The Fairbairn\'s system was based on his training and knowledge in boxing, wrestling, savate, jujutsu, judo and fights he was involved in during his police work, Fairbairn began to develop his own system of hand to hand combat, initially referring it as Defendu.
Publications: Defendu Scientific Self-Defence All-In Fighting Get Tough Hands Off! (Self Defence for Women and Girls) Shooting to Live All of Fairbairn\'s works are published and available from The Naval & Military Press..
Fairbairn\'s CQC-system is also described in Rex Applegate\'s book Kill or Get Killed.
Armed Forces.
As Taught To The British Commandos And The U.
S.
This book was later published in a civilian edition, missing the chapters on bayonet-fighting and rifle sighting, under the name Get Tough! How To Win In Hand-To-Hand Fighting.
The militarised version of Defendu is described in the military manual All in fighting 1942, used as a supplement during WW2 CQB-training.
The original Defendu was oriented towards Self-Defence and restraint, while the Close Quarters Combat system concentrated on rapid disabling of an opponent, with potentially lethal force.
This system was built on Defendu, but modified for military applications, rather than police and riot control.
Fairbairn and others expanded on this system to create the Close Quarters Combat system that was then taught to the troops.
Fairbairn was called upon by the British to help train Allied troops in World War II.
Thus, in an attempt to highlight the originality of Fairbairn\'s material, the term did not appear in the 1931 edition of the book.
Fairbairn published his book, Defendu, in 1926[2] (reprinted as Scientific Self Defence in 1931), illustrating this method and it is here that the term Defendu first appeared This confused early readers of the book, who assumed that the techniques within had been based mainly in the Eastern martial arts that Fairbairn had learned.
It was designed to be simple to learn and to provide effective results.
The Fairbairn\'s system was based on his training and knowledge in boxing, wrestling, savate, jujutsu, judo and fights he was involved in during his police work, Fairbairn began to develop his own system of hand to hand combat, initially referring it as Defendu
