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CQC Clinching

Military CQC with its specific stamp kicks, flat hand, palm heel, and bent fork finger striking attacks requires stances and hard cover guarding that provide best set up and execution of such CQC skills. Maintaining point blank body to body contact to reduce risk and enable enemy capabilities reduction by jamming extremities is essential. Utilizing angle to interfere with enemy stability and restrict  momentum is all part of CQC clinching.

Being able to not only take advantage of angle but also centre of gravity weight dropping to increase resistance against forced actions all make you a much more formidable close combatant. Understanding correct footing placement and usage in regards to lead boot hard resistance static footing and rear boot forward movement hard footing is a must.

It is very important that when using your arms to jam, seize or secure your enemy in the clinch that they are employed correctly so as not to increase the likelihood of injuries related to actions high intensity resistance such as tendon and ligament injuries muscle related injuries or fractures and dislocations. Keep your arms bent and close to your body during jamming and seizure of your enemies arms. Utilise your big bodily parts to control, contain, restrict, and dominate in force on force situations in the CQC clinch.

Your buttocks and torso provide heavy force on force resistance and dominance capabilities. Driving upward and forward from the ground from your boots through your legs buttocks and torso to your shoulder joint provides strength power velocity and resistance capabilities. Your shoulder joint should be utilised for upper quadrant forced resistance over your bent  arms that should be hard locked in place to seize secure and jam your enemies arms.try not straighten your arms using them overly to push force on force.

Your head should be outside your enemy’s upper arm hard jammed against it and as far passed it to your enemy’s rear flanks as possible to aid in offsetting enemy balance. Your leg on the side of your head must be rearmost to ensure maximum stability forced protection forward momentum and ensure primary positioning for CQC skills executions.

Your lead boot arm will be used for forced protection seizure and securing of  your enemies upper arm and your rear boot arm will be used for forced protection seizure and securing lower down their arm on the other side. Lead boot pivoting and rear boot adjustments will enable enemy alignment.

Maintaining a position that enables enemy controlled containment high level safety and that provides best positioning for the execution of your primary threat neutralization CQC skills increases your combative chances of objective achievement.

When you can safely hold position in a CQC clinch enabling the execution of forced combative actions cohesively without losing control or momentum by means of CQC competency commitment and mental toughness you will be most formidable in point blank body to body contact close quarters clinching actions on encounters.

It comes down to the best of battle proven basic skills in forced protection actions on encounters combined with dirty and deadly threat incapacitation or elimination CQC skills employments. The military science of CQC provides overkill gross motor skills methods of threat neutralization that maximise combatant safety through the best of battle proven tactics and skills.

For a combatant to win not merely survive in an actions on violent body contact clinch encounter they must know how to force protect maximise stability and resistance set hold and maintain position and set up and employ best means of  threat neutralization.

Military CQC objectives and means of threat neutralization are different to traditional fighting arts or combat sports in many ways and must have foundations and basic principles that are specific to CQC skills employments.

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.