Hi all,
I was picking my way through some old hard disks the other night when I found this old clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aGitfaZss0

The group were followers of Željko Ražnatovic (sometimes known as "Arkan" ), who was a paramilitary leader in the Yugoslav wars.

Thanks for posting. It is an interesting clip.

It is worrying how organised and "successful" Arkan was.

Yeah, thanks BT, I really enjoyed watching that clip - in fact my only complaint is that it wasn't much much longer! lol

Got any more where that came from??

Paris wrote:

Got any more where that came from??

I'm transplanting HD's as we speak

Ok - found a few more clips if you're interested :)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wKrqfODyDpQ
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=m204eD9eIzY
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dclIFHS0cEs

Thank you Bailu, I find the realistic nature of these vids interesting and useful, especially in relation to the "Self Defense" section of my training. Compared to others in my class I'm always initially a bit slow at picking up the S/D techniques for some reason. I'm trying to work out why this might be at the moment.

I've also just been watching a similarly realistic and fascinating vid under the "Systema??" thread in the Western Arts Forum. Just in case you would like to watch it too...

Cool stuff, Bailu Taiji, thanks!

A similar vid, classic western military basic H2H training, much of it is recognizable as stuff I learned under Asian auspices, or from my old boxing coach: http://www.realmilitaryflix.com/public/521.cfm

A short piece on Fairbairn, who brought the WWI stuff, mixed with Asian moves, to WWII combatives: http://www.gutterfighting.org/WhatIsDefendu.html

And courtesy of Mule, these are clips of Carl Cestari showing some of these moves/principles in more recent times: http://www.martialedge.net/forum/martial-arts-talk/re:bare-knuckle-boxing./

And Paris, good catch on seeing the similarities between the Systema and BTs second group of clips, especially the middle one, imo.

TB