Need Advice: Need Which martial art for police

ZotPo23 · 08-11-2007, 11:42 PM

I'm currently in the hiring process with some police departments. Hopefully, I will get hired and become a police officer within the next year. I want to study a martial art that will help me in my profession. Here are some criteria that I have considered:

-It needs to be something that I can learn in a relatively short amount of time (something that takes 5 years to be descent would not work)
-some kind of grappling, takedowns, trips, locks
- I dont think i need something like a krav maga; these kind of arts might be too aggressive for this profession. I think an art that is more focused on incapacitated someone without seriously injuring would be good ( I might be wrong though). If I ever needed to use deadly force, I would use my firearm.
-i just started taking muay thai, so I'm not to worried about fitness or strikes

I'm open to any suggestions. Thanks for any help.

ZotPo23 · 08-11-2007, 11:58 PM

I saw some videos on combat sambo and self defense sambo. They seemed liked they would work very well. Does anyone have any experience with these?

DickHardman · 08-12-2007, 01:19 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGMgCk7Y5Ok

something judo/jiu jitsu based.

08-11-2007, 11:42 PM	#1 (permalink)
ZotPo23 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 3 Groans: 0 Groaned at 0 Times in 0 Posts	Need Advice: Need Which martial art for police I'm currently in the hiring process with some police departments. Hopefully, I will get hired and become a police officer within the next year. I want to study a martial art that will help me in my profession. Here are some criteria that I have considered: -It needs to be something that I can learn in a relatively short amount of time (something that takes 5 years to be descent would not work) -some kind of grappling, takedowns, trips, locks - I dont think i need something like a krav maga; these kind of arts might be too aggressive for this profession. I think an art that is more focused on incapacitated someone without seriously injuring would be good ( I might be wrong though). If I ever needed to use deadly force, I would use my firearm. -i just started taking muay thai, so I'm not to worried about fitness or strikes I'm open to any suggestions. Thanks for any help.

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08-11-2007, 11:58 PM	#2 (permalink)
ZotPo23 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 3 Groans: 0 Groaned at 0 Times in 0 Posts	I saw some videos on combat sambo and self defense sambo. They seemed liked they would work very well. Does anyone have any experience with these?

08-12-2007, 01:19 AM	#3 (permalink)
DickHardman Master Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 4,055 Groans: 0 Groaned at 0 Times in 0 Posts	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGMgCk7Y5Ok something judo/jiu jitsu based.

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