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Do The S.A.S. REALLY Use Aerial Martial Arts Moves?


I SERIOUSLY doubt it, but I'd welcome being corrected if someone knows for sure.

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I'm reasonably confident they shoot people rather than resorting to a flying neck punch but I've been wrong before.

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Most spec ops have some rudimentary martial arts training (well except the whole chinese, NK and some japanese military and the Israelis) its mostly throws and chokes, most soldiers aren't really taught to fight that much, many countries have martial arts programms but its really basic stuff, not actual take of your vest and exchange hits.

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No spec ops dont dance around like the fairy I just saw in that lame trailer....

Also theres a reason their called teams....
To think that in a hostage situation like that, a one on one martial arts fight would occur is insulting at best, stupid at worst.

And how many supposed sas soldiers were there, 6? 8? 10 at most?
When seal team 6 went to take out osama and his 1 bodyguard there were over 30 of them in 3 helicopters....

This joke of a film has all the realism of the fast and the furious.

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I'm in some kind of zone of nausea at the moment. I'm not sure what it is. UK made movies just joined forces with lame arse Hollywood movies.

You're right. The stuff seen in the trailer is total bollocks.

"Who Dares Wins" had its flaws, but it was more 'on the pulse' with how an SAS operation would go.

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In a word No.

However as with any military unit, their are always individuals who follow and learn Martial Arts Skills. My bent was Judo, for which I got a lot of time off and eventually took part in the 1972 Olympic Games In Germany.

When looking to join any SF Team they look for qualities which mark you out as one of them. However, the bummer is they dont tell you what that is.

He who Dares is a Film, or as someone once said I want to be Moved by what i see on screen. I doubt anybody seeing this is going to moved by a take of of the recent 2 White House Movies. of which this is simply a take off set in another place.

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I'm not an expert but I am sure that SAS soldiers learn mostly hand-to-hand combat and self-defence moves if there is close-quarters fighting, but they don't need know complex martial arts routines, and the same for terrorists and kidnappers.

From what I remember from some documentaries like on the Iranian Embassy siege SAS soldiers are taught how to make split second decisions, need to memorise plans of buildings, need to know where are in a second before they throw a flashbang and be stealthy. I would have thought they would want to avoid hand-to-hand combat if they can.

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The sas are taught a few different "self defence" systems including Krav Maga to name one.

I put "self defence " in inverted commas because they don't call it self defence, nothing about the SAS is defence, its all about offence.


They wouldn't kick someone in the face when they could easily take anyone untrained down on the floor and break their neck silently but that doesn't make good films does it "silence"

no film about the SAS will ever be accurate the same way as "zero dark thirty" wasn't accurate about the Osama bin laden raid.

but what would I know :-)

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No.

...bar is closed people stagger out
the pretty, the crippled, and the proud.

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PLEASE, please don't assume that anything in this film depicts how any professional serviceman would act. Never mind the SAS, any trooper would be better than is shown in this film.
'Lets gather round the gorgeous girl and allow ourselves to be shot by a hoodie'..? I think not..
This film isn't even close to correct.

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Please bear in mind that 'reality' never makes for good 'fiction.'

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Please bear in mind that 'reality' never makes for good 'fiction.'


Thats nothing to do with the fact, the makers of this abomination of a movie had their "actors" prancing about with nonsensical flappy arm movements when a real fighting force would never do anything like that.

If at least the losers in this movie, done anything with a level of competence, as viewers we could enjoy that it was a fictional story, but instead we got a laughable mess that annoys anybody who wasted their time on it.

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