Thus, in an attempt to highlight the originality of Fairbairn's material, the term did not appear in the 1931 edition of the book.įairbairn was called upon by the British to help train Allied troops in World War II. 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. Fairbairn published his book, Defendu, in 1926 (re-printed as Scientific Self Defence in 1931), illustrating this method and it is here that the term "Defendu" first appeared. It was designed to be simple to learn and to provide effective results. Based on his training and knowledge in boxing, wrestling, Savate, Jujutsu, Judo and street fighting he was involved in during his police work, Fairbairn began to develop his own system of hand to hand combat, initially referring to it as "Defendu".
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