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Combating enemy fighting arts

An important part of military CQC is the combating of enemy fighting arts by means of dirty or deadly threat neutralisation.

The utilisation of primary through emergency dirty and deadly options that can neutralise stand up, clinch and ground combat threats can be the difference between winning and losing life or death.

Understanding how to neutralise a grappler and a stand up fighter by armed or unarmed skills that would never be deemed allowable in any form of competition is a must.

You must remember to be able to neutralise a formidable fighter. You must have sound hard cover guarding capabilities and you must be prepared to endure the rigours of close quarter contact as part of your achieving your threat neutralisation objective.

Stamp kicks to out reach and stop a good puncher.

Evasive skills to clear the kill zone against kicks combined with fast mapping assessment and counter engagement or combating a kick with a kick from stationary introducing your foe to the effects of the sole of the good combat boot.

The employment of specific military close quarter weapons or improvised weapons that are far more robust and resilient than human flesh and bone can  demoralise or incapacitatre even the most formidable and committed. Your enemies decision to clinch and grapple with you quickly becomes a negative means when you utilise armed methods of grappling and wrestling counter engagement or you attack the eyes  air way nape of the neck or spinal cord etc.

You must be prepared to use controlled aggressive multiple actions directed at bodily vitals or if the enemy covers and defends the bodily target, you must be able to fast map assess and identify additional exposed bodily parts and target them for battlefield military CQC.

Combating enemy fighting arts requires a mastery of your hard targeting capabilities in your primary through emergency skills executions as well as having a sound understanding of your enemies intentions in relation to their techniques executions.

Knowing how to stop takedowns or throws by attacking your attacker in the most dirty or deadly way as well as employing ground combat not ground fighting when you end up in the domain of the seasoned ground fighter evens up your odds and increases  your chances of threat neutralisation.

Everyone is human and when life-support bodily vitals and human senses are targeted especially with armed options but also effectively with unarmed options advantages are gained immediately.

Power is knowledge, especially when combined with combative confidence and competency.

While you may not be able to have the high level of expertise of an enemy skilled in the specific fighting art, if you know how to render their capabilities neutralised   by means of attacking your attacker then your capabilities provide the best combative chance of threat neutralisation.

Article written by Tank Todd

Special Operations CQB Master Chief Instructor. Over 30 years experience. The only instructor qualified descendent of Baldock, Nelson, and Applegate. Former instructors include Harry Baldock (unarmed combat instructor NZ Army WWII), Colonel Rex Applegate OSS WWII and Charles Nelson, US Marine Corps. Tank has passed his Special Forces combative instructor qualification course in Southeast Asia and is certified to instruct the Applegate, Baldock and Nelson systems. His school has been operating for over eighty years and he is currently an Army Special Operations Group CQB Master Chief Instructor. His lineage and qualifications from the evolutionary pioneers are equalled by no other military close combat instructor. His operation includes his New Zealand headquarters, and 30 depots worldwide as well as contracts to train the military elite, security forces, and close protection specialists. Annually he trains thousands of exponents and serious operators that travel down-under to learn from the direct descendant of the experts and pioneers of military close combat. Following in the footsteps of his former seniors, he has developed weapons, and training equipment exclusive to close combat and tactical applications. He has published military manuals and several civilian manuals and produced DVDs on urban self protection, tactical control and restraint, and close combat. He has racked up an impressive 100,000+ hours in close combat.