Copenhagen Combatives

Kratos Combatives is back!

2017-12-03T06:56:00.000+01:00

After a long break from an injury we are back again, we have developed a lot of new stuff from our R&D lab. We have discovered new things that we have not seen before in any other systems and hope that others have found similar discoveries, as we want to expand our knowledge and learn from likeminded individuals.

A lot has changed since this video on so many levels, our hope is that we can create new videos created with content from seminars, so if anyone is interested to host Kratos Combatives seminars please contact us.

The future of our videos will not just become what we dislike, a few seconds video clips and lots of photos showing of titles in various cities that only reflects the amount of ego the weekend diploma Instructor/Master of Disaster have, and only hides how bad they move and the apparent lack of skillsets, in some cases it even shows how bad it is.

Knife sparring Popeye vs Line

2017-12-03T05:54:00.000+01:00

Grappling unarmed and empty hands training

2014-02-08T06:00:00.001+01:00

Blog temporarily down

2014-02-05T19:10:00.000+01:00

I don’t have time to keep this blog updated, as it can be seen by the date of the last post, I have during my deleting a huge load of spam mail discovered some comments that have valid points about some post not being 100% correct, please leave a correction of what is wrong instead of “you are wrong” and nothing else, I will correct any old post when I have the time, but with no specific corrections or links I don’t have the time for reviewing old comments. I hope to get time to check up and write on this blog again, but at the moment I don’t have time to do it.

Man Fights Robber At Gun Point - Philadelphia News, Weather and Sports from WTXF FOX 29

2013-11-06T18:48:00.001+01:00

Man Fights Robber At Gun Point - Philadelphia News, Weather and Sports from WTXF FOX 29

Pocket Survival Kit

2013-10-29T07:59:00.001+01:00

Bagua Broadsword

2013-10-05T06:22:00.000+02:00

What Is Pseudoscience?

2013-10-04T02:15:00.000+02:00

The article from Scientific American is worth reading.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-is-pseudoscience

Distinguishing between science and pseudoscience is problematic, and its prevalent in martial arts and combative training, where scientific studies are used to prove a point but are used in the wrong context, like Hick’s Law that is very popular and proponents for that it applies to combat is wrong, as it is a study of choosing between various conscious choices and it’s used for simplify menu systems and other machines or electronic products to make it easier and faster to use, but combat is spontaneous and reflexive actions take over and are unconscious with enough training. No matter what sport, if the athlete is feeling that he is loosing and start to focus on every detail, then Hick’s Law can start to kick in as he will focus on every single detail and try to chose the best action to get back to a flow state, he will loose as he descends in a negative mental spiral from fear of failure, there plenty of scientific studies to back that fact. This article has nothing to do with combat specifically but I find that many things I have been taught is based on pseudoscience, old scientific studies that have been proven wrong or used in the wrong context. Updated scientific studies and articles about how the mind works has taught me more than the vast majority of teachers I have trained under, I find that the understanding of perception and how the brain works as the most important information to evolve as a teacher and martial artist, as it is the mind that triggers the actions, having a gun but lacking the knowledge of how it works and the will to shoot renders it useless and will kill you, the gun can be any kind of martial art or combative training. The prefight stage is not prioritized at all in nearly all martial arts, preparing the mind for combat takes time and require the proper training, it is prevalent in Asian and south east Asian martial arts that the will to kill or fight is the primary and most important factor, strength as second, and technique as the last one. In Japan most systems had to change that mindset after WW2, so they could continue to practice their killing arts but had to change it to get it approved by the USA, in the western world the priority is reverse, that is to not get stigmatized as an immoral activity, to get more students by creating the illusion that technique can easily defeat strength, but pure aggression can defeat both if the opponent believes that he can be fearless and have an empty mind, but the reality is that physical and even verbal confrontation will affect the psychological state of mind, as many tend to forget that the mindset of some of the best and most efficient killers or fighters cant be used by everyone, as many are sociopaths on the right side of the fence and can write books about having and empty mind with no fear as they lack or have a lower sense of fear.

KUNTAO SNAKE (COBRA) 2 BAGUAZHANG HSING I ICSS Rick Hernandez

2013-10-03T05:59:00.000+02:00

OPTIMAL BODY INTELLIGENCE TRAINING FOR COMBAT KUNTAO BAGUAZHANG HSING I ...

2013-10-02T01:17:00.000+02:00

KUNTAO SNAKE (COBRA) COMBAT FORM BAGUAZHANG HSING I COMBATIVES ICSS Ric...

2013-09-30T01:15:00.000+02:00

Sneak Peak at Foxcatcher [New Wrestling Movie w/ Channing Tatum]

2013-09-27T04:39:00.001+02:00

Secrets of the Red Glock Revealed! by Gomez-Training.com

2013-09-23T02:27:00.000+02:00

STANDING GROUND AND POUND BAG STRIKES ICSS Rick Hernandez

2013-09-22T04:22:00.000+02:00

STANDING GROUND AND POUND BAG STRIKES 3 ICSS Rick Hernandez

2013-09-21T04:31:00.000+02:00

Explosive Bag Striking 2 ICSS Rick Hernandez

2013-09-21T04:30:00.000+02:00

EXPLOSIVE BAG STRIKING FROM LOW POSTURE ICSS Rick Hernandez

2013-09-20T04:25:00.000+02:00

EXPLOSIVE BAG STRIKES BAGUAZHANG ICSS Rick Hernandez

2013-09-19T04:23:00.000+02:00

Miyamoto Musashi’s book “”The Book of Five Rings”

2013-09-18T04:20:00.000+02:00

I have the last 5 months reread Miyamoto Musashi’s book “”The Book of Five Rings” and have had quite a lot of eureka moments, as the more times I read it I get a completely new perspective about bladed combat, I have lost count as it is more than 10 times as I don’t take notes but try to understand the full picture than just a few pieces of the puzzle, as I view it from my interpretation of the book that has changed or rather confirmed my view on how to use long bladed weapons, which is completely contrary to how I have been taught to do in sport fencing, the FMA styles I have trained and other systems where the weapon is launched first and the body moves after or at the same time.

As it is nearly the same as I have learned training AMOK! stick and machete, making it easier for me to change muscle memory and an easy transition, that in the end has removed any doubt about if I should or could combine previous training and concepts, but I cant as they are incompatible with my current one, but also teach how others systems attacks to have general idea of why and what to expect, and most importantly persons with no training based on watching how untrained persons swings a stick horizontal at shoulder height as it is the most natural way for the shoulder, so they are exposed to very different attacks to learn and experience the difference in oppositional training and sparring.

The emphasis on using the body first to launch the attack, and with heavy stickiness on impact which will keep the pressure on the line of attack instead of a possible redirection of his weapon and an unknown counter attack path, creates situations that I have been training a lot and have explored all kinds of variations for swords, inspired by a really good chi sao like sensitivity drill I was taught by a HEMA instructor Dan Smith from the EHCG, which then opens up for a lot ways to find a Guided Discovery path/way to attack while keeping the opponent locked in a momentary fixed position, that leaves him no choice than to keep him there to avoid being cut as the power output is maximal and if he breaks contact he will get cut, or try to find a way to attack without disengaging the blade to blade contact. That is only 1 element of many that makes the book so interesting to keep reading it over and over again, the book is so full of wisdom that I find it worth to keep on finding as much as possible from a source with so much to offer.

I have used the same concept with knives and it is perfect for martial arts trained opponents that does not move their hands outside the frame of their torso when they parry, as while the other is working on a solution and is at the start of the second OODA loop (Observe, Orientate, Decide, Action) after his parry which is his 1st loop, I find a path by reflex and have finished my actions and have completed the 2nd OODA loop with my second attack that is combined with a pin, control of his weapon hand, trap, takedown or something else while keeping him on the start of the next one while I execute my Actions fast and extremely aggressive non stop, as the Decision is to go AMOK!, so he has to Observe constantly and will have difficulty to reach the Decision point.

If the OODA loop is an unknown term I recommend reading about it as it is one of those things that is extremely important to know, and it has even more applications than only strategic warfare and combat, same goes with Musashi’s book ”The Book of Five Rings".

KUNTAO CONNECTED PALM POWER ICSS Rick Hernandez

2013-09-17T04:20:00.000+02:00

EXPLOSIVE SHORT POWER PUNCHING POWER ON HEAVY BAG ICSS Rick Hernandez

2013-09-16T04:19:00.000+02:00

KNIFE MOVEMENT BAGUAZHANG ICSS Rick Hernandez

2013-09-15T04:16:00.000+02:00

KUNTAO MONKEY KNIFE MOVEMENTS ICSS Rick Hernandez

2013-09-14T04:14:00.000+02:00

EXPLOSIVE BAG KICKS ICSS Rick Hernandez

2013-09-13T04:38:00.002+02:00

KNIFE MOVEMENTS 12 FIELDS OF COMBAT ICSS Rick Hernandez

2013-09-13T04:12:00.000+02:00