He realized that he could not call this system Combato, so his daughter Pat Underwood proposed that he call the system "Defendo".įrom 1945 to 1950 Underwood taught his developing self-defence system in Canada and the USA under the new name.
Underwood was asked to modify the system to remove its lethal applications and instead focus on the Law Enforcement applications of self-defence, compliance and control tactics. Underwood was frequently requested by American and Canadian Law Enforcement Agencies to teach his Combato system during World War II, but as the war had ended he refused on the basis that Combato was too aggressive. Army Rangers and for the American FBI for use in unarmed combat. The name Defendo was created on August 15, 1945, in New York City by Underwood's daughter, Pat, when Underwood was a guest in the United States training U.S. As a boy, Underwood idolized these experts, and rapidly established himself as a prodigy. Combato had its beginning in the Liverpool theatres with jujutsu demonstrations by travelling Japanese wrestlers, Yukio Tani and Taro Miyake.
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