Yeah it could have been a good one and missed.
Fighting in gear is nothing new. The texts and instruction have always emphasized techniques that avoid the torso and attack the head/neck and lower extremities. That is the beauty of true combatives, it is simple and common sensical.
Attack the eyes, the neck, the huevos, the knees, shins and ankles. Avoid those areas covered with armor or kit. Hit and keep hitting. If you miss, don't worry about it. Try again. It all hurts.
A good chin jab with fingers to the eyes is a great technque. If it hits, the target will go ass over tea kettle - you might even break his neck. If it misses, you will get the eyes or at the very least move him back.
Stick the gun in his eye - hard. Rush in on him, crash him, knock him into things. Very few people in the world are as big as the 16 sandwich eatin', corn-fed, US born and bred guys we have. And very few other nationalities like or are accustomed to body to body contact. When you get him down - stomp him into a puddle. Bronco stomp. Aggression will save you when there is no hope.
The thing about the knife in CQB is, you probably won't have time to get it out before it's over anyway. You're already holding a 10 pound steel and plastic baton, use it. If you do go to knife - stick it and rip it. In-laws at a free turkey on Thanksgiving Day. You are not fencing, you are butchering.
There is an account in the book I've been talking about of an OG medic in Northern Italy. They got jumped and put on the run by German counter-guerrillas. He used the butt of his .45 to beat to death two Germans on two separate occassions. He avoided capture and lived to tell his story to the author. Nothing fancy, just smashing them in the head over and over. (He couldn't shoot for fear of discovery by a larger body both times.)
Combatives that are complicated are not combatives - they are ballet.
Like Cinncinatus likes - put on dark tinted goggles, big ski gloves and all your kit. Then try your combatives techniques against a bigger guy in a closet. If they work - you're on the right track.
Buy Kill or Get Kilt and Get Tough. Get Cestari or McCann's DVDs. Practice on your friends - especially those that owe you money. Don't over think it. You need to be Ray Lewis not Peyton Manning when it comes down to H2H.
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Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn't worry about what workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about 'how hard it is;' he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn't go home at 17:00, he is home.
He knows only The Cause.
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