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Stamp kicks

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Stamp kicks are just that and they are not slap, flick, chip or sweep kicks.

Exponents that sacrifice destruction for speed of the kicking component or out of training laziness are dramatically reducing the effectiveness of the stamp kick action. Stamp kicks consist of the following components. Ready set to go  squatting expedient action set up, expedient kick off entry action, set up actions including fake and deliberate actions and dirty tricks and when in range the destructive stamp kick action execution. The arch of the boot encapsulates  the lower leg on or below the knee cap. The stamp kick  destructive action should be driven with velocity diagonally through the targets lower leg to the ground. The analogy I often use is a combination of making home base as in baseball and the breaking of a piece of firewood that is against a solid backdrop at one end with the other end secured  on the ground. Extreme close range execution off of expedient entry action initiated off of the squat set up combined with interference with the targets visual and mental focus and when in extreme close preferably  body line contact range the lifting cocking action of the stamp kick leg combined with high velocity diagonally downward stamp kicking right through the target leg to the ground. Not ankle slapping with the side of the foot or low level chip or sweep kicking for close combat.

Train the way you intend to go combative.

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.