| Anyone can use the term Combative to describe a martial art or fighting system.The method employed at Dunbar Self Defence is that developed by William Ewart Fairbairn and Eric Anthony Sykes, these two gentlemen served with the Shanghai municipal police in the 1920’s, at this time Shanghai was reputed to be the most dangerous city on the planet.
Fairbairn Sykes.
Policing in such a dangerous environment afforded Fairbairn and Sykes the opportunity to hone their skills in close quarter combat, including hand to hand fighting, use of the combat knife and instinctive shooting, facing life threatening situations on an almost daily basis they soon discovered which techniques would and would not work when the pressure was on.
At the advent of world war II both returned to Britain where they began training Commando units and covert operations personnel in the self defence techniques that they would need to survive behind enemy lines.
If these techniques and methods worked in the most hostile environment ever known they will work for you in today’s urban battle ground.
Fairbairn training the OSS – In this short video clip we see W E Fairbairn training the office of strategic services which after the war went on to become the CIA.
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