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Military combative primary principles and foundations

Military close quarters combat foundation basic principles by majority are based on land air and sea warfare requirements.

Ground combat. Like climbing keeps three points of contact with the surface at all times.

Ground combat movement and weight distribution is a variation of commando crawling and provides considerable capabilities in relation to enemy threat neutralisation in ground combat.

Running skills as part of escape and evasion and in multiple unarmed or armed and unarmed enemy neutralisation, are often more proven and effective than fighting type footwork.

Load lifting and load bearing tactics and skills are common practice in point-blank bodily contact clinching and enemy forced movement including decentralisation.

Understanding the huge advantages that employing stress positions provides  in relation to putting your enemy in a position of helplessness and hopelessness and expose them to your combative threat neutralisation without resistance makes achieving the objective that much safer and easier.

Understanding and utilising all and every advantage battledres,s body armour, webbing and packs in relation to increasing your enemies difficulty in assaulting you is advantageous to increasing hard targeting capabilities.

It is that much harder to seize secure and employ techniques against a combatant in full battle dress including body armour webbing or combat vests and packs. When you are dealing with the increased mass and shape of webbing combat vests body armour and packs that also provide reduced risk and danger if decentralised many techniques are far from applicable.

Load bearing and heavy lifting requirements of the soldier as with many tradesmen, bushman and hunters are very applicable to dealing with an enemy at close quarters.

Gross motor skills in relation to military requirements, sport, farming, hunting etc are often far more realistic practical and effective than traditional martial arts or fighting arts methods.

Some of the best combative skills owe their origins to ancient European warfare.

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.