| On Friday February 23, 2007, a | | | | Jujutsupractitioners. |
| 70-year-old man exemplified the motto of the | | | | In seconds of his arms locking around the |
| Marine Corp League, "Once a Marine, Always a | | | | thug'sesophagus and throat, the would be |
| Marine." When three thugs boarded a tourist busin the | | | | terroristbegan to choke on his own spit and |
| Costa Rican city of Limon armed with a gunand knives | | | | dropunconscious. This technique is even |
| they must have thought the twelvesenior citizens | | | | moredevastating if the person employing the |
| onboard were easy prey. They weredead wrong. And | | | | techniqueis taller then their opponent, because it |
| I mean D-E-A-D. | | | | takeslittle effort to take someone off their feet,thus |
| After witnessing a 20 year old terrorist put agun to a | | | | making the strangle work that much quicker. |
| female passenger's head, Allen Clady, aformer Marine | | | | Another good reason to strangle the thug from |
| made his move. The senior citizengrabbed a hold of | | | | therear like this was because the punk was armed. |
| the thug and strangled the muchyounger thug with | | | | While the thug did fire two shots off into theair before |
| such force that he broke hiscollarbone and killed the | | | | the gun jammed, the moment Clady hadhis hands on |
| man. This prompted theother senior citizens on the bus | | | | the thug's throat he immediately hadcontrol of the |
| to beginfighting back and the other two assailants | | | | situation. When the bus driverdrove to a local Red |
| runoff the bus. | | | | Cross clinic, the gunwielding maniac was declared |
| So, how could a 70-year-old man could take on,and kill, | | | | dead. Thanks to |
| a much younger armed opponent? Theanswer lies in | | | | Clady's swift action, only the gunman was injuredand |
| his old-school Marine Corptraining. | | | | the tour group returned to their cruise shipand safety. |
| The Marines recently introduced a new system | | | | When asked if anyone on the bus would be |
| forclose quarters combat called the Marine Corps | | | | chargedwith a crime. Local Police Chief Luis |
| Martial Arts Program (MCMAP). This new sissysystem | | | | Hernandezsaid, "They were in their right to |
| is supposedly for peacekeeping operationsin urban | | | | defendthemselves." It is clear that the chiefunderstand |
| areas and theoretically allows for awide variety of | | | | that the police cannot be everywhere,and that |
| situations where a Marine needsto use non-lethal force. | | | | stopping a criminal is not a crime. |
| Prior to the development of this new crap thatwill | | | | It takes an example like Allen Clady to remindeveryone |
| undoubtedly get more than one leather necksent home | | | | that with the right training anyone canfight back. What |
| in a body bag, the Marines used morelethal techniques | | | | happened on that tour bus wasclearly a life and death |
| originally developed by Major | | | | situation and Allen |
| Anthony Biddle. | | | | Clady chose life. Those animals did not care whothey |
| His techniques standardized close combattechniques | | | | had to hurt to get what they wanted and Mr. |
| for the Marines and were based onboxing, wrestling | | | | Clady attacked to prevent people from being hurt. |
| and fencing. In addition, | | | | This just goes to show you that swift decisiveaction |
| Captains W.M. Greene and Samuel B. Griffithshared | | | | combined with good solid training can savethe |
| what they learned about martial arts from | | | | day...regardless of age or physical fitness. |
| William Fairbairn while stationed in China. | | | | While Allen Clady has not spoken publicly aboutthis |
| Being a former Marine, Allen Clady learned the | | | | incident at the time of this article I canalmost guarantee |
| Corp's old (and real) style of close combat | | | | that he was not trying to be a |
| thatemphasizes taking down an opponent hard, | | | | "hero". He was simply protecting people whoneeded |
| fast,and permanently. It is most likely that Cladyover | | | | help, and is a credit to both hisgeneration and to the |
| took the thug from behind with a "Japanesestrangle". | | | | Marine Corp. Too manypeople willingly would have |
| The forefather of the sporting "rearnaked choke" as | | | | become victims, buthe stood up and went into battle |
| seen in MMA competition today,this simplistic and | | | | mode. He was notacting like hero he was acting like a |
| deadly old-school stranglewas very popular among | | | | man. |
| military trained martialartists and pre-WWII Judo and | | | | |