Armed and unarmed combat up-hill gradient training from Phase 1 Basic through to Phase 3 Specialist is most important for combatant capabilities in threat neutralisation objective achievement.
While it is preferable to employ combative skills on level terrain or with the advantage of a downfall gradient towards the enemy, Murphy’s Law equates to the need to be capable to effectively employ skills on all gradients and on different terrain.
If you are having to engage an enemy on an uphill slope and they have the advantage of higher ground, you need to understand the tactics and skills required to increase your chances of effective threat neutralisation.
These requirements are not just physical fitness related, they also include specific mil close combat trade-craft tactics and skills requirements to enable effective threat neutralisation under wide ranging threat situations including on varied terrain and under different including difficult terrain and threat environments.
First up in regards to the uphill gradient you should ensure your stance and posture are equal to the uphill gradient.
If the gradient is around a 15° incline then from your medium squat crouch stance you should be bending forward approximately 15° at the hips keeping a diagonally forward straight back posture.
Maintaining a small to medium squat crouch status will enable you to utilise a medium to low squat crouch combative skills kick off expedient action skills initiation.
Sliding foot work is the primary means of groundcover over lifting stepping footwork.
Employing tactical footwork by pivoting and sliding to move from a downhill gradient to your enemy’s side quadrants where lateral engagement can be employed will put you on even gradient footing with your enemy.
Primary tactics and skills will enable your change of position in a controlled manner maintaining your hard target capabilities while moving and orientating to your enemy’s side flank.
This should be undertaken by deliberate small to medium sliding boots combative footwork groundcover means of repositioning to your enemy’s side flank.
The same means can be employed to pass and clear your enemy achieving the high ground advantages over them.
It is important to never overextend your groundcover footwork or lift your boot sole more than 1-2mm off the ground to ensure you maintain stability and expedient action ready status capabilities.
If you do not need to initiate an offensive assault action then by setting and maintaining an effective evasive counter offensive assault range you can employ an evasive action when your enemy is committed to their incoming assault at you their intended target and beyond the point of no return.
Once you have cleared the kill zone making them miss you, their intended target, you can make any needed adjustments in range and position and execute your counter offensive action threat neutralisation skills.
Regardless of whether you employ an unarmed offensive assault or unarmed counter offensive assault action in unarmed combat it is important that your mind-set and skills employment physicality level is that of the required commensurate force to threat neutralisation and is never a mere survivor mentality or modus operandi as this is a defeatist mind-set as far as confident competent over kill threat neutralisation is concerned.
Your mind is a primary objective achievement capability and to employ in a survivor or defeatist status is a negative attitude and can adversely affect your chances of defeating your enemy.
There is no second place in actions on assault and a survivor mentality against someone trying to do you bodily harm increases risk and decreases your chances of victory over defeat.
Everything you do must be to maximise your personal safety and chances of effective threat neutralisation, whether that be by incapacitation, escape and evasion or in a kill or die battle field actions on situation by threat elimination.
If you do not have the skills sets to deal with environmental challenges your objective achievement capabilities are lessened.
You must be able to employ effective skills that meet the environmental terrain and the faced threat neutralisation requirements. This requires the tactics and skills required to overcome situational disadvantages and maximise your chances of threat neutralisation.
To do this requires not only knowledge of stance and body positioning combined with uphill gradient combative foot work but also the specific dirty and deadly tricks brigade best tactics and skills to effectively close range and neutralise a high ground enemy threat.
Without such capabilities your chances of achieving threat neutralisation by overcoming adversity as a result of situational environmental or terrain related disadvantages, hazards or obstacles is reduced by considerable. Knowledge is power and specific different of difficult threat neutralisation related requirements require skills knowledge competency and confidence capabilities to defeat a formidable enemy.
Training on uphill gradients changes things by considerable and identifies the differences and required skills sets needed to minimise such environmental effects.
Physical fitness training on its own is not enough to maximise uphill formidable enemy combative threats.
The means and methods are specific to the difficult conditions and as such include components proven to enhance control in output to maintain as higher level of capability for as long a duration as required.
Being familiar with the required tactics and skills to employ uphill gradient effective threat neutralisation requires being inoculated against the adverse effects through being trained under such conditions in effective threat neutralisation.
