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LEARN TO FIGHT LIKE THE TOUGHEST MAN TO EVER LIVE!
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Who was Capt. W.E. Fairbairn?
William E. Fairbairn
Who was he and why is he so important to the study of close combat? Fairbairn pretty much started the whole thing.
Fairbairn joined the Royal Marines in 1901 and transferred to the Shanghai Police in 1907.
With the illegal opium trade, organized crime and other disturbances, the police had a tough job. Fairbairn found that out when he was nearly beaten to death in the line of duty.Fairbairn demonstrates chop in Shanghai manual
Fairbairn took up the study of Asian martial arts, specifically Judo, Jujitsu and Chinese Boxing. He became a formidable fighter. Using his knowledge of police work, Fairbairn set about composing a practical system of police combatives. He called the system Defendu. It worked! Police officers were trained in the system. As many of the police were military units rotated into Shanghai by member states of the Community, Fairbairn’s fighting system spread. He taught the Bengal Lancers and 200 US Marines, among others.Fairbairn demonsrates a capture and hold
In 1940, the Western powers were leaving Shanghai. The war between Japan and China was spilling over. Fairbairn and his partner, E.A. Sykes, went to Britain. There they trained the Home Guard and the Commandos. Fairbairn devised two weapons for the commandos: the Fairbairn-Sykes Combat knife and a heavy weapon called the Smatchet.Fairbairn-Sykes Commando DaggerFairbairn went to the United States to teach the Army and Office of Strategic Services agents. He teamed with Colonel Rex Applegate to develop an unarmed combat, knife fighting and combat pistol shooting program.
Fairbairn demonstrates the neck chop.
In the 1950s, Fairbairn trained the Cyprus police force and the Singapore Police riot squad. He died in 1960 at age 75.
Many of Fairbairn’s techniques are still taught by armies and police forces around the world. You can see several of his methods in every Army Combatives manual from 1954 to 1992. The knife system was heavily influenced by Fairbairn.The SmatchetThanks to his work with Rex Applegate of the OSS, Fairbairn’s influence spread. Agents from many nations were trained by the OSS, and they brought those lessons home after the war. Applegate contributed to the development of Army combatives. Many of Fairbairn’s lessons were incorporated in Army combatives.
Fairbairn shows Point Shooting with Tommy gun
Fairbairn and E.A. Sykes also developed practical combat pistol shooting as well as use of the shotgun and submachine gun. These methods were also taught to the O.S.S., British S.O.E. and the. Army. Fairbairn\'s shooting methods influenced the techniques taught in subsequent US Army manuals. His methods had been tested and proven in the deadly streets of Shanghai.
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