Christophe
Clugston paints himself as a military spec ops combatives instructor and
subject matter expert. Clugston claims to teach the top-secret military
combatives techniques of special operations forces thru his Combat Judo and
Commando knife training programs. As you read thru his site, Clugston makes a
myriad of claims from training the military to training military contractors.
He even goes as far to say on his website that; “NO ONE he has trained HAS EVER
BEEN KILLED IN H2H regardless of fighting in jungles, urban or the “sand box.”
Clugston has
boasted to many of having very high clearances in the government and military.
Clugston’s site contains several different military insignias and references to
military units from WWII; The Alamo Scouts, Marine Raiders, US Army and US
Marines, as well as stock photos taken from various military sources and books
to help give the impression that he is a subject matter expert who trains elite
military units and contractors.
When asked
about his military back ground or what makes him a “subject matter expert”,
Clugston implies that he has had advanced training in the military, even Top
Secret training. Clugston has even told folks that he is retired from the
Army. However, Clugston’s actual
military record paints a totally different picture.
CLUGSTON'S
ACTUAL MILITARY RECORD
Information obtained thru the Freedom of Information Act (pictured below) revealed that Clugston didn’t make it thru the training phase in the
Army (AIT). Clugston had started Basic training on Oct 20th 1993. After the
completion of Basic training, Clugston went to DLI school for linguistics
training in January of 94, he flunked out of a Arabic language course and had to be restarted
into another language course, a Tai language course. In the Tai course he spent
nearly 12 weeks into a 47-week course before failing again and was subsequently
discharged in July of 94 from the Army.
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| CLUGSTONS MILITARY RECORD |
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| CLUGSTON'S MILITARY RECORD PG. 2 |
CLUGSTON'S
ACTUAL MARTIAL ARTS BACKGROUND
On his
websites, Clugston boasts of having several black belts in several different
martial arts before the age of twenty and lists several folks he supposedly
"trained with" to attempt to back up his claims. Out of the folks he
claims he "trained with" it was discovered that this was nothing more
than him attending a one time seminar here and there with the different
individuals he lists on his websites......nothing remotely close to receiving a black belt in anything.
TRAINING
BACK GROUND IN KNIVES
On
Christophe Clugston's sites he lists that he is a Level 1 Instructor in
Tactical Kali thru the
Philippine Marine Corps Martial Arts Program. He does post a couple pictures on his site to attempt to back up his story mid way down his webpage. http://www.fluentfighting.com/christophes-credentials/
Philippine Marine Corps Martial Arts Program. He does post a couple pictures on his site to attempt to back up his story mid way down his webpage. http://www.fluentfighting.com/christophes-credentials/
On the
trainer's credential page of his site Combat-Judo.com, Clugston claims;
"to have taught Philippine Recon Marine Class 20 how to kill with bare
hands". It appears Clugston exaggerated his teaching the Phillipine Marine Corp unit greatly. Acording to the Filipino marine recon NCOs, Clugston did not train ANY class of
the Recon marines in anything. Clugston showed up for one seminar and was given
a certificate like any other seminar attendee would get for attending. The NCO and staff also remembered that
Clugston was claiming to be retired from the Army at the time.
COMBAT JUDO
CLAIMS
Now that we
have shed some light on his combatives claims what about his judo/combat judo
claims. Not only doesn’t Clugston have any military experience
but he isn’t a judoka either. Not a certified coach or trainer and no
certification or rank in judo. Clugston doesn't appear to
have completed any real training or certifications in any system he claims that he
knows. This isn't surprising seeing that he couldn't cut it in the Army. But what do yoy expect from a guy who claims to know ancient fighting systems of the Vikings and even roman Gladiators.....all the training of course was apparently top secret.
JEET KUNE
DO/COMBAT JKD
Clugston
also claims to be the foremost authority in something called Combat JKD, a
system started by Mike Sanlin, a former Jeet Kune Do practitioner. After speaking briefly with the few that
actually remember Clugston being around training under Sanlin, they all only
remember him being around briefly before basically quitting. According to Sanlin himself Clugston wasn't
around long.
FIGHT RECORD
Clugston
boasts of a fight record of over 75 fights and claims to have “obtained various
kickboxing titles in North America from Super Middle Weight to Heavy Weight” among
other titles and accomplishments. The
only thing verifiable on record appears to be a few boxing matches and only a
couple of kick boxing matches under the name of Chris Clugston. Total of which
is less than ten with half the fights being lost including both kickboxing
matches in which both cases he lost to guys who were beginners, fighting for
the first time, nothing anywhere close to championship caliber as Clugston
claims.
https://www.bullshido.net/forums/showthread.php?t=3045
In 2005
Clugston claimed he wanted to fight in the UFC but needed some grappling
experience, of which he had none. He sought out some training with a
judo/sambo/juijitsu instructor, however, he was told that he was just too far
behind the curve to catch up the other fighters. Apparently Clugston didn't
have any real talent. Clugston actual verifiable experience is nothing like he
claims on his sites and certainly not indicative of championship level material
that he says he is. https://www.mixedmartialarts.com/forums/UnderGround/is-Comhrac-Bas-fighting-style-real:567709?fbclid=IwAR3aS3sKB8KdaMxGYox0iCnMF_kXm-zaStOPTQYvccBoszbko-fgO67CXIE
WWII
COMMANDO TRAINING COURSES
Clugston also indicates on the webpage of his sites that the
“candidates/attendees can fail at any part of the training and be removed from
training.” He also very clearly states; "there will be no refunds and that
no roll back or restarts will be given.”
Looking at Clugston’s actual
military background compared to what he expects from those who take his courses
there appears to be a gapping double standard. Christophe Clugston’s military
records revealed that he couldn’t meet the MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS needed to
complete the Army’s ENTRY LEVEL training but Clugston was given another
opportunity. It is ironic that he doesn’t give people the same chances that he
had despite failing at his second attempt.