Lady Self Defense from 1933 is WILD

[@paulhenderson9905]

Fun little bit of history, but women’s Judo (Jiu-Jitsu as it was then) owes a huge debt to Mrs Edith Garud, who learned it from one of Professor Jigoro Kano’s students, who travelled to London from Japan. Mrs Garud taught it to Emily Pankhurst’s ‘Amazons’ - her bodyguard, to defend her and her fellow Suffragettes from police brutality in the struggle for women’s right to vote in the UK.

[@senseisethreacts]

Woah that’s so sick

[@paulhenderson9905]

@@senseisethreacts Yeah, it’s pretty epic. They also used to disguise barbed wire coils in wreaths of flowers, carried Indian clubs and very long, sharp hatpins to better resist arrest :D.

[@wloffblizz]

Thanks mate, you just sent me down a rabbit hole of reading about Edith Garud and she's one of the most fascinating people I've never heard of before!

[@jamescampbell39]

@@senseisethreacts While it is a movie check out the Henry Cavill Sherlock Holmes sister movie, His sister and mum are both practitioners of jiujitsu and the teacher is a black woman suffragette teaching in either Whitechapel or Limehouse good fight work all around.

[@HaroldBluetooth-uz1zz]

Women should not be able to vote.

[@kananisha]

Yes, prior to the 60/70s Women`s self-defense was Judo, Japanese jujitsu and wrestling. It was hardcore compared to what we see now.

[@Jamoni1]

Then you haven't trained with some of the women I've trained with. There's some real killers out there.

[@andrewwilson9123]

@@Jamoni1Yeah, that’s the truth

[@itsamejc]

@@Jamoni1 i mean this is better than nothing isn't it

[@Jamoni1]

@@itsamejc there's nothing Wittenberg with this, but I've trained with female mma fighters and police combatives instructors who are badass. Saying women's self defense is weak today is silly. Since of it sucks, some of it is incredible.

[@Trumpdobealoser]

@@Jamoni1yeah they can be scary

[@bobbypaycheque]

Can we take a minute to appreciate that not only is this film not bad but is actually better than a lot of the stuff floating around today? I have seen worse women's self defense videos in the last ten years than this. Definitely seems very Defendo-lite. This is great stuff. Great video.

[@TyrannosaurusRex1997]

Definitely judo techniques in this video lol

[@HaroldBluetooth-uz1zz]

It’s neither bad nor good. However much of the wrist stuff would never work on a guy.

[@haydenford3794]

many of the techniques are good in this but its just the way they explain it being dainty is an issue but overall not bad

[@TyrannosaurusRex1997]

@@HaroldBluetooth-uz1zz Wrist locks don't work when you can't fully control an individual. For example wrist locks can work in an armbar but rare.

[@edstringer1138]

Waifu garbage

[@MidwestArtMan]

"I'm going to lie gently on the floor, placing one foot in his tummy." *YEET* I love this lady.

[@HelloWorldPrint]

4:10 as late as I am... real

[@ericsmith1508]

That last demonstration in that last clip, when he went to stand over the opponent, I fully expected him to say "And as always... re-stomp that groin!"

[@bentinho]

It's easy to forget how Jiujitsu/Judo was all over the world in those times. Before even karate got its footing and became *the* thing.

[@andrewdunn8778]

I was reading the Ian Fleming 007 novel "Goldfinger" where karate is first introduced. Fleming refers to it as "a new deadlier form of judo."

[@tatumergo3931]

Dr. Jigoro Kano did an incredible amount of work to promote judo all over the world, not only as a sport but also a method of self-defense.

[@tatumergo3931]

​@@andrewdunn8778 . Back in those days old style karate still retained some of its jutsu methods and applications. Few people know that karate had throws, joint locks and strangulations.

[@Swordsman_HEMMA]

The knife defense @8:43 is actually extremely common in medieval fencing manuals and continues to show up in multiple manuals for centuries. You do block with the forearm as you describe, but then curl the hand over to maintain control and prevent them from retracting the arm as you snake the other arm around for the figure 4. I've done it in sparring, and it works pretty well.

[@critter8132]

I thought it was vaguely familiar!

[@joshuahogan3475]

We do a couple variations of it in Kempo Karate as well.

[@Pifagorass]

Reminds me of military sambo - everything with assumptions like an attacker doesn't know how to use a knife, the attacker knows closed guard but doesn't know sweeps, #1 attacker so bad in clich defense #2 is knocked down with back kick using #1 as a strong base 😅 it's cool 😎 as brings some unjustified confidence for a student in 6 months 1-2 academic classes per week

[@joshuahogan3475]

@@Pifagorass yeah, our guys are generally fairly confident right up until we teach them how to actually use a knife. It's at that point we realize that against someone who knows what they're doing you are probably coming to die. 😅

[@afroahmed3989]

Just Imagine a woman beating the shi outta you while BBL Drizzy is playing in the background

[@BlakeMcCringleberry]

I get it now. It's so simple. I just need to master perfect timing and perfect balance. That shouldn't take too long.

[@ZeusEBoy]

once you master perfect timing youll have all the time in the world and perfect tiem to master balance, but if you master perfect balance you can perfectly balance it with your other training. so kinda a catch 22 if you ask me

[@FreeSalesTips]

This is what people do in Aikido

[@florencepierce1864]

I'm missing the 'Vastus' Muscles above my Right Knee from birth. That, plus narrow Eustachian Tubes (by ears, along the jaw), I have trouble balancing. If I tried to toss ANYONE, even a 10 year-old kid - I'D end up on my arse! 🤣

[@theaikidoka]

At 3:45, that's a great choice. Falling forward, the guy has very little chance to grab on the the lady in passing (as opposed to if he's falling back), he will almost certainly want to use his hands to protect himself (especially if falling onto a street surface with all sorts of horrible stuff on it) and he will be face-down so you can run like hell or stamp hard on the backs of his legs (horrendously painful if the lady is wearing heels).

[@constantinosfudas3785]

I like the way the lady speaks it really dislocates me

[@zakattak167]

Pulling guard since 1930s with a foot in the belly

[@gregquinn7817]

It's not a guard pull if you flip them over you.

[@zakattak167]

@@gregquinn7817 and theres the guard puller. Lol. I kid. I know, I just had to say it.

[@JIUJITSUMAN22]

It's call a "sacrifice thrown". A thrown applied laydown.

[@YourFavStriker_mma]

Um actually it’s tummy🧐

[@dantecruzorozco8850]

that's not pull to guard, that's a tomoe nage

[@ryanblotsky2365]

Gotta give props to Zach. Dude is a riot. Hilarious editing. Even the attention to detail to start and stop BBL Drizzy every time Seth starts and stops the self defense video.

[@ZakFerguson]

🙇‍♂

[@AliyaSrivastava]

1:50 I did karate as a child and it honestly crazy how cautious I had to be make sure I, a 9 year old at the time, didn't break a grown adults elbow. Same for everyone, its a lot easier than you think (don't try it tho)

[@TsarFrancisDrake]

Anybody else hear an actual pop when she said to dislocate that dude's wrist?

[@american_document2626]

I was thinking the exact same thing.

[@ZeusEBoy]

you mean his wrrrist~

[@theaikidoka]

As an Aikido/Judo guy, there is an infinite difference between falling on a tatami (thin padded mat) and falling on a hardwood/concrete floor - while you can see the 'attacker' putting his hands out for a breakfall, I'm not convinced some of his groans aren't real. You can do a basic breakfall the same way on all surfaces, but if you are being actively thrown, you need to use different methods and be much more competent at your breakfall to not get hurt. When our club did our big summer training camp, we always included practice in the car park, and we would have to ramp up VERY slowly or everyone would have HORRIBLE roadrash and bruising.

[@UnexpectedWonder]

Oh, I can tell some of those hurt like hell. Utilize Energy and the surface. If someone doesn't know how to break his or her fall, then you can possibly kill that person or do significant damage.

[@forteka81]

Maybe she’s saying “dislocate” because in 1933 locking joints wasn’t well understood?

[@redundantfridge9764]

I thinks it's more of a misunderstanding of terminology, or they just used the word dislocate differently back then. Regardless, joint locks have been around for a LONG time. How long? Can't say for certain, but as long as wrestling has been around in a culture, joint-locks were developed in one form or another.

[@Purwapada]

only now people think "joint locks" are locks, they're designed to dislocate joints. it's not rocket science to understand a higher rotational speed will break the joints

[@CaesarSneezy]

No, she's using it correctly. If you're being actually attacked by someone trying to seriously hurt or abduct you, complete the "lock" instead of stopping like they're going to tap.

[@forteka81]

All really good points. Now, any of you notice that the video quality was surprisingly good for the era?

[@ZeusEBoy]

The way joint locks work is by putting the joint in a locked-out position, where applying further pressure will dislocate them by popping them out of socket or break them completely if done intensely by breaking the socket. The lock is applying a bar or lever to brace and trap the opponent's arm against. like if you lay your arm flat against a wall or doorway where your wrist and hand poke out past the wall. applying pressure to the wrist while keeping your back flat to the wall would put a ton of pressure on it by using it as a lever or vice grip.

[@gnos1s171]

Dude you should absolutely check out defendu/fairbairn gutter fighting, it's a really interesting style of combatives that was developed by William fairbairn a pretty well accomplished police officer in hong kong I believe for the british military and used by them in world war 2, he practiced judo, japanese jujutsu, boxing and I believe chinese kung fu and created an art for the british military that mixed elements from all of these arts that worked pretty well for these soldiers from what I can tell, it was military combatives so it was meant to help give them some adequate fighting skills in the span of a few weeks

[@bobbypaycheque]

Second this.

[@spoogtastic]

Greatly appreciate zach with the music and pausing and rewinding the song as seth pauses and reverses. Pure class.

[@shihonage]

I successfully used the rokkyo arm lock on my schizophrenic neighbor who used to train in Hapkido and decided to wrestle me. It worked as a sub. Now he thinks I'm an angel sent to save him. Seriously, it is applicable under resistance. I also use it when nikkyo fails.

[@B1IIYB0bo]

4:12 , INSANE Pro-Wresting Monkey Flip.

[@JulioLeonFandinho]

catch wrestling, most likely

[@fireeaglefitnessmartialart935]

I've used the monkey flip in jujitsu class multiple times.

[@MCShvabo]

It's just a sumi gaeshi

[@ko-fl8hu]

...judo

[@M.M.83-U]

It's called Tomoe Nage in Ju Jitsu, and it's quite difficult to execute in sparring.

[@Aikibiker1]

The first video, those are all very common Aikido moves today. Except the kick defense, that one, while it is taught, is relatively rare and the Seionage, that is more of a Judo thing, the Aikido version uses less hip/back and more slipping to the side. The very first move she demonstrated is called Ude kimi nage in Aikido

[@connorboring1888]

Zak needs a raise

[@marcwinkels9328]

I would love to see a full episode on bartitsu. Really enjoy all your videos.

[@ishmaelnettleton7535]

Nah fr Zak's GOATED😂😂😂 This man never misses with his edits🔥🔥

[@gustavodeserto]

It's awesome that I just sat down and thought: "I would really want to watch another sensei Seth video" and the first thing I find is a video he just released

[@Fratm]

Seth, that arm bar throw, in Hapkido/KSW it is call Sun Mok Soo #7. search that on youtube to see it in action.

[@ajshiro3957]

Hey, I learned that throw like a few weeks ago. Pretty good throw.

[@JakeOfIL]

08:40 We were taught as security guards (some additional training on top of the standard training) to step back/aside and let the knife continue with its momentum (increase momentum with a push), usually it ends up with the attacker stabbing themselves in the leg. Stabbing downwards is the worst attempt of stabbing, you give a lot of visual ques, wind up and have 0 control over the second half of the motion. Same goes for stabbing "hooks" , just let it keep on with a little push, then jam the knife hand and control/break the arm or blitz with an agressive attack forward.

[@iambatsmurfette]

Zach deserves a raise, for this video

[@poleag]

3:18 Waki-gatame. Banned in modern Judo because it very frequently caused injuries.

[@roguestudios2189]

The look on that guys face said what have i gotten into F

[@zackkragel]

That was a fun video! We got my son your book for Christmas. He loved it so much, and seeing that you signed it made it even better for him.

[@HighOhHello]

Last place i thought id hear BBL Drizzy 😂😂😂😂😂

[@keenanprice4703]

My girlfriend and I have been watching you for ever! (We both do Martial arts) I'm testing for my Master's belt on June 22nd... I live in Indiana, thought we would never get the chance to see you and you go to Indiana SAME DAY!?!?! UGH... (Side note watching you test for yours hit me in the feels) enjoy the seminar

[@MountainAdventures1]

Some of these clearly wouldn't hold up against a larger, resisting opponent, but a lot of it is really good. The only one of these I've used IRL (as a kid) was the throw when being choked from behind (2:24) . It worked and earned me some playground respect, but now that I'm older and wiser I've learned better alternatives. The danger is if the person you're throwing doesn't let go.

[@zacharyhamley4024]

My old-timey self-defense is to sprint away before turning back around and yelling "have at thee" and pulling out a .38 special

[@101289teutonicguy]

Holy crap... we did that knife defence in kajukenbo. Upward block to figure 4 while walking forward. It works as well as anything would against a knife and it HURTS if someone does it hard

[@amyaccount7935]

For a moment i thought its gonna be part 3 with Icy Mike. Just a bit disappointed, but still hyped! 😁😁

[@hawkgirl0912]

I was thinking Troom Troom!😂

[@senseisethreacts]

Funny you mention that…

[@amyaccount7935]

@@senseisethreacts 🤩😍 yes! Please! I love those vids 💚

[@mikeyj7824]

I could see the first move she did taking out a shoulder if you were a lot taller than the opponent, got low when you got under the arm, then stood up straight to use more leverage.

[@nabimikev4700]

Love your Martial Arts and humor keep on keeping on 😅👊🏽

[@Ezekiel-rv3pe]

There are a judo small joint manipulation where you grab the hand with 2 hands each hand has 2 fingers in it you push said hand back with 2 hands while separating the four fingers.

[@michaelclark712]

You should do a video testing these self defense techniques

[@haydenford3794]

6:45 a jiu jitsu technique that is the same is called the russian tie if you want to take a look

[@EngPheniks]

I like this presentation. Both the video and the review.

[@archangel1547]

Look up a book by Allan Corstorphin Smith from 1925 called “Secrets of Jiujitsu.” It’s a fascinating time capsule. It’s the techniques he taught American soldiers during WW1.

[@Machina03exe]

I think Steamboat Willies are a good metric for the effectiveness of martial techniques, Zak. Thank you for all you do.

[@mandomutt7235]

You should check out Bill Underwood’s Defendo, especially his appearance on Johnny Carson. WW2 era combatives, and a classic appearance on Carson.

[@ForwardSynthesis]

It's better than 99% of modern women's self-defense videos.

[@CervusGreen]

First couple are classic jiu-jitsu self defense. Dude is jumping, but its a demo. Not bad, if drilled against resistance.

[@GourmetBurrito]

"it's Jason Bourne" tickled me in ways I didn't know I could be tickeld

[@LogosFlow]

I love that you know the names of the moves she's doing but haven't a clue what kind of makeup she's applying.

[@Gonz-o8j]

10:20 I don't remember the name of that throw but that is dayto ryu. In judo was modified with elbow looking down for safety reasons. In some modern demos of dayto ryu it still can be seen some of those gnarly techniques

[@rebukealllowvibrations]

came for Seth's charismatic commentary, blown away by the peak top tier zach edits 😭😂

[@simondavis750]

I was sort of OK with the knife grab. Catching a knife while someone is swinging it is really tough, but she grabbed it while he was holding it still. She pre-empted the swing and grabbed a stationary arm. With the element of surprise, because who thinks that someone is going to grab the knife as you pull it out, I reckon this might be a strategy. Also I learned something today. How to be graceful and demure as you slam someones face into the pavement. She was very proper about the whole thing.

[@killzinshadows3767]

Ill always support u my brother!!!!

[@mauriciobranchi828]

That gold medal in the back shinning sooo bright 😊

[@seadawg93]

I LOVE these! Amazing!

[@nyhyl]

She is literally SLAYING that dude🔥💅 That throw at 4:12 was just smooth.

[@sirseigan]

That "armbar-throw-thingi" is at times called "Gyaku nage", but I am sure it has as many names as there were koryu (old schools) using it. And the break on the elbow is nasty so most people jump with the throw a bit to spare their elbow joint, very little strength needed to achive that effect.

[@ajshiro3957]

"I got you homie!" *proceeds to do Ryu's back throw from Streetfighter on the poor animal*

[@gizmonomono]

That was a joy to watch. Wholesome and funny 😂

[@StrangerThing369]

You and your doggos are awesome!

[@AngryLemon19]

That last joke was actually 10/10 best one I've ever heard you make and that's not cause I'm new here

[@christophernewton8474]

A lot of this stuff looks like actual Judo techniques. The circle throw for an upper body push and shoulder throw for rear naked choke are both legit Judo techniques. Kind of impressed.

[@alexkozliayev9902]

Because they are probably from Judo. First american student of judo started learning in 1889

[@jonathanwestern3457]

Yeah a lot of these techniques are used in hapkido. Try it out or come do it with me in Kansas

[@felipeartefaria]

McDojo Life inside Fallout! 😂

[@Gonz-o8j]

Is not, those techniques are from dayto ryu.

[@SillyRobot]

BBL drizzy in a Seth video, lmaaooo I’m crying 😭😭😭💀💀💀

[@therealdestructicus]

Got to love youtube copyright claims on videos in the oublic domain

[@tereza.b]

"Still, for all that girls, don't get too big for your boots! Anything you can do, a man can do better." He sure knows how to motivate.

[@alexandriasandhop4184]

Sensei Seth, my fiance loves ur content. He saw the part about the pressure point behind the jaw nd scoffed, following with an f that. Apparently it's used in promising to detain nd ground other prisoners that r in a fight. He said, won't kill u but definitely sucks especially when it comes from nowhere

[@tatumergo3931]

Pain compliance techniques usually don't work, and much less on their own alone. You need another technique on top of it, and the physical fitness development to successfully apply them.

[@Shadow_dN]

15:50 burst out laughing at this lmao, wouldn't hear this today, caught me off guard

[@DavidMurray1969]

We were taught the outside arm bar throw as variation of seoi nage

[@just-so-were-crystal-clear5245]

These were pretty good.

[@notuxnobux]

The wrist turning move to elbow pivot I'd called rokkyo in aikido. It's the most practical move in aikido. It's also not commonly used in aikido because it's dangerous, its not in the spirit of aikido. It's more of an archaic move from aiki jujutsu which is more brutal than aikido.

[@ZeusEBoy]

i mean modern aikido. real aikido is brutal. just not the stuff they show you on KZbin or in most schools now. more military elite stuff. like you said aiki jujutsu. but its in a lot of jujutsu and i believe judo as well since it was developed from Japanese jujutsu. simple roll into an armbar, like you said very practical and simple. Also is found in many Chinese traditional martial arts and kung fu/wushu forms as well. Good shout!

[@Aikibiker1]

I learned it in Aikido and we practice it regularly. I have even used it when I worked security at a hospital. It works very well as long as you drop to your knees or all the way to the ground.

[@HunterGargoyle]

my aunt once said "women's self defence? a handgun in your purse"

[@outerlast]

dayum that tomoenage on the ram, beautiful

[@yunchong8474]

Did you guys know what a group of rag tag suffragets made their own form of self-defense called suffrajitsu. It makes the video even funnier, imagining a bunch of suffragets flipping and sweeping people like the video.

[@MrNickW123]

Honestly. These are better than the self defense for women videos of today

[@deelaneenn6677]

thanks for the vid man

[@theaikidoka]

At 15:48 - Hey, this video is pretty good! Nice one 1950's! At 15:51 - Never mind. Sigh.

[@wojciechsawicki4733]

7:20 we know whose side zach is on

[@bonaconlodoset9264]

I heard it and just laughed so hard 😂😂😂😂 BBl Drizzy

[@ZeusEBoy]

that first woman was actually a crazy good martial artist. like I feel pretty confident she is cia or something because her execution of the moves is phenomenal. That Wrrrrrist lock was clean. Also Seth, i hate to say it but we've mostly become watered down in martial arts, your best shot is now.

[@manlyadvice1789]

The CIA is a bunch of tubby losers who are only good at lying. Also, the CIA didn't exist until after WWII. :P

[@cruxmind]

13:50 I feel like wrists don't need much strength to injure. So regardless of weight class, someone putting force correctly on your wrist joint would hurt anyone lol

[@SolNacht]

I need you to Colab these with Icy Mike!

[@christiangerhardt2408]

That standing armbars is still taught in BJJ as a combative.

[@owenschwinn226]

It’s actually not too bad. that one slide by when the guy had the one hand grip on her neck was pretty good.

[@notuxnobux]

That's called rokkyo in aikido. It's used less commonly because it's dangerous, not in the spirit of aikido but it's effective. It's more of an aiki jujutsu move.

[@dannydagerous]

thanx

[@StrangerThing369]

that was a pretty good pterodactyl screech as well.

[@fujitafunk]

I love the audio from the 1930s self-defense video. Those hard-bottom shoes slamming onto the wooden floor. 😂

[@bigolbearthejammydodger6527]

that first lady was a top tier judoka/traditional jujitsu. See your judo pals to learn those techniques well seth. Interestingly some are now banned in sport versions of judo because of danger ;) eg arm rotation to bar before throw.

[@toha9460]

these the kinda self defense moves i used on my little brothers when we was kids lol joint locks and muscle power

[@MrMZaccone]

The throw on the sheep (not goat) is more sumi gaeshi than tomoenage.

[@blades0805]

tis is also the time of baritsu being developed

[@tatumergo3931]

No this is the time from when Bartitsu had disappeared and been forgotten. This is after WWI, when most Bartitsu members had died in the War.

[@LauraTeAhoWhite]

Better than the vast majority of self defence videos that are geared towards women.

[@bau961]

But Daddy we geting Snack why u working? 😂 love the kid, and the video too

[@DiscoFever1970]

Impressive 50lb curls by Ms. Kemp. Props.

[@MrMwmussel1]

Wait wait wait, the University of Charleston!?!? I went to the College of Charleston!!!!

[@AikidoVirtualDojo]

The first one looks a bit like Aikido, but the throw would need to go more into the direction of the opponent, than to the side ;)

[@tatumergo3931]

It all came from the old books gathered from Bartitsu. A 19th century self-defense English school that had incorporated all forms of martial arts from the orient and europe.

[@nillholenixon5701]

drake cant even watch his favorite karate youtube channel in peace

[@qaannat]

@4:43, the ground never misses. This is all basic hapkido, no?