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Combative ground recovery

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If you are unable to immediately recover your footing when decentralised  you need to know how to ground protect counter engage and recover your footing.

Keep your feet  facing your foe and utilise stamp kicks and oblique stamp kicks to combat their approach kicks and stomps. Combat a kick with a kick.

When the time and situation is consistent with safe recovery from on your  side swing your skyward leg forward to the ground and move your ground-ward leg rearward.

With the Palm and forearm of your arm closest to the ground begin to push your torso upwards to kneeling position.

From the kneeling position if required. You can execute a stamp kick or stamp kicks.

From kneeling on one knee quickly stand straight up into your stance and guard fast map assess and counter engage or escape and evade.

From the kneeling position during the footing recovery. If you are injured or find difficulty in regaining your footing you can brace a hand on a thigh to assist with stability and expedient footing recovery.

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.