Maybe he’s knowledgeable when it comes to WW2 history and combatives but it just goes to show how so many “experts” who claim to teach WW2 combatives, Defendu, etc. are not teaching legit material and have altered and added their own styles and touches and complicated fancy moves to it. Damian Ross is the only modern instructor I’ve come across who teaches Fairbairn/Sykes material as it was intended to be taught and passed down through Rex Applegate, Charles Nelson, Carl Cestari, etc. with only slight modifications made for application to modern day situations civilians find themselves in that differ considerably from the battlefields and trenches of World War 2 but keeping the same basic tactics and mindset in mind of keeping everything simple, brutal, and effective and leaving the complicated fancy martial arts techniques in the dojo.
