COMBAT GRAPPLING
BRAZILIAN JIU JITSU - COMBAT JIU JITSU - CHIN NA - ANIMAL GROUND-FIGHTING
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Imperial Combat Arts teaches extensive ground-fighting, grappling, and chin na. This training begins with the study of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Combatives and then moves into Combat Grappling, China Na, Weapon Fighting, and finally Animal Ground-fighting. Our schools have taught combat ground-fighting systems in the U.S. for close to 70 years and all Instructors have years 3-20 of Combat Grappling experience and also train/teach Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Combatives.
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BRAZILIAN JIU JITSU COMBATIVES
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is the most popular grappling system in the world today and a very effective art for sparring experience. All Imperial Combat Arts students begin this style day one with BBJ Combatives, the same course designed for the U.S. military. BJJ Combatives is designed for application against opponents in real life fighting scenarios. After the Combatives program, BBJ moves into sport techniques, whereas our students move further into advanced Combat Grappling and the Ground-fighting systems that are much more extensive than BJJ.
ADVANCED BRAZILIAN JIU JITSU
The study of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Combatives program assumes your opponent doesn't know Jiu Jitsu themselves, and it is statistically over a 99 percent chance they don't know Jiu Jitsu in combat situations. This is why these programs are taught first and deal with punches and other non Jiu Jitsu attacks. Advanced Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is about fighting other Jiu Jitsu practitioners and countering Jiu Jitsu attacks. This study tends to move into "sport" techniques that wouldn't work as well in MMA or real fights, as sport Jiu Jitsu is heavily ruled against strikes and the like. While we do teach several ranks of Advanced BJJ our focus mostly shifts to Advanced Combat Jiu Jitsu and Ground Fighting.
COMBAT JIU JITSU
Where in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu we train techniques that are safe for sparring, Combat Jiu Jitsu contains numerous techniques that are designed to break and cripple opponents with no care for tap-out style submissions. The joint locks in this study are wholly 5x the size of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. The reason for this level of force is to quickly injure opponents in combat situations where multiple opponents and weapons are involved. You cannot spar with this training, which is one reason we require BJJ first.
COMBAT GROUND-FIGHTING
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Combat ground-fighting is different from both our Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Combat Jiu Jitsu in that it includes all manner of strikes, knees, kicks, etc. We use the term "ground-fighting" as opposed to "grappling" to signify this profound difference. Combat ground-fighting is designed to end fights quickly and develops all manner of attacks. We teach this study today directly overlapping our Brazilian jiu Jitsu classes for quick transition from sparring into combat ground-fighting.
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WEAPON GROUND-FIGHTING
Weapon retention in grappling and the use of weapons in close quarters is a huge part of training at Imperial Combat Arts. Students grapple and ground-fight with knife, gun, and club as an important facet of complete combat training. There is a lot of skill and experience needed to retain weapons against multiple opponents and skilled fighters. This study includes the use of everyday objects such as pens, backpacks, rope, jackets, and chairs as powerful assets in close quarters.
CHINESE CHIN NA
Chin Na is the traditional study of Joint Locks and grappling seen in Kung Fu styles such as Eagle Claw and is done both standing, on the ground, and with weapons. This advanced study is much more complex and difficult to master than standard grappling. Chin Na is fully intermixed with strikes, kicks, and throws, and requires both hand toughening and great grip strength to master. Chinese Chin Na can be categorized in five general areas of study each one consisting of many highly effective techniques.
Fen Chin: (Fen Jin, zhua jin): refers to techniques which tear apart an opponent's muscles or tendons. Fen means "to divide" and Chin means "tendon, muscle, sinew". Every technique in this category of Chin Na is illegal in competitive sport. This incudes all ripping and gouging style attacks.
Ts'o Ku: (Cuo gu) (misplacing the bone) refers to techniques which put bones in wrong positions and is usually applied specifically to joints. Ts'o means "wrong, disorder" and Ku means "bone". Most of these techniques simply break the joints or bones and have no focus on tap-out style submissions.
Pi Ch'i: (Bi qi) (sealing the breath) refers to techniques that prevent the opponent from inhaling. Pi means "to close, seal or shut" and Ch'i meaning "air".
Tien Mai: (Dian mai, dian xue) (sealing the vein/artery or acupressure cavity). Similar to the Cantonese dim mak, these are the technique of sealing or striking blood vessels and chi points. All chokes/strangles in Chin Na, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, or any other style fall in this category of sealing off blood.
These techniques are indeed very dangerous and potentially deadly.
Jou Tao: (Rou dao,rou shu dao) (soft techniques) the smallest category which refers to the techniques safe for sparring and/or training purposes. All sport techniques fall into this category.
Fen Chin: (Fen Jin, zhua jin): refers to techniques which tear apart an opponent's muscles or tendons. Fen means "to divide" and Chin means "tendon, muscle, sinew". Every technique in this category of Chin Na is illegal in competitive sport. This incudes all ripping and gouging style attacks.
Ts'o Ku: (Cuo gu) (misplacing the bone) refers to techniques which put bones in wrong positions and is usually applied specifically to joints. Ts'o means "wrong, disorder" and Ku means "bone". Most of these techniques simply break the joints or bones and have no focus on tap-out style submissions.
Pi Ch'i: (Bi qi) (sealing the breath) refers to techniques that prevent the opponent from inhaling. Pi means "to close, seal or shut" and Ch'i meaning "air".
Tien Mai: (Dian mai, dian xue) (sealing the vein/artery or acupressure cavity). Similar to the Cantonese dim mak, these are the technique of sealing or striking blood vessels and chi points. All chokes/strangles in Chin Na, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, or any other style fall in this category of sealing off blood.
These techniques are indeed very dangerous and potentially deadly.
Jou Tao: (Rou dao,rou shu dao) (soft techniques) the smallest category which refers to the techniques safe for sparring and/or training purposes. All sport techniques fall into this category.
ANIMAL GROUND-FIGHTING
The pinnacle of our ground-fighting is in the 8 Animal Styles where Instructor level practitioners have years of hand/leg toughening, nail toughening, tremendous grip strength, and deliver strikes several times their body weight from inches. This study includes all manner of Kung Fu attacks, Chinese Chin Na, and Melee Weapon Mastery. In the Animals we train directly against our Jiu Jitsu Styles, our Boxing & Muay Thai students and against all the varied Animal Styles we teach.
OUR JIU JITSU HISTORY
Training Jiu Jitsu alongside our other arts in nothing new for us, our past Grandmaster Long trained first Boxing and Wrestling then Tamura Style Jiu Jitsu in Japan for years. He taught Jiu Jitsu for much of his life and trained his Instructors in combat Jiu Jitsu simultaneously with the Animal styles. Our Instructors today have shifted from Tamura to Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, due to it's popularity and superiority in sport, although we still teach old school non-sport Japanese Jiu Jitsu.