Close Combat Training is the fighting style developed by Captain Chris Pizzo. It was developed by him by stripping a wide cross section of fighting styles of their flashy techniques and forms and getting down to the essentials of combat. The ultimate goal of a fight is to win, not to look fancy while losing.

 

To this end, Captain Chris started with the fighting style developed by the Allied Forces during World War II for their Special Forces. Their goal was basically the same as Captain Chris’: Take them down fast and hard, no matter the odds. The style they developed was deadly effective, even allowing a downed soldier to take down an attacking Nazi soldier.

 

Captain Chris took this idea and ran with it. He took this gem and polished it into Close Combat Training. The core idea behind this particular style is to take normal body movements or gross motor skills (things that are already ingrained) and apply them to fighting.

 

This is done by striking weak spots that everyone has using attacks that no one has to be trained to do. No flying spin kicks. No “Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique.”

You won’t need years or even a lifetime of training to master Close Combat, and that’s the goal. If a monkey knew the soft spots that are taught, he would master Close Combat Training.

 

In the real world, there is no such thing as a clean or fair fight. There are no trophies or medals. How many boards you can break with your foot doesn’t matter when you’re faced with a gun or several assailants. What does matter is if you can get out of it alive and if your assailants have learned a valuable lesson. Being able to defend yourself is, in the end, the true measure of whether a self defense course works for you.



By: Fred Thom

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