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January 2007
SFC HEADQUARTERS DOCTRINE
HOCK'S Web Log
"Read by Thousands Round' the World!"
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30 January 2007: The Nose Knows
Many moons ago, it was common lore amongst military fighting systems that a palm heel thrust to the nose, if executed properly with an upward-type angle, "would drive the nose "bone" into the brain and kill the enemy. This was touted by many. But before long, some who dared to question military authority asked, "ahhhh, nose bone?" The bones in the nose, or nose cartilage is breakable and splinter-able and will not drive into the brain like some kind of steel rod. This nasty strike may feel like your about to die, but shouldn't kill you as the old-timers once thought.
Shooting the center mass of the head, (face-on and the nose as a principle target) will have this round penetrate and splinter the nose cartilage and might send these splinters inward, but, oh yeah...as well as send a bullet inward to the brain, upon which, this splintering, nose cartilage may well be a...very, very moot subject.
Gun combatives training state that your best aim point - and they say virtually guaranteed to produce instantaneous death - are the tip of the nose or the center of the bridge of the nose, or nearby these points on the face.
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27 January, 2007: DHEA: The Counter-Fear Vitamin?
Studies are honing in on the chemicals of fear and exploring early solutions. The DHEA hormone plays a key role in buffering the brain from this disorienting effects of fear, reports Associate Professor of Psychology Charles Morgan of Yale, who has for several years now studied the collected blood of many special forces operators after stressful training sessions and veterans returning from assignments. He concluded that:
"Soldiers returning from Iraq may soon help scientists understand more about how we regulate fear and anxiety in our bodies. While studying American soldiers under conditions of high external stress, Associate Professor of Psychiatry Charles Morgan has discovered a positive correlation between elevated levels of Neuropeptide Y (NPY) and lucidity of mind and higher levels DHEA." In times of high stress these it makes non adrenaline more effective at keeping the mind alert and dampens adrenaline from overwhelming us with anxiety.
Neuropeptide Y (NPY) is the most abundant neuropeptide in the brain. It is a member of a family of proteins that include pancreatic polypeptide, peptide YY and seminalplasmin. In addition to its function in feeding behavior, several other physiologic roles have been assigned to NPY, including involvement in circadian rhythms, sexual function, anxiety responses and vascular resistance.
Morgan tested NPY levels and cognitive functioning in soldiers before, during, and after exposure to the stress of survival training, where soldiers were confined and interrogated in a mock POW camp at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, navy Seals on assignments and other assorted SF troops.
Special forces soldiers, who had thirty-three percent higher plasma levels of neuropeptide Y than general troop soldiers, were found to possess clearer minds and to have out-performed other soldiers under stress. In a related study, Morgan and colleagues also discovered that soldiers in Combat Dive training who released more NPY during stress excelled in underwater navigation, and that hostage rescue team members with higher NPY levels during stress performed better.
Such findings raise the question as to whether the individual variation in the ability to release NPY is due to differences in the NPY gene or to differences in training and experience.
“Most likely [neuropeptide Y] is just one of many factors that contribute to doing well—in this case, we are witnessing different capacities in the degree to which people can inhibit fear. We have yet to determine whether repeated stressful situations can diminish high response levels of NPY,” explained Morgan.
Although his findings could help the military choose individuals better-suited for dangerous duty, Other options under study? Sports Drinks? Carb spikes produced brain performance under military stress situations.
Also, proper meditation. Early research suggests that daily meditation can alter the physical structure of the brain, may even slow brain deterioration related to aging and thusly, it may hardwire and buffer the brain against the chaos of combat and stress. A recent study showed that parts of the brain known as the cerebral cortex were thicker in 20 people who meditated for as little as 40 minutes a day, compared with 15 people who did not meditate. The region plays a critical role in decision making, working memory, and brain-body interactions, researcher Sara Lazar, PhD. Lazar is a research scientist at Harvard Medical School's Massachusetts General Hospital.
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24 January, 2007: Traditional Karate and Kata for Modern Combat
You know, I am interested in the workings of many martial arts, and among the many arts I like, Karate and Aiki-Jitsu are on the top of the list. David Roth and I got together and produced a series of Karate films the end of last year, most of which he will be selling himself, however, I especially enjoyed this topic and feel as though it had a very broad appeal and interest to all who love forms and kata.
Black-Belted Roth has trained in Okinawa seven times. In this DVD, this Sensei teaches the combat applications derived from common, classic Karate postures, techniques and kata. He uses four scientific methods to analyze and interpret these positions and movements.
His end goal is to derive combat tactics from classical forms. I think every “Karateka” needs to view this film. if you love or are even interested in the Japanese martial arts, you will find this educational and entertaining. http://www.hockscqc.com/shop/product253.html
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22 January, 2007: DMZ Korea
In the 70s, while stationed in South Korea, I was almost assigned to Pamujon (simply by height alone) , but instead only visited Pamujon - the treaty city and center point for the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea. I found Pamujon a solemn and unfriendly place. North, South and U.S. troops brandished axe handles instead of M-16s so, if cajoled tempers flared, no shots could be fired, no international incidents with which to contend. Border guards were heavily screened for temperance and stoic appearance.
For decades up until the war in Iraq, many military insiders have called South Korea the most dangerous place in the world to be stationed. And, on any given night, I would see helicopters flying pell-mell to the north. The official news medias carried no information as to why. Usually we learned from a visiting Colonel's driver or messenger that there had been a gunfight at the DMZ. Snipers. Raiders. Assassins, and then there were also our own USA forays north.
A "DMZ" is a term we take for granted and instantly recognize in modern culture terminology. Those three letters signify to us a somewhat resolved conflict between two relatively hostile geographic neighbors. How does a DMZ like this come to be? What's the 4-1-1 on the D-M-Z?
The Korean Demilitarized Zone, the truce line between North and South Korea, is 2.5 miles wide and 155 miles long. Each half of the deemed "No Man's band" that 2.5 mile width is bordered by fencing, barbed wire, guards, lookout posts and patrols outside. The DMZ is a leftover legacy of the Cold War. In 1905 the Japanese occupied and then later annexed Korea, and the country remained under Japanese domination until World War II. At war's end, the Soviet Union occupied the north and the U.S. the South. A charismatic young army officer called Kim II Sung, who had been fighting the Japanese in Manchuria, returned to Korea and formed the Communist Party in the North. In 1948 he declared the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and two years later, backed by Soviet sponsors, he invaded the South. This war lasted until 1953 and ended with the establishment of the DMZ on the 39th Parallel of the globe, but it by no means follows a perfect map line, rather it favors the practical, natural ten-a in in and around the parallel.
The DMZ and the terrain therein of the No Man's Land vary across the rugged landscape of the Korean peninsular. At its most Eastern point, it encounters the Sea of Japan, and on the West, the Yellow Sea. The DMZ can be blanketed in white snow, humid, mid-summer air, or barraged by monsoon rains, as this country experiences all four seasons. Soldier's stand guard in mucky summer heat, or their dog tags "freeze" to their chests from a cold Siberian front in winter.
On the ground in and around the DMZ, we see Asian topography not so unique to that part of the world. Parts of Oklahoma, California and other states in U.S. look like parts of Korea. The TV show MASH was shot in southern California because of these resemblances. But, there is unique, shaped land and It is made unique by its peoples, their rice patties, hootches, villages and oriental flavor of construction buildings and cities. But below these landmarks, we have discovered cavernous tunnels secretly burrowed from North to South, wide enough for tank transport and surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles to pass through.
Each coast line of the DMZ borderline as it runs seas to sea, especially on the west side has many islands and bays that are conducive to spies and intrusions. Whether by sea, or by land tunnel or clipped fences, the NKs were frequently sneaking through the DMZ into the south. Midnight curfews were in effect. Roadblocks pockmarked major and minor highways on both sides of the line.
In the last few years, the U.S. maintained some some 27,000 troops there, spread throughout the south. (In the 1950-1953 Korean War we lost 36,500 men) in 23 U.S. bases. The South Korean Army currently consists of 683,000. Few know of what is called Plan 5027 in the U.S. Pentagon-an outline to establish rapid deployment of up to five Army and two Marine Divisions to the peninsula, but focus remains on U.S. Navy and Air Force with long range strike weapons to brandish the U.S. presence in case of war, leaving the South Koreans to hold the ground at tube DMZ. We are steadily removing personnel.
Prompting a national, paranoid and martial psychology in Korea, is its 2000 years of recorded history, it has faced 900 invasions, mostly from China, Russia and Japan. North Korea's military might stands poised on the north fence with a million troops and more than 13,000 artillery pieces that could rain 300,000 to 500,000 shells per hour on Seoul in 24 hours In February 2003, North Korea brought machine guns into the axe-handle-only zone, violating the armistice.
Of its communist population, the UN declares there are 22 million malnourished people in North Korea, and famine has killed 2 million in the last ]0 years. Meanwhile, South Korea's population is twice this size, and its economy is 37 times larger, a testimony to capitalism compared to communism. Generations of well-fed and comfortable southerners born in peace have lost touch with the violence of 50 years ago, making the DMZ in their eyes a Berlin Wall with a limited life span.
Recent news reports state that even more millions starving than first anticipated...and that North Korea is busy making biological weapons for use and for sale.
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17 January 2007: A Passing Point - Precisely Passed - but Unnoticed.
There was a time in my life when I trained to be the badest guy on the planet. I ran, I fought, I worked until sections of my hair, beard and eyebrows actually fell out. True! I guess, my late 20s to 30s? Certainly my 30s. Maybe tipping to my 40s. Then at some point, one precisely passed, yet one that I cannot precisely define, I decided it was more important for me to help MAKE the badest people on the planet, than try to be one anymore. To bridge the gap between the police, the military and martial arts. A passing.
Now...you cannot "make," unless you run a long-term, military camp! You can only mentor and guide. Everyone is at a different level. This is all manipulated through the CQC Group courses and camps because hand, stick, knife and gun is the modern warrior's way.
Sometimes, I sit back and wonder when I passed off this torch in my brain. Was it when my degrading back went out when I was 44 years old? When half my right upper arm tore irreparably loose when I was 46? When they told me sheer stress had seriously worn on a heart valve when I was 51? I don't know. I just know, overall, it became more important to mentor, preach and teach. I think it is quite natural as the human race progresses for such transitions. I just don;t know when it happened, exactly...precisely.
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15 January 2007: Best Combat Knife?
Perceived by many to be a knife guy, I am often asked about my favorite knife. In fact, I am asked this at least once a week. Fighting is mission-oriented, situational and positional, but from the perspective of just going into the generic military field, I would have to select the hefty, sharp-pointed, double edge, Bowie-sized, pointed pommel, smachet.
This design comes in various lengths now
"Described as a cross between a machete and a bolo, it was more recently actually based on the Welsh Machinegunner's Knife of World War I, and was designed as a pure combat weapon. The actual origin of the Smatchet some say, dates back to the Celtic short swords, but the most modern design is tributed to Colonel Rex Applegate and Captain WE Fairbairn (Applegate worked for the OSS - Office of Strategic Servce during WW2). It has a broad, leaf-shaped blade sharpened the full length of one side, and from the tip to half of the other side. A military version must not be shiny and therefore, the entire blade is coated with a dull matte finish to prevent detection at night from stray reflections."" Many manufacturer of knives have made their own version since then."
According to Fairbairn, the Smatchet was an ideal close-combat weapon for those not armed with a rifle:
"The psychological reaction of any man, when he first takes the smatchet in his hand is full justification for its recommendation as a fighting weapon. He will immediately register all the essential qualities of good soldier - confidence, determination, and aggressiveness. Its balance, weight and killing power, with the point, edge or pommel, combined with the extremely simple training necessary to become efficient in its use, make it the ideal personal weapon for all those not armed with a rifle and bayonet."
Now eres' a knife! But I wouldn't
want one all THAT big!
Do you know about it's other relatives?
The Shanghai Fighting Knife? http://homepage.mac.com/dbrock76/Personal38.html
The 1909 Bolo Smatchet? http://arms2armor.com/Knives/1909bolo.htm
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13 January 2007: True Military Knife Combat Stories...Continues
The setting: Europe, Winter, World War II.....
"We were securing the hillside. Bodies, our guys, their guys, were everywhere. They lay twisted like they had no skeletons. Georgie and I, and the other guys were spread out checking the bodies. Turning the Nazi's over. Looking for weapons. Turning our guys over. Marking them for pickup with red strips of cloth on sticks. Georgie and I always poked the Nazis with our knives, you know to see if they were alive. I had my rifle over my shoulder. Sticking and turning bodies. Body after body. I guess I was daydreaming. I stuck another Nazi body, and the guy jumped right up on his knees and swung a knife at me! His knife was hidden under his chest. He was playing dead. He cut the sleeve of my jacket. I jumped back and fell on my back. He scared the holy, living shit out of me, now he was trying to kill me.
He swung the knife at my legs, and I kicked at him. He mostly struck my boots, but he got my leg on the shin. I didn't feel it though. I stumbled and crawled back, kicking. My rifle slid right off my shoulder and, before I knew I was losing it, I was crawling back so fast, I crawled right back out of the sling. And he knew it too. He went for my rifle. I realized I still had my knife in my hands. I got up and, knife-first, I jumped on him. My knife got him good on his arm as he reached for my rifle, and we tumbled over. We were on our sides.
He had my arm with the knife. I had his arm with the knife. I tell you I saw the face of a ghost there looking at me. He was so white. Big, big eyes. I started kicking him, but he had a big jacket on, and I don't know if any caught him. Our legs pushed us apart. Trying to get up, he hit me in the side of the head with the knife and on the helmet with another hit. I saw Georgie behind him, trying to get his bayonet on his rifle.
I shouted, "Shoot him!" to him. "Shoot him!" But Georgie threw his rifle down and jumped right on the Kraut bastard. Right on his back and stabbed into his shoulder and neck with the bayonet in his hand. They rolled over, and I jumped on them both. The Nazi got up on one knee, holding Georgie with one hand and pushing me out. But we stabbed him. We stabbed him and stabbed him. Each stab you could tell he was getting weaker and weaker. He fell on his back. We fell on him stabbing. It was like we were punching him, but we had these knives in our hands. When we rolled off, he was dead. We just lay there in the snow, gasping for air on our backs.
"Why didn't you shoot him?" I asked Georgie.
Georgie said that he was afraid to shoot because I was too close. And he couldn't get his bayonet fixed on, so he just held it in his hand."
Alfred Bastacho,
Winter War, Wineheart
(Each month, we excerpt an historical segment from Hock's old book, Military Knife Combat. Sorry, currently out of print).
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11 January 2007: Friction! The Aggressive/Defensive fight within the Aggressive/Defense fight
“Look at how big those guys are! What don't they punch each other harder!” the ignorant viewer declares.
In recent forum discussions the subject of old boxing champion Jack Dempsey came up and how he believed in power punching, even to the extent that a common boxer's jab must be always be a knock-out jab. Many martial arts proclaim much the same with their ruling standard, one-punch/one kill philosophies.
The idea is a good rule, and an inspirational theme. Still, with his goal, perhaps in career of a million punches and hundreds of fights, Dempsey had only 26 knockouts and most not from his proposed one-punch, one knock-out power jab. Boxing knockouts are in such chaotic, flux and movement; it is often hard to actually determine what leg was up front and what was technically a jab or a cross.
If you were to place these one-punch/one kill and one punch/ one knock-out fighters in a sterile environment and tell them to punch and break some object, they would center themselves and generate amazing, explosive power, all coupled with the mandatory, optimized body moment. Hardly anyone could withstand such a single strike or a single knee from these experts, under these laboratory circumstances. Yet! Why is it then that such power fails to manifest with regularity in sport fights where hundreds of punches are exchanged and the same even in many real fights?
One reason is the overall body dynamic needed to deliver power of such seismic magnitude causes much body commitment and rotation that the puncher opens his or herself up to a simultaneous or counter strike. When push comes to shove, when too close up, when too chaotic, when the fighters collide and get within kick/punch range, the reality that the other person could blast you causes a great internal, physical wrestling, a go/stop friction that naturally holds back the full, extended power punch or knee. You naturally feel the need to cover up more. And the vet knows that ANY ONE good, well-placed single punch could detach you from reality. BOOM! You wake up a dribbling mass on the floor. This go/stop and strike/cover friction is a root cause of more conservative striking.
Nowhere is this more obvious than a pro boxing match or in Pride and the UFC, where the participants are quite capable of punching and kicking and kneeing down walls, yet deliver many survivable blows on their opponents and at times appear tentative and cautious when exchanging most strikes. Even when loading up and blasting away in flurries, these guys would still generate more power in a sterile laboratory. Inside the flurry, the larger, less-need-for-cover, power shots usually come out when the opponent becomes diminished and less likely to strike back. The more, “less likely”? The more of these full power, full body commitment, less-cover, “laboratory” shots can come out.
Everyone should develop power and hang the placard “one-shot/one-kill” as a goal on their fireplace, but it is also a very, VERY good idea to develop as much power as possible from these more compact, contracted and realistic fighting positions, since these natural, reflexive stances are more likely the close quarter positions you will actually be fighting in.
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7 January, 2007: The Crippling Legacy of Martial Arts Hero Worship
I was in in a store the other day and saw an interesting guy walking around. He was a guy my age, or a bit older. He had a stature and while not an olympic athlete, you could tell he worked out, or whatever is that alerts your senses to such a person in your area. On the chest of his polo shirt read, Grand President." Sure enough, as he wandered closer I saw three or four martial arts belt logos on the breast. A closer look and I saw an Asian organization embroidered. Grand President. President wasn't enough. One had to be a grand president. I will now await to see the title Grander President, because obviously, grander would be better than grand?
It is, of course, a version of the Grandmaster title wars. I have even heard of people jockeying over the oneupsmanship of Grandmasters now with Great Grandmaster and I have even heard of a Supreme Grandmaster. Now that is pretty lofty ain't it? Who actually sits around and dreams up these titles? What do they accomplish?
I recall a 36-year-old practitioner, an executive in a successful manufacturing business, tell me that he once signed with a local Asian MA school and one day he spotted one of the school instructor staff in the local supermarket shopping. A kid. 26 years old? The man introduced his wife to this guy. The instructor later chastised the older man for not calling him Master, even in street clothes, in the supermarket. The man quit the school immediately. Perhaps this might work when "Local Master Johnny" is teaching a bunch of elementary kids? But what is the age, breaking point where Master Johnny becomes Johnny-Johnny?
Now, I am a guy who had trouble saluting every jake-leg officer in the Army that waltzed by, so you know my twisted mindset, but all this kind of stinks to me. It smells and for me there is even just a little odor around having to call people "sensei" or master, and all that. I know...I know some of it makes some of the world go round, but I turn up my nose to it.
In the big picture of martial arts, there are just too many splintered martial arts systems, too many great grandmasters in charge of too many systems and too many goofy, paper-mill, Halls of Fame making them for a fast buck. One 40-year-old knucklehead I know of has made up an "international organization" and is selling grandmaster ranks for $100! Nice looking piece of paper. 11 by 14 inches. Color. But in reality? Its all eye wash and ass-wipe.
What I am trying to say is, one might call people like Ed Parker, or Funakoshi a master, Or Dan Insosanto a Guru - people with real and significant, international accomplishments - but Larry Dingballs at the local tire shop? Who dresses up three nights a week in a gi?
There are some other characters I know who make seminar attendes kneel down and kiss their rings at the end of seminars. Now, excuse me for going redneck here for a moment, but you know what? They can kiss my ass before I'll kiss their ring. Who do they think they are? The Pope?
But, some people eat that kind of crap up! Love it! If you love the system so much? Or, the system head so much? You may well love it too much! There are cultists in all walks of life. I think some people hero-worship their "Sensei, Sifu, their Guro and Master." too much. They hero worship their UFC champ and their subsequent system. They rush in to learn every precise aspect of every method as if each were perfect manna from God. They have no intention of evolving or changing anything. They just want to be like their hero. Next, they start making excuses for the holes in the manna system. They start stretching the Grand President's doctrine out paper-thin to cover the holes in the doctrine. These people tend to be a personality type. They approach politics and religion on the same sort of blind way. Their Guro, Sensei, Grandmaster or President is 'the way," and all others are at fault or blind.
I recall a world-famous, joint-locking system that never showed, or even suggested that there are counters to the joint-locks. I taught the counters one seminar and they group nearly fainted. They stumbled to their notebooks and hung on every word I said! This is unhealthy. There are people out there who think they can just tap a few pressure points on a charging UFC champion and render him into a quivering, vomiting ball on the floor. Unquestioning people who just blindly love their system too much!
Years ago I was talking with some Thai Boxing systems and their general talk was getting to travel to Thailand and "The Temple," to train. What did this Temple teach? What religion? So you to go to a church to study Thai? You have to bow say a Thai prayer to a Thai God before a fight. Wha? Red Flag!
Inside this topic, there are two approaches to signing up and joining any martial system:
"I want to learn every thing that the Grazzies do, exactly as they do it.
They are masters of the universe. They solve all problems."
or
"I want to see how people do these things and also to learn ways to defeat them.
I reserve the right to evolve and problem -solve.
Respect will be earned by personality and performance"
The second choice is really a studious, open-minded, smarter approach, a non-brainwashed, open mind, one for evolution and growth. If you study a system to learn new things with an eye open to defeating it, you are a smarter. Every thing I teach, I explore its weaknesses and counters as part of the subject module.
Gut Check/Cult Check
There are many extreme parallels, but great examples. Look at Billy Graham compared to David Koresh or Jim Jones. How deep runneth your kool-aid? The difference between inspiration (Graham) and idiocy (Koreah and Jones). How can you guard yourself against this?
First, if you head up a system? Is your head on straight about all this? To avoid this hero-worship and cultism, a smart system is all about the student - what THEY get. It is not about a Grandmaster, a dynasty, a legacy, or hero worship. This cult and legacy approach is stifling. I have gone over to a tactical, practical format of martial training eleven years ago - modeled on courses I have seen in policing and the military - in hopes to avoid all this. I also shun being called any martial title I have earned. I know some people are being nice when doing so, but it really makes me wince a bit to hear it said. Calling me Guro or Sensei reminds of all this stinky stuff, and I am no Ed Parker or Inosanto. I am just a average athlete in my 50's with some really good ideas and outlines. I have to try to balance just enough humility and ego to make a strong business presence and advertising statement. That's it. That's appropriate. Please just call me Hock. Please!
Next, does your system let you train in other systems? This is a giant red flag of mind control. Does your system spend a disproportionate time ridiculing and maligning ALL other systems? Do they let you go train elsewhere, but talk smack about it the whole time?
Finally, you have to look deep into yourself. You must decide, do I train Filipino Arnis, Kung Fu or Judo because I just love the whole look, feel, flavor and exercise as a hobby? Am I after self defense? Am I prone to jump into hobbies, sports, politics and religion with both feet? Faithful beyond reason? What do I expect? What do I really want? Dare I speak up and ask the Sensei a controversial questions? Will I challenge his answer? Or will I try to make his square answer fit into a round hole?
If you are not a hobbyist, not a historical enthusiast, and instead seek combatives and self defense, a system should be about YOU. Your growth. It is about the material. Know what you want and know the differences. I am a but mere vessel for you to get this information. Its a very Zen thing, and I think it is the proper way to learn, teach and grow.
Take a cult check. Do you love your system too much?
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5 January, 2007: Notes and Comments on Force Necessary/Police Judo
Without a doubt, the most fun I have had in teaching lately is when I teach the Police Judo outlines. It seems with very little advertising and just some word of mouth, I have one and sometimes two of these seminars a month from here in the United States to Belgium and Ireland just in the first half of this year. And I also receive a number of questions about the course. Here are the typical ones.
Are there Police Judo DVDS?
No. Just get the Training Missions. Most of the material comes from the hand, stick, knife and gun course material - the CQC Group as a core source. As with all my courses, I cherry-pick from there and customize it for law enforcement missions. This customization may way generate a need for Police Judo Series someday, but not in the foreseeable future, in a complete enforcement-dedicated series. I hate to duplicate things and have some people pay twice for the same information.
Is there a progression? Where do you start?
No. Note that the modules are not numbered. They are themes. Themes taught in order. Agencies select the theme as needed. My premise is that every attendee is already a police academy graduate and is a street veteran of some level. They have already done the "kick/punch thing " in their academies and again at in-service schools. We just work on the meat, that they really need. Plus, this is really for officers at a point in their career where they want to learn and build some customized tricks that best suit them. Something for them, their size, their shape, their strength, their needs. Not the cookie-cutter, general, mass group, one-size-fits-all basic training material.
Police Judo Module: Enforcement Counters to Weapon Quick Draws
Police Judo Module: Collisions, Clinches and Mixed Weapon Arm Grappling
Police Judo Module: Enforcement Takedowns
Police Judo Module: Enforcement Survival Ground Fighting Measures
Police Judo Module: Enforcement Counters to Sucker Punches, Pushes and Tackles
Police Judo Module: Pistol Disarming and Retention Measures
Police Judo Module: Impact Weapon Disarming and Retention Measures
Police Judo Module: Enforcement Knife/Counter-Knife Measures
Police Judo Module: Enforcement Tactics vs. Multiple Opponents with Mixed Weapons
Police Judo Module: You! Taken Hostage!
Police Judo Module: Enforcement Traffic Stop Combatives from Hand Fights to Gun Fights
Police Judo Module: Tactical Team Combatives (conducted by Steve Krystek and PFC)
Police Judo Module: Strikes, Kicks, Blocks Overview
Do you expect to change "department policy of police agencies?"
No way! This is an add-on to any department policy. It is a "work-out." These newer police courses who want to come into an agency and take over their department policy?They are in for a big surprise. You might have done that in the 1980s and early 90s, but those days are over now. The idea is to build on the already existing policy.
Is Police Judo POST or state -certified in my state?
Probably not. Each state in the USA (50 of them!) has a rigorous process to rubber stamp any police courses. If you only taught some simple, sit-down, "Power Point Use for Police" class, it would easily pass state requirements (but still after PILES of submission paperwork). But, defensive tactics/fighting courses are treated like ripe nitroglycerine for fear of law suits. One could spend a lifetime catering to and appeasing 50 different state agencies. Each state is different. Thick piles of forms. A medical overview of material by a recognized doctor! I see a growing trend in police training where more and more courses are not state certified. Savvy police trainers are realizing that they are going to sponsor or attend non-certified courses - or have nothing. Basically, I would spend the rest of my life running around making each of the 50 states happy.
As a civilian, can I become an instructor?
No. Police only. Someday, I may make some adjunct-style, certification, but right now? No. Tell me that you are just a civilian and hope to officially teach the police? You have almost a zero chance. Other martial courses have sold these "citizen-to-teach-police" certification courses and now you know they have just taken your money and people are not teaching the police. Many of these courses just innocently teach the same material already taught at police academies. The officers have seen it, got it for free. I hate to encourage civilians into thinking they will have some success at teaching the police. If you've never been a cop? Odds are really, REALLY against you.
As an enforcement officer, can I become an instructor?
Yes. Attend any of the modules once and you can teach any the material. You are supposed to! Save lives. Spread the word! I think these people who impose patents, copyrights and tithing to life-saving material for police are rather insidious. Just please mention us and where the material came from. That is all I ask. Attend the same module twice, get the nod from me and then you will be an instructor who can make other instructors. The very heart and soul of Police Judo is this pass-the-word, work-out, format that I first learned so much in. Formal, yet informal.
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3 January, 2007: Being Shot - Our Studies Continue
This from the non-fiction book Code Name: Copperhead. My True-Life Exploits As a Special Forces Soldier, by Sergeant Major Joe R. Garner, U.S. Army (RET.)
"In Ban Me Thuot, a friend who had been wounded told me, 'Joe, you just cannot believe the impact that the AK-47 has. I got shot in the leg and it knocked me head over heels. My rifle went ten feet from me. The NVA came up, and if it hadn't been for one of the other men killing him, I was unarmed and the NVA would have klled me.'
(This is also a lesson in needing a sling or lanyard properly attached to you - Hock)
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1 January, 2007: This Year's CQC Group Rank, Instructorship or Just Train, 4 -Day Combat Camps
Let's start the year off just right, with listing the first half of the 2007, 4-day camp, news. No matter what your current status is - rank beginner? Basic? Advanced? Expert? We will cover material you need to move up and onward. Or simply train for knowledge and exercise to add-on or build your own self, your way.
Sacramento, CA Jan. 25-28,
Cincinnati, Ohio, March 8-11
Gent, Belgium, March 30-April 1
Frankfurt, Germany April 6-8
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