All combative armed and unarmed skills employments are reliant on as accurate timing as humanly possible. Accurate timing requires mental toughness and combative physical capabilities. Being honest with yourself in regards to your levels of intestinal fortitude inner-resolve battle fitness and CQC tactics and skills capabilities is a must to identify your personal CQC strengths and weakness and enable training to increase competency. Timing is a very important required component of CQB and CQC. This blog will focus on CQC timing aspects of unarmed offensive assault and unarmed counter offensive assault executions.
Unarmed offensive and counter offensive assault timing is reliant on a unison of mental and physical tactics and skills being executed with cohesion and commitment. The order of execution of these tactics and skills is very important. Making the unarmed offensive assault primary execution range by means of controlled calculated covert approach or overt controlled deliberate hard cover guard tactical entry is a must in order to permit range and timing requirements in the assault employment.
Close range striking and long range stamp kicking have specific execution ranges that allow for enemy defensive reactions and responses. Close to point blank range kill zone assaults are made possible by sound hard cover guarding and contingency capabilities combined with dirty tricks and deceptions that prey on human reactions to such actions.
CQC respiration is essential in not only assault timing but also in combative physical capabilities enhancement including endurance in dire extended duration CQC actions on encounters against formidable foes.
Timing the point of no return kill zone ready set to go small through 3/4 squat expedient entry kick off action with CQC respiration is a definite unarmed assault initiator. Timing stamp kicks when the enemy is distracted or injured through set up contact and is unaware of lower quadrant targeting requires not only entry and set up timing but also visual timing to ensure visual focus transfers are immediately prior to requirement.
Visual focus transfers must never telegraph target selection by premature obvious target visualization.
Visual transfer must occur simultaneously with target destruction. In close range striking combinations assaults timing the ready set go combined squatting and CQC respiration with expedient lead boot entry cocking of the entry striking arm and the combined timed trailing boot replacement with striking target contact with every entry strike is essential to maximixe momentum and entry injury effects. When the enemy is injured or incapacitated the timed execution of the finishing skills will maximize threat neutralisation.
The trailing boot must never be left behind on expedient entry strikes as this would compromise mobility and stability. In evasive unarmed counter offensive assault correct evasive range is essential combined with evasive sighting transfer and ready set go combined CQC squatting and respiration.
The moment of evasion must be when the enemy is fully committed and beyond the point of no return or making an instantaneous change of tact. The evasion timing is determined by the incoming travel of the attacking limb. In diagonally forward evasion the timed static boot pushing off of the first evasive boot and the immediate trailing of the static push off boot must be cohesive and expedient.
The timing of the post evasion pivoting components and the hard cover guarding transition is essential.
In diagonally rearward evasion the timing of the CQC squatting respiration and evasive visual sighting with the expedient movement of the evasive boot away from the incoming line of attack and the pivoting of the static boot must be simultaneous.
This footwork must be cohesive and simultaneous with the hard cover guard transition and the making ready of the static pivoting boot to counter any enemy kicks directed at that pivoting static leg.
Stationary counter offensive assault timing of the CQC squat respiration and hard cover guarding to reduce target mass increase stability combined with visual target selection to enable expedient counter actions are all timing essential components.
Hard cover guarding and deflection to enable the set up and employment of counter actions under actions on encounters are timing reliant in regards to safety and effective threat neutralization.
Post evasion or in stationary counter engagement adjustments to enable effective threat neutralisation including making range position and angle require immediate adjustment employment to maintain momentum in threat neutralization.
Fast mapping on the move or minimum timing static assessment decision making counter engagement adjustments and threat neutralization employment must happen with precision timing execution. Timing increases safety effectiveness of CQC actions and as such increases chances of threat neutralization and objective achievement. Without timing, risk is increased and effective outcomes are more good luck than combative control and deliberate skills executions.
