SVES stands alone among all systems. This rare system was studied by intelligence fighters who were supposed to engage in the capture of enemy missile launchers and counter-actions in the event of the capture of our important facilities by enemy special forces. It seems that there is no need to explain that the extreme importance of the task determined the level of training, which can without exaggeration be compared with the level of training of cosmonauts. The trainer and tireless researcher of hand-to-hand combat Vladimir Alekseevich Sklizkov spoke about this system.
General issues:
1. Description of style (school, direction) in one sentence
- An integrated, theoretically comprehensive system of combat training for reconnaissance missile forces (guarding nuclear missile launchers and capturing enemy installations), including actions in all possible situations (hand-to-hand combat in tunnels, in water, on water, under water, etc.)
2. Style motto (schools, directions)
- Survive - for the sake of completing the task.
The soldier had no right to die, since in this way he let down his comrades in arms (his group, as a rule, five) - without him they could not complete the task.
3. Origins (beginning) directions (when and who founded)
- There is no data.
4. The ultimate goal of the classes (the ideal to which the student goes), the physical and mental qualities that he must acquire
- A person for whom there are no unexpected and unconventional situations, who knows how to act in any situation, strike from any position.
5. Teaching methodology
- The teacher (who was a scout of the Second World War) showed and explained the movements, the soldiers tried to repeat them. Their mistakes were corrected in every way. In general, the methodology was playful - it was very difficult physically (although the level of load increased gradually), but psychologically it was easy - they performed interesting tasks in a close-knit team.
Ideological and psychological pumping, motivation - "in an hour a war may start, you must always be ready" (you served in the GDR, a few kilometers from the border with the FRG). For the same reason, the training was not for wear and tear, although, they trained for many hours a day. For a year, the fighters mastered the RB system at a level sufficient for operations against a professionally trained enemy.
No one was forced to study. Moreover, if a fighter could not comprehend this non-standard system (even if he wanted to), he was expelled from the group.
6. Used technique (percussion, wrestling, breaking, etc.)
- "Clumsy", outwardly shapeless (there are no characteristic techniques or blows). In appearance, the technique is similar to the usual one, but internally it is performed differently.
They learned to work on the affected zones on the basis of the principle "To strike accurately, quickly, hard, along the shortest trajectory" - then the fighter had to think for himself how to apply this principle.
You had to be able to hit from any position. There was an exercise - to strike with a hand while hanging on a rope (holding on to it with the other hand).
There are special exercises so that the movement does not become a template, does not reach the level of automatism. For example, unlike boxing, this system does not have any stereotypical connections. Striking several strikes in a row, the fighter takes aim each time, assesses the changes in the situation (the enemy closed, dodged, etc.) and only after that strikes the next strike. In fact, this is a continuous, continuous action on the situation. The speed of the ligament is achieved through special training.
Strike (unlike other martial arts or martial arts) cannot exist on its own. It is applied only in a certain (convenient) situation. That is, the fighter cannot show a specific blow upon request. He can strike if there is a convenient situation (or imagining the situation in his mind) - and the blows will always be different, since the situations (body position, movement) will be different. Moreover, they will be different for each person, since they are all individual.
In fact, the fighters were trained, rather, physically and psychologically, accustoming them to non-standard situations and instilling a certain worldview ("survive"), and already in the process of training they themselves learned to beat, fight, etc. Of course, there were some basic techniques and strikes.
There are punches and kicks. Punching is mostly done with the fist upright. The blow is delivered not from the pelvis or leg, but from the shoulder and body.
The kicks are "step" - that is, the fighter strikes with his foot as if making a high step. For example, a trampling overhead kick to the knee. Wrestling and breaking techniques are used in rare cases, as an auxiliary one, since it will not help against a group.
Hard blocks are present. In general, all punches and blocks are hard and "tight". This is explained by the fact that the battle, for example, can be in a trench, where there is nowhere to swing and maneuver, and a fighter can have a heavy duffel bag behind his back. This should be the starting point.
Another parameter is that the system is essentially a fencing system, but not in the sense that a hand strike is delivered in the same way as a knife strike, but in fact, they work with sectors, etc.
7. Directional tactics
- Diverse. There is also no template. In general, you need to neutralize the enemy as quickly as possible. Saving energy is achieved not due to "relaxation" or "softness", but, on the contrary, due to maximum rigidity. There is no concept of a second chance. Each hit should bring the maximum (necessary) result.
There are a lot of deceptive moves used.
8. Presence of training fights (sparring). In what form, according to what rules are they carried out?
- Full-contact competitions were held with German Jaegers (GDR), in which the fighters always won. The last course was trained in this system in 1975.
9. Physical training (general and special) - including work with weights, free weights, own weight
- Also non-standard, but common exercises such as push-ups, pull-ups, squats were also widely used. Exercises should accustom the fighter to unexpected, unconventional situations and positions - physically and psychologically. Exercises with a log, rope. For example, sparring on a beam, one end of which is suspended from a rope.
Or for the development of instant internal mobilization - a fighter must hang high on a rope on one hand. Let go of your hand - you will fall, you will break. Relax - slide down, peel the skin off your hands.
There is a stretch in the body and limbs. There must be a tonic tension in the abdomen for the connection between "top and bottom". Much attention was paid to the development of coordination.
The exercises were only at the beginning carried out in the gym. Further out in nature.
During the training, the principle was observed - "hard in training, easy in battle." It should have been harder in training than in combat. Everything should have been familiar to the fighter, at least at a basic level. And for a specific situation, the fighters would be trained additionally.
Excerpt from the physical training program (in a strong contraction):
Special Physical Training
1. Work on the relief:
a. walking, running (up, down, traverse), b. jumping, c. crawling (up, down, traverse)
d. projectiles
2. training in the "corridor", all options
Types of reliefs:
a. inclined planes, b. grass, sand, stones, c. forest, bush, d. swamp, tall grass, e. snow, ice.
Work at different times of the day, in different weather conditions.
3. Overcoming obstacles:
3.1) walls, openings, corridors, stairs (different), running up the stairs
3.2) wells, pits, trenches (including with water), ditches, overcoming cramped passages, manholes, pipes
3.3) fire, smoke, gas
3.4) water obstacles, getting out of the water on a high board, passing under water, overcoming by swimming
3.5) walking on narrow support structures:
a. log, b. rope, c. wall cut.
Insurance methods
3.6) walking on swing support:
d. timber, e. rope (straight, inclined)
3.7) pendulum - rope
3.8) stilts:
f. walking, g. penetration into window openings, h. water barriers
3.9) overcoming obstacles with a pole:
i. with an emphasis on the butt, j. with a leg resting on a knot, k. pipe pole, tying trees to make a pole
3.10) loading, unloading into a moving vehicle:
l. without help, m. by using
3.11) walking silently
3.12) walking on rooftops
3.13) overcoming space by jumping:
n. with somersault, o. with fixation, p. with grip
3.14) ascent, descent from the balcony. Insurance
3.15) overcoming fences:
q. wooden, r. forged, s. corrugated board
3.16) barbed wire
3.17) overcoming ice as an obstacle
3.18) descent along the inner corner of the building by jumping into opposite window openings
3.19) climbing trees, poles (straight, inclined)
3.20) jumping over obstacles:
t. trenches, u. fences, v. walls, w. heaps of bricks.
3.21) obstacle course
4. Fixation on transport
5. Avoiding moving vehicles or large objects (logs, barrels, etc.):
a. bounce, b. jump - somersault, c. with tangential rotation, d. with transport fixation
6. Avoiding flying objects:
a. sticks, b. stones
7. Catching objects:
a. sticks, b. tool, c. stone, d. clothes, bags, packages, e. end of rope, f. the end of the pole, g. pendulum, h. box.
8. Transportation of injured cargo:
a. up down, b. reliefs, c. water rafting (rafts).
All alone and in a group.
10. Working against the group
- Working both against a group and in a group (usually in the five) is a distinctive feature of the SVES. A well-matched five can easily work against a larger crowd using different tactical schemes. For example, spinning.
11. Work against weapons / with weapons
- A very developed section of work with the machine. And besides this (with other weapons), since hand-to-hand combat is, first of all, working with weapons.
Throwing of edged weapons (knives) was also developed.
12. Work on the ground (in the parterre)
- Basically finishing off from the stand and protection from them, as well as working out the fastest way out of the stalls.
13. Work in non-standard conditions, from non-standard opponents (in water, in the dark, confined space, from a dog, etc.)
- Almost all training was non-standard, as indicated above. In preparation, given the extreme importance of the group (hardly anything can compare in importance with the importance of protecting and capturing nuclear weapons), they tried to prepare literally for everything. Even such difficult to imagine situations as a fight in free flight (falling off a cliff), a fight with your hands hooked over the side of a car at full speed and other moments.
Also, the training included the so-called "shooting pendulum", in which the fighter stands sideways to the enemy, thus reducing the area of destruction, and conducts a firefight. But this is an extreme measure. Usually they tried to interact with the enemy, understanding the psychology of the shooter.
14. Psychological preparation
- No fighting trances, only the work of clear consciousness. Since the reflexes and instincts of a person are known, they can be calculated and forced the enemy to react as needed. Moreover, in an extreme situation, a person, starting to work on instincts (with the consciousness turned off due to stress), becomes a "machine", and a fighter trained according to this system can neutralize him.
The fighter must perceive everything as a dangerous game, all conditions in which he is familiar with. His task is to outplay the enemy. No rage or aggression. The playful attitude of a trained professional.
15. Other effects from classes (wellness, developmental, etc.)
- One of the skills given was what is now called "social engineering" - a person trained according to the system could go to any place without a pass, even go to a secret facility.
At the same time, honest people were selected for the group who would not use their knowledge for selfish purposes (moreover, provocations were arranged for verification).
16. Unique features of the direction (style, school)
- Unlike systems based on natural reflexes and movements (for example, the startle reflex, when a person in case of danger, with a loud sound of an explosion, etc. automatically crouches, covering his head with his hands), this system is "unnatural", it is built on the suppression of instincts. She is "mathematical". Everything is logical and "systemic" in it.
On the other hand, everything in this system is non-standard. For example, all hand-to-hand combat systems work over time - but usually fighters try to be faster than the enemy. Here they do the opposite - they try to slow down the enemy due to psychology, feints, technology, and, therefore, work faster than him.
Over time, they work by all methods, they try to be faster (due to technique and tactics).
17. Application in life (a case of self-defense, when the student was able to defend himself in this direction)
- There are many cases of use, in the most difficult conditions, everything is in favor of our scouts.
