Special Forces/CIA secret missions with martial arts legend Jim "Smokey" West, Ep. 44.

The Team House

dee takos

History, Documentary, Society & Culture, Government

4.7 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2020

⏱️ 157 minutes

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Summary

Jim "Smokey" West is a retired 7th Special Forces Group Warrant Officer and is also the founder of American Extension Fighting. In this episode we discuss his rough upbringing, his martial arts background going back to the 70's, and his Special Forces career. We also talk about how he was "sheep dipped" or seconded to the CIA for classified missions to Central America in the 1980's. Jim's book "A Mind for a Fight" can be found on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Fight-Evolutionary-Systems-Focused-Self-Defense/dp/B085RRZ58D Support the stream on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/TheTeamHouse

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0:31.0	We are live on YouTube. This is episode 44 of the team house. I'm Jack Murphy here with co-host Dave Park. We are on tonight with our special guest here for the second time. You may recognize Jim West from episode 7
0:45.1	way back when we really didn't know what we were doing. Now we sort of know what
0:50.6	we're doing.
0:52.6	Jim is a lifelong martial arts practitioner.
0:56.4	He is a retired special forces warrant officer
0:59.2	with extensive experience in South and Central America.
1:01.9	He's a Gulf War veteran. he's a good friend of mine. So Jim is many things in life that we're going to get into in this show. He also has a new book out called A Mind for a Fight.
1:15.0	You got the book, Jim?
1:16.0	You can show it off for us, please?
1:18.0	I do have the book out right here.
1:20.0	I read, I just finished the book last night Dave is halfway through reading it and I have to say it's really really good
1:28.2	It is an introduction to Jim's fighting system called America Extension Fighting,
1:34.0	something he's been telling me about since I think the first time I met him,
1:37.6	I don't even know how many years, what was that like 2013 maybe?
1:41.6	Yeah, probably 2013, exactly, yeah.
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