SOF-Ryu  Fighting System

Special Operations Force Fighting School

designed by Steven Seagal

 

 

This is a very fast moving defined fighting system that involves 12  techniques. You will learn to take these techniques and combine them into a series of moves making this system simple to learn yet deadly to apply. Steven has developed this system so that the average person with little to no martial arts experience or capability can learn these simple techniques and transform themselves into a formidable opponent against any attacker.

 

This system was designed for the United States Army Special Forces. The Green Berets are the premier trainers of the military teaching others to fight so they need a fighting system that they can use as well as train others.

 

Steven Seagal lived in Japan and  was the only westerner trained in this style of the samuri theory of weight and balance. People were amazed at watching him use the weight and movements of his opponents against themselves. The training of weight and balance allows the extra weight (body armor,Gear) to be used as a force multiplier against each attack.

 

Samuri warriors were the Special Forces of Fuedal Japan. The warriors of the past wore heavy battle armor like todays Special Force. The armor that the samuri wore protected them against blades and projectiles on the battlefield but it was extremly heavy and the weight limited their movements in combat. The Samuri developed a system of balanced moves to counter the weight of the armor so they could use the weight to their advantage and strike harder. They learned that by shifting their weight and there opponents weight they were more lethal in combat so the armor that they wore was their blunt force advantage. There balance combined with the weight of the armor actually helped them strike harder.  Samuri warriors were capable of striking a horse and dismounting a rider because of  mastery of balance and weight.

Warriors of Japan believed that you should learn, train and fight wearing  full battle gear. You need to be able to shift weight and apply force at a moments notice. The code of "train as you fight"  is why the samuri was the most feared warrior on the battlefield.

 

 

Special Forces, like ancient Sumuri warrior, wear heavy body armor and carry large amounts of equipment into battle, so conserving energy for the battle is really important when an operator has to engage a target or threat.

This fighting system is not designed to take an opponet to the ground like other "Cage Fighting Styles". This system is designed to keep a warrior moving and using the weight that he is carrying to his advantage.  This system of balance and energy was how samuri warriors fought and stayed alive on the battlefield. Samuri warriors understood the concept of stay on your feet, move thru and around the target, and fight with extreme violences of action. They would never go to the ground, wearing that much equipment because if they fell wearing their gear they were killed immediatly.  Like the samuri warrior of the past, today modern warriors needed to neautralize a target and move onto the next objective while wearing heavy body armor and maintaining a 360 degree security perimeter and stay on their feet.

 

Special Operations fighting is not a wrestling match like you see on MMA, it is an entirly diffent system . Most people who have never operated on a team don't understand that an opertor needs to not only protect himself, but he also has a secondary mission to protect his buddy with cover fire etc. The Operator in the field is usually wearing heavy equipment and armor so ending up on the ground isnt an option, it maybe a death sentence for him or his teammate. We teach you to use balance and counter energy when you strike a target , so each strike or body movement counts and you use the weight of your load against your target.

 

Steven has taught some of this combat style of the samuri to a select group of MMA figjters and they have produced devastating results and these fighters are dominating the industry. Staying on your feet, strike and hit with total energy and violence of action is the benchmark of SOF- RYU

 

SOF= Special Operations Force     RYU= Fighting School

 

Special Operations Fighting School.