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JUDO

MOTO: “KILL OR BE KILLED”

Concentrated-Realistic-Toughening- up course in BARE HANDED MAYHEM

Specifically Designed for ASSAULT TROOPS

OBJECT:

1. To turn out in the shortest possible time trained dangerous FIGHTERS

2. CONFIDENT in their ability to deal effectively with anything the enemy has to offer
today in UNARMED COMBAT.
3. Imbued with AGGRESSIVE – OFFENSIVE ACTION rather than defensive type of
thinking.
4. Concentrating on their sole objective – to QUICKLY KILL, MAIM, or
OTHERWISE DISABLE
the enemy.

PART I – GENERAL PROCEDURE

PART II – DETAILED PROCEDURE
PART III – SUMMARY

PER AREA

Method of Instruction: Explanation- Demonstration- Supervised Application.

Training Aids and Materials Required:

One (1) Demonstration Platform

One (1) Easel and three (3) Charts entitled “Judo”, “Your 13 Vital Objectives”, and
“Your 8 Offensive Weapons”.
One (1) Megaphone and one (1) Whistle.
One (1) Heavy Canvas Sandbag per two (2) students for purpose of practicing Blows and
Kicks.

Personnel Required: 1 officer instructor

2 enlisted assistants

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Purpose: Period of Instruction designed to instruct a group of men in the techniques of
Rough and Tumble Fighting.

I. GENERAL PROCEDURE- Group Performance

a. Trainees enter designated area at double time, are met by enlisted assistant instructor
and are ordered (1) to stack rifles, equipment, helmets, and top clothing in orderly line
on far side of field; (2) to four to six ranks depending on size of class and march to
platform; (3) to “open ranks march” and (4) to ”extend to the right or left” as required
– 12 “ between fingertips.

b. Trainees will strip to the waist for all periods of instruction, weather permitting.

c. With the trainees in this formation, the officer instructor and his assistant instructors
will demonstrate each movement rapidly to show desired results – then, with a slow
motion demonstration will explain step- by – step procedure

d. Following such demonstration and explanation, trainees will be required to practice

under the careful supervision and correction of the assistant instructors the movements
they have been shown.

e. When the Judo training period has been completed, the group will fall in on their
equipment and be guided, on the double to the next class. Thus, the conditioning of
the men will be continuous.

II. DETAILED PROCEDURE

A. Orientation Lecture

After the entire group is correctly assembled in place, trainees will squat and remain
cross-legged on the ground – a back strengthening and conditioning exercise in itself.
Following this action, the officer instructor will give an orientation lecture in the form of
a convincing personal introduction to hand to hand fighting. The lecture verbatim, which
follows, includes an explanation of the scope of the course- what the trainees are to be
taught and why, how they can best learn, what they will get out of the overall instruction,
and, finally what is expected of them in the way of cooperation with our teaching
methods. A word of caution is like-wise included as to the necessity for observing safety
factors in applying dangerous tricks.

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“ Men, briefly you are here to learn how to perform a satisfactory job of MAYHEM-
disabling, crippling, garroting if you please, in a quick and highly scientific manner,
without use of weapons.”
A good soldier of course never loses sight of his weapons but should the occasion ever
arise, during the course of your travels, when you find yourself to be without pistol or
knife and with one or more Japs or Nazis bearing down in your general direction, then
you will darn well want to know how to heave your feet, hands, and elbows around to
good purpose.
As in everything else you are experiencing here, you will find this course to be a
concentrated one- with all frills discarded for the duration. You will soon find out that
this is not “MP” type of unarmed combat where the objective is merely to bring a man in-
he has a day’s work to do tomorrow. Nor is it the stage demonstration type of unarmed
combat where the objective is merely to “entertain “ an audience. No, all we are
interested in here is in killing maiming, or otherwise knocking out enemy out of action
quickly and effectively.
For any of you who still shudder just at the mere thought of killing or maiming, let me
tell you that the Japs have long been practicing this kind of thing with their Ju Jitsu, Judo,
and Karate. ( brief explanation of each should follow at this point) and further more, are
expert at it. Should you ever be in the jungle and stumble across one of these lads, I can
assure you he won’t be out to improve your health. Either you get him first, barehanded,
if need be, or he gets you.
Fortunately, the course we are about to teach you will enable you to do just that. It
represents the best taken by authorities from Judo, Karate, and Chinese Boxing, and has
already stood the test of Commando Operations. It is definitely superior to any the
Japanese have devised to date and you may have all confidence both in its effectiveness
and in the instructors who will do their best to coach you.
On return we must request for the purpose of handling such a large group, that on the
command “AT EASE” from this platform, you stop anything and everything you are
doing, give us your immediate attention, and remain quite until we give the word to
proceed.
If you do this and practice on the outside what we show you here, paying careful heed to
when we say “ go easy men, a hard blow in this vicinity will seriously injury your
partner”, you will have something-
(1) Which to enable you in a serious scrap to quickly and effectively take care of two or
more opponents at one time no matter how big they may be;

(2) Which may some day be the means of SAVING YOUR LIFE OR THAT OF YOUR
BUDDY.

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If it does that- then I am sure you will agree that the time and effort you put in here will
have proven quite worth while.

B. CONCENTRATING ON YOUR ENEMY”S 13 VITAL AREAS

You will remember that your objective first, last, and always is to Kill, Maim, or Knock
your enemy out of action as quickly and effectively as possible in order to be able to take
care of, if necessary, the next man coming in. You are not going to play with em- you’re
going to get rid of em- there fore you are to concentrate all your blows, kicks, etc on Mr.
Jap and Mr. Nazi’s most vulnerable spots as indicated on the chart hanging in front of
you.
The best way to know where these are exactly and what blows you will use against these
points, is to try them on yourselves and each other. (All instructors demonstrate each of
the following).
(1) Temples: Close your fist so knuckle of Middle Finger protrudes. Strike with that
knuckle all around your temple area until you find the most tender spot. Feel it, near and
parallel to your eyebrow?
(2) Side of Neck: Take outer edge of your hand and chop around side of your neck. Feel
most jarring points? Just below jawbone and in area of mastoid?
(3) Adams Apple: You don’t have to strike this area but push your thumb real hard into
hollow just below your Adams Apple- notice how it makes you gag? A real blow aimed
at your enemy’s Adams Apple would in addition crush all the cartilages in this region and
cause a “black out”
(4)Back of the Neck: Chop with side of your hand again up and down the back of your
neck. Notice where it really jars? At that point there are twp small bones which snap
when you are hung. At the same time you will recognize this as the old Rabbit Punch
which never fails to drop a man like a log.
(5) Testicles: Take your fist and see what ever so gentle a blow in this region feels like.
Suppose you were to really let go with the toe of a G. I shoe? A blow to the testicles is
the great “equalizer” always permitting a small man in a serious scrap to take care of a
much bigger man. Now- number one, three and five lines “About face” and select a
partner. Take turns on each other. Number one line first- then number two line.
(6) Base of Nose: With edge of hand strike very gently, just enough to feel it, diagonally
up and in. When we do for keeps, we drive the nose back up into our enemy’s face. A
vicious trick, with an internal hemorrhage the probable results. Very good!
(7) Solar Plexus: Feel for “V” made by your breastbone. Use out elbow point like this
(demonstration) against your partners “V” so he can feel it. When we play for keeps,
object is to drive up and into reach nerves on front of spinal column. Try hitting with
edge of hand – jars but does not reach vitals like sharp point will.

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(8) Lower Ribs: Feel down for your last rib. Swing point of your elbow, I said point,
fairly hard against the lower rib of your partner. This is a particularly powerful blow with
the weight of your whole body behind it.
(9) Instep: Turn your back to your partner. With sharp edge of your heel go down hard on
his instep, just below ankle bone. Do you think he would really let go, at least
temporarily, if you were to smash all the small bones in his foot?

Now both lines face me.

The remaining four (4) blows you do not have to try—

We will demonstrate them on you-------------------------------------------------------------------

(10) Knee Cap: Hinged so as to bend in one direction only- forward. That’s swell for us
for we merely step through it in the opposite direction causing the joint to “snap”
(11) Base of Spine: Especially vulnerable to a Knee Butt from the rear or a vicious kick
when your adversary in on the ground.
(12) Between the Eyes: A blow directed with the side of your hand is likely to drive a
splinter of the paper thin bone here into your enemy’s brain. A “quick kill”. Very good!
(13) Eyes: You’ve all experienced a small object in the eye and how it hurts. What if you
were to get a fist full of fingers in your eyes, in this manner?

From the tests you have just made on your selves, you will have some inkling perhaps of
the various blows you will direct against these vital areas of your enemy, but you do not
yet know how to get the maximum power into such blows. That, you will be shown when
we go into the more Refined Tactics of Rough and Tumble.
Finally, while on the subject of Vital Areas, you must realize that all thirteen (13) will not
always be available to your attack. Varying equipment carried by different troops in the
field may cover and protect them in some cases, however you use your head, quickly size
up the situation and let em have it where they ain’t. For example, if an enemy is wearing
his helmet well down over his face, you would of course haul off and clout him on his
neck, or on some other vital area which is exposed

C. NEW AND REVOLUTIONARY FIGHTING POSITION

(1) Fighting Sideways to Your Enemy At All Times
(Position and Advantages illustrated by two instructors)
(a) It affords maximum protection to you as an attacker.
Permits you to reach vital areas, which are denied to the enemy. For example, you can
kick the Jap in the testicles from this fighting position, employing a Chinese boxing kick,
but were he to attempt his regular front kick, facing you, he would not reach your vital
area.

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(b) An attack from this position is unexpected and takes your enemy completely by
surprise.
(c) It furnishes a 3” advantage in reach. Boxers will tell you this is important.
(d) It attacks your enemy’s weakest position from standing point of balance.
(e) It permits you to deal quickly with two or more adversaries at the same time.

(2) What happens when you as attacker use the old orthodox method of facing your
adversary.

(Demonstration by officer instructor and two assistant instructors)

(a) If you attempt a combination Knee Butt and Chin Jab while facing your enemy, what
is to prevent him from doing the same to you?
(b) Also while you are occupied in this position, what about another adversary coming at
you from the rear? (Here second assistant instructor closes in from the rear and
executes in rapid succession- a whip blow to the back of the neck and a rear strangle).

(3) How you would quickly knock out the same two adversaries using our new fighting
techniques.

(Here instructor uses side of hand blow to neck of one adversary, eye jab to next
adversary coming in and with a half turn on ball of either foot is ready for two more men
closing in from opposite directions- all in a flash of a second).

(4) Maneuverability of new fighting position

(Assistant instructor demonstrates- officer instructor explains)

You will notice how this man never crossed his legs in all his advancing and retreating-
got around fast- moved freely and relaxed and maintained his balance perfectly
throughout by keeping the upper part of his body vertical from the trunk up. This matter
of balance and movement is just as important here as you will find it to be in your
Bayonet Hand- to Hand fighting.
Well, men, up to now your work has been purely introductory. From now on in you will
really begin to sweat-kicking and kneeing the stuffings out of sandbags, especially
designed for the purpose.
We should like to include here, however, a particularly practical exercise- purpose of
which is to teach you quick movement and balance as well as the effectiveness of
fighting sideways- attacking your opponent’s weak facing position with your strong side-
ways position.

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D. ROOSTER FIGHT-Groups of approximately 20 competing to establish a final winner.

As a participant, stand on your left foot and grab your right foot behind you with your left
hand. Keep your right hand across your body. Now when we say “go”, charge and
sidestep your opponent- object is to knock him down before he does you. Secret is to hit
him facing sideways to his weak position if you can. Like wise, GANG UP on each other.

E. KICKS

Thew following KICKS will be demonstrated, explained and practiced by drill and by the
kicking of sandbags distributed to every other line and held in turn by each partner.

(1) CHINESE WHIPLASH – To Testicles (Preceded by TENDON STRETCH

EXERCISE, done in the following manner. Turning your toes inward and snapping your
knees back, form fists and reach down to the ground with both hands. Reverse the
exercise with your toes outward)

(a) The Chinese Whiplash is your “BIG BERTHA” weapon for long range attack.
Enables you to keep away from your adversary, yet knock him out.
(b) It is executed in the following manner, With your body facing right angles to your
adversary, your foot is drawn up to the inside of the knee fartherest from your
adversary. To keep in balance, your weight is shifted by slightly bending sideways
from the hip. Your foot is whipped out with toes pointing slightly downward, striking
adversary a terrific whipping blow with your instep under his testicles. In making this
movement note that foot is snapped back immediately to its original position at inside
of the knee. This snapping produces terrific velocity, similar to cracking a whip.
(c) The advantages of this blow are threefold.
1. It can be done from our sideways position, which affords maximum protection to the
kicker.
2. It can be executed while moving away from the adversary.
3. It furnishes no warning or signal of its coming and produces a terrific “ knockout”.
(To prove, take off your shoes and kick a partner’s extended hand in this manner)

(3) SHOVE BREAKAWAY- followed by Whiplash Kick (for Infighting)

In fighting in our usual sideways position, should your adversary succeed in closing in
and tying up your arms somewhat, place the under portion of your arm ( farthest one
from your adversary) on his mid-section and place outer portion of your arm nearest the
adversary across his neck or chest. Stamp forward as usual towards him and shove with

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both arms. This action properly executed will leave him stumbling back, wide open for
the Chinese Whiplash Kick.

(3) BOOT SMASH- to kneecap

With your body at right angles to your adversary, draw your nearest leg up to a height
where your foot is approximately opposite your other knee. Lean from the hips slightly
sideways away from your adversary to keep in good balance. Just as your adversary puts
his foot down to take a step forward, shoot your up raised foot through his kneecap by
stepping forward with all your weight to break his leg.

(4) KNEE BUTT- to testicles or base of spine

It is particularly important that this trick be done from our sideways fighting position. To
give this trick maximum power, it is executed by stamping on the ground with one foot as
the knee of the other is recoiled up into the enemy’s groin or base of the spine.

F. HAND, FINGER AND KNUCKLE PERSUADERS

(1) SIDE HAND WHIP- to side of neck, base of nose, to Adams Apple, or between eyes.
(Preceded by BEATING EDGE OF HANDS ON GROUND EXERCISE)
(a) Facing sideways to your adversary, this blow is delivered with your open hand,
fingers extended and joined, palm down, elbow bent and parallel to the ground
shoulder high. Stamp forward towards your adversary keeping your body erect from
the waist up and at the same time whip edge of the hand to anyone of the above
mentioned vital areas. Contact is made with only that portion of the hand, which
extends from the little finger to the wrist.
(b) At this point it will be well to point out how maximum striking power is secured both
in the execution of this blow, as well as in all subsequent blows with the hands,
fingers, knuckles or elbows. Note: All blows are short, sharp, sudden with no initial
drawback and are to be done from a sideways fighting stance. Maximum velocity at
point of impact is secured by whipping action against a more or less stiffened forward
side of the body (as in gold). The latter “resistance” against which we hit, is set up by
stamping the forward foot down as we strike. All attacking weapons, hands, elbows,
etc., are brought back to initial starting position both to produce this whipping action
and to put us in good position for our next move. The sharp edge or point of the
attacking weapon is used. Balance in body movement is maintained through out by
keeping the upper portion of our body from the hip up erect at all times.

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(2) FINGER DART- to eyes (with “A “ Yell)
The position from which the blow is executed is the same as in the Side hand Whip
proceeding, with the exception that your elbow is down at your side to begin with and
your hand is bent at the wrist parallel to the ground. Fingers are extended and joined. The
action of this blow is very much like a rattler striking- with the hand returning
immediately to the same starting position.

Note: Instructor explains “A” yell which the Japs use both to confuse and to add power to
the frame in throwing, hitting, etc. Group tries once by filling only lower portion of their
abdomen full of air and expelling all at once with a loud pitched “A”.

(3) BACK KNUCKLE WALLOP- to temples or testicles

Face sideways to your adversary with your elbows in to your side and both forearms
raised parallel to the ground. Clench your fists so that the large knuckle protrudes. From
this position stamp towards your adversary, keeping upper portion of your body erect,
and at the same time swing both your arms, hitting with the protruding knuckle on the
hand nearest your adversary. High to his temple; low to his testicles.

G. ELBOW CRASHES

(1) ELBOW HOOKS – to lower ribs

(a) Standing sideways as adversary throws a punch, block or duck the punch, then stamp
forward and hook point of your forward elbow into his lower ribs.
(b) The reverse of this blow is hooking the point of your elbow, back into his lower rib
section.

(2) ELBOW JOLT – front to solar plexus

Standing sideways to your adversary as he comes rushing in, place fist of your striking
arm in cupped hand of your other arm in front of your chest. Stamp forward toward your
adversary and at the same time jab by raising point of your striking elbow into his solar
plexus.

(3) ELBOW ROUND HOUSE SWINGS- back to adversary’s head

When one or more men are closing in on you from the rear, a good back swing with the
point of the elbow to the adversary’s head will just about “ knock his block off”. Be sure
to turn using body swing for power.

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(4) ELBOW JOLT – back into solar plexus
The instant you feel an adversary’s arm closing around you from the rear, simultaneously
snap your left hand (palm upward and horizontal to the ground) forward and your right
hand in identically the same position backward into adversary’s solar plexus. In doing so,
keep your elbows in close to your side and turn upper portion of your body slightly, so as
to hit squarely into adversary’s solar plexus.

H. ATTACKING THE ENEMY FROM THE REAR

(1) SENTRY STALKING- (demonstrated by two assistant instructors with knife)

(a) After carefully noting every movement of the sentry who has his back turned, crawl
very slowly toward him, keeping all of your body close to the ground. Bring one knee
forward at a time and draw yourself up to it. Take two or three hours if necessary to
go ten feet- it’s your life involved. When you reach a distance of three or four feet
away, spring the balance of the distance – not because the sentry hear or saw you, but
because as human beings we sometimes instinctively feel that some one is near- so
you will take no chance with that happening here.
(b) Now, spring up behind and firmly grab his mouth and chin with one hand, twist his
head to the left and with your thumb and first finger firmly pinch his nose. The latter
will prevent any outcry! In this position, with his back bent backward, you can readily
stick you knife into the side of his neck or under the rear of his helmet up into his
brain.
If you don’t have a weapon such as a knife, then you will want to know what you can do
with your bare hands.

(2) NECK BREAK

After springing in as above, slip both your arms around the sentry’s neck, lacing your
fingers and placing your thumbs underneath his chin. Your knee is shoved into the small
of his back and with a downward pressure of forearm and upward pressure of hands; you
force the sentry forward and down along your extended advanced leg (which is between
his two legs) until he reaches the ground. Apply pressure with your shoulder against his
head and pull straight back with your hands… sharply if you want to break his neck. Here
we take it easy and make more of a strangle out of it.

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(3) JUDO THROTTLE
Approaching sentry in the same manner as in previous tricks, (except that you may wish
to knee butt base of his spine or clip him on back of his neck before strangling him) slip
sharp inner edge of you hand across his Adams Apple, just far enough across to be able to
grasp the wrist of this hand with your other hand from the rear. Break the sentry’s
balance slightly backward to keep him off balance and prevent him from attacking you.
Place top of your head or helmet at base of his head and pull back the hand cutting into
his Adams Apple, thus strangling him with a scissors action, in a few seconds. It is
important in executing this trick that you approach sideways to the adversary from the
rear, and keep your own body back away from him by keeping well down in your knees
in such a manner he can not counter attack you, before he goes out, by kicking your shins
or grabbing your testicles.

(4) REAR DRAG DOWN

Shove your foot turned slightly so not to slide off in back of and slightly below enemy’s
knee. Simultaneously jerk both of his shoulders straight down and away from you, in
order not to become entangled with him. He will hit the dirt and you can dispose of him
quickly as in the next exercise.

(5) KNOCKOUT OF OPPONENT ON GROUND

Stop a trainee who has landed on the ground and ask another trainee who has thrown him,
to tell where and how he would dispose of the man on the ground by kicking. Object- to
bring out dramatically that no matter where your enemy is, standing or on the ground, go
after whatever vital points are open to your attack.

(6) GETTING UP FROM GROUND

“THIS IS WAR”- Your object in hand-to-hand fighting is to stay on your feet. Should
you trip, be thrown or for any other reason find your self on the ground, then you will
want to be able to get up fast to continue the fight. To remain on the ground lays you
open to all the attacks we previously showed for use on the enemy. (Assistant instructors
demonstrate forward and backward rolls, as employed in parachute training, and then the
group is broken down and put through an “On your back, on your belly, forward roll, and
backward roll drill” on the field).

III. SUMMARY

A. OUR OBJECTIVE: First, last and always is – TO KILL, MAIM OR KNOCK

ENEMY OUT OF ACTION.

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B. BASIC PRINCIPLES TO BE REMEMBERED:

(1) Concentrate on thirteen (13) vital areas of your enemy.

(2) Fight facing sideways
(3) Use kick (as long range weapon) wherever possible
(4) Make all blows short and whip them back to initial starting position.
(5) Keep upright from waist up in maneuvering

C. ESSENTIALS TO BE MASTERED:
(1) Chinese Whiplash
(2) Side Hand Whip
(3) Finger Dart
(4) Elbow Hooks
(5) Elbow Round House Swings
(6) Rear Drag Down & Knock Out on Ground
(7) Getting up from the Ground

D. FINAL WORD TO TRAINEES:

“If you at any time find yourself in a serious ”mix up” where it’s your lives or the other
fellows, if you will but remember to keep everything swinging, your feet, knees, elbows,
and hands, then you will be tough hombres to close with. That is all- we’ve been
particularly glad to have had you with us in this area. When you get out there where they
play for “Keeps” – GIVE ‘EM HELL FOR US.

INSTRUCTOR NOTE:

1. System taught represents “best” taken by experts from Judo-Karate- Chinese Boxing.
2. It is easy to learn all involved and “difficult to teach” tricks discarded for the “quick
knock out”.
3. Offers our men maximum protection as attackers, and permits their “taking care “of
two or more adversaries at the same time.
4. Will be found in the field to be scientifically more effective than anything Japs have
devised to date.

Through out the course trainees are to be instilled with a spirit of aggressiveness and self
confidence in their ability to knock the enemy out of action- so vitally necessary in
today’s fluid type of warfare.

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