Bob Clark | Embracing Violence and Testing Skills to Protect Americans and Improve Himself | Ep.22

Transformations with Mark V. Wiley

Bob Clark has dedicated his life to protecting Americans and developing himself to the highest levels. Our discussion landed on Bob's transformative experience growing up with a father who taught him wrestling, boxing and karate, joining the NAVY, becomes a police officer, after 911 serving in an infantry reconnaissance platoon in Iraq, then returning to law enforcement, and his over four decades of martial arts and combat sports training, competing, and coaching world champions.

#Navy #LawEnforcement #DefensiveTactics #IraqWar #Sambo #MMA #JiuJitsu #Philadelphia #Hapkido

0:00 Introduction

1:04 Loving and living in the violent world

2:07 Violent crime, deaths, and advanced medical care

6:00 Violence and lawlessness now is worse than during the crack epidemic, hit and runs

11:16 How to fix the problem

13:26 Bob joins the Navy, ocean rescues, control techniques in water

20:23 Boxing, wrestling and karate training with dad

23:12 Introduction to a lifetime study of Hapkido

24:52 Boxing and kickboxing in the Navy, Unnamed American teacher with great skill

27:49 Techniques must be clean to reality, thoughts on karate tournaments, pro wrestling

29:49 Open fighting in Fisher’s Park, Olney, share and exchange – Norman Smith, Ozzy Wright,

34:21 Training with heart, speed, power, conditioning separates winners and losers

36:30 NE Philly CLF sparring, Jook Lum

39:56 Philadelphia martial arts - Onofre Escorpizo, Herminio Binas, Sun Te Su, Lee Chong Suh, Teruyuki Okazaki, Jae Chul Shin, Takahiko Ishikawa

44:35 Bob becomes a military Operations Specialist and Operation Earnest Will during Iran/Iraq War

46:35 Becomes a Philly Cop in 1989. Germantown, Mt. Airy, Chestnut Hill. How Law Enforcement has changed

49:21 Law enforcement defensive tactics 1980s through today, pressure points, wrist locks, - don’t work in street when perp has adrenalin dump. Funny story of Bob withstanding pp in demo, official law enforcement training vs private training

54:17 Sad Reality – Law Enforcement tactics training based on liability not life-saving skills

59:52 Bob’ defensive tactics systems, and why it’s less jiu-jitsu, more judo

1:06:59 Sambo – old Soviet Union Military Fighting, now 3 systems, MMA champions today are mostly combat sambo guys

1:12:11 No person is ever unarmed when fighting with a police officer

1:19:04 Bobs still involved in World Hapkido Federation and Sambo as National Team Coach, largest combat sports event in the world

1:23:41 Modern combat sports and traditional martial arts have something to offer, can enhance each other. What about Shuai Jiao?

1:27:39 Bob competes in indigenous belt wrestling in “the Stans.”, amazing how many sports and arts we don’t know about

1:35:40 Bob re-enrolls in the military after 911. Pennsylvania National Guard 56 Striker Brigade, Modern Army Combative program, training and application

1:41:59 Bob returns to being a cop, retires in 2018 to teach law enforcement defensive tactics instructor for state of PA – self-defense, combat martial arts, situational combat

1:46:20 The WISDOM of Bob’s TRANSFORMATIONS

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