GRASIO Association (Singapore) is a 2,000 plus-member, not-for-profit organization, founded in 1997, which holds more amateur and professional sports events every year. 67 centres make up GRASIO, with its main competition training centre at Jalan Besar CC. GRASIO Association (Singapore) is the brainchild of one passionate and dedicated individual who love the idea of beautiful world of endurance a
nd high performance sports. The founding individual, Grandmaster Sheik Alau'ddin Yacoob Marican PBM, deliberated and debated and eventually decided that something had to be done to share his passion and dedication with all in the community. And thus, the ideas evolved and eventually materialized in the month of August 1997 - the birth of GRASIO Association (Singapore) and GRASIO Silat Club. Although the idea behind this emergence was the burning desire of one man to contribute something to the sports that had given him a lot and help other like-minded individuals achieve their dream, GRASIO has grown from tremendously with the powerful combination of family ties. GRASIO's branches grew fast and continue to grow, in its effort to outreach all part of community. Though relatively a new start up, GRASIO have accumulatively competed and organized several high profile pencak silat championships across the nation. Today, GRASIO is recognized in Singapore as the biggest and fastes growing pencak silat club. With Grasio's multi-dimensional nature, all programmes laid out are known as one of the most complete in local silat market today. With a strong commitment to improving the quality and quantity of silat sporting opportunities at grass roots and development levels, the range of courses offered by GRASIO is based on the Singapore Sports Council's strategy for sport and leisure which prioritises specific sports activities and takes account of our local community and environment.
