Depicted below multiple aggressors actions on including enemy mimicking the combatant’s skills
Figure A missed target stamp kick. Figure B left behind trailing leg. Figure C secondary aggressor mimicking the stamp kick.
CQC offensive and counter offensive actions must always include simultaneous trailing leg follow through for commitment and safety.
This is essential to ensure the trailing leg is not left behind in a compromised status.
If the trailing leg is left behind you will not only expose it to possible targeting but will also reduce expedient mobility capabilities.
Stamp kicking skills are not common outside of military self-defence and military close quarters combat and their purpose is knee joint and knee cap ligaments destruction to cause incapacitation.
In an actions on encounter where you are dominating your enemy, there is always the likelihood that they may mimic your skills.
If you fail to achieve your objective in the execution of a stamp kick and in your enemy eyes they consider that you were in fact trying to break their leg, then there is a possibility they could mimic your stamp kicking action.
The reasoning for this is usually they psychologically believe your skills are superior and would provide them with a better chance of defeating you.
This being the case if you left your trailing leg behind and ended in an overstretched stance you could effectively be cast and vulnerable to your enemy mimicking your stamp kick actions and targeting your exposed outstretched and possibly partially or fully hyperextended trailing leg.
In a multiple aggressor actions on leaving your trailing leg behind increases the risk of it being targeted by considerable and is in contradiction of our mill CQC tradecraft practices in regards to neutralising multiple enemy aggressors.
Your human senses under multiple aggressors actions on may well be focused on another enemy aggressor, leaving your trailing leg vulnerable from your rear or side flanks.
Whether you are employing long-range unarmed offensive assault stamp kicking or close range unarmed offensive assault striking, every skill should be directed through the target and the trailing leg must be replaced with every entry step taken.
Under unarmed offensive assault strategies a common error is that on final entry footwork the trailing leg is left behind and this should never be the case.
Even in combat sports where one competitor is being overwhelmed by another the likelihood of mimicking the superior opponent’s techniques is a reality.
I have seen this cost fighters in combat sports a win simply because they have in an instant through pressure and the effects of contact, discarded their trained primary techniques and opted to mimic their opponent’s techniques that they are not skilled in executing.
You should always stick to your primary methods of threat neutralisation and always execute them in full in a fluid committed action right through the target.
You must initiate your action from inside the primary execution range off of the squat crouch with proper CQC respiration tracking forward with commitment.
This will maximise not only your chances of objective achievement but also increase safety.
