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- From: stark@dwovax.enet.dec.com (Todd I. Stark)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: Navy SEALs and Jeet Kune Do
- Summary: A speck of info and some editorial comment
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.170450.26403@PA.dec.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 19:25:48 GMT
- Sender: news@PA.dec.com (News)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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- I missed some of this string, but I'll share what little I know
- in this area.
-
- Elite mil tend to be (relatively, for the U.S. military) very open-minded groups
- regarding what might be useful in accomplishing their goals. You
- would see some Green Berets and SEALs praying to a giant teddy bear
- in a grass skirt and garters if they thought it would help them
- do their job and survive. We're talking about some very motivated
- people, as have to be a bit of a fanatic to even consider
- going through SEAL training. Some of the deepest fears
- are met. Hand to hand fighting is almost a breeze compared to some
- of the trials of UDT and SEAL training, for example. People who have to sneak
- around underwater to place explosives have to overcome all those nifty hangups
- the rest of us take for granted, like loud noises at close range, fear of
- dark, enclosed spaces, fear of suffocation, all wrapped into one
- inescapable underwater experience. Getting knifed is pretty tame
- psychologically compared to that, imo.
-
- Much of what is commonly taught in BUD/S, UDT, SEAL
- that is formallized appears to me to be derived from some of the
- Korean traditions, owing to Mike Echanis' connections, and those of a few
- others. Popular examples are Bong Soo Han, of Hollywood Hapkido fame,
- who claimed to have worked with Army Special Forces, Paul Vunak of
- course, and Mike Echanis, student of the Lee brothers, who coined
- the older generic term 'Hwarang-Do' for their particular art.
-
- Sorry to dissapoint the young kids, but most of the classified elements of
- training relate to operational factors and mission goals, not to magic secret
- ways to kill someone with two spent cartridges and a piece of piano wire
- or some such. Such things are pretty much common knowledge among the creatively
- sociopathic in all walks of life. Elite military just make a more
- potentially valuable service out of that knowledge.
-
- kind regards,
- todd
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