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- From: shaig@Think.COM (Shai Guday)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: Navy SEALs and Jeet Kune Do
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 21:34:02 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- References: <1992Nov17.233308.1@novax.llnl.gov> <1992Nov18.143751.23031@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- Keywords: SEALs, JKD
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- In article <1992Nov18.143751.23031@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, npalmer@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Nicholas P Palmer) writes:
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- |> From there, they worked on all sorts of weapons, fighting distances (joint
- |> locks, holds, throws, punches, kicks, blocks), and emphasized the idea
- |> "WHATEVER WORKS!" Whatever gets the job done. He said that a lot of the
- |> fighting techniques and training were 'dirty tricks' and that you just
- |> 'tried to fuck someone up as fast as you could without getting hit someplace
- |> vital.'
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- Sounds very similar in conept to the Israeli unarmed combat technique
- taught to the IDF. It incorporates a bit of everything, with emphasis
- on the simple, effective techniques, and survivability.
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- Not an art at all.
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