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That may sound cruel, but it is still more cruel to take longer than necessary to kill your opponent. Your aim is to kill your opponent as quickly as possible. … So forget the Queensberry rules forget the term ‘foul methods’.
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The Queensberry rules enumerate, under the heading of ‘fouls’, some good targets which the boxer is not trained to defend. The techniques of the system were brutal and quick, which can be examplified by the following quote from the SOE syllabus: Get tough, get down in the gutter, win at all costs… I teach what is called ‘Gutter Fighting.’ There’s no fair play, no rules except one: kill or be killed.
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The system emphasized pragmatical rather than gentlemanly and honourable fighting, teaching rapid disabling of the opponent with potentially lethal force. If you have an interest in the topic, then it is strongly suggested you support their work by ordering the dvd. The below video is from a dvd released by Gutter Fighting Films in Australia and while dubbed in Greek it has been subtitled using the original and publicly available scripts. For hand-to-hand combat Fairbairn mixed Savate, Jujitsu, early Judo, Chinese martial arts (he had studied Kung-Fu with the Empress’ former bodyguard), wrestling and boxing, all of it reflected against his own experience of raw and brutal street fighting as a police. In 1939 Sykes would properly join the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS-MI6).īased on their experiences and training the two designed their own martial arts system for specific use for the Shanghai Municipal Police called Defendu. Sykes was an expert marksman and came to form and oversee a team of civilian & police snipers for the SMP and naturally he also became the head of this unit in 1937. Sykes, while Sykes was still working with weapons import/export at a British Secret Service-run company. It is here, in 1919 in Shanghai, that he met Eric A. Later, after the war, Fairbairn would create and train a s pecial anti-riot squad for the SMP and many of the tactics and techniques developed here are still in use today. This was a golden age for the Green Gang triad, collaborating with the senior Chinese officer in the French gendarmerie Huang Jinrong in taking over the whole opium trade which now made more money than ever. Ten years later, in 1917, the last legal opium shop was closed. The same year he was stabbed a dozen times by members of a Chinese separatist gang and left to die in the back streets of Shangha, but luckily he managed to survive this brutal experience. Around this time more than 10% of the Chinese were smoking opium. About 15% of China’s crop acreage was dedicated to opium while 20 years later twice as much, a change which would greatly diminish the need for British export of opium to China.Īs a result of the initiative taken a year earlier, the Shanghai Municipal Council stopped issuing licenses to opium dens in 1907, the very year of Fairbairn’s arrival. Of course as with any city, and in particular port cities, gambling and prostitution was also common and it was by some called the vice capital of the world. (For more on this see the 1st Opium War & the 2nd Opium War). This increased dramatically after opium trade once again became illegal in 1906, after having been forced upon and “legalized” in China by the British Empire. Here he spent much of his time practicing various forms of martial arts with Japanese and Korean fighters, practiced drilling with the Royal Marines and fighting Japanese Army troops with bayonet.įairbairn left the military in 1907 and instead joined the Shanghai Municipal Police, serving in one of the red light districts, then considered to be one of the most dangerous places in the world. Shanghai was a one of the most important centres for the opium trade, the precursor of today’s heroin and cocaine trade and just about as sinister, with related crime and well-armed gang activity. He was deployed to serve in Japanese-occupied Korea already in 1903, then at the real age of 18. Fairbairn joined the British Marines at the age of 15, using faked documents stating that he was of legal age, i.e. 18.