Human Weapon

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The History Channel is airing a show called Human Weapon. Each episode, the two hosts travel to a different part of the world, intensively train in that region's martial art for five days, and then spar/fight with a master of that art. I've learned several useful ideas already relating to knees and elbows.

I believe it fits with this Forum, but of course the mods are the final word.

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I watch and enjoy it.

I've not trained formally with others for more than 10 years now, unless you want to count teaching an occasional student. It's good to see some of the stuff that I've forgotten, and I enjoy the history in each show as well.

Josh <><
 
The last show on Savate had one move that looked damned interesting to me: when a guy is closing on you, kick him on the low thigh right above the knee. Hard enough and you might dislocate his kneecap but regardless, you tend to "make space" between you and the assailant pretty damned fast. Good way to keep a knifer off you just long enough to finish a draw.
 
When they went to Thailand and saw the Muy-Tai I didn't realize the elbows were such good strikers. French fighting isn't that a oxymoron :D.
 
Oh, the elbow is downright brutal.

There's several of the "full contact competitions" that ban them, along with eye-gouging and nut-shots :eek:.
 
savate

Im with Jim on the savate show.I started using that kick to the high thigh\hip in sparring and it worked every time.It creates distance and gives the other guy something to think about when they try to close the gap.Im now practicing it with fast draw from iwb.Its almost embarassing learning something from the french,but it works:(
 
"...French fighting isn't that a oxymoron..." Glib. Ask the Maquis and other Resistance fighters tortured to death by the Nazi's, French 2nd Armoured Div who served with the U.S. Third Army, the WHOLE generation killed in W.W. I, the 9,000 troopies in the Force d’Action Rapide(Gulf War), the French Special Forces who served in Afghanistan, etc, etc.
 
...and, don't forget, France was considered the premiere land-based military force in the world from the the Norman Invasion of England up through Napoleon until the end of WWI. After that (and the massive casualties they suffered), the French adopted the "peace at any cost" view that created the Vichy collaboration and the downfall in Algeria & French Indochina.

History proves that the French were some tough little baguettes.... :D
 
Well the "Pankration" show was...well...yeah...

Somebody dug up some 3,000 year old pottery and just happened to find cage matches like on Spike TV. No word on whether or not they found Joe Rogan's umpteenth-great-ancestor...

:rolleyes:

The funniest part was when they mentioned eye-gouging and nut-whacking - and how the Spartans boycotted the Olympics for banning same :D. THAT I can believe.

(Obligatory: THIS...IS...SPAAAARTAAA! [WHAM] <oww Gods you maniac!>)

The rest...eh...maybe.
 
It is still fun to say "rifle-droppers". I mean we as Americans are called alot worse by several of our Euro-friends. No disrespect is meant to the French soldiers who gave their lives at war.
 
Jim,

What I could not understand is if the Spartans boycotted the Olympics cause no eye gouging, then how come they didn't allow punching to the head? After all, punching to the head is sisy compaired to eye gouging!

Now the Greek who nailed Bill with the roundhouse. That was really a turn kick (used in Tang So Do) were you bring up your kicking leg like a snap kick, then rotate the hips into a roundhouse kick. It is very sneeky and usually the defender trys to block for a snap kick and is nailed in the head with a roundhouse (as was done to Bill!)

But really, while it was good training and good fighting, I didn't see anything unique with what they did.
 
The Krav Maga show was really worth watching. Watching the Israeli commandos practicing it in their secret training site gave it a lot of credibility. Looks like a good system to defend against multiple attackers.
 
I did some quick research on Krav Maga (I knew ZERO about it...until I saw this episode). The basic premises and guiding principles seem to be:

* Neutralize the threat
* Avoid injury
* Go from defending to attacking as quickly as possible
* Use the body's natural reflexes
* Strike at any vulnerable point
* Use any tool or object nearby
* You're not going to care how much damage you're going to cause.
* Cause as much damage as possible and run.
* Do not try and prolong a fight. Do what needs to be done and escape.

Pretty much a "berserker" style of hand-to-hand combat. I found it very interesting...
 
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