The Techniques and Degrees of Force
Arms and Hands
Head
Legs and Feet
Small Joint Manipulations
Grappling Techniques in Sport, Drunkle, and Combat
Osoto Gari
Osoto Gari—Competition
Osoto Gari—Drunkle
Osoto Gari—Combat
Ko Uchi Gari
Ko Uchi Gari—Competition
Ko Uchi Gari—Drunkle
Ko Uchi Gari—Combat
Osoto Gake
Osoto Gake—Competition
Osoto Gake—Drunkle
Osoto Gake—Combat
Head and Arm Drag
Head and Arm Drag—Competition
Head and Arm Drag—Drunkle
Head and Arm Drag—Combat
Hammerlock/Front Chancery
Hammerlock/Front Chancery—Competition
Hammerlock/Front Chancery—Drunkle
Hammerlock/Front Chancery—Combat
Clothesline
Clothesline—Competition
Clothesline—Drunkle
Clothesline—Combat
Ogoshi
Ogoshi—Competition
Ogoshi—Drunkle
Ogoshi—Combat
Uchi Mata
Uchi Mata—Competition
Uchi Mata—Drunkle
Uchi Mata—Combat
Sukui Nage
Sukui Nage—Competition
Sukui Nage—Drunkle
Sukui Nage—Combat
Hammerlock
Hammerlock—Competition
Hammerlock—Drunkle
Hammerlock—Combat
Ude Hishigi Waki Gatame
Ude Hishigi Waki Gatame—Competition
Ude Hishigi Waki Gatame—Drunkle
Ude Hishigi Waki Gatame—Combat
Whizzer
Whizzer—Competition
Whizzer—Drunkle
Whizzer—Combat
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Books
Websites
Television
Index
About the Authors
Praise for Dirty Ground
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Foreword—by Rory Miller
If you fight, you fight for a goal and you fight in an environment. That is almost too obvious to write, but sometimes things need to be put into words or you lose track of obvious truths. When you lose track of obvious truths, you start to believe that a particular system, technique, or strategy is “right” when it is good only in a specific environment and aimed only at one of many possible goals.
I’ll wager that any martial art you might study has a high degree of efficiency, that is, in the environment from which it evolved and when used to achieve the goal the system defined as the win.
Think about this: Modern jujitsu, think Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ), is highly efficient, but doesn’t look much like old, say pre-1650 Japanese jujutsu (JJJ). Old school JJJ doesn’t have a lot of submissions and doesn’t believe in spending much time working an opponent. Those strategies didn’t make sense on a medieval battlefield where two guys grappling on the ground were easy kills for the spearmen on either side.
If the geniuses who founded BJJ (and I’m not talking about the people trying to ret-rofit it to fit the modern law enforcement or military “market”) had lived in a time and place where the battlefield was the testing ground and a spear in the back was the penalty for “delay of game,” the system would have looked much different. I bet it still would have been very efficient.
There are environmental factors in training as well. A system that takes a “lifetime to master” didn’t have much utility to someone who was going into battle as soon as he reached puberty, and did “lifetime to master” mean the same thing, or even get said when the life expectancy was in the low 20s?
Modern systems designed for military recruits—young men full of testosterone and at peak fitness—don’t require the same degree of efficiency as a system designed to protect the old and vulnerable from assault. Further, as battle changed over the centuries from a bloody hand-to-hand melee to a bloody technology-driven firefight, it made less and less sense to spend precious training time on unarmed fighting.
And one more point, from the environmental side: many of our martial arts systems predate the concept of self-defense law. In a world without effective police and courts, vengeance and the destruction of any serious threat made sense. The logical 1800 Okinawan solution to being attacked may risk prison time today. The world has changed.
In this book, Wilder and Kane talk about the other dimension: how goals, what you are fighting for, change every element of how you fight.
In a sport environment you want to win, quickly and decisively, but with solid assurance that your opponent will be able to get back up and play again tomorrow. In a combat situation you want to win quickly and decisively, but with solid assurance that your foe cannot get up and re-engage until you are long gone, if ever.
If you are trying to get the car keys from your drunken uncle or breaking up a family fight, not only do you want zero injury, but you are not dealing with trained competitors and the person you are throwing, locking, or striking may not be capable of protecting him or herself. That puts the responsibility for both the throw AND the fall entirely on you.
Self-defense is the biggest change and the hardest of all—you must make your technique work whatever your goal sometimes to incapacitate the threat, sometimes simply to escape—when you have already taken damage, your structure is compromised and applied against a threat who is bigger, stronger, and has complete tactical advantage. That’s the baseline for surviving assault and it is a world beyond the difference between sport and war.
Simple changes in goals profoundly change how you prioritize