Brown Belt
1- Techniques
Legs
Wheel Kick (Both Front and Side)
Butterfly Kick
Flying Double Side Kick
Jumping Front Splits Kick
Uppercut Kick
Scorpion Kick
360 kick
Roundhouse (Ball of Foot)
Hands
Twin Vertical/Horizontal Punch
Twin Uppercut Punch
Knuckle Punching (Extended Knuckle)
Double Elbow Chop (Standing and in the Air)
Blocks
Ridge Hand Block
Pressing Block
U-shaped Block
Concepts
Offensive attacks to the Arms and Legs of an opponent
Performing Techniques with Backwards Movement
Kick Catch-Heel Catch Ground Point (Lower Your Stance)
Hook and Pull (Opponent offers Resistance- Back Leg Foot Sweep)
Clinching Fundamentals
Low Knees to the Thighs from the Clinch Side Clinch (Be able to Perform Knee Strikes)
Throw from the Side Clinch- (Post Leg Put Opponent Over the Leg)
Defense Dual Arm Lock and Throw
Combinations
Jab, Lead Back Fist, Cross Rear Back Fist
Lead Low Thai Kick, Mid Rear Thai Kick
Rear Thrust Kick, Tornado Kick
2- Self-defense
Chokes on the ground in Guard and Mount
Rope Choke
3- Breaking
Legs- Flying Side Kick
Hands- Knife Hand
4- Form
Joong Gun
Joong Gun is named after the patriot Ahn Jung-Geun September 2, 1879 – March 26, 1910. His Christian name was Thomas. He was a Korean independence activist, nationalist, and pan-Asianist who On October 26, 1909 assassinated Itō Hirobumi, the first Japanese governor-general of Korea, known as the man who played the leading part in the Japanese subjugation of Korea.
As a boy, he learned Chinese literature and Western sciences, but was more interested in martial arts and marksmanship. Kim Gu, a future leader of the Korean independence movement who had taken refuge at his house at the time, wrote that young Ahn Jung-Geun was an excellent marksman, liked to read books, and had strong charisma. He devoted himself to the education of Korean people after the Eulsa Treaty by establishing private schools. He joined the armed resistance against Japan and was appointed a lieutenant general leading several attacks against the Japanese. While working as a General of the Korean resistance Army he and several of his fellow soldiers cut off the tip of one of their finger in a pledge to fight the Japanese.
Ahn Joong Gun shot Ito HIrobumi three times with a pistol on the railway platform at Harbin Railway Station, as well as 4 other Japanese officials. After the shooting, Ahn yelled out for Korean independence while waving the Korean flag, and was arrested by Russian guards who turned him over to the Japanese. Harbin Station is in modern day China and there is a memorial to Ahn Joong Gun there today.
At his trial he said, “I have ventured to commit a serious crime, offering my life for my country. This is the behavior of a noble-minded patriot.” In court, Ahn insisted that he be treated as a prisoner of war, as a General of the Korean resistance army instead of a criminal. He listed 15 crimes Ito Hirobumi had committed, among those the Assassination of the Korean Empress Myeongseong.
Ahn’s Japanese captors showed sympathy to him. Even his public prosecutor, said, “From what you have told me, it is clear that you are a righteous man of East Asia. I can’t believe a sentence of death will be imposed on a righteous man. There’s nothing to worry about.”
While imprisoned Ahn Joong Gun wrote many pieces of calligraphy speaking out for the independence of Korea. He signed these pieces of art with his handprint showing the missing piece of his finger.
But Tokyo ordered prompt action, and before his death his two brothers met with him to deliver their mother’s message, “Your death is for the sake of your country, and don’t ask for your life cowardly. Your brave death for justice is a final filial regards to your mother.”
Ahn requested to be executed as a prisoner of war, by firing squad. But instead, it was ordered that he should be hanged as a common criminal. As a final show of respect, he was allowed to wear white silk Korean clothes as he requested. The Japanese hid his grave in a effort to keep him from becoming a martyr. He was posthumously awarded the Order of Merit for National Foundation in 1962 by the South Korean government, the most prestigious civil decoration in the Republic of Korea.
There are 32 movements in this pattern to represent Mr. Ahn’s age when he was executed at Lui-Shung prison in 1910. Its diagram is a capital “I”.
5- Knowledge
Phases of Sparring-Offense, Defense, Counter
The goal of sparring is for on participant to impose his/her will on another person. This is done in a contest with rules in a friendly if not civil manner.
Offense- this phase is characterized by aggressive movement. This movement can be directed forward, sideways, or backwards but it is framed with technique, or the impression of technique being thrown. In this phase of sparring, it is easy to get tunnel-vision as the body naturally goes to the most practiced movements that the practitioner is comfortable with. This limited scope of ability tends to make participants dependent upon 2-4 techniques. These techniques can be singular or in combinations.
Defense- This phase is characterized by cautious movement by one partner responding to the aggressive motions of another. The goal in this phase is to minimize damage/loss of points by taking away the targets of the aggressor. This is done by blocking or evading the incoming technique. It is possible to command an entire encounter this way, as a proper defense can render an aggressor completely ineffective. There is a fine line however when it comes to defense, as it can be easily construed as running away. The balance is struck by using this phase to spot holes in an aggressor’s pattern of attack. Once the holes have been spotted, directing technique to these areas usually tends to counter and move into offensive technique.
Counter/Trap- Counter phase of sparring is the glue between both offense and defense in which rounds, and entire matches are won or lost. Usually in a contest of equally skilled participants this tends to be the only way of consistent scoring, and hits are taken on either side.
Countering is when the defender uses a technique to take over the initiative and respond with an offensive technique. Trapping is when the defender purposely shows an opening with the intention of using a counter technique. Besting a counter fighter at times takes becoming a counter fighter, who can see farther ahead in the way of steps. Counter fighters can also be beaten by a continuous volley of non-telegraphed offensive technique, or a particularly scrutinizing defense that commits techniques that are hard to counter.
Within sparring, both participants are floating in and out of all 3 phases at any given time. These phases are not often used by beginner students, but over time students develop the skill and timing to recognize them and implement them into their fighting style.
Martial Arts
1-Silat is a collective word for a class of indigenous martial arts from a geo-cultural area of Southeast Asia. This area encompasses most of the Indonesian Archipelago, the Malay Archipelago and the entirety of the Malay Peninsula. Originally developed in what are now Indonesia, peninsular Malaysia, south Thailand, and Singapore, it is also traditionally practiced in Brunei, central Vietnam and the southern Philippines. There are hundreds of different styles and schools but they tend to focus either on strikes, joint manipulation, throws, weaponry, or some combination thereof.
2-Jujutsu is a Japanese martial art and a method of close combat for defeating an armed and armored opponent in which one uses no weapon or only a short weapon.
“Jū” can be translated to mean “gentle, soft, supple, flexible, pliable, or yielding.” “Jutsu” can be translated to mean “art” or “technique” and represents manipulating the opponent’s force against himself rather than confronting it with one’s own force. Jujutsu was developed to combat the samurai of feudal Japan. Because striking against an armored opponent proved ineffective, practitioners learned that the most efficient methods for neutralizing an enemy took the form of pins, joint locks, and throws. These techniques were developed around the principle of using an attacker’s energy against him, rather than directly opposing it.
Today, jujutsu is practiced in both traditional and modern sports forms. Derived sport forms include the Olympic sport and martial art of judo, which was developed by Kanō Jigorō in the late 19th century from several traditional styles of jujutsu, and Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which was derived from earlier (pre–World War II) versions of Kodokan judo.
3-Brazilian jiu-jitsu is a martial art and combat sport system that focuses on grappling and ground fighting. Brazilian jiu-jitsu was formed from Kodokan judo ground fighting fundamentals that were taught by a number of individuals including Takeo Yano, Mitsuyo Maeda and Soshihiro Satake. Brazilian jiu-jitsu eventually came to be its own art through the experiments, practices, and adaptation of judo through Carlos and Helio Gracie (who passed their knowledge on to their extended family) as well as other instructors who were students of Maeda, such as Luiz Franca.
BJJ promotes the concept that a smaller, weaker person can successfully defend against a bigger, stronger, heavier assailant by using proper technique, leverage, and most notably, taking the fight to the ground, and then applying joint-locks and chokeholds to defeat the opponent. BJJ training can be used for sport grappling tournaments.
However it can be used in some self-defense situations and does serve its purpose. Sparring (commonly referred to as rolling) and live drilling play a major role in training, and a premium is placed on performance in competition while working through its ranking system.
Confucianism
Confucius was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history.
The philosophy of Confucius emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity. His followers competed successfully with many other schools during the Hundred Schools of Thought era only to be suppressed in favor of the Legalists during the Qin Dynasty. Following the victory of Han over Chu after the collapse of Qin, Confucius’ thoughts received official sanction and were further developed into a system known in the West as Confucianism.
Confucius’s principles had a basis in common Chinese tradition and belief. He championed strong family loyalty, ancestor veneration, and respect of elders by their children and of husbands by their wives. He also recommended family as a basis for ideal government. He espoused the well-known principle “Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself”, the Golden Rule.
Confucius is also a traditional deity in Daoism.
Philosophy of Commando Krav Maga
The philosophy of CKM can be broken down into three main dimensions:
Ethical: Our intention is to find an honorable path towards a peaceful resolution. Violence should be our last resort. We seek to give the aggressor a chance to save face, an honorable solution as a way out, without ever compromising his/her own sense of self-esteem. We work to dissolve our own ego and respect every other human being, regardless of race, religion, or gender. Therefore, the fundamental principle is of no first use of force. We don’t live to fight, we fight to live.
Pragmatic: While seeking peace, prepare for war. Fighting in self-defense is legally acceptable in most countries. Aggression and the use of force is not.
Dynamic: A fight can change rapidly, and tactics also change over time. We must remain adaptable, training for immediate change as well as adapting our training to take into account the adaptation of those who seek to harm us. Any system that remains static can quickly become outdated. The key to survival is to continually evolve and progress.