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Table
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SECTION I
- STANDING
CHAPTER 1: Standing submissions (Pages 3-80)
CHAPTER 2: Takedowns (Pages 81-98)
CHAPTER 3: Counters to takedowns (Pages 99-108)
SECTION
II - GROUND FIGHTING
CHAPTER 4: Closed Guard (Pages 111-140)
CHAPTER 5: Half Guard (Pages 141-160)
CHAPTER 6: Open Guard (Pages 161-188)
CHAPTER 7: Mount (Pages 189-210)
CHAPTER 8: Modified Mounts (Pages 211-242)
CHAPTER 9: Rear Mount (Pages 243-266)
CHAPTER 10: Side Control (Pages 267-286)
CHAPTER 11: Knee on Stomach & Knee on Chest (Pages 287-306)
CHAPTER 12: North-South & Scarf Hold (Pages 307-330)
CHAPTER 13: All Fours (Pages 331-348)
SECTION
III - SPECIAL SITUATIONS
CHAPTER 14: Prisoner Control (Pages 351-360)
CHAPTER 15: Weapons Disarming (Pages 361-396)
CHAPTER 16: Weapons Retention (Pages 397-416)
CHAPTER 17: Prisoner Search & Counter Search (Pages 417-440)
CHAPTER 18: Sentry Removal (Pages 441-452)
APPENDIX: Common Technique Explanations (Pages 453-462)
GLOSSARY: Position and Technique Definitions (Pages 463-466)
Excerpts:
WHAT DOES THIS MANUAL OFFER
YOU?
This books was written with
the soldier in mind. However, it was intended that anyone
interested in the martial arts, especially the grappling arts, would
benefit from this work. Other target audiences such as law
enforcement personnel and federal agencies will find this work
beneficial considering the chapters on weapons and special situations.
I wanted to create a book that
addressed the full spectrum of unarmed combat and not one specific area.
There has been much criticism leveled against grappling arts with the
thrust that in many situations you do not want to be fighting on the
ground. Taking this into consideration, I created the first
section which includes chapters on standing submissions, takedowns, and
counters to takedowns. Chapter one, the largest chapter of the
book, is all stand up fighting. This chapter addresses
self-defense techniques, counter-attacks and attacks that allow the
fighter to remain on his feet in order to defeat his opponent. The
second chapter addresses takedowns for those wanting to transition from
standing to ground work. These takedowns are realistic and easily
executed by the average person, not requiring years of skill and
training. The third chapter addresses counters to takedowns so
that you can avoid going to the ground if your opponent tries to bring
the fight into this arena.
The second section of the book
addresses the full spectrum of ground fighting with an emphasis on joint
locks and submission holds. These chapters are thorough, detailed,
and comprehensive. If you are looking to learn ground fighting
techniques, you will be thoroughly satisfied with the almost 250 pages
of the book that addresses this at length.
The third section addresses
some of the unique skills and techniques that are required by military
and law enforcement forces in execution of their duties during combat
and conflict. A chapter on holds addressed how to physically
control and detain your opponent once you have defeated him.
Another chapter addresses weapons disarming techniques and offers a
variety of techniques for disarming your opponent who may be armed with
a knife, club, rifle, pistol, or pistol and rifle. Following this
chapter is the other side of the coin, how to retain your pistol or
rifle if confronted with an opponent who tries to disarm you.
These chapters lead to the section on how to effectively search a
captive while minimizing risk to you, the searcher. Of course, the
other side is addressed on how to effectively execute counter-search
techniques. Rounding out the manual is the last chapter on sentry
removal, which addresses different techniques for removing an armed
sentry.
I believe that you, the
reader, will find that all of these skill sets combine to create a
manual that addresses the full spectrum of unarmed combat that you might
encounter on the battlefield or in the street. Law enforcement and
federal agencies will find the latter chapters particularly useful while
anyone interested in self-defense, self-preservation, and the knowledge
needed to survive hand-to-hand encounters will be particularly
satisfied.
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WHY JOINT LOCKS?
Why study the use and art of
joint locks? Joint locks offer certain capabilities that striking
does not. I don't mean to imply that you can be a good, rounded
fighter without striking skills. However, joint manipulation
definitely gives you advantages over striking in many situations.
With a joint lock, you can gradually increase the pain on a joint in
order to gain mental capitulation and compliance from your opponent.
For example, if you need to
physically control a person or gain compliance, striking is not going to
be effective. What if you need to control someone who is drunk?
Are you going to punch him in the nose in an effort to control him?
How about using a wrist lock which is infinitely more painful and allows you
to guide that person or gain compliance from the lock. What if you
are on a peacekeeping mission and an old man grabs you in a public
market? Are you going to head butt him in the face? Why not
use an arm bar and control the person so you can control the situation
and de-escalate it through the gradual application of pain. Law
enforcement personnel can definitely benefit from the use of joint locks
over strikes. Look at the bungled attempt to control Rodney King
by striking him, oh, about a hundred times, with a baton. What did
that achieve? Nothing...except a huge civil lawsuit and a bad
reputation for the police. They should have used a painful joint
lock, choke or a hold to control him physically by gradually increasing
the pain and injury level until they gained compliance.
Joint locks also give you the
ability to cause serious injury with, if necessary, lethal results.
I can execute an arm bar on an opponent and destroy the ligaments of the
elbow which will eliminate the functional use of that arm and require
surgery. Can you punch someone in the elbow and have the same
effect? No. You can crank someone's neck and sever his
spinal cord causing paralysis or death; will an elbow strike to the neck
cause this? No. The very nature of joint locks and strikes
are different. Strikes cause blunt trauma whose severity can not be
controlled. Joint locks destroy the joints of the body through
hyper-extension, hyper-flexion, or torque which can be expertly
controlled.
Chokes are an important
element of gaining submission from an opponent. Look at what
advantages chokes can give. A blood choke can cut off the carotid
arteries to an opponent's brain leading to unconsciousness and,
potentially, brain damage or death. You can punch someone in the
head and give them a concussion and possibly knock them out but, this is
a very inexact means to get the same result. A choke is gradually
applied in order to gain compliance with the certainty that the person
will be unconscious in seconds. Are you going to approach a sentry
from behind and punch him in the back of the helmet to knock him out or
kill him? Of course not. There is certainty in a choke, very
little certainty in a strike, in this situation.
This discourse is not meant to
downgrade the need for striking...striking is vital for hand-to-hand
combat and integral to any fighter's strategy. However, joint
locks offer unique capabilities, versatility, and escalation that
strikes do not and can not provide.
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