Everyone has a right to their opinion on this film but here are some facts. The instructor here is Lt. Commander Wesley Brown Jr, a former police officer in Evanston, Illinois who also trained members of that force and other police units in close combat techniques he had developed based originally on his experience as as an intercollegiate wrestler (and later wrestling coach) at Northwestern University. You can be assured that Brown knew how to fight, and what worked and did not work in a street altercation. As a Navy Officer during WWII, when not on active duty outside his homeland, he directed both the hand-to-hand combat and survival programmes for the USN. While in charge of the Iowa Naval Pre-Flight Training School Brown says he instructed 10,000 cadets and 500 officers and enlisted men in the techniques in this film not to mention the men he instructed on the West Coast and in the Pacific, as well as writing a book to accompany this film. In a book written after the war he stressed his techniques were not judo, nor ju jitsu, but 'a solid means of rough and tumble fighting' which any trained citizen could use to defend themselves in what he saw even then as an increasingly violent world. Of his techniques in this three-part Navy training film he wrote: 'In this analyses of hand-to-hand combat tactics, basic maneuvers were illustrated as applied to certain specific combat situations. Obviously however, there can be no predetermined procedures to fit all circumstances. You must master the basic techniques so thoroughly as to be able to improvise the best counterattack as required. And such flexibility of adaptation means practice, practice and more practice.'
These throws and locks require a great deal of practice to be effective against an aggressive opponent. Karate strikes are much easier to learn, and will still seriously hurt your enemy, even if you don't get them quite right. They are also more intuitive when you are under pressure.
@Mexican Bob I practiced Martial Arts for over 40 years. I am an ex-paratrooper (British Army). I assure you that this is true. My Dad was a WW2 Commando, when time pressure meant that training in close quarter combat was very sketchy. He told me that he understood and felt competent with strikes, but it takes months / years of practice to use, for instance, pressure point fighting against an angry and vigorous opponent. During WW2, unarmed close quarter combat necessarily came well behind competence with Bren, rifle or SMG. Mexican Bob, if you can master throws and locks in an afternoon, you are a very talented individual. Most of us are not.
Punching your opponent in the face without any protection for your hand usually leads to broken bones in the hand unless you hit perfectyl, which usually requires your opponent to not defend themselves. Also in part 1 and after some/during takedowns there are otpional punches and kicks shown.
@@m96920 Absolutely, you wear bandages and gloves when fighting mostly to protect your hands, not to protect your opponent. Should you try to punch your opponent with unprotected hands and they look down and you hit their forhead, you will break bones in your hand and they will shrug it off. This obvioulsy only applies if your are sufficiently strong, but then again, a weak punch won't do a lot. Never punch to the face unless you know 100% what you are doing, punch in the soft areas, use kicks, elbows and grappling, it's way better.
Poor quality throws putting your hand out to brace will break your collar bone...guaranteed...hip throws in unarmed combat should be made from the neck....
@@williamjones7851 breakfalling is taught white belt jujitsu.and any self protection system...mma is a padded surface...bracing your arm off a throw will get you hurt...you are taught specifically not to do it search breakfalling on here....the clues in the name...
