American Combat Judo

[lklawson]

I have republished Cosneck's "American Combat Judo." This is the 1944
(WWII) version, not the 1959 version which Paladin (an excellent company
whom wish much success) republished.

Many thanks to Ken Pfrenger for providing a copy of the '44 edition for me when the '44 edition which I bought turned out to be a '59 edition. :P

As usual, the download pdf is free.

http://www.lulu.com/content/paperbac...t_judo/6411686

Blurb:

As a student at the University of Illinois, "Barney" Cosneck won two
Big Ten wrestling championships. Later he served as Judo instructor in
the armed forces, where he co-authored "How to Fight Tough" with Jack
Dempsey. In "American Combat Judo" he has adapted the best of Japanese
ju jitsu, French foot fighting, Chinese boxing and American wrestling
to produce simple but effective techniques for defense and
counterattack.

Authored in 1944 and illustrated with 188 photo sequences, this book,
considered one of the cornerstones of American WWII era "Combatives" is
a unique window into self defense theory and the early evolution of
combined martial systems.

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk

[3moose1]

awesomeawesomeawesomeaweosmeaweosme!

[Hesperus]

Is "French Foot Fighting" cracker for Savate?

[lklawson]

Is "French Foot Fighting" cracker for Savate?

Yup.

To be honest, there's a limited amount of it, but that's what the period blurb said so I quoted it. :)

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk

[animlmthr]

sweet; me download now.

[Mtripp]

I have the the first edition, and am keeping the tradition alive...

[MrBadGuy]

Thank you! I got tricked into the '59 version too. <3

[Kid Miracleman]

Alrighty, another sweet little download from lklawson! Lemme just Right Click -> Save As...

<Spits out Diet A&W Root Beer in comical fashion!> Holy poop, 295 megamabites?!! This is gonna be sah-WEET.

[Hesperus]

It refers to "la Savatte" in the preface. Haha. I'm sure that's just them being silly olden days folk.

"How to Gouge Out an Eye", page 116. The top of that page says "How to Couce Out an Eye". That sounds like something else entirely. Is that a typo, perhaps?

[TheMightyMcClaw]

Very interesting.
On page 28-29, he addressing being seized by the waist under the arm, and treats it very lightly; "If you work quickly there will be no difficulty escaping the hold," are his exact words.
Given that he was a collegiate wrestling champion, does this suggest that the back bodylock and numerous takedowns there from had yet to be invented/was out of style in the 30's?
Interestingly, he takes the over-arm back bodylock on page 30-31 (which I've never seen used effectively in wrestling, and never struck me as terribly secure) as a quite serious threat, and specifically mentions wrestling in this part. Perhaps this was a more common hold in his day?

Edit: He later shows throws set up from the under-arm back bodylock. Weird.

[Hesperus]

Fig. 164: Potential Rivington avatar?

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Oh my loooooord...Resuscitation. Dated much?

[3moose1]

Very interesting.
On page 28-29, he addressing being seized by the waist under the arm, and treats it very lightly; "If you work quickly there will be no difficulty escaping the hold," are his exact words.
Given that he was a collegiate wrestling champion, does this suggest that the back bodylock and numerous takedowns there from had yet to be invented/was out of style in the 30's?

When someone grabs you from behind...

Drop.

Voila.

[lklawson]

Alrighty, another sweet little download from lklawson! Lemme just Right Click -> Save As...

<Spits out Diet A&W Root Beer in comical fashion!> Holy poop, 295 megamabites?!! This is gonna be sah-WEET.

Yeah. Sorry 'bout that.

It's the pics. I scanned them in at 600 dpi grayscale.

I thought about downing them to 300 dpi because that's what lulu says the print quality turns out to be on treeware but I decided to leave it stand for the downloaders. You should be able to zoom in greatly with good detail.

In any case it"s better than the ~100 that most scans of books are which are floating 'round the 'net.

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk

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It refers to "la Savatte" in the preface. Haha. I'm sure that's just them being silly olden days folk.

I double checked the spelling in the original text and the double T is there.

"How to Gouge Out an Eye", page 116. The top of that page says "How to Couce Out an Eye". That sounds like something else entirely. Is that a typo, perhaps?

It's an artifact of my OCR and the original text font. The capital "G" is sorta sans-seriff so the horizontal flag isn't on the g but the lower left side is sorta flattened but a lot of it is context.

So it boils down to: I missed that misspelling.

I'm fixing it now.

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk