Judo and Unarmed Combat

During the war years, Unarmed Combat, or Close Combat, as it is now styled, became a familiar and definite part of the routine physical training curriculum in most of the Service training programmes. Not only were the Commandos and other specialist branches trained in it, but also the ordinary rank and file of the offensive arms. The Home Guard itself, not to be left out of the picture, came in for their fair share, being trained by such experts as Dr. [Moishe] Feldenkrais, of the "Jiu-jitsu Club de France." The Army itself had the good fortune to receive the expert guidance of Captain W.E. Fairbairn (now Lt.-Col.) a Kodokan nidansha [2-dan].

Thus it was natural that Unarmed Combat became modified from the rather crude wrestling methods incorporated in the earlier training classes to a weapon second only in deadliness to firearms in the hands of the trained soldier. I myself, during my brief but interesting period in H.M. Army, received Unarmed Combat training, and in my turn trained others in the art. This training was very interesting to me, since for many years I had been also a keen but extremely unskilful Judoka.

Thus it occurred to me that it would be interesting to compare these two systems, and to note how nowadays Unarmed Combat has included in its selection of methods so many of Judo’s most effective waza [techniques].

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