Alright so, what is the #1 martial art that pops into most people (in the 🇺🇸 USA)’s heads when they’re asked what is the best fighting system for self defense?
That’s right, It’s none other than Krav Maga.
The second most well known “street self-defense” or “Reality-based Martial Art” in America is very likely going to be Systema.
One’s Israeli 🇮🇱, and the other’s Russian 🇷🇺. The arts are effective at dirty street fighting, so who cares where they’re from ? You got a point, sure, but the thing that bothers me is that the USA has around 10 legitimate street fighting / self-defense systems that are just as effective as the kravmagist and the Systema soldier’s arsenals. So why not support the growth of martial arts of our own country’s creation ?
What I’m talking about are
Contemporary Fighting Arts The massive dvd and book selection by creator Sammy Franco is legit as fuck, especially his Widowmaker and Street Savagery programs (the first of Franco’s material you should study). I look through the website, and I find I am immensely proud that this amazing, massive deadly combat system was created by an American 🇺🇸.
The second one I want to point out is the Extreme Self Protection System by Mark Hatmaker. You see, Mark published a street self-defense system, and an MMA system that is beyond the reach of the modern MMA fighting system that has become sort of solidified with the creation of the unified rules of MMA. Whether you are a Reality-based (RMA) Martial Artist, or a combat sports practitioner, or you like studying BOTH, the Mad Scientist, Hatmaker, has got you covered.
The others worth mentioning are the Keysi Fighting Method and 52 blocks (an offshoot style of Jailhouse Rock), as well as the Target Focus 🎯 Training system by Tim Larkin, which I studied years ago and was impressed by how helpful it was in helping to develop my street self-defense skills, but I don’t If it’s still around. The one who introduced me to the philosophy of the RMA was author Peyton Quinn, who was funny as hell and real with his stories of how he survived many a street-fight without glorifying it.
I would like to see Franco’s System, the Widowmaker Combat Style, I guess you could call it, as part of the Contemporary Fighting Arts (CFS) TOTAL SYSTEM of extreme chokes/joint locks (my first DVD I ever ordered on the subject), knife 🔪 fighting 🩸, ‘dirty’ striking techniques, street fighting psychology etc., grow up and out, bigger than Krav Maga, establishing a franchise (or two) in every major US city, vis-a-vis Eddie Bravo’s 10th Planet 🌎 System, which is fucking popular worldwide there’s a 10th Planet School open or openining in many major cities here in the States and around the world! I’ve never seen anything like it; he showed us how to do jiu-jitsu right by going no-gi and eliminating that stupid ‘no leg locks’ rule BJJ was under when it came to the US. And then he made real monsters of his style, and let them open up chapters all over, and they’re all following the same curriculum, his curriculum, the 10th Planet Curriculum which is VERY innovative while still very recognizably 10th Planet (lockdown anyone? Banana split? the Twister? All moves from the 10PJJ system. The right way to do a new martial art.
Submitted October 25, 2023 at 07:09AM by InnerCosmos54 https://ift.tt/Xp8QgH7
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