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Unarmed Combat

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    #32
    Dirty Knuckles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 41 ✭Dirty Knuckles


    Irish_Army01 wrote:
    Yes I do have an Martial Arts back round..


    What is your Martial Arts background and how effective do you think the Defence Forces Unarmed Combat training is?.


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    #33
    Irish_Army01
    Registered Users Posts: 445 ✭✭Irish_Army01


    Dirty Knuckles wrote:
    What is your Martial Arts background and how effective do you think the Defence Forces Unarmed Combat training is?.



    ninjitsu and yes it is very effective..its simply and to the point.


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    #34
    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    Irish_Army01 wrote:
    ninjitsu and yes it is very effective..its simply and to the point.


    You've tested its effectiveness?.

    Sorry, I'm not trying to put you on the spot, but like Baggio I've an interest in all types of Martial Arts and (I guess) unarmed combat.


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    Manic Moran
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    I got the impression that the two days of hand-to-hand we got in Basic was really more for psychological effect than to provide fancy skills. Just enough to give us the confidence that we -could- win, which is reasonable enough as confidence is what you need more than anything else. I found (reasonably enough) more emphasis on bayonet training (including various ways of clubbing people with the blunt end of the rifle)

    Anyway, check out these links. GX (National Guard publication) has just started a 'Basic combatives' guide. They've only done three issues so far.

    http://www.gxonline.com/past_issues/issues/gx4-2/12-combat.pdf

    http://www.gxonline.com/past_issues/issues/gx4-3/10_combatives.pdf

    http://www.gxonline.com/past_issues/issues/gx4-4/11_combatives.pdf

    NTM


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    #36
    Clare gunner
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    Would it not be easier to just still teach the Fairbain/Applegate system from ww2?It taught thousands of Gis and Allied troops the rudiments and quickly as well.If somone is that close to you and you have to grapple in unarmed combat somthing has gone badly wrong,and I expect it more to be like that very nasty fight portrayed in Saving Pvt Ryan between the big SS bloke and "New York". A bite,gouge, slamming head into wall, nut kicking ,knife wrestling to the death match.


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