Hellenic Military Academy Combatives Demonstration (US Soldier Reacts)

[@JustAnotherArmyVet]

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[@kaidan4122]

Hello from Greece. I love your videos and thank you for the insight of Greece's army and their sacrifice during world war something the rest of the world has forgotten. One thing i would like to mention is our country is changing the name slowly back to original .So from Greece it will become Hellas and instead of Greek it will be Hellenic. Thank you again you are amazing.

[@JustAnotherArmyVet]

You are sweet. Thanks so much for your kind words and insight ❤️🤗

[@yanniszaxaro]

@@JustAnotherArmyVet her videos are amazing always!! if you have not watch there are many in the channels worth to have a look!! @kaidan4122 !

[@Morph3as]

It is pronounced "Pangrattiio" in Greek . By the way Plato was a fighter of this art in his youth, he was originally born as Aristocles ,and was nicknamed "Plato" because of his enormous "Plati" ( back ). Great video . Thank you !!

[@JustAnotherArmyVet]

Interesting! I did not know that. Thanks for sharing and thanks for your kind words!! 🙂💙

[@Pavlos_Charalambous]

​@@JustAnotherArmyVetit was also a very " dirty" style of fighting their was almost no rules

[@Morph3as]

@@Pavlos_Charalambous True ... !

[@JustAnotherArmyVet]

@@Pavlos_Charalambous I did not know thar- thanks for sharing!

[@Pavlos_Charalambous]

@@JustAnotherArmyVet yap people Competing on pangration was often suffering some very heavy injuries since almost nothing was out of limits 😏 I mean there was a guy that made his way into history with the nickname " fingers - crasher" 😁

[@2eREPPARA]

Aussie combat vet The more you sweat in training the less you bleed in war🇦🇺🇺🇸

[@JustAnotherArmyVet]

@@2eREPPARA well said! What martial art do they teach you in the FFL?

[@2eREPPARA]

@@JustAnotherArmyVet Aussie combat vet It’s a system called TIOR when l went thru it was usually done with a full load combat vest & full pockets 🇦🇺🇺🇸

[@JustAnotherArmyVet]

@@2eREPPARA in the lower levels of US Army combative trainings, we just train in our OCPs (uniform) and bare feet. Definitely nothing in our pockets and definitely no full combat load.

[@2eREPPARA]

@@JustAnotherArmyVet Aussie combat vet l have my students dress in whatever they want because as l say to them they won’t be in a GI & barefoot when they’re attacked. l personally usually wear jeans,shirt,boots when l’m teaching🇦🇺🇺🇸

[@kk-om5zm]

Yes, you are right, as always. The martial art of the ancient Greeks was the Pangratio..Deadly because they hit with bare hands...The Spartans and the Athenians knew it well. They didn't leave an injured enemy, they killed him so he wouldn't suffer.💙

[@JustAnotherArmyVet]

@@kk-om5zm thanks so much for your insight! I appreciate it 🙂. I’m glad they fought with a good code such as that. I would hate to see anybody suffer 😕. I feel the same about animals and bugs too.

[@kk-om5zm]

@@JustAnotherArmyVet 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙌🙌❤❤

[@1915FadedBelly]

Enjoy watching hand to hand. The other half is a first dan black belt and competitions were always great to watch. I trained for a bit, but decided getting hurt was the pits. Because, you know if you don’t feel the pain in training how will you react with the real thing. Awesome job!

[@JustAnotherArmyVet]

@@1915FadedBelly I also enjoy watching hand hand combat. .. thanks so much for sharing and for your kind words! I appreciate it 🤗

[@davidblackwell5219]

this is david and janette from tasmania they are the sort of people you need around when others take play lunch ha ha very good training it should be made compulsery that people in general have some skills to protect country and love ones thanks for your service and god bless 😃❤👍👍🙏 ps good soak in hot bath would help after all that ha ha

[@JustAnotherArmyVet]

@@davidblackwell5219 thank you my friends! Well said! Have a great week 🤗❤️🙏

[@myfavouritevideos37]

PANKRATION = PAN + KRATOS (= ALL POWERS) ITS A WAR HAND TO HAND FIGHTING TECHNICS BASED ON ANCIENT GREECE FIGHT TECHNICS, AND ALSO ONE OF THE ANCIENT GREEK OLYMPIC GAMES

[@JustAnotherArmyVet]

@@myfavouritevideos37 thanks for your insight!

[@HarrySerpanos]

Thank you for displaying pankration techniques. I know that Alexander competed with his generals on who could kill more of the enemy. I've heard my grandfather talking about taking weapons from their enemies and using them against them. No surrender no retreat was their moto, and aggressive attacking style that terrorised their enemies. The Tsoliádes soldiers of WWI and WWII kept this ancient tradition alive.

[@JustAnotherArmyVet]

@@HarrySerpanos the Evzones??

[@HarrySerpanos]

@@JustAnotherArmyVet yes, it means the same thing. Evzones is the official military name of these elite light infantry units, while Tsoliades is what the common folk called them in the war of independence, but this name is still used amongst common people today.

[@JustAnotherArmyVet]

@@HarrySerpanos thanks for explaining!

[@HarrySerpanos]

@@JustAnotherArmyVet you're welcome. The common name relates back to to the outfits of the rebels of 1821, which unlike the presidential guard of today was more ragged and varied in style. Just google tsolia outfit and you'll see all sorts of styles, because before the military units were created each rebel force had their own individual regional style of tsolias. This is a mainland Greek style, islanders have a completely different style of uniform.

[@JustAnotherArmyVet]

@@HarrySerpanos I will Google it. Thank you. 🙂

[@andrewmichaels5725]

Great video!!!

[@JustAnotherArmyVet]

@@andrewmichaels5725 glad you enjoyed it!! Thanks for watching and for your kind words 🤗

[@FLORATOSOTHON]

There are a number of hand to hand to hand, Knife and bayonet training courses in the Greek Military, including Krav Maga and Pankration. Of course it is a demonstration video and It looks like it is played at x1.25 or higher. This is a video about the entry of Greece in WW1, with Indy Neidell: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p5LIhalmfN-df8U The ENDENTE forces that Venizelos allowed to land in Thessalonica were the ones evacuated from Gallipoli. The entry of the Greek army in WW1, in cooperation with Serbia, broke the stale mate in the Balkans with the 3rd battle of Doiran, while the dominance of the Greek Navy in the Aegean with G. Averof, prevented the transportation of 300 000 Ottoman troops from the Middle East to the Balkans. Also the sister ship of the Titanic, the Britannic was sunk 4 miles off the island o Kea in Greece and lies 400 ft. under water. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKSafKGjbsllrtU On the morning of 21 November 1916 she hit a naval mine of the Imperial German Navy near the Greek island of Kea and sank 55 minutes later, killing 30 people. There were 1,066 people on board; the 1,036 survivors were rescued from the water and lifeboats with the help of local fishermen. Britannic was the largest ship lost in the First World War.

[@JustAnotherArmyVet]

@@FLORATOSOTHON What is the most popular martial arts to learn in Greece? Anyway, thanks for sharing! I started to do a little bit of research on Greece and World War I, and then it got really complicated for me 🤣. …and that’s when I stopped and found this video. Hats off to all Greek students who have to learn about the thousands of years of Greek history!! American only have a few hundred years to learn about. Respect 🇬🇷🙏💙!

[@FLORATOSOTHON]

@@JustAnotherArmyVet The most popular martial arts to learn in Greece today is Judo, Taekwondo, various versions of Karate, wrestling and to a much lesser extent Boxing. Pankration is only recently making a comeback, but most Greeks prefer athletic martial arts to the street fighting ones. In Greece we are taught Mythology in primary school, followed at higher classes by the Colonial Era and the Dorians Decent (referred to as Bronze Age Collapse Dark Ages in the West), with Classical Era that includes the Greco Persian wars and ends with the Peloponnesian War and Alexander the Great. Then we are taught Greco Roman history, that spans from Alexander's Death and the eventual conquest of Greece by the Romans up to the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great. This is followed by the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire) from Constantine the Great until the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453 and the subsequent fall of a number of autonomous regions that resisted for some decades longer. The next chapter involves Greek and European history, concerning life in Greece under Ottoman Rule, the Renaissance in Europe all the way to the end of Napoleon. The final chapter of the history taught in Greek schools is the history of modern Greece, from the years leading to the Greek revolution of 1821 until the disaster of the Asia Minor Campaign in 1922 (when I was going to school in the '60s and '70s). This was done, because of the notion that in order to examine and teach history in an impartial way, there must be a 50 year time distance from the historical events examined, so that passions would die down and classified documents would become available. For the Greek people of my age, WW2 and Korea were celebrated anniversaries of recent events and we lived through more recent events. I am sure that school kids now also learn more recent events, although there are many protests that important chapters of Greece's history are not covered in the detail they deserve if at all, in favor of not so important events and that other chapters are taught in a more "politically correct" way. This is a documentary about the 8 ages of Greece: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5yQgKyIfpyWbbM

[@JustAnotherArmyVet]

That is a lot of history!

[@JustAnotherArmyVet]

Thanks for sharing that video 👍

[@yanniszaxaro]

Pangration .. ancient MMA. very nice video!! - thank you @justanotherarmyvet !! well, practising makes better because there were few mistakes there in the moves and also is totally differtent if it is a real situation for example if someone gets you from the rear will not wait for you to make the moves, he will knee to the one knee and is over .. but when you practising scenarios all the time you are more ready and have more chances hello

[@JustAnotherArmyVet]

@@yanniszaxaro yes! Exactly!

[@104d_3rr0r_vince]

Thank you. Pan - kra -tion (like tea, not c) 🙂

[@JustAnotherArmyVet]

Thanks! Is it popular in Greece?

[@104d_3rr0r_vince]

@@JustAnotherArmyVet Since the dawn of time 🙂

[@lipgloss202]

I wonder how often a soldier get into this kind of combat? (No I have no point to make beyond curiosity.) It sure must be a general confidence booster. I remember another video where the great Magnus Mitbø wrestled American marines (?) in the water.

[@JustAnotherArmyVet]

For most soldiers and Marines, it is rare To actually use this. But, it does happen. And It may be more common in Special operations and special forces (as well as police and law enforcement- including military police).

[@JustAnotherArmyVet]

Yes, I liked that Magnus video! That was fun 🙂

[@yanniszaxaro]

@@JustAnotherArmyVet @lipgloss202 .. there is one thing in the army you do not want to hear!!!! and is Fix bayonets small group of soldiers, especially special forces may or must fight in entering and leave without to use the gun big groups of soldiers it gets messy when there is a broken arrow and they are mixed lines fighting each other with what they can. it happens in ukraine, in Sudan, in Mali. Alot of times in some Countries military is helping police with Cartels. also they use entering tactics and body to body fight to avoid detection.

[@JustAnotherArmyVet]

@@yanniszaxaro yes, exactly! I bayonet training in the US Army basic training in 2003. And the Marines still train on that. However, Bayonet training may have been dropped from the US Army basic training curriculum. And when i deployed to Iraq in 2005, my hospital unit was NOT issued Bayonets! Lol. I don’t know the last time any US army unit has been issued Bayonets!

[@lipgloss202]

@@JustAnotherArmyVet Yeah, I did bayonet training too a long time ago. After the training they took them away from us because they seemed to "disappear" (get stolen) otherwise. lol

[@timosthomo566]

Nice video . Please next turkiye vs greece military comparison .

[@JustAnotherArmyVet]

@@timosthomo566 thanks! I’m not sure when I’ll do it, but that’s definitely on my list. 🙂👍

[@Pterodactylus548]

Fairbairns comment about broken weapon - in close compact even pieces of broken AR or whatever you have in hand is a weapon. Brasilian jiu jitsu is great sport, as is civilian Grav Maga. One thing that makes my eyes sour are the clips they take their knife out AFTER they make on the top and with dominant hand. In a critical situ it's better to keep it out. "Go and kill" is the mentality you learn. After one has learned that - to no booze, no drugs, to avoid killing any innocent. There's no "whooaaa" yells, just, be ready to do what it takes. The remains are unfortunately You to meet - and put certain color tag on.

[@JustAnotherArmyVet]

@@Pterodactylus548 great point! And I noticed that one of the cadets let someone get too close while he had his pistol drawn on him. If someone gets too close and they won’t stop advancing, you shoot them! It never should have even gotten to the ground.

[@Pterodactylus548]

@@JustAnotherArmyVet Hokutoryu jujutsu demo kzbin.info/www/bejne/rau0c6WDoa2Mb5I That bald dude is Auvo Niiniketo. I was his student - one of the few hundred at that time (when fire was invented 😇).

[@JustAnotherArmyVet]

Thanks for sharing! Awesome!

[@TheGiarpi]

Nothing to do with modern pagration. Those are students of mr Kapadaidakis, ww2 combatives and Jujutsu.

[@JustAnotherArmyVet]

@@TheGiarpi thanks for your insight!