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Wwii Restricted Judo PDF
Wwii Restricted Judo PDF
JUDO
MOTO: KILL OR BE KILLED
Concentrated-Realistic-Toughening- up course in BARE HANDED MAYHEM
Specifically Designed for ASSAULT TROOPS
OBJECT:
1. To turn out in the shortest possible time trained dangerous FIGHTERS
2. CONFIDENT in their ability to deal effectively with anything the enemy has to offer
today in UNARMED COMBAT.
3. Imbued with AGGRESSIVE OFFENSIVE ACTION rather than defensive type of
thinking.
4. Concentrating on their sole objective to QUICKLY KILL, MAIM, or
OTHERWISE DISABLE
the enemy.
PART I GENERAL PROCEDURE
PART II DETAILED PROCEDURE
PART III SUMMARY
PER AREA
Method of Instruction: Explanation- Demonstration- Supervised Application.
Training Aids and Materials Required:
One (1) Demonstration Platform
One (1) Easel and three (3) Charts entitled Judo, Your 13 Vital Objectives, and
Your 8 Offensive Weapons.
One (1) Megaphone and one (1) Whistle.
One (1) Heavy Canvas Sandbag per two (2) students for purpose of practicing Blows and
Kicks.
Personnel Required: 1 officer instructor
2 enlisted assistants
Men, briefly you are here to learn how to perform a satisfactory job of MAYHEMdisabling, crippling, garroting if you please, in a quick and highly scientific manner,
without use of weapons.
A good soldier of course never loses sight of his weapons but should the occasion ever
arise, during the course of your travels, when you find yourself to be without pistol or
knife and with one or more Japs or Nazis bearing down in your general direction, then
you will darn well want to know how to heave your feet, hands, and elbows around to
good purpose.
As in everything else you are experiencing here, you will find this course to be a
concentrated one- with all frills discarded for the duration. You will soon find out that
this is not MP type of unarmed combat where the objective is merely to bring a man inhe has a days work to do tomorrow. Nor is it the stage demonstration type of unarmed
combat where the objective is merely to entertain an audience. No, all we are
interested in here is in killing maiming, or otherwise knocking out enemy out of action
quickly and effectively.
For any of you who still shudder just at the mere thought of killing or maiming, let me
tell you that the Japs have long been practicing this kind of thing with their Ju Jitsu, Judo,
and Karate. ( brief explanation of each should follow at this point) and further more, are
expert at it. Should you ever be in the jungle and stumble across one of these lads, I can
assure you he wont be out to improve your health. Either you get him first, barehanded,
if need be, or he gets you.
Fortunately, the course we are about to teach you will enable you to do just that. It
represents the best taken by authorities from Judo, Karate, and Chinese Boxing, and has
already stood the test of Commando Operations. It is definitely superior to any the
Japanese have devised to date and you may have all confidence both in its effectiveness
and in the instructors who will do their best to coach you.
On return we must request for the purpose of handling such a large group, that on the
command AT EASE from this platform, you stop anything and everything you are
doing, give us your immediate attention, and remain quite until we give the word to
proceed.
If you do this and practice on the outside what we show you here, paying careful heed to
when we say go easy men, a hard blow in this vicinity will seriously injury your
partner, you will have something(1) Which to enable you in a serious scrap to quickly and effectively take care of two or
more opponents at one time no matter how big they may be;
(2) Which may some day be the means of SAVING YOUR LIFE OR THAT OF YOUR
BUDDY.
If it does that- then I am sure you will agree that the time and effort you put in here will
have proven quite worth while.
B. CONCENTRATING ON YOUR ENEMYS 13 VITAL AREAS
You will remember that your objective first, last, and always is to Kill, Maim, or Knock
your enemy out of action as quickly and effectively as possible in order to be able to take
care of, if necessary, the next man coming in. You are not going to play with em- youre
going to get rid of em- there fore you are to concentrate all your blows, kicks, etc on Mr.
Jap and Mr. Nazis most vulnerable spots as indicated on the chart hanging in front of
you.
The best way to know where these are exactly and what blows you will use against these
points, is to try them on yourselves and each other. (All instructors demonstrate each of
the following).
(1) Temples: Close your fist so knuckle of Middle Finger protrudes. Strike with that
knuckle all around your temple area until you find the most tender spot. Feel it, near and
parallel to your eyebrow?
(2) Side of Neck: Take outer edge of your hand and chop around side of your neck. Feel
most jarring points? Just below jawbone and in area of mastoid?
(3) Adams Apple: You dont have to strike this area but push your thumb real hard into
hollow just below your Adams Apple- notice how it makes you gag? A real blow aimed
at your enemys Adams Apple would in addition crush all the cartilages in this region and
cause a black out
(4)Back of the Neck: Chop with side of your hand again up and down the back of your
neck. Notice where it really jars? At that point there are twp small bones which snap
when you are hung. At the same time you will recognize this as the old Rabbit Punch
which never fails to drop a man like a log.
(5) Testicles: Take your fist and see what ever so gentle a blow in this region feels like.
Suppose you were to really let go with the toe of a G. I shoe? A blow to the testicles is
the great equalizer always permitting a small man in a serious scrap to take care of a
much bigger man. Now- number one, three and five lines About face and select a
partner. Take turns on each other. Number one line first- then number two line.
(6) Base of Nose: With edge of hand strike very gently, just enough to feel it, diagonally
up and in. When we do for keeps, we drive the nose back up into our enemys face. A
vicious trick, with an internal hemorrhage the probable results. Very good!
(7) Solar Plexus: Feel for V made by your breastbone. Use out elbow point like this
(demonstration) against your partners V so he can feel it. When we play for keeps,
object is to drive up and into reach nerves on front of spinal column. Try hitting with
edge of hand jars but does not reach vitals like sharp point will.
(8) Lower Ribs: Feel down for your last rib. Swing point of your elbow, I said point,
fairly hard against the lower rib of your partner. This is a particularly powerful blow with
the weight of your whole body behind it.
(9) Instep: Turn your back to your partner. With sharp edge of your heel go down hard on
his instep, just below ankle bone. Do you think he would really let go, at least
temporarily, if you were to smash all the small bones in his foot?
Now both lines face me.
The remaining four (4) blows you do not have to try
We will demonstrate them on you------------------------------------------------------------------(10) Knee Cap: Hinged so as to bend in one direction only- forward. Thats swell for us
for we merely step through it in the opposite direction causing the joint to snap
(11) Base of Spine: Especially vulnerable to a Knee Butt from the rear or a vicious kick
when your adversary in on the ground.
(12) Between the Eyes: A blow directed with the side of your hand is likely to drive a
splinter of the paper thin bone here into your enemys brain. A quick kill. Very good!
(13) Eyes: Youve all experienced a small object in the eye and how it hurts. What if you
were to get a fist full of fingers in your eyes, in this manner?
From the tests you have just made on your selves, you will have some inkling perhaps of
the various blows you will direct against these vital areas of your enemy, but you do not
yet know how to get the maximum power into such blows. That, you will be shown when
we go into the more Refined Tactics of Rough and Tumble.
Finally, while on the subject of Vital Areas, you must realize that all thirteen (13) will not
always be available to your attack. Varying equipment carried by different troops in the
field may cover and protect them in some cases, however you use your head, quickly size
up the situation and let em have it where they aint. For example, if an enemy is wearing
his helmet well down over his face, you would of course haul off and clout him on his
neck, or on some other vital area which is exposed
C. NEW AND REVOLUTIONARY FIGHTING POSITION
(1) Fighting Sideways to Your Enemy At All Times
(Position and Advantages illustrated by two instructors)
(a) It affords maximum protection to you as an attacker.
Permits you to reach vital areas, which are denied to the enemy. For example, you can
kick the Jap in the testicles from this fighting position, employing a Chinese boxing kick,
but were he to attempt his regular front kick, facing you, he would not reach your vital
area.
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(b) An attack from this position is unexpected and takes your enemy completely by
surprise.
(c) It furnishes a 3 advantage in reach. Boxers will tell you this is important.
(d) It attacks your enemys weakest position from standing point of balance.
(e) It permits you to deal quickly with two or more adversaries at the same time.
(2) What happens when you as attacker use the old orthodox method of facing your
adversary.
(Demonstration by officer instructor and two assistant instructors)
(a) If you attempt a combination Knee Butt and Chin Jab while facing your enemy, what
is to prevent him from doing the same to you?
(b) Also while you are occupied in this position, what about another adversary coming at
you from the rear? (Here second assistant instructor closes in from the rear and
executes in rapid succession- a whip blow to the back of the neck and a rear strangle).
(3) How you would quickly knock out the same two adversaries using our new fighting
techniques.
(Here instructor uses side of hand blow to neck of one adversary, eye jab to next
adversary coming in and with a half turn on ball of either foot is ready for two more men
closing in from opposite directions- all in a flash of a second).
(4) Maneuverability of new fighting position
(Assistant instructor demonstrates- officer instructor explains)
You will notice how this man never crossed his legs in all his advancing and retreatinggot around fast- moved freely and relaxed and maintained his balance perfectly
throughout by keeping the upper part of his body vertical from the trunk up. This matter
of balance and movement is just as important here as you will find it to be in your
Bayonet Hand- to Hand fighting.
Well, men, up to now your work has been purely introductory. From now on in you will
really begin to sweat-kicking and kneeing the stuffings out of sandbags, especially
designed for the purpose.
We should like to include here, however, a particularly practical exercise- purpose of
which is to teach you quick movement and balance as well as the effectiveness of
fighting sideways- attacking your opponents weak facing position with your strong sideways position.
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both arms. This action properly executed will leave him stumbling back, wide open for
the Chinese Whiplash Kick.
(3) BOOT SMASH- to kneecap
With your body at right angles to your adversary, draw your nearest leg up to a height
where your foot is approximately opposite your other knee. Lean from the hips slightly
sideways away from your adversary to keep in good balance. Just as your adversary puts
his foot down to take a step forward, shoot your up raised foot through his kneecap by
stepping forward with all your weight to break his leg.
(4) KNEE BUTT- to testicles or base of spine
It is particularly important that this trick be done from our sideways fighting position. To
give this trick maximum power, it is executed by stamping on the ground with one foot as
the knee of the other is recoiled up into the enemys groin or base of the spine.
F. HAND, FINGER AND KNUCKLE PERSUADERS
(1) SIDE HAND WHIP- to side of neck, base of nose, to Adams Apple, or between eyes.
(Preceded by BEATING EDGE OF HANDS ON GROUND EXERCISE)
(a) Facing sideways to your adversary, this blow is delivered with your open hand,
fingers extended and joined, palm down, elbow bent and parallel to the ground
shoulder high. Stamp forward towards your adversary keeping your body erect from
the waist up and at the same time whip edge of the hand to anyone of the above
mentioned vital areas. Contact is made with only that portion of the hand, which
extends from the little finger to the wrist.
(b) At this point it will be well to point out how maximum striking power is secured both
in the execution of this blow, as well as in all subsequent blows with the hands,
fingers, knuckles or elbows. Note: All blows are short, sharp, sudden with no initial
drawback and are to be done from a sideways fighting stance. Maximum velocity at
point of impact is secured by whipping action against a more or less stiffened forward
side of the body (as in gold). The latter resistance against which we hit, is set up by
stamping the forward foot down as we strike. All attacking weapons, hands, elbows,
etc., are brought back to initial starting position both to produce this whipping action
and to put us in good position for our next move. The sharp edge or point of the
attacking weapon is used. Balance in body movement is maintained through out by
keeping the upper portion of our body from the hip up erect at all times.
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