Something we study at our school is grappling in closed spaces and also with weapons. Pirates always had a small knife as a backup and we do alot of grappling with a knife to stress the reality of weapons on the ground.
It interesting that modern grappling arts seem to neglect this??
Fake Pirate Combat Schools
I have noticed that many people are starting Pirate Combat schools with no formal training and getting their techniques from watching Jonny Depp and Pirate of the Caribeen.
As a Black Belt in Pirate Combat and have trained personally with the Legitimate Shihan Simon Tang, I would like everybody here to help shut these fakers down!!
Respect!!
All I can suggest (other than a keel-haul - yaarrghh) is that is they are using Pirates Of The Caribbean images etc in their advertising material, email Disney.
They usually jump on unauthorised use of any of their property.
This may seem a little underhand, but I believe that’s the Pirate way.
Good point, but the tevhniques on the pirate movies are nothing like correct Pirate Combat Training. True Pirate combat is quick and nasty, no swinging of swords and jumping from ropes… and we never get the girl 
It was on the good ship Venus
By Christ, you should’ve seen us
The figurehead was a whore in bed
And the mast was a mammoth penis
The captain of this lugger
He was a dirty bugger
He wasn’t fit to shovel shit
From one place to another
The captain’s name was Morgan
By Christ, he was a gorgon
Ten times a day sweet tunes he’d play
On his fucking organ
The first mate’s name was Cooper
By Christ he was a trooper.
He jerked and jerked until he worked
Himself into a stupor
The second mate was Andy
By Christ, he had a dandy
Till they crushed his cock with a jagged rock
For cumming in the brandy
The cabin boy was Ripper
He really was quite nipper
He stuffed his ass with broken glass
And circumcised the skipper
The Captain’s wife was Mabel
To fuck she was not able
So the dirty shits, they nailed her tits
Across the barroom table
The Captain had a daughter
Who fell in deep sea water
Delighted squeals revealed that eels
Had found 'er sexual quarters
BJJ and Grappling with Blades
Brazil is such a violent place and BJJ always has a rep of being a street fighting art, but why do we not see grappling with weapons?
Is it because you need to be a high level black belt or is it that BJJ simply does not teach it.
At my school we nearly always grapple with weapons, I would like to exchange technical ideas and training drills with any grapplers out there!!
Thank you for your time
It was on the good ship Venus
By Christ, you should’ve seen us
The figurehead was a whore in bed
And the mast was a mammoth penis
The captain of this lugger
He was a dirty bugger
He wasn’t fit to shovel shit
From one place to another
The captain’s name was Morgan
By Christ, he was a gorgon
Ten times a day sweet tunes he’d play
On his fucking organ
The first mate’s name was Cooper
By Christ he was a trooper.
He jerked and jerked until he worked
Himself into a stupor
The second mate was Andy
By Christ, he had a dandy
Till they crushed his cock with a jagged rock
For cumming in the brandy
The cabin boy was Ripper
He really was quite nipper
He stuffed his ass with broken glass
And circumcised the skipper
The Captain’s wife was Mabel
To fuck she was not able
So the dirty shits, they nailed her tits
Across the barroom table
The Captain had a daughter
Who fell in deep sea water
Delighted squeals revealed that eels
Had found 'er sexual quarters
First, I love your gimmick.
Grappling arts as we usually think of them are generally trained for sport purpose with self-defense as a fringe benefit so there isn’t much of a point in focusing on knives. I’m pretty sure the average person only gets into a bar fight every 10 years on average, so the chances of going to the ground, much less a knife being involved, are really very, very low. And on top of that if someone pulls a knife while you’re both on the ground, chances are high that you’re going to be severely injured anyway.
PS - you should practice with a live blade in your grappling - it makes it much more real. And wear an eyepatch at the same time.
ar ye want the captain do ye?
You should go roll with a live blade. Preferibly right now.
Grappling with a live blade really increases your ability to control your opponent. Your game changes when you go from slack “sport” control to serious control. You can build apon the subtle game that makes BJJ so good to a game that makes Pirate Combat probably the most amazing art on this planet
Ok, but as you said, they’re cashing in on POTC’s popularity, so I guessed they’d be using images etc… take that away, and you just have a guy dressed as a pirate waving a sword, right?
Knives and going to the ground. the probability is high but it is not as important as having a broad range of training.
…and yes, When I teach Pirate Combat we do grapple with live blades, just like in BJJ when you know the heel hook is there and you dont use it … we avoid killing each other
yess! In before trollshido!
Hey, I am no “trollshido” I am a student of Pirate Combat under Shihan Simon Tang, his profile is here:
http://www.www.halfire.com/application/index.php?cmd=25&project_id=216&obbydata_id=2923&obby_id=909
Now say sorry please
sorry please.
I accept … thanks But since this thread is about technical grappling with blades … let’s keep on topic.
Good point, but for my Shihan and my students it is important we teach tradtional pirate techniques and not made up from movies.
In a real life situation what would you choose? … movie pirate techniques or real combat pirate tradition?
Im suprised you are not a toasty shade of ash by now. Whats the history behind pirate combat?
Hey thanks … well the official version is at the New york Website :
http://www.www.halfire.com/application/index.php?cmd=25&project_id=216&obbydata_id=2920&obby_id=909
but for my I love it for the practical combat… I mean we have weapon grappling . I would to see Royce Gracie rock into our school and see how he would go passing the guard with a Cutlass at his throat
but we are the real deal… and Pirate Combat is about to rock the world