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Article: Grappling in Law Enforecement
Police use jujitsu as way to subdue
Mar 4, 2005
By Diana Baldwin
The Oklahoman
More than two dozen law enforcement officers trained this week in Oklahoma City with internationally known Brazilian jujitsu master Royce Gracie. This is the third time Gracie has been here teaching his defensive tactics and weapons retention course for the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. The martial arts training is part of the patrol's defensive tactical training.
Edmond and Guthrie police officers and a Bureau of Indian Affairs officer joined troopers for instructor training or updating their education to teach fellow officers and new recruits at the academy, trooper Tim Tipton said. Gracie, originally from Brazil, said when the officers leave the training they will have self-confidence that they can subdue anyone without having to hurt him. "I am teaching them how to defend themselves if an attacker goes for their weapon and tries to overpower them," Gracie said. "I am teaching them take the suspect without hurting the suspect. Even after the suspect attacked them. I'm teaching them to be nice."
Gracie, a three-time Ultimate Fighting Champion, is teaching a form of jujitsu his father, Helio, 92, learned from the Japanese. He said the fighting style gives its students an advantage over big and strong people using leverage and other techniques. "He was a small man about 140 pounds," Gracie said. "He learned a small person could do it." On Dec. 31, Gracie said he won a match against a 6-foot, 490-pound wrestler in two minutes and 13 seconds using this technique. Gracie is 6-foot-1 and weighs 180 pounds.
Mar 4, 2005
By Diana Baldwin
The Oklahoman
More than two dozen law enforcement officers trained this week in Oklahoma City with internationally known Brazilian jujitsu master Royce Gracie. This is the third time Gracie has been here teaching his defensive tactics and weapons retention course for the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. The martial arts training is part of the patrol's defensive tactical training.
Edmond and Guthrie police officers and a Bureau of Indian Affairs officer joined troopers for instructor training or updating their education to teach fellow officers and new recruits at the academy, trooper Tim Tipton said. Gracie, originally from Brazil, said when the officers leave the training they will have self-confidence that they can subdue anyone without having to hurt him. "I am teaching them how to defend themselves if an attacker goes for their weapon and tries to overpower them," Gracie said. "I am teaching them take the suspect without hurting the suspect. Even after the suspect attacked them. I'm teaching them to be nice."
Gracie, a three-time Ultimate Fighting Champion, is teaching a form of jujitsu his father, Helio, 92, learned from the Japanese. He said the fighting style gives its students an advantage over big and strong people using leverage and other techniques. "He was a small man about 140 pounds," Gracie said. "He learned a small person could do it." On Dec. 31, Gracie said he won a match against a 6-foot, 490-pound wrestler in two minutes and 13 seconds using this technique. Gracie is 6-foot-1 and weighs 180 pounds.
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