Is military hand to hand training is a joke?

Calendar May 11, 2011 | Posted by admin

Hi,I did the following:
Question: Is military hand to hand training is a joke?

Thats a typo.
People I train with say that it’s a joke.
MP, I don’t want to hurt anyone. Plus, dude – - what the hell are you going to do, seriously, arrest me?

The answer in the following:

Answer by phi_1:21
If it is I haven’t heard the punch line…

Answer by Billy11B
Combatives are not a joke – the Army has gotten much tougher on hand to hand type training.

Answer by HOOAH! MP Veteran
No; get into a fight with someone properly trained in it and find out for yourself.

Answer by hollifieldrobert
all self defense training is what you make of it and the type of person you are i friend of mine was up to a red belt in tae kown do we he was a teenager someone pulled a knife on him when he wa 30 and put the guy in the hospital and all he said was it all came back to him and it was like slow motion and couldnt believe he hurt the guy so bad

Answer by deucedog
For me it was pretty basic. I was in the infantry and the basic training stuff was childish and not very good. I will mention though this was in 98 and at the time i was a Black belt in both shotokan karate and Jujitsu so for me it was a joke. Later on i learn some things from a platoon leader that was a national champ in wrestling and some dirty fighting from the rangers but the bare bones was a joke.

I would recommend once you get to your duty station after basic to try and find a martial arts school and train up there if you think you need more training. Find a MMA school if you can that way you can get a good mix of the different styles. Akido or jujitsu schools are the kind i would lean toward or a krav maga school which is great for the military probably one of the best but hard to find.

What do you think? Answer below!

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4 Comments

  1. Visualize Whirled Peas says:
    May 11, 2011 at 10:04 am

    It’s a sentence well structured and proofread.

  2. crystal_lovesfootball says:
    May 11, 2011 at 10:20 am

    no it is not. you might think your hot shit bc your a mma fighter [or you may just think you are.] but the army, should a soldier have to get in a hand to hand fight with the enemey, doesnt want them wresting around for ten years.
    btw, learn how to write you idiot.

  3. jeeper_peeper321 says:
    May 11, 2011 at 10:28 am

    pretty much.

    Combatatives are more for building aggression and a warrior spirit than actually teaching usable hand to hand.

    The techniques taught are valid techniques, if practiced enough.

    But that’s the issue, the military just doesn’t practice them enough.

    Then again, who is ever gonna need to fight hand to hand ?

    Time spent training in combatatives, can better be used for training in war essential skills.

  4. The Rogue says:
    May 11, 2011 at 10:56 am

    not a joke, but you are clearly a joke, chuck norris wanna-be lol, get a clue little boy

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