‘Semper Fu’ Android app teaches Marines martial arts (plus eye gauging and knife fighting)

Marine Corps Times writer Gina Harkin writes this week about an app that'll teach you eye gauging and blood chokes. Enough said.

Gina writes:

Are you wondering how to properly counter a round kick? There's an app for that.

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An Android smartphone application released March 18 allows users to access detailed and illustrative instructions from the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program. It includes lessons in how to gouge an enemy's eyes, defend yourself in a knife fight or make an enemy lose consciousness in a blood choke.

And as of March 27, the app was being downloaded up to 1,800 times per day.

Read Gina's whole story on the 'Semper Fu' app here.

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