Where did the martial arts come from

Modern Army Combatives- level I video

Written by Matt Larsen of the U.S Army Modern Army Combatives program, Fort Benning, GA.

Directed/Produced by: MAJ James Rawlinson, VIPER Combat camera visual presentation team, JMRC, Hohenfels Germany.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Modern
• Army
• Combatives

[leavittks]

Agreed, the title is not really accurate as it really does not holistically or comprehensively look at the complete history of martial arts and is geared towards Japanese or specifically jiu jitsu. That said, I think really the history of martial arts in the west is predominately Japanese oriented when you consider the "DNA" of what most people do.

Chinese arts are out there of course, however, they have not really had much of an impact on modern applications of combatives systems such as MACP

[leavittks]

Kimura was purportedly to have weighed about 185 and Santana, 205, however looking at pictures of Santana, I'd say he'd weigh closer to 185. Still Helio was about 130 lbs, so that is still a significant weight difference. Also you cannot dispute the fact that helio was in his 40s when he fought these incredible fighters that were in their 20s. So I don't think it really takes much away from the perspective. But, yes, legends do get bigger with age!

[leavittks]

No...we know a little more about fighting than just looking it up on Wikipedia. This video was produced to support a Modern Army Combatives Class. I have no problem with constructive negative criticism, but the comments below show much about the level of your education and training. It really shows with poor grammar and spelling. That said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

[leavittks]

In addition, if you look at the complete MACP program, you will see that it also encompasses the concepts of LINE in the program.

[leavittks]

Combatives training these days falls into three basic camps: MAC-P, LINES, and Everything else.

Nothing wrong with LINES IMO, some very good training. However, it did not met the needs of the Army. Training must be sustainable, replicable, obtainable, and measurable. LINES does not meet the criteria when you are looking at an Army wide, lowest level implementation.

MACP was designed with these things in mind. Bottomline, MACP is successful because soldiers are doing it.

[leavittks]

Matt Larsen wrote the script, but the voice is someone else. Don't get too wrapped around the axle on that arm bar, it is simply a drill that is taught to level I students to get them to understand very basic concepts. Thanks for the comments.

[Kinghercules]

Wrong fuckin title!!!

This is the history of JUDO or JUJITSU.

[GuamKomudo]

"Karate guys can't fight." Wow... Lyoto Machida...

And let me tell you, take away the crazy tight hand wraps and gloves and rules, Karate guys will probably be the only ones throwing closed fist punches without breaking their hands... American Karate has killed Karate, but lots of schools in Japan and Okinawa are still good. Kyokushinkai and Shotokan fights usually end in KO. So you can't say they suck at fighting...

[ALNOUR2011]

last thing you began by saying that the reason of learning martial arts converted from fight to sport or game like judo so why then you said that ufc is to determine the efficient techniques work for real fight?!

[ALNOUR2011]

specialy if weapons used

[ALNOUR2011]

traditional kung fu is the only complete system the reason of not show in ufc is because killing is not allowed and controlling the opponent is more difficult than killing him specially if he is stronger than you that's why chin na techniques don't work here in ufc but that does not mean that kung fu doesn't work!

also the rules of ufc prevent hitting the vital points such as groin ,eye and throat which are the targets of real fight so being a chamb on ufc doesn't protect u in real fight

[rawguan]

This documentation is focused in Japanese's martial arts development or creation. Not from its exixtence.

[MrMZaccone]

It's unlikely that the actual weight difference between Helio and either Kimura or Santana was anywhere near 80 pounds. Legends get bigger with age.

[MrMZaccone]

@leavittks Yes, but no one is entitled to their own facts. Good video, thanks.

[MrMZaccone]

@flyonthewall37 Oddly enough that's what they said in the video.  Were you eve listening?

[Okaruwazashi]

@flyonthewall37 It says that at the start of the video.