Archive for the ‘Grappling and Ground Fighting’ Category

Southard Combat System: Reality Based Self Defense!

Tony Southard is a unique man. He has been a full con­tact pro­fes­sional fighter, a body­guard for celebri­ties, a mar­tial arts instruc­tor, a police instruc­tor, a mil­i­tary instruc­tor, a Karate Grand­mas­ter, and a chap­lain! This North Car­olina based mar­tial arts expert and trainer is a man you should know. Many law enforce­ment offi­cers, police recruits, and mil­i­tary oper­a­tors already know Mr. Southard very well. He fre­quently teaches the local police and mil­i­tary personnel.

Martial Arts Books: Fact or Fiction?

This story might be a work of Fic­tion but this author, and his impres­sive back­ground, are Fact!

I hap­pen to be an avid reader of mar­tial arts and com­bat related books. I enjoy both tech­ni­cal books con­tain­ing infor­ma­tion of how to per­form cer­tain tech­niques but I also enjoy mar­tial arts and related nov­els and books of fic­tional sto­ries and char­ac­ters. I espe­cially enjoy those books that describe police or law enforce­ment offi­cers who are involved in sto­ries where mar­tial arts play a strong role in the theme and storyline.

Soldiers Put Skills to Test in Combatives Tournament

by Sgt. Steven Peter­son
10th Moun­tain Divi­sion Journalist

Sol­diers sta­tioned on Fort Drum par­tic­i­pated in the 10th Moun­tain Divi­sion Com­bat­ives Tour­na­ment held April 25 and 26 at Magrath Sports Complex.

The tour­na­ment was open to all active-duty and reserve Sol­diers in the area. It pit­ted all who came to com­pete within the instal­la­tion against each other.

Before the matches began, instruc­tors from Fort Drum’s Light Fighter School gave a Mod­ern Army Com­bat­ives demon­stra­tion, explain­ing some of the main rules and the pur­pose of the technique.

Three Soldiers Make U.S. Olympic Wrestling Team

By Tim Hipps

Three Greco-Roman wrestlers in the U.S. Army World Class Ath­lete Pro­gram earned Olympic berths at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Tri­als for Wrestling, April 21–22.

Sgt. 1st Class Dremiel Byers, Sgt. Spenser Mango and Spc. Justin Lester won their weight classes at Carver-Hawkeye Arena to earn spots on Team USA for the 2012 Olympic Games, sched­uled to run from July 27 to Aug. 12, in Lon­don. All three Sol­diers are sta­tioned at Fort Car­son, Colo.

Two-time Olympian Byers won the 120-kilogram/264.5-pound divi­sion in two straight matches of a best-of-three final series against Michi­gan Wrestling Club’s Steve Andrus of Man­hat­tan, Kan., by scores of 1–0, 1–0 and 2–0, 2–0.

Video: Marines Ground Fighting

UFC Fighters Visit Guantanamo Bay Naval Base

Inter­views of UFC Fighter’s visit to Guan­tanamo Bay Naval Base Sug­gested Lead: “Fans of the Ulti­mate Fight­ing Cham­pi­onships who are sta­tioned at Guan­tanamo Bay Naval Base were in for a treat this hol­i­day week­end.” Inter­views of the Fol­low­ing: Keith “The Dean of Mean” Jar­dine Ulti­mate Fight­ing Cham­pi­onship fighter Matt “The Immor­tal” Brown Ulti­mate Fight­ing Cham­pi­onship fighter LT JG Jorge Teller, U.S. Coast Guard JTF-GTMO/Maritime Secu­rity Detachment

Guardian Defensive Tactics Police Combatives System ™

An Effec­tive and Effi­cient Method of Self-Defense for the Pro­fes­sional Warrior 

Damian Ross gets it. If there was ever an instruc­tor who knows what works and what does not work, he is the man. He is the pres­i­dent of the Self Defense Com­pany ™ and cre­ator of the Guardian Defen­sive Tac­tics Police Com­bat­ives ™ sys­tem as well as the Self Defense Company’s Train­ing Sys­tem Com­bat­ives ™ program.

I have been train­ing since 1974, in a myr­iad of mar­tial arts and defen­sive tac­tics sys­tems. I have been a Police Defen­sive Tac­tics instruc­tor since 1995. I have taught mar­tial arts since 1989. I can tell when a sys­tem has what it takes to keep you alive and when it is strictly for sport, for show, or sim­ply for profit. The Self Defense Company’s Guardian Defen­sive tac­tics Police Com­bat­ives ™ pro­gram is the real deal!

Intense Martial Arts Workout — Gain Strength for Martial Arts

If you prac­tice mar­tial arts, one thing you should always be doing is improv­ing your strength, sta­mina and endurance. When it comes to a fight, this can be the DIFFERENCE between win­ning or losing.

In this mar­tial arts work­out video, I will show you a crazy mar­tial arts work­out that takes things to a whole new level. This is def­i­nitely one of my favorite strength and train­ing work­outs for mar­tial arts.

Gracie Combatives and Gracie Survival Tactics

Gra­cie Com­bat­ives and Gra­cie Sur­vival Tac­tics: A Gra­cie Uni­ver­sity Train­ing Pro­gram that will help any Mar­tial Artist become a more com­plete fighter!

Ground defen­sive tech­niques are a must to prop­erly defend your­self as a police oper­a­tor due to the num­ber of peo­ple study­ing ground based jiu-jitsu sys­tems. Find­ing the time and/or school to attend can be a real prob­lem. Now, thanks to Ryron and Rener Gra­cie (head instruc­tors at Gra­cie Acad­emy), there is a cost effec­tive and prac­ti­cal solu­tion. Any­one can now study the world famous Gra­cie Jiu-Jitsu sys­tem at

www​.gra​cie​u​ni​ver​sity​.com.

Wrestling for Self-Defense: The Snatch Single Takedown

It works in the MMA cage, but is the sin­gle leg take­down effec­tive on the street?

In this self defense video, Gary and myself (Matt) will teach you one of the most aggres­sive and effec­tive ways to put a street attacker on his back and then quickly tran­si­tion to the mount where you can end the fight. This move is great for big­ger guys who lack speed and agility.