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Originally Posted by Rameses  I don't know if the military does to BJJ exlusively or if it's a mixture of martial arts but for conversation sake we'll assume they do.
The military doesn't have an unlimited amount of time to teach someone to fight hand to hand. They want to teach them a effective way to defend themselves in a hand to hand battle. BJJ encompasses a variety of techniques as well as fighting from the feet as well as from the ground.
I'm just gonna say it and people are gonna be pissed but there's a reason they teach BJJ to the army. It's a simple martial art. It's very popular in MMA and Pride and UFC. The army sees it as effective in a ring against another fighter and right now BJJ and MMA is the flavor of the month (decade).
In a bar fight the two drunks fight eachother. They try for shots from far away trying to hit eachother with the knockout punch. Then they get too close to one another and tackle eachother to the ground until one wins. In BJJ there's a lot of throws and chokes and grappling involved but that's what it boils down to. The army doesn't have time to teach the fine points of martial arts. That takes a lifetime to achieve. They want a bunch of guys who they can teach a martial art style to that's not that different from what they would do naturally in a fight. |
naw the military doesnt teach BJJ exclusively. Combatives is a combination of BJJ, Judo,Muay Thai, Eskrima, & Boxing.
depending on where your stationed at plays alot in what type of arts are available in the area. If your stationed in Korea , for example
your company may have a TKD instructor who gives lessons for PT, or you might find yourself doing TKD an Tulong Musool with the Korean military.
the army sees it as effective. but also when the Army was doing an Overhaul of its general martial arts programs....they had to weed out some systems an styles. cause in addition to having access to training....some styles are just crap or theres some
BS instructors. so if one wants to take up certains styles they can do that on thier own time but the official Army Combatives is the result of thier overhaul cause some of the methodology of the old martial arts program doesnt fit the reality of today's kind of warfare