TIM BURTON
30th December 2000, 13:22
There was a system called “DEFENDU” which was created by Fairbairn and Sykes when they were employed in the Shanghai Municipal Police 1n the 1930’s. It was I believe a mixture of many martial systems that they had found effective in real situations and included empty hand, stick work, a form of binding a prisoner with the truncheon’s strap and of course restraining techniques.
These men went on to be employed by the British Armed Services during the 2nd WW where they greatly modified their system into a Hand to Hand Combat system designed to kill the adversary. I believe it was these two who also created the “Commando Knife”.
Today many people have begun to appear that state they have learnt the WWII Hand to Hand (H2H) Combat skills from Fairbairn, Sykes and Applegate.
I think that DEFENDU and its related systems are worthy of a discussion, there must be people out there with a great deal of knowledge on the subject, some may have received training in it during the war and some may have been taught since.
If anyone knows where I can lay my hands on a copy of DEFENDU by Fairbairn I would be very interested as this seems to be the first British manual of what is now termed Officer Protection by the British Police and is distinctly separate from Taiho Jutsu.
Tim BURTON Taiho Jutsu.
These men went on to be employed by the British Armed Services during the 2nd WW where they greatly modified their system into a Hand to Hand Combat system designed to kill the adversary. I believe it was these two who also created the “Commando Knife”.
Today many people have begun to appear that state they have learnt the WWII Hand to Hand (H2H) Combat skills from Fairbairn, Sykes and Applegate.
I think that DEFENDU and its related systems are worthy of a discussion, there must be people out there with a great deal of knowledge on the subject, some may have received training in it during the war and some may have been taught since.
If anyone knows where I can lay my hands on a copy of DEFENDU by Fairbairn I would be very interested as this seems to be the first British manual of what is now termed Officer Protection by the British Police and is distinctly separate from Taiho Jutsu.
Tim BURTON Taiho Jutsu.