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Talk us through how combatives is both similar and a little bit different than MMA in some ways. Yes, ma'am. So, as far as the striking aspect, it pretty much remains the same. However, when it comes to being on the ground, we're not typically going to do your typical guard pulling. The goal is to be able to get on top, stay on top, and stay heavy. The goal is also to get to your primary, secondary, tertiary weapon to be able to dispatch anybody that we may need so that way we can get ready to move into the next room, deal with the next threat, be able to win the fight. That's the goal. And does everyone who serves in every military branch participate in
combatives or is that something extra that they you do? I know specifically for the Army, they have their combatives program. For the Marine Corps, we have the Marine Corps Martial Arts program. For the Navy, they have their special situations or as far as their job titles may go as far as the way that they train, but everyone tries to relate back to being able to get to their primary weapon system. Yes, ma'am. But tonight, for our purposes here, because there are no weapons involved, of course, other than the muscles. Talk to me about the not necessarily the rule set, but what we're going to see tonight is basically just a jujitsu match, correct?
Yes, ma'am. It's going to be combat submission wrestling, to sum it all up. The goal is to not be on your butt, go for the takedown, go for the submission, get into the dominant position, mount, side mount, uh half guard, anything that you can do just to be on top so that way you can assess the room or assess the threat, move on to the next threat. That's the goal. We have Navy Margaret Beecher and we have Anaïs Moises representing Army. Moises working with that half collar tie. Nice takedown.
Dominant position for Anaís Moises right now, but Peaches working very hard not staying flat on her back. Moises doing a great job staying heavy. Peaches working hard to create some space here, but Moises doing an excellent job of Oh, she might be looking for an Ezekiel choke. Heavy hips from Moises. She's looking for the Ezekiel choke here continuously. Peaches trying to get her base back underneath her here.
Hard to see how tight that choke is. I'm going to look for another angle here, but Peaches is so tough. Moeisa almost got swept there, but she regains her base. 30 seconds left. Moeisa trying to pass the right arm of Picher over. Picher gets some space here. We'll see if she can get her base back. Oh. Sweep attempt from Picher. Moeisa Trying to set something up here. 10 seconds left. She's looking for an armbar. She's looking for an armbar, BUT PICHER SAYS NO. AND TIME.
Excellent job, ladies. You were after that takedown right from the bell. You wanted that dominant position, and you got it. Yeah, um like my coach says, be first in everything, and I just wanted to make sure I had um a dominant position off right away. Um as soon as you got that takedown, did you feel pretty confident that you'd be able to wrap up the rest of 3 minutes? Uh yeah, absolutely. That's one thing when I'm on top, be on top, stay heavy, hips down, and just look for the submission.
Ladies, thank you so much. Jeremiah Slagle representing Army, and Ryan McCarty representing Marines. Little bit of hand fighting here. Slagle looking for that single leg. You can tell these guys might have a wrestling background. Oh. Nice shot attempt. These guys are very evenly matched, clearly. A lot of hand fighting here early. Oh, man. Slayton on a shot, but McCarty has the guillotine.
Excellent defense. Oh. McCarty trying to disentangle those legs, looking for These guys are so tangled up. I can't even imagine with the pants and the boots. Beautiful elevation of the foot by Slayton. Going to make it really hard for McCarty to get his base back. 1 minute remains. Slayton takes the back. We'll see if Sligo can get his hooks in. We've got 30 seconds. We'll see if McCarty can shake him off.
Oh. He's looking for the short choke. And time. You uh You guys were hand fighting for quite a bit. Were you trying to feel him out and figure out when you could uh take your shot? Yeah, I know he's a world-class jiu-jitsu guy. He's really a world-class. I wrestled in college. I knew it was going to be a very technical match. So, it was really more about timing and picking your shots.
Absolutely. How At what point did you feel like you had to really just go for it with 1 minute left? Uh he was in a great position for a while. Um I was mainly staying defensive, just trying to get back to a more neutral position. At one point, I believe you inverted. Were you looking What were you looking for there? Yeah, we have leg locks, but um we weren't allowed them doing to that. Uh also really hard with boots on, but toward the end there, you were did a great job taking the back, maintaining that position. Was that the Was goal at that point? And then you at the very end, it looked like you were searching for a short choke.
Yeah, so I know a lot of people when it comes to grappling, they neglect the cage wrestling. So, my whole point was try to get him up against the cage and wrestle there. Army! I think our winner is Anaïs Moïse. USA! Thank you for your time. Thank you for your service. Thank you for your time and thank you for your service. Thank you all of you.
Ladies and gentlemen, let's give it up for our military combatives.
