Russian Systema

[John Hickman]

The gym I train at just started offering this. Was curious what you guys thought about it.

[The kza]

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

[Taylor Culbertson]

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

[leach_jeffrey]

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

[Jack LaBarge]

Its amazing how attackers don't attack!

[Jack LaBarge]

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

[StephenG]

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.

[Joachim Hoff]

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!

[Brandon Woolsey]

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.

[Tyler Timmermans]

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.