Why Modern Army Combatives is BETTER than MMA

the modern Army comat program is the literal definition of martial art training that takes one of the world's deadliest fighting forces and makes it deadlier the MMA Community typically likes to put down traditional martial arts calling them ineffective a dance and useless in the real situation advocating for MMA training instead however the counter points to these remarks are usually well MMA is just a sport with supervised one-on-one battles in the control ring well guess what that is correct it is a sport can it be used for self-defense ABS fre lutely but there are some missing elements that could get an athlete killed in a real altercation do you want to see what real MMA looks like outside the ring in a life for death situation [Music] [Music] good the modern Army combats program was put into place in 1995 in an effort to address what have become substandard hand toand training we're going to introduce the history of the program and how the training and competitive aspects combined to make a soldier well be all that they can be also at the end we're going to show you a very simple training tool that you can use to intensify you r training and really heighten your reactions in 1995 second ranger battalion Colonel Stanley a m Crystal set out to reinvigorate the way his Rangers trained in hand inand combat it was very quickly evident that the current way of training was not only oldfashioned and in effective but it was also ridiculed by the soldiers themselves Colonel mccristal then assigned staff sergeant Matt Larson to establish a new program Sergeant Larsson now dubb the father of the US Army's had extensive training in the martial arts his former sentent as a marine traveling around the world afforded him the opportunity to train in several disciplines such as Brazilian jiu-jitsu karate Mo Thai SBO Judo and boxing just to name a few when when he started to analyze the program he found a lot of of glaring problems namely there didn't seem to be an established discipline taught