Special Operations Martial Arts

 
The SOMA Program was created in the Spring of 1991 by Master Chief Instructor Blaise Loong. Initially developed exclusively for U.S. Special Operations Forces, SOMA was soon deemed necessary for particular law enforcement assets, certain private security forces and qualified U.S. citizens.
 
In February 1985 Blaise Loong was one of three original instructors assigned to develop the U.S. Army's Special Forces Combatives Courses (SFCC). Under the auspices of the 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) and its Commanding Officer David Baratto, Blaise, alongside his two compatriots -- John Joyce and James Webb -- helped to put together a curriculum of devastating proportion.
 
There are three essential components that make up SOMA.
 
   1. CQT (close quarter termination)
   2. Sentry Neutralizations
   3. Improvised Weapons
 
CQT training focuses on specific offensive strategies utilizing a variety of weapons systems: empty-hands, knife, firearm.
 
Sentry neutralization techniques include empty-hands, knife, garrote, suppressed weapons (firearm \ crossbow).
 
Improvised weapons instruction concentrates on the primitive -- "sticks and stones" technology.
 
 
 
SOMA CQT empty-hand combatives:
 
PAMMACHON -- an archaic Greek word which translates as "total fight" in today's English.
 
Yashai Pammachon is Blaise Loong's personal expression of this ancient fighting method, based upon his many years of detailed research and development. The original form was created by the hoplite warriors of old Sparta for use on the battlefield. A simple, brutal, truly no-holds-barred system of empty-hand combat.
 
Yashai Pammachon includes boxing, kicking, wrestling throws and take-downs, strangleholds, joint destructions and pressure locks.
 
 
SOMA CQT knife combatives:
 
BILANGGUAN ESTILO -- Filipino "prison style" knifing techniques.
 
A straightforward approach to offensively wielding a knife, shank or shiv in extreme close quarters combat.
 
 
SOMA CQT firearm combatives (handgun \ rifle):
 
OSS style instinctive combat point shooting
SOMA modified Weaver method
Trench fighting technologies
 
 
 
SOMA sentry neutralizations:
 
1-man and 2-man kill teams are taught stalking, ambush and neutralizations utilizing a variety of standard weapons systems.
 
 
 
SOMA improvised weapons training:
 
Detailed training in how to make and \ or use various fighting implements readily found in any environment on Earth.