Charles Nelson Self-Defense - Lesson 1

ON THIS DVD:
History of Charles Nelson System
Chinese Mongolian Wrestling
Basic Footwork
Evasion Techniques
Basic Arm Locks
Basic Woman's Self-Defense
Basic Bat Defense
Basic Knife Defense
Pushes, headlocks, and bear hugs

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• Charles
• Nelson
• System
• Chinese
• Mongolian
• Wrestling
• Basic
• Footwork

[ridgehand]

Mr Charles Nelson was THE original pioneer of civilian self defense. a lot of his material was based on WW2 combatives which he learned from Dermot O'Neill who was a close combat instructor under WE Fairbairn for the OSS. Charlie also trained with Col. Anthony Drexel Biddle, another close combat pioneer. Not to mention he had actual combat experience on top of numerous other violent encounters. He did not own a McDojo and teach people a bunch of mechanical, unproven and unrealistic techniques.

[jmikejapan]

are there any clips of Mongolian wrestling as it was used for self defence in its purist form? I am trying to find the original or as close to it as possible for historical purposes.

[CharlesNelsonSDS]

I will putting up some of my classes I took with Mr. Nelson over the next few weeks. Anyone who wants to come for classes or wants info on Seminars can e-mail me at rspiegel@cnsds.com. I have many of Charles former student come in for classes. Real street self defense training is critical with crime and violence out of control. As Charlie used to say "When the chips are down you aren going to be doing any fancy stepping" . I recommend anyone serious about training stop in for a free class

[toms1197]

Part 13: Charlie often referred to Taichi (Taiji) as ineffective but that was because he never met anybody who could really use it. There are many whose postures look great but they cant use it. I have met a few who can: William Chen, Robert W. Smith, Pin Yin Li - Li lives in Fair Lawn now and teaches at the Montville HS Sunday chinese w/e school, Wolfe Lowenthal, and Herman Kauz. And Allen Pittman can use his Bagua and Xing-yi quite persuasively.

[toms1197]

Part 12: until he goes down and you are absolutely convinced he can’t get up until he has spent some time in the hospital, take the knife away if you can, poke him with it if you can, and THEN RUN. Note that Charlie was very aware of the law that you can’t shoot somebody in the back nor can you stab them in the back or shoot or stab them after they are subdued. So use your best judgment to achieve what you want without getting arrested. I'm not speaking for Charlie here. Some of this is mho.

[toms1197]

Part 11: until you are positive he wont get up again, break the arm or tear it out of the shoulder socket and THEN RUN. And if he has a knife, quickly and suddenly without warning move away from the knife as you grab and control the wrist/hand holding the knife and then kick hard, knock him around, hit the throat, and keep hitting him hard in every soft spot he has

[toms1197]

Part 10: with it quickly, continuously and repeatedly until you are positively convinced they cannot get up. This isn’t the movies where we go easy on people so they can get up and have another whack at us. And if there isn’t anything around to pick up, then block that punch, grab a wrist, kick the knee, hit the throat, chop the arm/elbow, bring his wrist around into charlie's chicken wing, slam him to the ground (and hopefully into something real hard) and slam him again several times

[toms1197]

Part 9: him credit and even fewer have any appreciation for what he represented. Most people are highly impressed with taekwondo (charlie used to call it "take your dough") kicks but those guys are pretty useless in a sudden fight situation (the ones that can’t be avoided because there is little warning) whereas charlie's stuff with a little practice could solve the very few problems you may ever run into. But the best advice: first run and if you can’t run, pick up something and hit them

[toms1197]

Part 8: (I dont know the guys real first name and saying "tiger" or maybe being "tiger" just seems a little childish) used to hang out at charlie's studio back in the late 70s early 80s while he was at brooklyn law. I've seen some of schulman's students demonstrate a defensive move against a front choke and it looks suspiciously like a Nelson technique (and also like a hsing-i move) but I doubt schulman would ever give charlie any credit. Many have passed thru his studio but few give

[toms1197]

Part 7: I had kept in touch with him and his daughter carol occasionally after he moved out there. Bob Speigel has charlie's system down cold and can certainly pass it on. He had charlie's blessing on that as far as I can recall. Bob may also be selling his videos and his "red" book but I dont know. But nobody will ever replace charlie nelson. Charlie used to mention that tiger schulman