Arent you on leave? your missing out on some good training dont come back and
get tapped out.

--- In ArmyCombativesKorea@yahoogroups.com, Rafie <senseirafie@...> wrote:
>
> please dan your brigade hates combatives your S3 should know by now. i know
mine knows hoah
>
>
>
> See you on the MAT !!Sensei
>
> --- On Mon, 11/30/09, Dan <dataws6@...> wrote:
>
>
> From: Dan <dataws6@...>
> Subject: [ArmyCombativesKorea] LEVEL 3 MTT
> To: ArmyCombativesKorea@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Monday, November 30, 2009, 9:48 AM
>
>
>  
>
>
>
> Below are the dates for the Level 3 MTT's next year.
>
> Same as last year Im asking:
> Who is in charge of it here in Korea?
> How do we enroll Soldiers? Besides ATTRS is there anything we need to do here
in Korea?
> Do they need any assistant instructors?
> What is the location for the MTT? Camp Casey again?
>
> 708 View 31 Jan 2010 01 Feb 2010 26 Feb 2010 36 Onsite 8TH ARMY KOREA AP 09987
> 709 View 05 Sep 2010 07 Sep 2010 01 Oct 2010 36 Onsite 8TH ARMY KOREA AP 09987
>

I know of a few guys in Camp Stanley not far from Casey, and i ran into a blue
belt in BJJ class here in Seoul that said hes from Casey last saturday so Ill
get his name for you next time I see him. other than that theres BJJ, Muay Thai,
and some people doing Combatives in the Yongsan area.

--- In ArmyCombativesKorea@yahoogroups.com, "rleong142" <rleong142@...> wrote:
>
> Hey everyone, currently training MMA in Germany...thinking about doing a year
in Korea. Is there anything going on at Camp Casey?
>

Below are the dates for the Level 3 MTT's next year.

Same as last year Im asking:
Who is in charge of it here in Korea?
How do we enroll Soldiers? Besides ATTRS is there anything we need to do here in
Korea?
Do they need any assistant instructors?
What is the location for the MTT? Camp Casey again?

708 View 31 Jan 2010 01 Feb 2010 26 Feb 2010 36 Onsite 8TH ARMY KOREA  AP 09987
709 View 05 Sep 2010 07 Sep 2010 01 Oct 2010 36 Onsite 8TH ARMY KOREA  AP 09987

Hey everyone, currently training MMA in Germany...thinking about doing a year in
Korea. Is there anything going on at Camp Casey?

I'm gonna add to what Dan and James were saying by stating that area II
(specificaly team yongsan) has taken every team trophy since it started showing
up to tournaments as a post team. Not to mention the quality training given by
coach Henry (BJJ) and Coach James (Mui Tai). I left Korea in in may just after
the Osan tourney. I now train at Team quest in temecula and I gotta say that
those two were some of the best coaches I've had the best coaches I have had the
opertunity to train under

-RUBEN COVARRUBIAS-



--- In ArmyCombativesKorea@yahoogroups.com, "Dan" <dataws6@...> wrote:
>
> Hmmm... The last tourny was some of the worst judging ever seen. Besides that
the area 2 team was not complete becuase of the issues and short notice of the
last tourny, and since your new we will let you know that area 2 has dominated
every tournament. Since were talking trash about "areas" to be the strongest you
would have to have the strongest "team". Its not all about you.. I challenge you
to put together, motivate, and train a full team. Oh and by the way the last
tourny was only grappling. But if you ever want to contribute to something
peninsula wide instead of gloating about yourself your welcome to organize a
tournament. (because I think James was talking about organizing, judging,
fighting etc.)
>
> And James dont be affraid to tell them how you really feel!
>
> --- In ArmyCombativesKorea@yahoogroups.com, Jason Doege <jason_doege@> wrote:
> >
> > ive only been up here for a few months, but im pretty sure at the last
tourney area 1 had the most golds, and the most gold per participant percentage.
(3 and a 100%)  i think that makes area 1 the strongest, we show area 2 how its
done, then you guys can show the rest.
> >
> > --- On Mon, 11/23/09, James Hill <chuq_uriq@> wrote:
> >
> >
> > From: James Hill <chuq_uriq@>
> > Subject: Re: [ArmyCombativesKorea] AREA IV COMBATIVES TOURNAMENT
> > To: ArmyCombativesKorea@yahoogroups.com
> > Date: Monday, November 23, 2009, 7:49 AM
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > granted i'm a little drunk right noiw, but it sounds like area IV is well
endowed in the vaginal area.  i'm just sain.  let area II come down and show
you how its done.
> >  
> >
> > --- On Mon, 11/23/09, anthony wik <whoiswikjones23@ yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > From: anthony wik <whoiswikjones23@ yahoo.com>
> > Subject: Re: [ArmyCombativesKore a] AREA IV COMBATIVES TOURNAMENT
> > To: ArmyCombativesKorea @yahoogroups. com
> > Date: Monday, November 23, 2009, 4:14 AM
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> >
> >
> > Yup, just soldiers in AREA IV. We just did are BN tournament, and now we are
working on the AREA tournament. Once we work out all the bugs and get all
the safety equipment needed for the next lvl of competion. We will be hosting
competions almost monthly down here. We will be looking at competions opened to
all the AREA'S. But this is something that has to be easyed into and sold.   
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Jason Doege <jason_doege@ yahoo.com>
> > To: ArmyCombativesKorea @yahoogroups. com
> > Sent: Sun, November 22, 2009 7:22:26 PM
> > Subject: [ArmyCombativesKore a] AREA IV COMBATIVES TOURNAMENT
> >
> >  
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > just area IV? wont that be a pretty shallow tourney? are other areas allowed
to participate?
> >
>

I think collectively across Pen, all the areas are coming up pretty well. Areas
2 & 4 have some quality instructors (I dont know how areas 1 & 3 are) but
judging by the last tourney Area 1 is coming along well too. Team Yongsan lost
alot of its champs from the last full-scale tourney in Osan with the departures
of Duncan & Ruben and now that Jenny is having a baby soon. So it should make
for some interesting competition at the next full-scale tourney.

--- In ArmyCombativesKorea@yahoogroups.com, "Dan" <dataws6@...> wrote:
>
> Hmmm... The last tourny was some of the worst judging ever seen. Besides that
the area 2 team was not complete becuase of the issues and short notice of the
last tourny, and since your new we will let you know that area 2 has dominated
every tournament. Since were talking trash about "areas" to be the strongest you
would have to have the strongest "team". Its not all about you.. I challenge you
to put together, motivate, and train a full team. Oh and by the way the last
tourny was only grappling. But if you ever want to contribute to something
peninsula wide instead of gloating about yourself your welcome to organize a
tournament. (because I think James was talking about organizing, judging,
fighting etc.)
>
> And James dont be affraid to tell them how you really feel!
>
> --- In ArmyCombativesKorea@yahoogroups.com, Jason Doege <jason_doege@> wrote:
> >
> > ive only been up here for a few months, but im pretty sure at the last
tourney area 1 had the most golds, and the most gold per participant percentage.
(3 and a 100%)  i think that makes area 1 the strongest, we show area 2 how its
done, then you guys can show the rest.
> >
> > --- On Mon, 11/23/09, James Hill <chuq_uriq@> wrote:
> >
> >
> > From: James Hill <chuq_uriq@>
> > Subject: Re: [ArmyCombativesKorea] AREA IV COMBATIVES TOURNAMENT
> > To: ArmyCombativesKorea@yahoogroups.com
> > Date: Monday, November 23, 2009, 7:49 AM
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > granted i'm a little drunk right noiw, but it sounds like area IV is well
endowed in the vaginal area.  i'm just sain.  let area II come down and show
you how its done.
> >  
> >
> > --- On Mon, 11/23/09, anthony wik <whoiswikjones23@ yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > From: anthony wik <whoiswikjones23@ yahoo.com>
> > Subject: Re: [ArmyCombativesKore a] AREA IV COMBATIVES TOURNAMENT
> > To: ArmyCombativesKorea @yahoogroups. com
> > Date: Monday, November 23, 2009, 4:14 AM
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> >
> >
> > Yup, just soldiers in AREA IV. We just did are BN tournament, and now we are
working on the AREA tournament. Once we work out all the bugs and get all
the safety equipment needed for the next lvl of competion. We will be hosting
competions almost monthly down here. We will be looking at competions opened to
all the AREA'S. But this is something that has to be easyed into and sold.   
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Jason Doege <jason_doege@ yahoo.com>
> > To: ArmyCombativesKorea @yahoogroups. com
> > Sent: Sun, November 22, 2009 7:22:26 PM
> > Subject: [ArmyCombativesKore a] AREA IV COMBATIVES TOURNAMENT
> >
> >  
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > just area IV? wont that be a pretty shallow tourney? are other areas allowed
to participate?
> >
>

I think so we have a 1SG that I cant remember his name this early in the
morning, myself, Rafie, and Ian.

--- In ArmyCombativesKorea@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Rogers <soken19@...> wrote:
>
> Now that is some serious Ownage!   True Area II has been VERY dominant!  
Now they didn't win every tournament.  April 2008 Osan Tournament actually went
to Area 4.  However thanks to Duncan, Rebuen,  and other team members on the
Yongsan team, as well as instruction from Henry Jung, John Frankl, and kick
boxing insructors, that Yongsan has been the most dominant team. 
>
> Yeah I would say thanks to the trainers that can be found on Yongsan and in
Seoul that Area II is the best place to learn from. 
>
> Correct me if I am wrong but Dan doesn't area II have the most level 4's on
Pen as well?
>
> -Jeff
> --- On Mon, 11/23/09, Dan <dataws6@...> wrote:
>
> From: Dan <dataws6@...>
> Subject: [ArmyCombativesKorea] Re: AREA IV COMBATIVES TOURNAMENT
> To: ArmyCombativesKorea@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Monday, November 23, 2009, 8:53 PM
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>       Hmmm... The last tourny was some of the worst judging ever seen. Besides
that the area 2 team was not complete becuase of the issues and short notice of
the last tourny, and since your new we will let you know that area 2 has
dominated every tournament. Since were talking trash about "areas" to be the
strongest you would have to have the strongest "team". Its not all about you.. I
challenge you to put together, motivate, and train a full team. Oh and by the
way the last tourny was only grappling. But if you ever want to contribute to
something peninsula wide instead of gloating about yourself your welcome to
organize a tournament. (because I think James was talking about organizing,
judging, fighting etc.)
>
>
>
> And James dont be affraid to tell them how you really feel!
>
>
>
> --- In ArmyCombativesKorea @yahoogroups. com, Jason Doege <jason_doege@ ...>
wrote:
>
> >
>
> > ive only been up here for a few months, but im pretty sure at the last
tourney area 1 had the most golds, and the most gold per participant percentage.
(3 and a 100%)  i think that makes area 1 the strongest, we show area 2 how
its done, then you guys can show the rest.
>
> >
>
> > --- On Mon, 11/23/09, James Hill <chuq_uriq@ ..> wrote:
>
> >
>
> >
>
> > From: James Hill <chuq_uriq@ ..>
>
> > Subject: Re: [ArmyCombativesKore a] AREA IV COMBATIVES TOURNAMENT
>
> > To: ArmyCombativesKorea @yahoogroups. com
>
> > Date: Monday, November 23, 2009, 7:49 AM
>
> >
>
> >
>
> >  
>
> >
>
> >
>
> >
>
> >
>
> >
>
> >
>
> >
>
> >
>
> >
>
> > granted i'm a little drunk right noiw, but it sounds like area IV is well
endowed in the vaginal area.  i'm just sain.  let area II come down and
show you how its done.
>
> >  
>
> >
>
> > --- On Mon, 11/23/09, anthony wik <whoiswikjones23@ yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >
>
> >
>
> > From: anthony wik <whoiswikjones23@ yahoo.com>
>
> > Subject: Re: [ArmyCombativesKore a] AREA IV COMBATIVES TOURNAMENT
>
> > To: ArmyCombativesKorea @yahoogroups. com
>
> > Date: Monday, November 23, 2009, 4:14 AM
>
> >
>
> >
>
> >  
>
> >
>
> >
>
> >
>
> > Yup, just soldiers in AREA IV. We just did are BN tournament, and now we are
working on the AREA tournament. Once we work out all the bugs and get all
the safety equipment needed for the next lvl of competion. We will be hosting
competions almost monthly down here. We will be looking at competions opened
to all the AREA'S. But this is something that has to be easyed into and sold.
  
>
> >
>
> >
>
> >
>
> >
>
> >
>
> > From: Jason Doege <jason_doege@ yahoo.com>
>
> > To: ArmyCombativesKorea @yahoogroups. com
>
> > Sent: Sun, November 22, 2009 7:22:26 PM
>
> > Subject: [ArmyCombativesKore a] AREA IV COMBATIVES TOURNAMENT
>
> >
>
> >  
>
> >
>
> >
>
> >
>
> >
>
> >
>
> > just area IV? wont that be a pretty shallow tourney? are other areas allowed
to participate?
>
> >
>

Hmmm... The last tourny was some of the worst judging ever seen. Besides that
the area 2 team was not complete becuase of the issues and short notice of the
last tourny, and since your new we will let you know that area 2 has dominated
every tournament. Since were talking trash about "areas" to be the strongest you
would have to have the strongest "team". Its not all about you.. I challenge you
to put together, motivate, and train a full team. Oh and by the way the last
tourny was only grappling. But if you ever want to contribute to something
peninsula wide instead of gloating about yourself your welcome to organize a
tournament. (because I think James was talking about organizing, judging,
fighting etc.)

And James dont be affraid to tell them how you really feel!

--- In ArmyCombativesKorea@yahoogroups.com, Jason Doege <jason_doege@...> wrote:
>
> ive only been up here for a few months, but im pretty sure at the last tourney
area 1 had the most golds, and the most gold per participant percentage. (3 and
a 100%)  i think that makes area 1 the strongest, we show area 2 how its done,
then you guys can show the rest.
>
> --- On Mon, 11/23/09, James Hill <chuq_uriq@...> wrote:
>
>
> From: James Hill <chuq_uriq@...>
> Subject: Re: [ArmyCombativesKorea] AREA IV COMBATIVES TOURNAMENT
> To: ArmyCombativesKorea@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Monday, November 23, 2009, 7:49 AM
>
>
>  
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> granted i'm a little drunk right noiw, but it sounds like area IV is well
endowed in the vaginal area.  i'm just sain.  let area II come down and show
you how its done.
>  
>
> --- On Mon, 11/23/09, anthony wik <whoiswikjones23@ yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: anthony wik <whoiswikjones23@ yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [ArmyCombativesKore a] AREA IV COMBATIVES TOURNAMENT
> To: ArmyCombativesKorea @yahoogroups. com
> Date: Monday, November 23, 2009, 4:14 AM
>
>
>  
>
>
>
> Yup, just soldiers in AREA IV. We just did are BN tournament, and now we are
working on the AREA tournament. Once we work out all the bugs and get all
the safety equipment needed for the next lvl of competion. We will be hosting
competions almost monthly down here. We will be looking at competions opened to
all the AREA'S. But this is something that has to be easyed into and sold.   
>
>
>
>
>
> From: Jason Doege <jason_doege@ yahoo.com>
> To: ArmyCombativesKorea @yahoogroups. com
> Sent: Sun, November 22, 2009 7:22:26 PM
> Subject: [ArmyCombativesKore a] AREA IV COMBATIVES TOURNAMENT
>
>  
>
>
>
>
>
> just area IV? wont that be a pretty shallow tourney? are other areas allowed
to participate?
>

A 5th Special Forces Group soldier received the Army's third-highest valor award
during a ceremony June 12 for his actions in a January 2002 raid on a suspected
al Qaeda stronghold in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom.

Master Sgt. Anthony S. Pryor, a team sergeant with Company A, 1st Battalion, 5th
SFG, received the Silver Star Medal for his gallantry in combat during the raid
when he single-handedly eliminated four enemy soldiers, including one in unarmed
combat, all while under intense automatic weapons fire and with a crippling
injury.

"Receiving this award is overwhelming, but... this isn't a story about one guy,"
Pryor said of the events that led to his Silver Star. "It's a story about the
whole company instead of an award on the chest. If the guys hadn't done what
they were supposed to do, (the mission) would've been a huge failure."

"I just did what I had to do," he continued, recalling his hand-to-hand struggle
against the suspected terrorists. "It wasn't a heroic act - it was
second-nature. I won, and I moved forward."

During the ceremony, Maj. Gen. Geoffrey C. Lambert, commanding general of the
U.S. Army Special Forces Command, said that Pryor was a perfect example of the
Special Forces mentality.

"About a year ago ... I said to Tony, 'what did you think when that fellow
knocked your night-vision goggles off, pulled your arm out of its socket and was
twisting it, all while you were fighting with your other hand?'" Lambert said.
"And (Pryor) said, 'it's show time.' He must have meant what he said, because he
earned that Silver Star. Think about a cold, black night; think about fighting
four guys at the same time, and somebody jumps on your back and starts beating
you with a board. Think about the problems you'd have to solve - and he did."

"This is the singular hand-to-hand combat story that I have heard from this
war," Lambert added. "When it came time to play, he played, and he did it
right."

On Jan. 23, 2002, Pryor's company received an order from the U.S. Central
Command to conduct their fourth combat mission of the war - a sensitive site
exploitation of two compounds suspected of harboring Taliban and al Qaeda
terrorists in the mountains of Afghanistan.

Because of the presence of women and children within the compounds, Pryor said
aerial bombardment was not considered an option. Once on the ground, the company
was to search for key leadership, communications equipment, maps and other
intelligence.

Sgt. 1st Class Scott Neil was one of the team members there with Pryor that
night at the second compound. A Special Forces weapons sergeant, he fought on
Pryor's team as a cell leader and found himself momentarily pinned down by the
sudden hail of bullets after the team's position was compromised.

"After the initial burst of automatic weapons fire, we returned fire in the
breezeway," Neil said. "It was a mental spur - after we heard the words 'let's
go,' everything just kind of kicked in."

Moments later, though, the team became separated in the confusion, but with the
situation desperate for the Special Forces soldiers against a determined and
larger-than-expected enemy, Pryor and one of his teammates kept moving forward,
room to room. They began to enter a room together, but another enemy soldier
outside the room distracted the team member, so he stayed outside to return
fire.

Pryor first encountered an enemy that was charging out of the room and assisted
in eliminating him. Then, without hesitation, Pryor moved ahead into the room
and found himself alone with three more enemy soldiers.

According to Pryor, the next two enemies he saw were firing their weapons out of
the back of the room at his men that were still outside the compound.

"I went in, and there were some windows that they were trying to get their guns
out of to shoot at our guys that hadn't caught up yet," he said. "So I went from
left to right, indexed down and shot those guys up. I realized that I was well
into halfway through my magazine, so I started to change magazines. Then I felt
something behind me, and thought it was (one of my teammates) - that's when
things started going downhill."

Pryor said it was an enemy soldier, a larger-than-normal Afghan, who had snuck
up on him.

"There was a guy back behind me, and he whopped me on the shoulder with
something, and crumpled me down."

Pryor would later learn that he had sustained a broken clavicle and a dislocated
shoulder during the attack.

"Then he jumped up on my back, broke my night-vision goggles off and starting
getting his fingers in my eyeballs. I pulled him over, and when I hit down on
the ground, it popped my shoulder back in."

Pryor said that after he stood up, he was face to face with his attacker. Pryor
eliminated the man during their hand-to-hand struggle.

Pryor had now put down all four enemies, but the fight wasn't over yet.

"I was trying to feel around in the dark for my night-vision goggles, and that's
when the guys I'd already killed decided that they weren't dead yet."

Pryor said that it was then a race to see who could get their weapons up first,
and the enemy soldiers lost. He then left the room and rejoined the firefight
outside. When the battle ended, 21 enemy soldiers had been killed. There were no
American causalities, and Pryor had been the only soldier injured.

"Tony is getting a Silver Star because he entered a room by himself, and he
engaged the enemy by himself," said Sgt. 1st Class James Hogg, a Special Forces
medical sergeant on Pryor's team. "He elevated his pure soldier instinct and
went to the next level, and that's what this award is recognizing. He didn't
stop after his initial battle, and continued to lead."

Leading his soldiers, despite his injuries, is something Neil said that Pryor
couldn't seem to stop doing.

"As soon as he left that room, he came running up to me and wanted to know if
everybody was okay," Neil said, describing Pryor after he had emerged from his
four-on-one fight. "He never mentioned anything about what went on ... and
during the whole objective and as the firefight continued, he never stopped. He
was always mission-first, and that's what his Silver Star is all about."

Pryor is the third Special Forces soldier to receive the Silver Star Medal for
actions during Operation Enduring Freedom. The other two, Master Sgt. Jefferson
Davis and Sgt. 1st Class Daniel Petithory, also of the 5th SFG (Abn.), received
theirs posthumously.

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FORT BENNING, Ga. -- The U.S. Army Combatives School has adopted a new teaching
plan.

The Army is revamping the curriculum to take lessons learned from Iraq and
Afghanistan and build more effective close-quarters fighters, said Matt Larsen,
the school's director. The goal is to push advanced techniques down to the
small-unit level, including basic training.

"We want Soldiers to be agile, adaptive and competent (so) they can adjust to
the realities of the battlefield," Larsen said.

The modifications are based on feedback from across the Army and other factors,
he said. More than 900 interviews were conducted with Soldiers who saw
hand-to-hand combat in the villages, houses and streets of Iraq or Afghanistan.

Soldiers most often enter small houses and rooms during combat operations, so
the Army wants to take the ground-grappling principles taught in combatives and
emphasize them from a standing position, Larsen said.

"In the field, the fight is always over weapons and how to maintain control of
them," he said. "That will be taught all the way down to basic training."

Knee strikes, clinch drills, fighting with weapons and combat equipment, and
pushing terror suspects against the wall are among the upper-echelon combatives
techniques Soldiers will now be exposed to at lower unit levels, Larsen said.

Larsen said the school will stick with the four pillars - instruction based on
universal, foundational, motivational and tactical attributes - that allowed the
program to thrive. But Soldiers often struggled to retain knowledge gained in
unit combatives training, so adjustments were needed.

Levels 1 and 2 are being changed to the basic and tactical combatives courses,
while the basic and tactical combatives instructor courses replace Levels 3 and
4. Under the new construct, the number of training hours at each tier remains
the same - 40 in basic, 80 for tactical and 160 each within both instructor
phases.

The school will begin implementing the new methods in the next month.

"Combatives is an integral part of what we do as Soldiers," Larsen said. "You
can't effectively train in close-quarters combat without combatives. You're
going to need it any place you can be hands-on with potential enemies."

He said more than 57,000 troops have graduated from the Army Combatives School
since its inception in 2002 - including 50,374 (Level 1), 5,255 (Level 2), 1,408
(Level 3) and 564 (Level 4).

Briant Wells Fieldhouse on Fort Benning, Ga., home of the U.S. Army Combatives
School, has extended its hours to 6 to 8 a.m., 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 5 to
7:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday for Soldiers, civilians and family members who
want to do combatives training on their own time.


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