Russian Systema

The gym I train at just started offering this. Was curious what you guys thought about it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PKfW2R6x_E

I've seen the fat guy in many videoes, he has that liver shot or body shot that drops people in one hit. If he was going to be at your gym I would go

He isn't hitting the liver, that is like a heart shot.

Looks to be some Fred Villari type BS to me, but who knows.....

Its amazing how attackers don't attack!

Bad enough George Dillman rips people off. Here's the Russian version.

I don't know if he's full of it or not, but a nice shot
to the chest that compresses the ribs properly
will put someone down pretty easily.

He's a big motherfucker though, those shots don't
look too weak. The Russian Spetsnaz are no joke either.

They probably have a trick or two that works really well, but somehow systema videos make me go; "Oh God.." And then I get a headache.. :( Too compliant.. It's a bit like watching the old batman show opening sometimes.

Military self defense is always funny, remember SAFTA? The head instructor was in UFC 2 I think.. My reaction was: "Oh God" back then too, then the headache..

It's not competition stuff, but ordinary people with no grappling skills tend to fall for all sorts of strange standing arm-locks and stuff.. I worked with a doorman that did traditional japanese jiu jitsu at one point in time, and he made defending himself look like a demo reel from some martial arts show, lol! :)

Yo John check this out. Val came and did some stuff at 10P Sherman a while back. I was there and got the feel some of his stuff and trust its no bullshit Val is a certified bad ass. I would love to have gotten to train with him but Mike never had him back. His is a really cool dude but very scary. You can tell that he has done the shit for real in life death situations.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-rJ5oZS2eIhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAunUZD6yAs

whats happing is the guy is using good body linking technique to punch the solarplex of a guy that is tense because he knows he is going to get hit, so i personally would rather learn kick boxing and jujitsu. But also i live in Canada and you can go your whole life without someone pointing a gun at you.