"The Charles Nelson School of Defense"
By Paul G. a longtime student of the Founder.

Charley started prospective students by interviewing them first. He'd ask:

"Have you had anykind of Training in the Martial Arts?"
"What style did you study?"
"Who taught you?"
"What rank did you advance to?"
"Why do you want to learn this?"
"Can you practice on your own with somebody?"
"Can you bring that person here for lessons?"
"Have you ever been in a fight?"
"Have you ever been assaulted?"
"Have you ever been mugged?"
"How did it happen, what happened what did you do?"

Charley would start out the class with five minutes of stretching. He started out new students by teaching them how to side kick, frontkick, how to strike with the hand. He'd taught how to chop and punch with closed fist, "small knuckle" or flat hand and opened hand. He also taught finger stabs to the eyes.

His attacks could be boiled down to two, even though he had some variations of the same. Short Range Attack, Long Range Attack, Sub variations of the above two: Including but not limited to, Attack from a "cat stance" His attacks always relied on the feet to strike first, followed by handblows. Knees to the groin or the fork as well as the leg area were taught. I have a 1943 "Unarmed Combat" tape that shows the same defense against a boxer as Charley had. Which is a "Savate" kick to the boxers shin or thigh. Charley also used strangles in his system. The above tape interestingly enough shows these strangles and chokes. The only difference being that Charley had different defenses against these chokes. You notice I didn't say better. I find using terminology such as "sucks", "better" to be borderline disrespectful to the instructor that demonstrates certain techniques. I prefer to use different, as all techniques have a similarity.

Charley did not have a ranking system or promotion to instructor. If he liked you, he taught you without a fee. Of course this occurred after spending time and money learning the methods of hand-to-hand combat. This would have placed the student in the position of a defacto instructor, as Charley would then ask you to come to the "Dojo" on certain days to help him train new students. Myself-, Allen Tino, Boddie Sween, Barry Leventhal and others, spent many years helping Charley out in different ways. Now people who have 45 lessons from Charley are now adopting him as their Hand-to-Hand Combat Guru. What happened to all the years between the prime of his life to his eighties? It's tragic to see the vultures come out of the woodwork waiting in the wings for him to pass on. I hope that Al and Barry will add any thoughts and recollections on their experiences in their years spent with Charley.

I'll try to describe Charlie's Short-Range Attack. This was used if you could not start out with a strike from the foot OR knee. Charlie never filmed this sequence nor wrote down the series of movements.


Stand at a 45-degree bladed angle to your target.

Deliver first edge of hand blow to your assailant's face/head area. Your hand comes up from your side to target without "cocking" your armor winding up. Imagine a string pulling your hand to the target, you offer no resistance. You do not telegraph your blow

There are several body dynamics going on as you deliver this blow. If you're right handed your delivering the first blow with your left hand.

As your left edge of hand blow is going in a direct straight line to your targets face, your left leg is "circling", or moving so you toes are pointing at the target, or could be slightly turned inward towards your centerline. Your right leg is back. Your right foot is raised. Your right heel is off the floor. So, you're in a basic boxer's stance. By this time your left hand has struck the target.

Your right fist is immediately launched towards the targets body. Your arm is kept close to your body as you deliver this blow. Your fist is striking in the bare fisted boxing era, in that your not corkscrewing the punch as you deliver it. The fist is kept vertical with the thumb pressing on the four folded fingers and the fingertips of the four fingers pressing into the flesh on the top of the palm. The fist strikes the heart in a vertical manner. You do not telegraph the blow

. This is Charley Nelson's "Circle Punch", with is a bit different from his "Hidden Punch", which most people cannot pick up. All of his attacks incorporate the circular movements described above. He generates power through the pivoting of the hips slightly and the circular movement of the rest of the body. So, this punch was mastered first. You do not telegraph the blow.

That was the toughest part of the lesson. Now, if the target moves back, deliver a "Savate" type sidekick to the knee or shin with the back leg (right, if your right handed). If he is still to close to sidekick, deliver a knee lift (knee sharply delivered to groin or fork) with toes of the right leg pointing down. Your moving that knee up and in to pick the assailant up off the ground and move him backward. If you don't strike the testicles or a target your body momentum will drive the target back when you slam into him with all your weight. You do not telegraph the blow.

If you get off the right side kick, strike the assailants leg and recover. The proper delivery of a sidekick is difficult to describe. It takes practice on some kind of heavy bag. The leg on the floor must pivot somewhat, the rear arm must help out like a cat's tail. Or, the hands must clap or clasp in front. Getting power, accuracy and speed is up to you. How you place the striking right leg down after striking the target is up to you. I prefer striking and landing the striking foot close to the target instead of brining it back close to your own body. Constantly moving your body and weapons into the target. You do not telegraph the blow.

If you struck with the right side kick, left knee lift, if the target is close. If he is not close, follow up with a left toe kick to the groin. Again, no chambering or telegraph. Delivered in a "Savate" type manner, foot comes straight off the ground, toes pointed straight out, body leans back. Toes or foot arch strikes testicles, groin/fork (or if a women the moon pie). You do not telegraph the blow.

Follow up with bronco kick, you can telegraph this technique.



I'll describe some of the closed fist blows that Charles Nelson taught. Charley also used the "Tigers Claw" to the face and the "Chin Jab", which he called the palm heel strike...but he knew the terminology of "Chin Jab". His oldest student, Herb Kantrowitz, advocated the use of the open hand blow to the head as well as the body by merely turning the hand until the thumb was pointing upward. Herb was a powerful man who broke his hands in several street fights. Charley believed that conditioning the hands on a heavy bag, not using bag gloves or handwraps while repetitively striking a hard surface would prevent this. He also advocated striking in the "Okinawa" (sp) style of punching, or as the bare-knuckle fighters punched back in the bare knuckle fighting era. In that if you did not twist the hand, or cork screw the hand while punching, you would not break your wrist or knuckles. He did not believe in over developing the hardness of the hands striking surfaces, as he believed this would lead to health problems.

Circle Punch:
Blade your body at a forty five degree angle to your target. If you are right handed your left side is closest to the target. If your right handed you lift your left foot off the ground slightly. You circle your left foot until you are facing your target. Your left foot has its toes slightly turned inward toward the centerline of your body. Your left foot is flat. Your right foot heel raises off the ground, it also pivots slightly with an inward rotation or swivelling of your hips to generate power as you launch a right hand strike. Your body leans into the target slightly as you deliver the blow.

Hidden Punch:
Blade your body towards your assailant on a forty-five degree angle towards your target. If you are right handed the left side of your body faces the heavy bag. Your left foot raises slightly off the ground and your left big toe is touching the ground. Pressing your toes to the floor you pretend to draw a straight line on the floor with your toes. Your drawing your left leg backwards keeping the ball of your left foot on the ground. If you watch your foot work in a full length mirror, when your left leg and right leg are spaced apart as if you are walking or taking a step, you pivot towards your target, keeping you left foot and right foot firmly on the ground. The left foot toes are either pointing towards the target or pointing inward on a forty-five degree angle towards the centerline of your own body. Your right leg remaining in its original position is back, your heal is raised off the ground. Your right foot toes are either pointing straight towards the target or are pointed inward on a forty-five degree angle.

In both the "Circle Punch" and the "Hidden Punch" you end up in a classic boxers stance. Your left hand is up near your face ready to block or parry a right hand punch from your target. Your left leg is slightly bent, your right leg is behind the right leg and of course has a natural bend to it. Both stances are similar in that it looks as if you are in a natural crouch. The toes on each foot are either on a forty-five degree angle pointing towards your body's centerline, or pointing straight towards your target. Your body should be relaxed and stable. In that you should not be off balance, a counter attack from your target should not upset your balance. You should be able to move comfortably from this stance. The difference in both of these techniques is the nuances in the footwork. In one the left foot leaves the ground to circle, in the other it does not leave the floor and travels in a straight line back.

The "Hidden Punch" and "Circle Punch" is fundamental to learning the Charles Nelson System of Self Defense. The system has its roots in DEFENDU, and in "Pat" Dermott O'Neill's fighting system. It would have been taught in the first couple of lessons. I'll describe the way Charles Nelson delivered his punch from the "Circle Punch" and the "Hidden Punch": I'll assume that the reader is right handed, if not, just reverse the explanation. The right arm is held against your chest. The elbow is down. As you circle and pivot you launch your right fist at the center mass of the targets chest. Strike the target and recover fast to your original pose. Your right fist should be shoulder height. Deliver the punch with a snap and with power. Simple. What to do with the left arm? The left arm can do five things:

1)The left arm using a edge of hand blow could be swung at the targeting a saber like arc. The left arm can deliver a edge of hand blow to the targets raised fist, aiming for the wrist. This will cause the targets left arm to be knocked away. Follow through with launching the right hand punch.

2) The left arm could deliver a edge of hand blow to the side of the targets head. Causing a side whiplash like movement to the targets head. Follow through with a right hand punch.

3) The left edge of hand blow could be delivered in a straight manner to the targets face. In stead of swinging the left edge of hand blow like a saber, it is delivered by raising the left arm like a carpenters square, as you turn into the target the left arm is held up in front of your face shielding your own face. Your left arm is cocked with your left hand sort of reaching for your left shoulder. Your elbow is sort of shielding your face; your left arm is making a sort of triangle shielding your face. As your body twists in, or pivots towards your target and your facing your target straight on, the edge of hand blow is flying at your targets face. The left foot stepping into the target, you'll generate a lot of force with this blow. The right fist launches at your targets chest when you strike your target with the edge of hand blow.

4) The left hand could grab the targets right hand. As you hold the targets wrist and you pivot, the target will be turned sideways. Deliver the right fist to the targets side of his chest. This could be used as a set up for a arm lock, a open hand to the ear, or a vertical edge of hand blow to the back of the neck.

5) The left hand is raised as you are circling in guarding your face from a counter punch. The left fist is twisting in and held out away from the body at face height. Tailor this technique to your own comfort, either keeping the elbow tight in or slightly away from the rib cage. Follow through with delivering a right hand punch. The making of a proper fist is very important. The four fingers touch the area where the fingers join the palm. The thumb presses down and in, it crosses over the four folded fingers. Put a lot of tension on your fist, make it tight. The fist could be and maybe should be change to an open hand "Tiger's Claw" smash. A straight in "Tigers Claw" to the targets heart will work just as well as a closed fist. The "Tigers Claw" could be used in the "Hidden Punch" as well as the "Circular Punch", to deliver straight in blows to the targets face. I have read about a blow described as a "stone crusher". This open hand blow to the heart could be the "stone crusher". Change any technique to suit yourself and follow your own philosophy of punching. The two punches described were at the core of Charles Nelson's "Long Range Attack" and "Short Range Attack". The "edge of hand" blow or "chop" is used in this instance in lieu of a left jab. If the list members are interested I can describe the kicks used in the "Long Range Attack" and the "Short Range Attack". Seeing the opportunity to change up the delivery of your attack is critical. Don't become trapped in a mindset of carrying threw with a specific blow or attack. Allow the target to dictate what way you're going to attack him. A good offense is the best defense  (or defence for our U.K. friends). The "circle", "block", "punch" sequence might be a defense against any attack from a spring cosh. At least as "one" immediate action drill.


I will describe some other blows that could be adapted into the "Nelson System of Self Defense". Charles Nelson System of Self Defense was not invented by Charley. He learned various techniques from other people. Over the years he minimized what he taught, making a fighting style or a system from many systems and styles. He taught methods to defend oneself against the way one would get attacked in the west, by a western man. He started learning his craft as a child through boxing in an orphanage. As a young man he learned the United States Marine Corps method of hand-to-hand fighting. But, this so-called United States Marine Corps method of hand-to-hand fighting was influenced by who ever was teaching the course to the unit he was in at the time.

1)"Single Punch Attack":
Standing facing the target, grasp your right wrist with your left hand. When you look down you should see the tops of both hands. Step towards the target with your left foot. Deliver a right punch to the targets heart with a right fist, keeping hold of that right wrist. Holding on to the right wrist will give your right punch more power. As your using that left hand to push the punching right fist in. The arms form a sort of triangle or pyramid giving stability to your body. Holding the arms this way will also give you some protecting from counter blows. Standing with your hands in this way in front of your groin will also give you the element ofsurprise.

2) "Single Chop Attack":
Stand straight on to your target with your hands at you side. Step into the target with your left foot. Raise your left arm up with your forearm in front of your face. Your left arm is in the form of a carpenter's square, raised up as you step towards the target. Your left hand is held with the fingers outstretched and ridged, your forearm in front of your face. As you close the gap and your left foot becomes planted, strike the target with a left edge of hand blow in the face. In each instance after the blow is delivered you should recover into a boxers stance. Left leg forward of the right and slightly bent. Right leg back and bent at the knee, right foot raised off the heel. Both right and left foot toes are either slightly turned in towards the center line of your body. Or the toes facing forward towards the target.

3) "Chop Sticks":
Face your target straight on. Keep your hands at your sides. Keep your fingers ridged. Step towards your target on your left leg. As you step in bring your hands up forming a triangle with your hands in front of you as you do, fingers out stretched. Strike your targets eyes with your finger tips of your out stretched hands. Charles Nelson called this "Chop Sticks". You can deliver this as a single hand strike, but it is really a diversionary technique used to get a side kick in.

4) "Buffalo Horns":
Form a "Flat Fist" or a "Small Fist" by curling your fingers until the finger tips touch the pads of your palm where the fingers join the hand. Don't fold your fingers again. Keep your knuckles in the middle of your hand pointing outward. Keep your hands at your sides; step towards your target on your left foot. Form a triangle or a pyramid with your hands as you move this weapon into the target. Strike the targets throat with your knuckles forming a "V". Charles Nelson called this "Buffalo Horns". This is a power blow. Not a blow to show the kids.

5) "Small Fist" or "Flat Fist" strike.
Make a small fist by curling your fingers, touching the fingertips to the top pads of your palm. The middle knuckle is bent and protruding. Do not clench your fist further. Press down on the first finger knuckle with your thumb on your index finger knuckle. {For people in the Southern United States--if you have six fingers it'll still work}. Face your target straight on. Keep your right hand at your side. Deliver the small fist on an upward motion towards your assailants target area, his throat. Your skipping the first bend in the fingers knuckles, above the finger nails off the assailants chest, below his "jugglers notch". Or approximately three to four inches below the Adams apple. Continue inward striking the Adams apple with the middle knuckles of your small fist. It's a hard blow to get off. You have to be close in to the target.

6) "Eye Jab":
Make a fist. Lay the thumb against the top of the fist with the thumb protruding. DRIVE THE THUMB INTO THE EYE WITH THECLENCHED FIST. This can be delivered from whatever way you think will get the weapon into the target. Does it need further explanation? You'll give someone eye damage for life with this strike.

7) "Tigers Claw", "Straight in Face Smash":
Bend your hand with the fingers up and curled at the fingers. Thumb outstretched. Your hand is formed as if it is holding a "shot put" or a heavy metal ball. Strike your targets face straight in with the intent of taking his head off his shoulders, think of striking his eyes with your fingers tips. You'll give someone whip lash with this, it can kill.

8) "Chin Jab":
Same as above except its coming from underneath the chin. You're striking with an uppercut strike. Charley liked to keep the fingers together and pointed straight out for this blow. He called it the palm heel strike. I prefer the "Defendu" method better. You'll break a neck with this.

9) "Thumb Eye Gouge":
Make an edge of hand. Fingers spread outward and slightly apart. Thumb pointing straight in the air. Now, point at the target. point the thumb by bending it slightly. Bend the wrist and curl the fingers slightly. Drive the hand towards the targets face letting the fingers brush past the targets ear. The thumb gets driven into the eye. Don't practice this with speed and power on your wife or training partner. He/she won't recover so quickly.

10) "Single ear box and double ear box":
Form a cup with either one hand or two hands. Fingers and thumb kept sealed and pressing together. Pretend that you are going to scoop water with your hand. Strike your targets ears with one hand or both. Don't practice this one folks, as you can deafen someone with this blow.

As you see, you step in on the left foot for each delivery of the blow, you are recovering into the "Hidden Punch" or "Circle Punch" stance after each strike. In that your left hand is protecting your face from a counter attack, your right elbow is held tight against your body with your hand raised up protecting your right chin. You're in a slight crouch, left leg forward and slightly bent, right leg back; right foot heel off the ground. Right foot on the ball of the foot. Toes either pointing straight towards the target or slightly turned in. You're also attacking the vulnerable parts of the targets body with natural weapons. Each blow is delivered without a telegraph, with power, speed and accuracy. The blows are snapped in, strike and recover.


I'll write a little more about the hand strikes in the Charles Nelson Method of Self Defense. Charley learned hand-to-hand fighting skills from Lt. Col. A.J. Drexel Biddle, U.S.M.C.R. As well as other giants in the field. Drexel Biddle was/is the Author of "Do or Die, A Supplementary Manual On Individual Combat" still in print an available through Paladin Press. Even though Charley was a Hand-to-Hand Combat Instructor in the United States Marine Corps, he did not try to sell prospective students on taking his course by boasting of this fact. Now, every Instructor is boasting that they trained some obscure reserve unit, except they fail to mention they trained a reserve unit for a couple of hours one time.

10)"Web-Hand Blow":
Form a Edge Of Hand Blow-with the thumb raised straight out of course-The impact area is going to be the area between the index finger and the thumb. Your target is going to be the throat (not your own). This blow is launched with out telegraphing your move. Right hand blow would be delivered by keeping your right elbow at your side, pinned to your chest, hand horizontally held out at the ready. From standing straight on to your target, step forward with the left leg, launching the hand as you do, left foot plants down, right hand strikes.

11) "Forearm Blow":
I get really warm all over when I read that this blow was just invented by another esteemed Martial Artist. Off a left hook. As your stepping in on your left foot, throwing a left hook at the targets head, you are actually throwing your left fist behind the targets head, you want to strike the targets right ear with your forearm. This blow can be delivered from the right or left. It can be developed and modified from your own favourite sequence. When you visually pick up the opportunity, launch the attack. You can strike with the bicep as well. It can be chained into a variety of follow up techniques. This can be practiced on a heavy bag. WARNING! Don't think you'll use this at a gym without any repercussions. When I boxed in Tony Gallaghers Gym in South Eastern Queens, many boxers saw me practicing many of these blows on a heavy bag. Not a good idea. If your not confronted directly you'll be threatened by remark, regarding these types of blows. This stuff is not new, its dirty tactics from boxing.

12) "Forearm Blow-Choke":
As you bring your right arm in front (or on the side) of your targets throat for a strangle, Strike the neck with the forearm, crank on the strangle.

13) "Clothes Line":
Strike someone with either the front of your forearm or back of your forearm on the throat. Usually as the target is running. Can be used as an attack. Walking by the target, lift up you arm striking their throat with your forearm.

14)"Ridge Hand Blow":
Form a Edge of Hand, instead of raising the thumb straight out, fold it down on top of index finger. Bend the hand towards the elbow. Striking surface is the meaty part of the hand behind the thumb. Target is the targets side of the neck. This blow is generally used as a close in technique.

Care and caution should be used developing these blows on a training partner. If you are going to use these tactics in a free spar training exercise, remember, you have to exit the gym at the end of the evening.


Charley was a bunk mate of John Styers, author of "Cold Steel, Technique of Close Combat". This book is available through Paladin Press; it's in reprint form. This book is another classic. Looking at this book will give you an idea of what Charles Nelson taught. Charley put his own variations on the techniques shown in the book. Charley did not teach formal bayonet fighting as in the methods shown in the book. He did teach defenses against a knife thrust. The section in "Cold Steel" that shows how to strike with the elbow explains the technique better than I can. 

Elbows Off The Straight Right
Charley liked to throw an Elbow Strike after striking an opponent with a fist.  Once the fist lands on your target collapse your right elbow into your targets body. You'll have to step in on your right foot to close the distance. Charley taught a left punch to the body, left elbow. Right punch to the body, right elbow. This was taught for close in work. Up in and close you can move a untrained fighter back with this.

Elbow Off The Jab-left jab/hook
Collapse arm once the jab lands and close with left elbow. The short radius of the elbow makes this less practical. It's a dirty boxing move, if you miss with the left hook you hit with an elbow.

Wheeling Elbow Blow
Step in on the right leg as you strike with the right elbow. Working this on a heavy bag will give you the idea and you'll understand the limitations. Stand with your left side towards the target. Cock the right elbow and step in on the right leg launching that right elbow towards your targets head.

Wind Mill Attack
Stand side ways to your target. Your hands are at your sides, your right hand circles up in front of your chest. Your knuckles brush against your chest, as you circle your right hand towards your target step sideways toward your target with your right foot toes pointing towards your target, as your foot is planted down you strike your target on the chest with a right fist. As you get the technique down, move your left arm in a circular motion in front of your chest in unison with your right, but in the opposite direction. Thus the name "windmill attack". It's a diversionary move. If you take a look at John Styers book on page forty one, picture one, "The Sabre Stance" pretty much shows the pose you'll be in as you land the blow.

Back fist to Face - Cupped hand to Groin
Stand sideways to your target. Your hands at your side. Your right fist moves up the centerline of your body in the same motion as the windmill attack. The target is the face; the striking surface is the back of your fist. Strike the face and circle the hand back down with the hand open, cup the hand and strike the groin.

Back Fist
Same as above with out the strike to the groin.

Cupped Hand Blow to Groin
Same as above without the strike to the face first. You can also deliver this by going into a sort of "horsestance" to close the distance sideways to your target. You're windsailing your hand in front of you to generate speed and power. This is not a gross movement like John Mc Sweeny teaches, a large windmilling of a stiff arm held at your side. Charlie's circling of the hand and arm was a subtle movement in front of your chest.

Edge Hand to Solar Plexus
Stand sideways to your target, raise your right hand in a edge of hand pose to about midlevel of your chest, strike your targets solar plexus with the edge of hand blow. You can get into that modified horse stance or slight crouch to close the distance and get power. Bring your right hand to your left shoulder with your elbow pinned to your chest, step into your target sideways getting into a slight crouch as you do. As your right foot becomes planted launch an edge of hand into the belly of your target. If you work this on a heavy bag you will see that your elbow is acting as a hinge. As you work the technique higher, you'll notice a great deal of power getting generated.

All the above techniques have a similarity in them in that they are launched standing sideways to your opponent or you end up sideways to your opponent. You can strike with the front of the elbow or the back of the elbow. I did not describe any blow with the back elbow as I feel that if you have any common sense and training, this strike is self-evident.

"Elbow Strikes": I realise that the explanations of the use of the elbow are apparent to those with a boxing or a Martial Arts background. The descriptions given in writing might not be so to some one without formal instruction. The elbow strikes I described are delivered or launched in a short arc. Having had occasion to try and strike someone with an elbow, they can miss due to the short radius of the striking surface. The area to strike with is half way from the wrist, or the middle of the forearm, to the tip of the elbow. It is a good infighting technique. You have to be up close and personal, or ready to close the distance by stepping in. The delivery of the blow could be vertical or horizontal. A full commitment to the vertical blow would sort of negate a follow up blow, landing the blow and recovering would be the issue. A committed blow would leave the person striking off balance momentarily, especially when you miss. A landed blow that is properly delivered might be a fight ender. Targets are the face, neck (throat), chest, back, under the arm or shoulder. A horizontal blow is delivered to the sternum and followed up with a "chin jab". I don't believe this has been described on the A/C list. Hitting with the rear of the elbow, the area between the shoulder and the elbow needs little explanation.


(This is some-what off subject) Charley Nelson had a background in Judo. Some of his dirty fighting techniques in Judo play were the following:

A)Straight in "Tigers Claw" or palm heel strike to the chest, then or when grabbing the opponents "Gi". Strike with the finger tips first and collapse the hand into the target. A small puny man will fall down or back from the blow. follow him with a knee lift to the groin or a snap toe kick to the groin
B)Follow up by grabbing the "Gi" in a tight fist, holding on to the "Gi" slam the fist into the chin of the opponent.
C)Keeping your fist on the chin bending back the head, step in as if you were going to preform a leg sweep, instead kick the "hock" of the leg-behind the knee with the outside blade of your foot. Slam opponent down. Your left arm/hand is grabbing the right sleeve of the opponent's right arm and pulling down hard. As the opponent goes down hold onto the right arm sleeve and pull it up as he falls, this will prevent a proper brake fall by the opponent and cause the opponent injury.
D)"Horizontal/Forearm Smash" (to Sternum)- launched as a sort of upper cut. Hold your right arm against the side of your chest. Hand either closed fist or open in a chin jab anticipation. Step in on left foot, slide in or right, right elbow and forearm smash into sternum. There is a lot of hard to describe body dynamics here. Work it on a heavy bag. The tip of your elbow can hit the end of the chest where there is a little soft bone, a light blow on this soft bone from the tip of your elbow hurts a lot. I understand if that little bone breaks it will cause much distress to the opponent
E) Follow Up: Knee Lift to groin or step behind with a leg sweep, chinjab combo.

Each of the techniques can be done independently. When you chain them together, you see that you have quite a vicious attack. In a formal DoJo situation, where the action is furious, you can see how one would "get away" with these tweaked up techniques. I have met so-called blackbelts that have never even thought of these variations, using these types of fighting skills would most likely go unnoticed as anything but an inspired "bout". A traditional Martial Artist, or should I say a Martial Artist that studies fighting skills for esoteric reasons, might ask, "why would you want to fight like that."

Charley described this as the real Jiu Jitsu, the way it was meant to be practiced and taught. Not the crap they teach today.


NOTE: : I made a slight error in the description of the clinch. Charley advocates stepping to the outside of the power hand, which is the right hand 90 percent of the time. Your left hand pushes on the targets right shoulder. Placing your palm on the right shoulder will immobilize the right punching arm (believe it or not). Your right hand immobilizes the left. Swing the targets left arm to your left side, place your body slightly on an angle to prevent a knee to your groin. Step in a little on your right foot (you don't want to over shoot your target). Your left foot scrapes down on his left shin culminating in a stomp to his left instep. This will stop an opponent if you get your heel to drive into the area where the leg meets the foot. A lot of small bones to break in a foot.

Paul G





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