WILLIAMSBURG — Two Williamsburg Dojo instructors are headed to Indonesia with English books and funds to help schools for street kids.

Chris Robinson, a guru and owner of the dojo, saw his first practitioner of Indonesian martial arts, Pencak Silat, in 2007 and fell in love with the art.

“It blew me away, and I was like, ‘oh my gosh, it’s so beautiful, it’s deadly, I got to have it.’ So I actually dropped all the stuff I was teaching, told my students, I’m like, ‘all right, we’re going for a ride. I have got to learn this art,'” Robinson explains.

The dojo has about 175 students, which likely makes it the largest school outside of Indonesia for the martial art, according to Robinson.

Robinson said whenever the dojo goes to Indonesia, it always does performances of Silat for them. At th

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