Does Mma Training Help With Special Forces?
i plan on joining special forces in a couple years. ive been training in bjj, wrestling, and muay thai for 4 years now , do you think its going to help me much in that type of environment. any martial art similar to krav maga or bisset jujutsu you know of? or any agressive martial art?
Yes.
Having combat training always helps.
Of course it does. You can’t get in any of the special forces without multiple belts in martial arts. Keep it up, and hopefully you’ll get in.
Yes it will. A strong foundation in multi descipline is a plus. You will receive advance CQB training. As it goes..this is martial side of the arts. Your accelerated self defence training will be geared for life and death.
I have a 5th degree in Tang Soo Do,Krav Maga, Kenpo and golden glove boxer. But the training i enjoyed the most was with former Navy SEALs
Belts dont make the man. Dont fear the belt.. fear the man.
Only to a degree. MMA is a sport with rules and regulations and those rules and regulations dictate how you train. It will help give you a solid base for knowledge in multiple arts though. Special forces train for war and killing so the sport aspect of MMA is useless.
If you want a taste go to one of the Blauer Tactical courses. Most martial arts available to the general public are going to be either sport oriented or traditional. Neither will teach you how it works out in the "working world." Sport training is great, BJJ, MMA, boxing, Judo…great stuff. Not at all against it. I do it and love it myself. But strap on 60 pounds of gear, run into a room full of furniture with a carbine or pistol in your hand or slung, then try to subdue a bad guy that you can’t just shoot. It complicates things I assure you.
I don’t even know if you will be able to get that sort of training until you join the service but if and or when you do, you’ll see the difference between theory and reality. There are many good CQB trainers out there but beware the numb nuts. Tony Blauer is tops on my list and I teach his S.P.E.A.R. course, but by no means is he the only good one out there.
Well, it depends what special forces you’re talking about. For example the Army Ranges train in a different system called Combatives which consists of Karate, Judo, BJJ and some filipino stuff. The US Navy SEALS on the other hand train in R.A.T. (Rapid Assault Tactics) which is a "sub-art" of Executive Progressive Fighting Systems created by my instructor’s – instructor, named Paul Vunak. E.P.S. is a streamlined and street orient version of Bruce Lee’s Jeet Kune Do that places an emphesis on elbows, knees and headbutts. The only thing it has from BJJ is some turnovers and from Muay Thai JKD only has 2 kicks from it, there is no shin conditioning. JKD modifies the kicks as well. The reason being is that this branch of JKD feels that arts like BJJ and Muay Thai are too "sport-oriented." For example JKD feels that BJJ leaves your back exposed too much, which is fine in the Octagon, but on the street or in war there are no rules so you have to watch your back for more enemies. JKD’s problem with Muay Thai is that too much time is wasted on conditioning your shins too much and the martial artist loses sight on gaining other physical attributes like timing and cordination. But hey, they Navy SEALS arent complaining. They’re the ones that got Bin Laden! Go SEALS!!!
No. It won’t help you.
The moron that wrote you need to have a black belt for special forces is beyond not informed.
All Spec Ops units train in hand to hand, but guess what they never use it. They only train like 2 hours in it. Want to know why? Because they’re not using their hands to fight. It’s called pull the trigger *pop pop pop* bad guy dead.
Also they don’t train in a particular martial art more like systems.
U.S. Rangers train in Modern Army Combatives(MAC)
U.S. Special Forces train in Modern Army Combatives(MAC)
U.S. Navy SEALs train in Combat jiujitsu
U.S. PJs train in Modern Army Combatives(MAC)
U.S. MARSOC train in Marine Corps Martial Arts Program(MCMAP)