144 Combat Self Defense Training
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"Monsters are real and they walk among us. Plan Accordingly" -Ed Carver
Combat, Faith, Heritage - A legacy reborn from the battlefields of Eastern Europe during World War I & II.
144 Combat is an Arizona-based Warrior Flow Combatives affiliated self-defense training outfit serving the Phoenix area. We provide hands-on, reality-based self-defense training rooted in Warrior Flow Combatives, designed for men and women seeking to protect themselves and their loved ones.
Our Philosophy
If you've made it here, chances are you're looking
for something more than the traditional mass-marketed "self-defense" systems that treat an attack on you or your loved ones like something to be handled with sportive techniques. Unfortunately for them:
"Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie"
-Miyamoto Musashi
At 144 Combat we subscribe to the paradigm of Martial Arts as War. There is war/combat and there is sport. The two are wholly separate. We understand that defending yourself, whether man or woman, from predators is not subject to sportive rules. It is nothing short of war in a microcosm. We train you to overcome fear and find the warrior within. Join us.
Mindset matters and at 144 Combat it's personal...
Our Roots
First and foremost: “Blessed be the Lord my Rock who trains my hand for war and my fingers for battle.”
-Psalm 144:1The Warsaw Uprising began on August 1, 1944. A moment in which men, women, and even children rose up in defiance of their occupiers and fought with extraordinary courage for 63 days despite abandonment and betrayal from their supposed allies. 144 Combat is also a roundabout nod to this date, encompassing their bravery and sacrifice.
Chwała i cześć bohaterom! Pamiętamy
Our Legacy
My great-grandfather was a member of Polska Organizacja Wojskowa (POW). A secret Polish military group founded in 1914 by Józef Piłsudski to fight for Poland’s independence from Russian, German, and Austro-Hungarian occupation. It conducted sabotage, gathered intelligence, and trained soldiers, playing a key role in Poland’s regained statehood in 1918.
He also took part in the battles against the Bolsheviks in 1920. He was wounded three times and awarded the Virtuti Militari. After the war he was a founding member of one of the Polish Military Settlements, Osada Kurhany, in Ukraine. He built a farm complete with three large lakes and they farmed fish and wheat. The barn was actually a concrete bunker in which my great-grandmother gave birth to a son one night during a firefight, which were a common occurrence out on the settlements.
The family lived in a basic wooden house with a dirt floor. They managed to build a very modern house for the time and they finally moved in during September 1939. This of course was tragic timing because my great-grandfather was captured by the Soviets and taken as a Prisoner of War.
Great-grandmother found him at a stop of the prisoner transport train and bribed a guard. She was free and clear to take him and escape. But he told her "I cannot abandon my men. They are my responsibility."That was the last she ever saw of him. He was taken to Starobelsk and was among the tens of thousands of victims of the Katyn Massacre. He would be posthumously promoted to Major in 2007. Great-grandmother, her daughter (my grandmother) and two sons, were forced to escape back through enemy lines to Warsaw where they all took part in the Warsaw Uprising.
My grandmother was a member of the Armia Krajowa (AK), Poland's main underground resistance movement. From what we know, she was a messenger taking reports/intelligence sewn into her clothing throughout the city. She frequently spent time traversing the Warsaw sewer system because movement above ground meant dealing with bombers, artillery, snipers, tanks, and more. She would survive the uprising only to be sent to work on a farm in Germany after capitulation by Polish forces. At war's end she returned to Poland to search for her AK comrades (their fates unknown). It was during this journey that she met my grandfather.
My grandfather, as tough as they come, was born in exile in Siberia after his grandfather's involvement in the January 22, 1863 uprising against the Czar. He was a newly commissioned lieutenant when the Nazis invaded and fought bravely in defense of Poland. He was ultimately captured on September 27, 1939. He would spend a total of 5.5 years as a Prisoner of War. Towards the end of the War, as German forces were beaten back, they evacuated their prisoner-of-war camps. My grandfather chose 500km of forced march rather than being left for the Soviets. A wise choice. He would survive the war and live out the rest of his days in peace, my grandmother by his side.
It is from this lineage of warriors forged in fire, unbroken in spirit, death before dishonor, that 144 Combat was born.
Ed Carver holds the rank of Senior Instructor in Warrior Flow Combatives. He is a former Army Officer, AH-64D Apache pilot, and combat veteran. He is currently working as a Criminal Intelligence Analyst and certified Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Remote Pilot, and a Subject Matter Expert to various government agencies. He is a contributor to the Warrior Scholar Ideal Blog and the Warrior Flow Combatives guide A Mind for Danger.
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