Blindfold mil CQC control and containment training
Greco Roman wrestling control in the clinch
Grappling controlled clinching
Kick boxing control
Control is a most important component of objective achievement in not only armed and unarmed combat and military self-defence but also in combat sports.
While overkill gross motor skills threat neutralisation in CQB/CQC/MSD is a definite and deliberate means of threat neutralisation, it is always employed with controlled aggression.
The commonly used term pressure especially in combat sports and going live is often considered of primary importance over repetitive drilling to achieve skills ownership.
This can be to the detriment of individual’s skills competency which need to be drilled until individuals can execute them without error.
Skills ownership comes down to thousands and tens of thousands of repetitions to the point where the combative or combat sports skill can be employed by deliberate decision-making and executed with accuracy and controlled physicality and force.
While offensive actions are deliberate and counteroffensive actions responsive, when skills ownership has been achieved muscle memory and autopilot skills executions in relation to major and minor components inclusions will be automatic and cohesive.
Primary skills ownership enables skills execution errors to be overcome if the skill is employed with stability, correct range, controlled aggressive commitment and a flexible and innovative real-time adjustment capability.
Ownership of skills includes understanding wide ranging means of execution as well as having complete contingency option capabilities to deal with changes in situation and threat.
There are two means of objective achievement in CQC and in combat sports competition and they are offensive skills employments and counteroffensive skills employments.
Resistance and yielding are primary combative and combat sports practices.
Resistance enables the combatant/combat sports competitor to reduce the effects of faced force and pressure as in prevention of being pushed, pulled or lifted.
Resistance will enable the regaining of control and setting up a combat or counter actions execution.
Resistance in combat sports can prevent being lifted and suplexed or thrown and pinned or submitted.
There can be considerable size and weight disparities in the street or on the battle field or considerable skills levels differences in competition where utilising control resistance or yielding will provide a winning outcome.
Resistance to set up counter engagement
Yielding provides the capability to clear the kill zone under threat or under seized and secured forced movement. Controlled tactical yielding movement enables you to close on your aggressor by yielding and moving with their pulling action or moving away with their pushing action as part of setting up and initiating a counter action threat neutralisation.
Enemy or opponent pressure is reduced or eliminated by controlled actions and controlled output and winning in competition or threat neutralisation under urban or battlefield actions on is achieved by controlled aggression and controlled actions combined with winning skills employment.
Dirty tricks brigade tactics and skills can eliminate or reduce an enemies’ physical attributes advantages by considerable.
As the CQC saying goes you can take 50% of your enemies’ weight advantage away with a strategically used digit or implement and you can reduce their height with a combat sole of boot stamp kick.
In combat sports under rules controlled aggression physicality output should also be controlled to reduce the likelihood of physical capabilities depletion and as such reduced chances of winning.
Skills ownership means drilling your skills until you can’t get them wrong and until you can employ them under wide ranging situations including under extreme adversity combined with having complete confidence and competency in your specific skills contingency options employments.
Fast mapping real-time assessment on the move and statically under assault will provide best decision making and the setting up an execution of the decided option and ultimately the objective achievement.
The ability and capability to fast map and assess, decide and execute threat neutralisation skills on the move or under static assault requires CQC respiration and the utilisation of your brain to boot mental toughness tactics and skills.
The combining of your brain to boot and threat neutralisation skills capabilities with cohesion will increase your chances of winning/threat neutralisation by considerable.
Maintaining all senses at high alert and understanding how to make minor or major adjustments to increase situational and threat control enhances objective achievement.
Setting and maintaining stability, setting up and initiating expedient action, resisting and yielding enemy/opponent actions and ownership of skills and contingency capabilities increases your deliberate decision-making and threat neutralisation capabilities as well as maximising your major and minor components autopilot and muscle memory skills enhancement functions.
In conclusion take control or regain control by controlled deliberate and calculated aggression.
Controlled output physicality should be around three quarters of your physical capability to enhance objective achievement, reduce telegraphing and skills execution injuries as well as enable continued real time fast mapping assessment decision-making and contingency options execution.
Range, skill and controlled aggressive commitment equates to your best chances of winning/threat neutralisation.
In military CQC threat neutralisation three quarters physical output of ruthless controlled aggressive dirty or deadly tricks brigade enemy incapacitation or elimination provides more than enough capability without compromising yourself by telegraphing your intension or injuring yourself by over commitment during skills execution.
