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Compound grip and structure seizure and securing

Understanding how to prevent limb threatening excruciating pain or reduce the effects of limb and joint pain provides the opportunity to set up and employ armed and unarmed threat neutralisation.

In a green role environment on the ground maintaining a pre-offensive or counteroffensive action compound grip ensuring the limb fixed reduces risk and having to endure joint pain.

As part of prevention or escape of painful joint bars and locks seizing and securing your body armour, webbing, tree branches, vines or in an urban actions on encounter any urban environmental structure or protrusion like fences, gates or stair rails are primary practices in the prevention or escape of painful joint bars and locks.

Such practices buy you valuable seconds to draw and make ready a weapon or employ unarmed offensive assault skills including using the terrain and environmental hazards as a weapon against your enemy.

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Military CQC pain and injury preventative gate seizure enabling armed counter actions

Being able to control your mental toughness to reduce or eliminate the effects of pain through understanding how to minimise the effects of your mind following pain combined with physical tactics to ensure your bodily extremities are not open-ended and are in a compound secure status can be the difference between limb destruction and loss of life in military close quarters combat actions on encounters and defeating your enemy.

The modus operandi being to as quickly and quietly as possible neutralise the threat by the most dirty and deadly means over trying to fight or submit your enemy is the objective of kill or die military close quarters combat.

While deadly option covert unexpected employed actions on considerably enhances objective achievement in a compromised actions on encounter being competent in risk reduction mil CQC tradecraft safety practices and immediate threat neutralisation is a requirement to protect life and limb.

When your extremities are not open-ended through compound grips or grabbing seizing and securing terrain or environmentally available structures fittings or objects you are employing primary practices that maximise your chances of reducing risk and setting up and employing threat neutralisation.

The modus operandi and primary mil CQC trade-craft skills are all about stopping your aggressor in their tracks.

Destroying their human soft target bodily senses life-support system or destroying their ability to maintain or recover their footing, fight or pursue you are CQC primary objectives.

There is no point in being proficient in only offensive or counteroffensive actions without being armed with contingency capabilities if compromised. The mil tradecraft trained and qualified combatant must be armed with hard targeting hard cover guarding capabilities against enemy threats required to prevent or reduce the effects of against pain or injury and unable the setting up and employment of enemy incapacitation or elimination.

While you won’t find many of these tactics and skills in civilian publications on military unarmed combat or military self-defence, these are primary tradecraft practices from the military science of close quarters combat that are part of mil CQC tradecraft training.

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.