"Remember, the main technique of hand-to-hand combat: First, throw a grenade at the enemy …"
Perhaps the main secret of the style of hand-to-hand combat of the Airborne Forces is that … there were no "secrets"! There have never been any terrible special strikes at super-secret points, no "Delayed Death Touch" and other super-exotic … So, are the paratroopers and commandos lying, claiming that "Beret" will cope with several opponents in a fight? -No! Don't lie! Cope and very EFFECTIVELY! But if you shoot this fight on tape and show it later at normal speed, then 9/10 of the viewers simply will not understand anything about what is happening, and half will be disappointed and bewildered: why do they fall so easily? What's the matter?
Immediately I want to clarify, I'm not talking here about the hand-to-hand combat of "Spetsura", especially of officer units such as "Vympel", Alpha "and" Cascade ", especially those sharpened for the forceful detention of living languages or criminals! And about the combat hand-to-hand training of ordinary airborne forces (Uncle Vasya's troops). Once in one book I came across the following reasoning, I quote in a free retelling: “No matter how cynical it sounds, everything has a price and a soldier's life, even more so. This price is the price of training a new soldier instead of a soldier who is out of action. After all, no matter how skillful a fighter may be, it will not save him from either a crossbow bolt, or, what is more offensive, from bloody diarrhea "… Rough, but fair …
I don’t want to say anything bad about the eastern schools of martial arts, but … For six months or a year it is impossible to prepare a real person using the training methods of Karate, Taekwondo, Tai Chi Chuan and so on! In six months, at best, he will learn two or three basic stances, and the ability to breathe more or less correctly in a stance, and not in battle! In real hand-to-hand combat, such a fighter poses a danger to only one person - to himself! Only after five to seven years of daily painstaking many hours of training will he begin to realize that he is only getting closer to mastering the basics! You understand that cooking SOLDIER in this way is pointless! There are simply no five or seven years to train not even a semi-finished fighter!
On the human rights of the participant (and the SURVIVAL!) After three real hand-to-hand combat fights, let me tell you! that the school of airborne forces, the training system is still there! And it is EFFECTIVE! What are the basic principles of training a fighter? We must also take into account that in addition to Fizuha, there is also a daily service! Shooting training, training in a combat specialty, Combat training (for her), outfits and guards, and so on and so forth! But the system has proven its effectiveness, so what does it consist of, this system of training a hand-to-hand paratrooper? I'll try to answer …
The entire system of combat hand-to-hand training of the Airborne Forces is based on three whales, each component is important; and there is no sense in the question - which one! These are Psychological training, Physical training and a set of basic hand-to-hand combat techniques. Let's analyze them one by one. So, psychological preparation. It includes bringing to the level of the subconscious, to a conditioned reflex: a fight is NOT a competition! It is not possible to WIN OR LOSE! In battle, you can either WIN or die! the third, as they say, is not given … No one will shake your hand before a fight or perform a ritual bow. They will immediately try to kill you, and in all ways that are available at the moment! The preparation was carried out quite simply, but effectively, no one conducted conversations with us and psychological tests - they just beat us! Not to defeat, but in such a way that it did not seem a little! Let me emphasize! They did not beat, but beat! Feel the difference! You could get a splash or be caught in a choke hold at any moment: at the moment of a conversation with an officer, standing on the nightstand as a day-caretaker, just walking through the unit. Avoiding hitting or grabbing was shocked! The answer is even more so! Although this, in fairness, it is worth saying, rarely did anyone succeed! They say that such a system was introduced into the practice of the Airborne Forces by their commander, the legendary V. F. Margelov, I don’t know, but if this is so, then a low bow to him for that! SUCH a training system saved many lives in real wars, and for me too … I still, although more than thirty years have passed, I just physically cannot go around the corner of the building close to it, I go around in three or four steps … Constant pressure, in which, By the way, there was nothing personal, because the grandfather received the same as the young one, developed the skill of constant vigilance, the ability to not relax even in a dream, some sixth sense of danger …
Physical training in the Airborne Forces does not require special comments. Endurance training - running in different conditions, walking in a goose step, alternating accelerations, ragged rhythm … strength training - pull-ups, push-ups of various types, squats, jumping … swinging the press again in different ways. All this - "through I can not" until complete darkness in the eyes … The touch is still enough, although dmb-77 … As for the basic techniques of hand-to-hand, here it is necessary to decipher … Not for airborne troops and special forces - they all know and so! For fans of films like Rimbaud … This is exactly the training of BASIC techniques, and not "RECEIPTS", and quite individual … Someone is more comfortable with a throw, someone prefers a shock, someone suffocating grips or techniques for rupture of ligaments and fractures of joints are closer. The basics were given to everyone, then the development of stereotypes, bringing the movement to the level of the knee reflex - there is no time to think in battle, the body reacts on its own, the thought does not have time! The strikes were practiced on all sorts of simulators such as makiwara and punching bag, throws with each other, VERY CAREFULLY AND NOT IN FULL POWER, also applies to all sorts of painful and suffocating. And after mastering the basic movements, everyone trained himself! No combat sparring in real life, with one exception, about the one below … After all, an attempt to carry out, for example, in sparring conditions, an elbow strike in the Adam's apple for one of the fighters may well become the last … And I also note, no BALLET in the spirit of Van Dam and Chuck Norris! Legs work up to the knee, not higher! The front of the lower leg and ankle, the inner surface of the lower leg. Knee - blow to the perineum and on the inner side of the thigh. The elbow is mainly for finishing off an opponent who has already lost orientation. Everything is simple and ineffective, ugly … BUT - EFFECTIVE!
Now about the exception: Approximately once every two weeks, they put on a boxing helmet and let you out, spoiling four or five people, old-timers or officers. Not immediately, in turn. I had to hold out for five minutes … From the first time, as far as I remember, no one succeeded … For the first time I went to rest at the tenth second, having missed the most powerful straight line to the head … In a real battle, the result would have been my death, since I got up only ten minutes later … On the third attempt, he received gratitude in the order for the unit, for he was able to "put in the ring" the deputy technical officer of the regiment. The captain, by the way, was not offended by me, and the first, having regained consciousness, shook hands. At the same time, he said: "I started the classes … we need to work" … We did not kill rats with our bare hands … but everything is the same, the willingness to fight, at any second of the day or night, and not for life, but for death, was absorbed into flesh and blood, into the bone marrow … That's, in general, all the "Terrible military secrets" that I was going to tell you …
