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Utilising Your Primary Strengths

Depicted above an aggressor of considerably greater size and strength threatening a smaller man.

In the second depiction the smaller man stamp kicks his aggressor with the objective of destroying the integrity of aggressors knee joint/knee cap.

Decentralisation and incpacitation are the intended outcome of employing the stamp kick.

The physically smaller man from a reduced target mass squat crouch hard cover guard position utilising expediant action high velocity contact impact is taking advantage of his possessed strenths to stop the aggrressor in his tracks.

Military CQC and military self- defence best of battle proven dirty and deadly skills are a must in kill or die actions on military battlefield encounters against formidable enemy combatants. Employing the best of battle proven tactics and skills to neutralise threats combined with the combatant taking maximum advantage of their primary individual strengths capabilities increases the chances of threat neutralisation.

Employing skills that provide the best chance of threat neutralisation combined with all the required setup execution and employment components empowered by uncompromising mental toughness and inner resolve increases chances of threat neutralisation.

Whether you face an expected or unexpected actions on encounter and whether you decide to combat the threat by means of offensive assault or counter the threat by counter offensive assault, taking advantage of your possessed individual strengths is advantageous.

Covert actions on threat neutralisation employments and armed options employments increase military combatants chances of expedient threat neutralisation and just like with unarmed threat neutralisation skills employments using every physical and skills possessed advantage empowers achieving the desired outcome.

Combatants chances of threat neutralisation are increased when they take advantage of their primary physical strengths attributes, skills capabilities and when their mental makeup is uncompromising in objective achievement.

While you cannot increase your height or reach you can select skills that take advantage of your possessed primary physical attributes and primary strengths advantages and you can increase your speed, strength, endurance, flexibility mobility resistance and expedient action through training.

When you combine these important physical components with skills that are designed to incapacitate or eliminate a formidable enemy empowered by the best of mental toughness intestinal fortitude and inner resolve you are increasing the chances of defeating a formidable foe by considerable.

It is important that the combatants primary physical attributes strengths and mental makeup enhance their selected CQC/MSD skills employments and that skills selection fit with physical attributes and capabilities.

This includes utilising primary strengths in the execution and employment of primary military close quarters combat and military self-defence skills.

Tall combatants should take advantage of their height and reach while short combatants should take advantage of their low centre of gravity and reduce target mass combined with expedient movements.

In actions on encounters going combative utilising your individual primary strengths combined with skills that fit with your size physical attributes and physical capabilities is the best way to increase your chances of threat neutralisation.

A short combatant taking advantage of hard boot fast entry stamp kicking can cut down a tall enemy just like chopping a tree down at the base of the trunk.

In military CQC basic training exponents are provided with a range of methods of threat neutralisation and must identify the skills that best suit and fit with their physical and mental makeup maximising every advantage from their primary strengths. Then they need to work on perfecting their selected primary options initially with high repetition practice and then employing the skills in wide range threat neutralisation situations.

A combatant that uses skills that do not fit with their physical make up and primary strengths advantages is putting themselves at increased risk.

The combatant must also know when to clear the kill zone, resist or yield and change tack to cover changes in threat situation and environment considerations.

Taking on a fighter of superior size strength and skill is tactically flawed, hence why enemy neutralisation in European military CQC is by the best of battle proven dirty and deadly armed or unarmed tradecraft enemy take out practices empowered by taking every advantage of the individual combatants personal strengths.

Employing battle proven dirty and deadly skills taking advantages of your possessed primary personal strengths increases your chances of threat neutralisation by considerable.

Skills selection must take into consideration the combatant’s size physicality and mental make up to ensure they are best armed with the best means and methods to neutralise formidable foes.

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.