Stealhead
02-02-13, 03:43 AM
Military as far as i can tell is not very much about martial arts.
In some cases one is thought some nasty offensive and defensive moves to be used in tight situations to resolve the issue quickly with full determination....and that's it.
Also helpful for those that never in their lives had some serious fights and joined the military.
There is no time for years and years of training with martial arts and it would be pointless.
Actually your quite wrong on this one many armed forces do in fact use martial arts a good example is the Marine Corps they have the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program.(MCMAP) you can read more about it here. The Israeli Defense Force has Krav Maga the Soviet Union/Russia has Systemia i could go on and on.
Also elite forces do in fact train very heavily in various forms of martial arts very extensively much more so the the standard far that is taught to everyone.
There is a very important difference between the things a military force might teach and focus on rather than a traditional martial art.A solider or member of an elite force their job is to kill the most likely form of combat they are likely to face is hand to hand combat where they or the other person is trying to get the other down on the ground in order to gain control and kill the other by what ever means is available if just the hands and arms are available then they are going to strike the person in the face until they expire or strangle the person.
My father once got into a hand to hand combat situation in Vietnam the person was so close to him that he attempted to strike the person in the face with his rifle but he man saw this and tackled my father before he could strike his rifle got knocked away and enemy pulled out a knife they fought over the knife my father got the knife and stabbed the person but they kept fighting anyway and where trying to gouge my fathers eyes out.Finally my father managed to strangle the enemy solider to death.Sorry to be so blunt but that is what a person in combat faces when it gets up close and personal.It is much different than sparing even if its full contact its much different than a street fight as these rarely actually end in death.
For a civilian martial arts are much more about a life style(or it is supposed to be) and are mainly there to instill a certain discipline in a person most actions a martial artist performs are a way to show to others of that same art their level of skill and dedication to the art.
In some cases one is thought some nasty offensive and defensive moves to be used in tight situations to resolve the issue quickly with full determination....and that's it.
Also helpful for those that never in their lives had some serious fights and joined the military.
There is no time for years and years of training with martial arts and it would be pointless.
Actually your quite wrong on this one many armed forces do in fact use martial arts a good example is the Marine Corps they have the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program.(MCMAP) you can read more about it here. The Israeli Defense Force has Krav Maga the Soviet Union/Russia has Systemia i could go on and on.
Also elite forces do in fact train very heavily in various forms of martial arts very extensively much more so the the standard far that is taught to everyone.
There is a very important difference between the things a military force might teach and focus on rather than a traditional martial art.A solider or member of an elite force their job is to kill the most likely form of combat they are likely to face is hand to hand combat where they or the other person is trying to get the other down on the ground in order to gain control and kill the other by what ever means is available if just the hands and arms are available then they are going to strike the person in the face until they expire or strangle the person.
My father once got into a hand to hand combat situation in Vietnam the person was so close to him that he attempted to strike the person in the face with his rifle but he man saw this and tackled my father before he could strike his rifle got knocked away and enemy pulled out a knife they fought over the knife my father got the knife and stabbed the person but they kept fighting anyway and where trying to gouge my fathers eyes out.Finally my father managed to strangle the enemy solider to death.Sorry to be so blunt but that is what a person in combat faces when it gets up close and personal.It is much different than sparing even if its full contact its much different than a street fight as these rarely actually end in death.
For a civilian martial arts are much more about a life style(or it is supposed to be) and are mainly there to instill a certain discipline in a person most actions a martial artist performs are a way to show to others of that same art their level of skill and dedication to the art.