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Skill Plus Strategy

In the perfect world, single skill would be all that would be needed to neutralise a formidable foe. But this is far from reality. The reality is when up against a formidable foe in a violent actions on encounter, you will require every tactic to set up and support your skills employment to deal with Murphy’s Law.

European military CQC skills are a military science that provides the capability to threat neutralise with covert instant threat neutralisation and in battlefield or urban environment actions on encounters where the enemy is doing everything you can to defeat you by means of tactics and contingencies. Under such unpredictable high-risk actions on encounters, the combatant requires every tactic and skill to keep themselves as safe assumedly possible and end the actions on encounter as quickly and quietly as humanly possible.

European military CQC tactics and skills are tested to destruction to identify if they are the best and safest of battle proven options to dispatch or incapacitate the most formidable adversary. This begins in compromised, overt actions on encounters with employing hard targeting tactics to keep you as safe as possible.

Time and range permitting factual real-time assessment and the best of threat neutralisation decision making must be undertaken. When taken by surprise and your first knowledge is an actions on encounter. The first priority is to maximise safety before initiating your CQC psychological enhancement tactics and skills combined with your best CQC threat neutralisation means.

Military CQC not only provides primary secondary alternative and emergency methods of threat neutralisation but also complete strategies including wide ranging contingencies to deal with enemy actions at real time.

Stalking contingencies to stop an aggressor in their tracks. If they engage you while you’re making range, contingencies to support skills that do not achieve the objective such as expedient unarmed offensive assault continuance or stationary attack combinations that prey on multiple bodily targets enable the combatant to maintain forward momentum fast tracking after their retreating enemy.

Pic 1 stalking into range. Pic 2 enemy initiates unarmed actions on. Pic 3 Lead stamp kick stalking contingency.

Pic 1 failed long range stamp kick through enemy retreating. Pic 2 Fast map assessment and decision to employ a long range stamp kick continuance. Pic 3 Long range stamp kick continuance on target.

Pic 1 post failed threat neutralisation at close quarters and employment of an enemy seizure and continued unarmed offensive assault. Pic 2 Enemy evades a stamp kick employment. Pic 3 Combatant fast map assessment and decision to enemy orientate immediately prior to a continued unarmed offensive assult.

Strategies include capability to neutralise the introduction of weapons threats multiple unarmed and armed assailants as well as fast footing recovery, or ground combat capabilities.

CQC strategies enhance mental toughness through being confident in one’s capabilities to deal with adversity, including changes in threat and threat situation at real time.

While primary 1 to 3 second threat neutralisation is the modus operandi of military unarmed combat threat neutralisation being able to fast map assess at real-time on the move and employ strategies to maintain momentum and provide threat neutralisation are a must.

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.