Dermot O'Neill Demonstrating The Cross Arm Guard to the First Special Service Force (aka: The Devils Brigade) During World War 2
While this training was geared to Military personnel, the basic concepts are still valid to contemporary civilian self defense.
This is an excerpt from an article in the Journal of Asian Martial Arts, Vol. 12, No. 3, 2003 entitled “Dermot M. O’Neill and The O’Neill System of Hand to Hand Combat”
"In O’Neill’s address to Marine Corps brass in 1966, he identified five key points in evaluating or testing any form of hand to hand combat, which are as true today as they were nearly *forty* years ago.”
1. It must be effective and this must be apparent to those taking the training.
2. It should be easy to learn, thus avoiding all complicated movements that are easily forgotten.
3. Special equipment and training areas should not be necessary.
4. Hand to Hand combat should be taught in a reasonably short training period, but kept alive by including it in the physical fitness program so that it will not be a one-shot affair given in basic training and then forgotten.
5. Size and weight are immaterial - flexibility, speed and know-how should be the aim.
Note:
*Article written in 2003, so it is now almost 60 years*
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