Here at the Todd Group we have been providing training in threat, terrain situational, role, duty and ROE specific CQC/MSD for the past 95 years.
Amphib armed and unarmed assault and counter assault skills are instructed to various levels in regards to rank, role and duty requirements.
Phase 1 Basic exponents learn tactics and skills specific to their CQC capabilities while Phase 2 Advanced learn the Phase 1 Basic amphib tactics and skills plus Phase 2 Advanced tactics and skills that have commonality and are cohesive with their Phase 2 Advanced CQC capabilities.
Phase 3 Specialists learn elite lethal Amphib close combat including military amphibious specific self-defence tactics and skills.
These skills are restricted as we instruct them to elite forces and others including instructors that have had to earn the right to undergo such training.
The skills provide capabilities to rescue or save, handle detainees or incapacitate or eliminate an enemy in an amphib kill or die actions on.
We have extensive training packages of amphib close combat that include shore, seabed and deck environments.
There are wide ranging objectives and means and methods of objective achievement specific to amphibious CQC/MSD.
While I am not going to disclose such skills in this public release file I will include what it is not.
Traditional stand up or mat fighting arts and competitive codes techniques were not developed specifically for water borne or water based military close combat actions on threat neutralisation and as such are not primary proven best means to effectively neutralise water borne assaults.
Included in our military close combat training provision packages are wide ranging specific amphib role and duty developed tactics and skills that include full initiation and employment strategies.
Traditional upward kicks under water or from under water breaking the surface lack in effective threat neutralisation as do under water or surface breaking punches.
The fact that water is denser than air and as such produces increased resistance makes many land based techniques impractical in water.
Dealing with the threat of drowning, slippery surfaces, sludgy under footing, sharp seabed rock formations along with an armed enemy, dictate specific skills sets not only to achieve objectives but also to maximise safety under such conditions and in such environments.
While some traditional or sporting submission type techniques could work, you need to take into account your vulnerability in an ocean or river/lake environment in the execution of such techniques where you are not land based and are treading water.
The risks of drowning presented in a submission counter action technique application must never be overlooked.
Our Mil Amphib CQC/MSD is not a collection of individual techniques derived from different traditional styles but are same systems skills that have been specifically developed for the environment roles and objectives that share commonality and as such are cohesive.
They have full employment strategies including diverse contingency options capabilities to arm and hard protect the combatant for water borne seashore river bank/bed and ships deck actions on threat neutralisation.
The same or similar tactics and skills have cross over usages in mud/bog and sand actions on.
Mil CQC being developed for land air and sea environments and roles means by necessity and evolution it includes such environmental situational and threat specific primary trade-craft practices.
Mountain roles based skills share same/similar principles with ground combat in regards to holding position and air MSD tactics and skills like when hanging vertically in a harness have commonality in principles with crowd combat where it is body to body upright contact.
There are many safety and effectiveness considerations in amphib close combat that are all about maintaining the upper hand and not sacrificing anything if at all possible.
Weapons and equipment retention are very important in waterborne actions on as the likelihood of weapon recovery in amphibious actions on is low to no hope.
Deliberate calculated control and containment and or overkill destruction of life support systems are very important capabilities under waterborne actions on.
Respiration control and swift water movements to clear or close on an enemy are very different from land based footwork movements.
Amphib CQC/MSD is not a skills set that everyone requires but for many operators that we train such capabilities are important.
Like many advanced and specialist tradecraft skills at the Todd Group, exponents and proponents must earn the right to undertake such training by passing testing phases and being accepted for course joining.
We do not make restricted advanced or specialist IP in-house developed skills public out of a professional responsibility to the people we train that have to earn the right to such training so no questions will be answered on any such restricted trade-craft skills sets.
The only way to undergo such training is to apply, be accepted for training, volunteer for testing and move up through the ranks earning the right to undergo such training.
Such training access is but one privilege of being trained from the HQ source by a military elite qualified CQC/MSD Master Instructor.
