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QUADFECTA MARTIAL ARTS!

What you need versus what you want. What do you think you want versus what you really need? Sports? Hobby? Desperate self defense? Combatives? Most people don’t know, can’t tell the difference.     

We’ve already discussed what person, what trainer-instructor to choose back in the WHO segment. What subjects of training taught by this person should be prioritized. If you are skipping sports and arts as I have done long ago, hopefully you will find a dedicated, generic, “clean” combatives instructor. 

You’ve probably heard about the word Trifecta (three-bees,) but how about QUADfecta (four-bees?) Yeah. It exists in the Fourth Dimension, no big deal according to…Dr. Strange. (and numerous other brilliant scientists these days alerting the world to other dimensions!)
 
Beyond the interview, beyond the avoidance, past the de-escalation, when push comes to shove, etc., in reality we struggle-fight the big three: criminals, enemy soldiers and our “drunk uncles” (you remember, “drunk uncles’ is a nickname I use for all those relatives and friends who act up.) 
 
4-D? Any one of those below categories alone is one dimensional. Only two are two dimensional. Three, Three dimensional. BUT we are now in the Multiverse says Dr. Strange (and so do MANY 
leading scientists by the way!) so we enter the FOURTH dimension, so to speak. The Quadfecta.
 
In researching solutions, I investigate the Martial Quadfecta:
  • 1: Kickboxing
  • 2: Ground n’ pound
  • 3: Wrestling (I prefer Catch wrestling over BJJ) to learn to control your drunk uncle, family and friends.
  • 4: Weapons (modern sticks, knives, guns, not ancient stuff).
      What if any, can I use-adopt from these four sources for fighting crime and war, Some people like to say “steal” from these sources, some say “take” or “co-op.” “Borrow?” “Adopt.” Whatever. I am always on the hunt, while still keeping it checkers not chess, (simple checkers not complicated chess) running it all through the 5Ws and H questions. Picking and choosing materials should be debated by people with a high “4-D Martial I.Q.,” as in smart enough to make good decisions.
 
“Staying in your lane,” your one, two, three dimensional lanes. If teaching a one, two or even three-dimensional martial arts I would hesitate to advertise I was also teaching self defense, etc. You’re not really. You are barefoot, tip-toeing around the Quadfecta.   
 
Lots of folks like being in their one or two or three dimensions martial arts lanes. Hey, great. I’m happy if you’re happy. All I ask is don’t be ignorant about what limited universes you are in. Know where your limited dimensions fit in the Multiverse. Hobby away. Exercise away. Have great fun and great comraderie. You are up and off the proverbial couch. Fantastic. Just don’t try to advertise-tell a police or military war vet you are teaching real-deal, self-defense-combatives. We ain’t buying it. Crime and war does that to a person. Practitioners should seek those vets or people certified by those vets. And even then we aren’t perfect either, we are all just works in progress, but some further down the lane…er, I mean “line.”
 
(I wonder if anyone will ever call their new school-system “Quadfecta Martial Arts. You can! I haven’t copyrighted it, I won’t. I just really like the idea of spreading “Quadfecterism.”)
 

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A TAKEDOWN – DEEP HIP STYLE ROLLOVER THROW

A DEEP HIP STYLE ROLLOVER THROW (Or a standing “Fat Man’s Roll?)
This application of an “arm” takedown I have done once in police work in a domestic disturbance. While sorting things out in a house, a man charged me from the rear, having escaped the verbal control of another officer nearby. I heard the officer yell “Stop!” Before he could wrap my torso with two arms (to do what, did he know?) I was able to react.

This reactive move is found a few places but was based for me from high school wrestling from back in the 1960s! (Back then was only some 10 years earlier.) In such wrestling, there are “neutral starting’”positions and “referee positions.” One of the common “referee position’ starting points inside a match was one person was down on their knees, the other atop and somewhat beside him with one arm wrapped around the bottom guy’s torso (rules can differ). No clasping “bear hug” allowed yet at this point. This is not a collegate wrestling course so we will leave it at that.

One of the series of moves we practiced back then was the bottom guy grabbed that wrapped arm and rolled him over. When just freestyle practicing, this also happened when the bottom guy partial stood up at times. I frequently did and saw this work. This complete standing version starts looking a bit like like a classic hip throw, at least in part. Anyway from high school I still had this move, this concept embedded in me.

I remember that the guy rushed me to the point that I might fall over forward anyway. I tried to turn and then this old move from inside me busted out. Stepped back, dropped and rolled. His feet smashed into furniture. We arrested this man and the jailer told me the next day that the man begged for aspirin from a bad headache all night long. I think he hit his head on the floor, possible like in these photos.

  • Note in photo 1 the one arm grab.
  • Note in photo 2 the arm blocking his second arm from coming in and clasping me.
  • Solid grab on his arm in photo 3, which includes capturing his elbow.
  • Note in photo 5 the man landing on his head (in a perfect world).
  • Note small photo 6…keep rolling! As you roll over him to get up, an elbow strike oportunity might arise.

I am a proponent of the “double the force” concept – a late phase counter when being taken down. Can you grab the attacker, hang on, join with and add to the force of falling maybe with a turn? Putting him at a disadvantage 1) upon, during impact, or 2) after impact? Sometimes. Yes.

If you are going to practice it, try it a few times about knee high like some Judo (this known as Soto-makikomi) and wrestling does. Watch out for your partner’s head! Don’t forget to hit him at every opportunity, which Judo, BJJ and wrestling does not.

(I only did this one “for real,” one time in my whole life, but I ain’t dead yet.)

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Beat, Break, Damage or Wait? Real “Ground” Fighting

It is the duty of every martial person to learn each joint and the directions they go in and the directions they don’t go in, standing thru on the ground, whether they think they are studying “survival fighting” or “arts/sports.” This joint knowledge is useful and can comes from many sources. (My personal favorite being “Catch Wrestling,” and bits from here and there.)
 
 
The “ground.” Ever been fighting someone on the so-called “ground?” And I mean – 
  • on the tile floor?
  • on the the cement?
  • on the asphalt?
  • on a stairway?
  • a gravel picnic ground?
  • a slimy hillside in the pouring rain?
  • a room full of furniture?
  • accomplices around?
I have. Arresting people. I’ve worked in the field,  line operations, spanning three decades. I’ve caught people in the act and served many warrants.
 
So, you get some control. And you hold on in a submission. It seems stabilized, but now I have to transition to handcuffs. I might struggle through several holds/transitions to travel to that goal and geography, as well as get one hand free/loose to get the cuffs out. If I lose the hold, lose control, the fight just continues, unlike mat sport, tap-outs. Unless the guy is totally exhausted (which happens at times, thank goodness), when you let go, loose control, the other guy just keeps right on fighting again. Injured or not (remember what adrenaline does), you cannot depend on holds, submissions to end a fight situation.
 
Lots of times my submission holds might mean my partner, or arriving back up jumps in, to help (whew!) I wait a short time or  worse, a longer time? How much time, though ? How long can I keep an angry, resisting person in a submission hold?  And, I have not always had backup.
 
(In my later years, we could not choke anyone. In the 1970s and 80s, chokes were a great police tool.)
 
 
So, what does a civilian do? Beat him, break him, damage him up, or wait? And one must consider the legal issues with each.
– Beating is ground and pound.  
– Breaking him his breaking up body parts. 
– Damaging is busting him up, but not to the breaking point. 
– But waiting? Submissions? Waiting  for what? Wait for who? What happens next?
 
I must repeat though, It is the duty of every martial person to learn each joint and the directions they go in and the directions they don’t go in, standing thru on the ground, whether they think they are studying “survival fighting” or “arts/sports.” This body joint knowledge is useful and can comes from many sources. You still simply have to know this material. 
 
My personal path is one of “no hero-worship,” no “system-worship,” as martial arts are cluttered with these distractions.  I am not a hobbyist, nor a “joiner.” I am a skeptic. An analyzer. A survivalist. Your path is your path.  Whatever path, get on the path of learning the joints and which ways they do and do not twist and bend.
 
 
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