Mark Tripp was an old school American Judoka. 20 or so years ago Combatives and RBSD showed up on the self defense scene, and began getting some attention. Instructors were few and far between, Cestari, Steiner, Kary, Dimitri and a few others were about all there were.
Now I am not going to go into a lengthy discussion about, Traditional Martial Arts or Combat Sports. I am merely going to present the 'Manual/Article' written by Mr Tripp who brought his own, and in my opinion, practical program. Originally presented in a Forum style format, this is a rather lengthy piece. Accordingly I will be presenting it one, or maybe, two chapters at a time.
I hope some of you will get something useful from it.
A Combat Judo Basic Course
by Mark Tripp
04-25-2005
ACJ - Basic Course:
I. Introduction
1. Combatives vs Arts vs Sports
2. Types of Combatives
3. Military
4. Police/Security
5. Civilian
6. The 4 rules of conduct
a. Don’t drink to excess, avoid those who do.
b. Do not use illegal drugs, avoid those who do.
c. Do not pursue illicit sexual encounters.
d. Neither accept or offer a "challenge" behavior
II. Fundamental Principles
a. Simple
b. Performed at great speed
c. Practiced until instinctive
d. Practiced full power on live resisting opponents
e. Be neither size or clothing specific
III. Selection of Techniques
1. Brevity and Simplicity above all else!
2. There are NO rules! Go for the family jewels!
3. There is NO defense; ATTACK!
4. Primary Targets:
a. Eyes
b. Groin
5. Secondary Targets:
a. Nose
b. Instep
IV. Balance and Footwork
1. Show “fight or flight” crouch
2. Teach all techniques from this position first
3. Stay on your feet, NO ground fighting!
4. C steps and In place pivots
5. Moving to positions 1, 2, 3 and 4
V. Blows with the hands
1. Edge of the Hand
2. Chin Jab (Tiger Claw)
3. Chin Jab and Trip (Tiger Claw to Osoto Otoshi)
4. Ear Slap and thumb the eyes
5. Elbow Shift
VI. Blows with the feet
1. Step away front kick
2. Pivot front kick
3. Stomping Kick
4. Finishing Kicks (Kicking a fallen man)
VII. Strangles
1. CVR Hold
2. Japanese Strangle
3. V crank and break
VIII. Take downs
1. Basic Front Take down (underhook and roll)
2. Basic Rear Take down (O Soto Otoshi)
IX. REMEMBER
“Unarmed Fighting” is what we do when we are going for our weapons or we have been so foolish as not to have one. In either case we must end the encounter swiftly and with extreme measures.”
X. Situations
1. Punching Attack (Wedge Up Position)
a. High Inside Attack
b. High Outside Attack
c. Low Inside Attack
d. Low Outside Attack
2. Kicking Attack (Double Dribble)
a. Inside attack
b. Outside Attack
c. a and b above against more than one opponent.
d. a above but with clothing grab
e. c above but with clothing grab
3. Combat Ground Fighting
a. Remember the goal is to end the fight not win a match.
b. Get to your feet ASAP!
c. NEVER go to the ground unless forced to.
d. Dangerous Hold Escapes
4. ANY “dangerous” hold or “submission” can be broken
by attacking the eye, the groin, biting or stomping the instep.
XI. Weapon Defenses
1. Knife
a. Stuff the draw
b. Kick and Run
c. Grab ANYTHING and smash him!
d. Twist, Trap, Attack
2. Handgun
a. Run
3. If you are sure you will be shot
a. Basic front disarm
b. Basic Rear disarm
c. Gun under jaw disarm
d. Gun in groin disarm
XII. Advanced Drills
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Combatives 1
From: MTripp
Date: 21-Apr-00
For the last 41 years of my life, I have been studying various martial art forms. You name the style, and odds are I've spent at least six months getting the feel of it. Now I know many martial arts instructors would have you believe that six months is not enough time to learn the basics, let alone understand the "mysteries" of a given system. To them I say, horse hockey!
The human body will only move in a given number of ways. The laws of physics are the same whether I'm in China, Korea, Japan, the United States! Every human has the same number of limbs, organs, and nerve centers (unless they have been injured). Once you have removed the cultural factors from the various systems (more on that later), you will find the basic movements are almost the same. It is important to understand this because of the radical nature of my next statement. After 41 years of study, I have come to the conclusion that THE MARTIAL ARTS DON'T WORK!
Now before we get a large pole and gather up dry kindling for me, let's agree on a definition. The vast majority of people who come into a "martial arts" school or program, come only for one reason: "protection". Either for themselves or their loved ones, but protection is the goal. Not medals, not diet and exercise, not philosophy, but the skills necessary to defend themselves from dangerous attack. I say again, if the goal is protection of yourself or a loved one, then THE MARTIAL ARTS DON'T WORK!
First, the Martial Arts were NEVER used in war! Can you tell me the battle where the karate army charged the hill defended by the Aikido army, and the results of same? Of course not.
Second, ALL of the stories you hear about "Martial Art" masters are simply untrue. Let me give the best example I can think of. EVERY master of Okinawan karate, and many other karate styles as well, tells us the tale of Okinawan peasants developing karate, because they had no weapons. "Legends" abound of great masters who could punch through Samurai armor! Well, if the unarmed karate skills of these people worked so well for them, WHY DIDN'T THEY OVERTHROW THE JAPANESE WHO WERE OPPRESSING THEIR PEOPLE? "Tall tales" are fun to read. However, we don't believe Davy Crockett killed a bear when he was three (to give one example), so we shouldn't believe these myths either.
The entire concept of "One Blow-One Kill" comes from training with the sword. I agree a well made sword, in the hands of a trained Samurai, will kill with one stroke. But when Japan outlawed possession of swords, the Samurai bought into the "tall tales" of Okinawa, due to the incredible breaking skills the Okinawan Karate masters had. Unfortunately, boards and bricks don't hit back and a hand is not a sword, no matter how much we wish it were.
"Martial Artists" by their very nature, want you to buy into "tall tales" and "mystic mindsets". When the average American tries these things, it's not going to work for them. The recent Ultimate Fighting Championships have given "Martial Artists" fits because of the results. So lets get this point made and move on; THE IDEA OF STANDING "TOE TO TOE" AND "FIGHTING IT OUT" WITH AN ASSAILANT IS FOOLISH, STUPID AND WILL GET YOU KILLED!
Current attempts to correct the problems aren't much better. Programs where women get together with other women, to beat the hell out of a man in a padded rubber suit WILL teach the aggressiveness necessary to survive a violent encounter. HOWEVER, they will still suffer from the "martial art" concept that you can "slug it out" with someone. Or your attackers will stand there and let you beat them until they are disabled!
I remember attending a seminar taught by a famous martial artist. Her entire concept was to just keep hitting someone until they fell down. When I asked, "What do you do think your opponent is doing while you're hitting him?", I was told, he'll be too busy ducking and avoiding to attack you. Nonsense! As long as I can THINK about hitting you, I WILL hit you! Now we're "slugging it out" again.
If a program tells you that with enough "boot camp" exercise, "aerobic boxing", bag work, or "makiwara" training, you will have the skills necessary to "slug it out" with someone, imagine the following:
"Ladies and Gentleman, this is the main event. In this corner, weighing 140 pounds, with one year of karate training, able to break 3 boards with a single blow, and able to do over an hour of calisthenics, the challenger!...and in this corner, weighing 240 lbs, just back from a 3 year tour of the state prison farm, with a record of 6 violent assaults, 3 rapes, 2 armed robberies, and an as of yet unproved murder...the champion!"
Who are you betting on to win the fight? There has to be a better plan, and there is! Simply put, we must never have a "toe to toe" conflict with anyone.
Martial arts training concentrates on one small aspect of self defense, that is physical technique, or "how to do it". But even here so much of the martial arts technique has no application at all to real fighting and it simply confuses the student by making actual
fighting seem complex and technical, hence he or she falls prey to to the ideology that "technique" or style is the answer. In doing so they are prevented from framing the right "question" and seeing the real problem.
But self defense is simply about surviving , not technique, and self defense study must include an understanding of the criminal assailants mind and modus operandi because by knowing his ways, most attacks can be avoided. Most important of all self defense training must show the student that he is placed in an "alternate mind set and consciousness" (Flight or Fight) when faced with direct stand up aggression. In short most people "choke" or "freeze" when confronted with their first real attack, hence even if they are accomplished martial arts people they can many times have no access to these skills in the adrenal state and are beaten decisively, easily and very quickly by the street thug.
These are two halves of the same whole, knowing your enemies ways and knowing yourself. Until the student experiences choking, "freezing up" under the threat or actual attack, he does not realize it can happen to him (he thus does not "know himself"). But once he experiences this he also realizes why the aggressor counts on the "freeze up" reaction since he also has been educated to the criminal assailant's victim selection modus operandi (Interview).
The real assailant for the most part is searching for a victim, not a fight and frankly martial arts training as we see it today in so many "dojos' is little more than "victim preparation" because it gives the student such a very distorted picture of what a real fight is all about and what his enemy is all about and his ways of doing business. Everyone needs to have this knowledge and some self defense ability in proportion to their potential for actualizing same. I believe this because after all, if their were no "easy victims" there would be far fewer criminal assailants.
Put it this way, go to any Zoo. We are not as strong as the elephant, as fast as the tiger, or as poisonous as the snake. Yet who is behind the bars? It is because of our MIND, and our TOOLS, that we can defeat the beasts of the world, and that includes the two legged types!
Early in 1993, a popular mld-afternoon talk show featured several people who had been assaulted on the streets. Their stories were all too familiar. One of them exclaimed that even though she had been involved in preparing women for such an assault, she was still powerless to prevent it! The show featured a criminologist and a security expert. They debated the merits of funding Head Start and putting in more security cameras in shopping malls respectively.
In the latter half of the program a self defense instructor was introduced. He proceeded to demonstrate various physical techniques that can be used by children to ward off the attack of a full grown man. The demonstrations worked well of course. After all, the children knew exactly when and how the assailant would strike; something you don't normally find in the real world. Not once in the entire program was the use of modern personal protection devices, such as defense sprays even mentioned. And that's a pity, because anyone who purchases and learns how to use these devices stands a much better chance of stopping an assault and escaping to summon help.
Despite a natural, trusting tendency to go about our daily lives in ignorant bliss, more and more people, especially women, are beginning to realize they must protect themselves. There is a growing realization that we all must assume the responsibly for our own safety. Let's look at some options.
In reality; there are only two types of "martial arts" that were created for war. The medhods handed down by Fairbairn to people like Applegate, Styers, etc. AND what the Russians did with Sambo. I leave it to Scott to relate that story to you; here we will focus on the one man who did indeed create the most effective system EVER for dealing with a life and death struggle; and of course his methods; W. E. Fairbairn.
"Dangerous Dan" had several axioms that students had to learn. To begin we learn the two most important ones.
"It is not "self-defense", nor should it be. It is "self-offense" in that the moment you see the danger you will respond with violent deadly force until that danger has passed."
And....
"Unarmed combat is what we enter into when we have been foolish enough not to have a weapon; careless enough to lose our weapon, or unlucky enough to have broken our weapon. But in any case our first choice will be to use deadly weapons to finsh off our opponent. Lacking those weapons; then our hands and feet will have to do."
Clearly our goal is to avoid conflict whenever possible. If we cannot avoid our goal becomes to make ourselves a "tough target" and evade the situation. But if avoid and evade fail; then we will make every effort to destroy our attacker by doing as much dammage to him as quickly as we can then leaving the area as quickly as we can.
This is the only goal to combatives. We will begin to learn how to achieve that goal now...
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