officers. He then decided to move to Cianjur and lived in Kamurang vilage. When doing business in Cianjur, he met with the 4th city mayor of Cianjur, Raden Adipati Wiratanudatar (1776-1813). His meeting with other silat pendekar gave him an idea to broaden his horizon by accepting other cultures into his own. In Batavia he was able to get acquainted with other silat pendekar(s) from Minangkabau and Cina - masters in the world of silat, and he traded experiences with them. There has been many attempts to rob him, but he was able to overcome them all because of his skills in playing maempo. His students then spread it out to other regions like Batavia, Bekasi, Karawang, Cikampek, Cianjur, Bandung, Garut, Tasikmalaya, Sumedang, Ciamis, Kuningan, and Cirebon.When he was living in Cogreg, Bogor, Kahir used to travel far, leaving his hometown for trading horses. He became a feared pendekar around the year 1760 which was when he first introduced to his students the maempo Cimande moves. Kahir lived in a village of Cogreg, Bogor. Kahir and the locals called it by the name of maempo Cimande. The maempo teknik was continuously developed by Mr. Because the tiger's position when charging against the monkeys was with both rear legs in squatting position and the monkeys were using low stance position, thus the basic moves for Cimande is first - jurus kelid (dodging moves), starting from the tiger's sitting position and the next step is standing low (low stance) monkey style. The monkeys attacking by using branches is known as "jurus pepedangan" (sword move) and striking of the tiger with both of its strong paws is known as "jurus pamacan" (tiger style). Mr Kahir would recall those fighting moves and it is now known by the name "jurus kelid pamonyet" (dodging monkey style). Kahir dilligently asked his wife how those swift moves were done, and his wife showed him some samples. The wife explained to her husband that her delay was due to her return from the river, after having watching an interesting fight between the tiger and the monkeys. Kahir asked his wife :"where did you learn to play poho?" (poho means to perform "deceiving moves", or "maempo" for short). Blow by blow he tried to land on his wife, but none were able to touch her. Her husband got even more upset and lost control over himself. He got so upset and that he tried to slap her on the face. Kahir very upset at her and he didn't want to understand her, though she tried her best to explain. As a result, she didn't finish her job in time, she arrived home late and did not prepare lunch yet. Ibu Kahir was carefully watching this moments by moments, she comprehended every movements which appeared to be as a fighting technique.
But at the same time the monkeys dodged the attack and bit on him again. On the other hand the other monkeys, using branch sticks, they tried to divert the tiger's attention and made him even more angry and jumped on them again. The tiger struggled and striked back, but his attacks did not prevail over the monkeys. The tiger roared furiously and charged towards the monkeys with its strong paws, but the little monkeys, not showing any fear at all, dodged the tiger and striked back by biting on the tiger's stomach. Kahir's wife was alerted and wondered what would happen next. Feeling that the presence of the tiger was very disturbing, the monkeys screamed and made loud noises, as loud as they could. Not too long after that a tiger appeared at the same place. When the wife was washing laundry she saw a school of monkeys across the stream, picking up "kupak" fruit along the river shore. One day his wife went toward the river to run her daily errants such as washing laundry, cleaning food materials and relieving herself. The Myth of Maempo Cimande (Original Indonesian text is shown below) Not far from the Mande river shore was a family of a merchant by the name of Kahir who lived in peace and calm.
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