Marine Raiders, and Special Air Service troopers in hand-to-hand combat, knife-fighting and pistol techniques. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Fairbairn’s “Defendu” offers practical and historical perspective on armed and unarmed self-defense. Soon after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the United States entry. His interest in this weapon, and the system of knife fighting it supported, continued after he left Cyprus, and returned to England, and occupied his time up until his death. The techniques consist of high-percentage throws, kicks, takedowns, falling techniques, and his trademark edge-of-hand blow. He developed hand-to-hand combat methods for the Shanghai Police during the interwar periodas well as for the allied special forces during World War II. Customers who viewed this item also viewed. The start of the Second World War saw the Allied forces needing every advantage to give their soldiers and special forces a winning edge. They found one such edge in Fairbairn’s system. The militarized version of Defendu is described in the military manual All in fightingused as a supplement during WW2 CQB-training. He studied kung fu from the personal bodyguard to the Empress of China. FairbairnĪs the war ended, Fairbairn was 60 years of age.
Students are also taught to always take initiative, employ artifice, and remains at offense as no block or parry were found on the system. He developed his own fighting system - Defendu -and taught it to members of that police force in order to reduce officer fatalities. It is essential that the blade have a sharp stabbing point and good cutting edges, because an artery torn through as against a clean cut w.e.faiirbairn to contract and stop the bleeding. The hilt should fit easily in your hand, and the blade should not be so heavy that it tends to drag the hilt from your fingers in a loose w.e.fajrbairn. Methods of close combat that were battle tested and have been proven effective under conditions of actual combat are obviously of great importance to anyone seeking realistic and effective training in personal combat. The contributions made by these men are of enormous value to us today. He threw himself into the task, combining his military training, his time mastering at least four Eastern martial arts, and his own personal experience and creating a new style of fighting known as “Defendu” that he began to teach to his fellow officers.
Basically speaking, Defendu (referred to by Fairbairn as “Gutter Fighting”) was like the predecessor of Krav Maga. DEFENDU was a complete method of armed and unarmed Close.
FairbairnÃ?’s seminal manual on close-quarters combat, is finally available in a quality reprint edition.
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