PLEASE NOTE that this program and the Tactical Ninjutsu program are one combined program. We will be updating our site to better reflect this.

Military Hand to Hand & Close Quarter Combatives / Street Self Defense
Scientific Fighting Congress: Unarmed Combat

Self defense is about self preservation. In the beginning, it should involve creating avenues of escape and evasion, and training yourself to put as much distance between you and your attacker as possible. This is much easier than trying to "defeat" your attacker (as most self defense and traditional martial arts systems teach). You must be able to identify the threat and create space. Not everyone will want to study a martial art, but everyone has a need for self defense.

Learnign to defeat your attacker takes a lot more training and attitude. Some individuals do have the desire, and in some cases the need, to take their training to a higher level in order to subdue, arrest, or defeat their attacker altogether. In this program you will learn both. You will begin by learning skills that take advantage of your, already existing, natural reflexive reactions and gross motor movements so that you can immediately have a set of effective self defense skills. You will continue to refine these as you begin working on more advanced skills.

This program covers mentality, strategies and tactics in hand vs. hand, hand vs. knife, hand vs. sticks, and hand vs. gun threats.

You will learn:

• How to avoid potential threats and dangerous situations
• Vital, life-saving conversions of classical and traditional martial art techniques over to reality fighting
• Dirty tricks and strategies that clean-cut, rule-following police and martial artists won't usually know
• Hundreds of skill, power and fighting savvy developing drills that police/soldiers won't usually know
• Hundreds of street survival strategies & techniques, that martial artists/soldiers won't usually know
• Learn the tactics/plans of criminals and enemy soldiers, how they will ambush you and fight you.
• Tactics so that a smaller person could escape from a much lager person (Even if they are a trained fighter)
• Methods anyone could use even when older or injured
• Escape and survive any situation (multiple attackers, armed assailants)
• Escape from any grab or hold
• Escape form any ground pin
• Survive even the most brutal attack
• How to defeat a much larger, more skilled target
• How to make every part of your body a weapon
• Lethal and Non-Lethal use of force
• Offensive weapons tactics
• Unarmed defense against weapons

This Tactical/Modern Unarmed Combat program includes:

• Tactical street combat--standing and on the ground
• Combat tactics similar to Kick Boxing and Thai Boxing
• Combat grabs--standing and on the ground
• Combat headlocks/chokes--standing and on the ground
• Combat bear hugs--standing and on the ground
• "Extreme " Close Quarter Combat in the "Fighter's Clinch"
• Combat hand, knife, stick throws, takedowns
• Counters and reversals to all tactics taught
• Combat ground fighting scenarios (non-submission based)
• Combat against multiple attackers
• Empty hand vs. knife, pistol and long gun scenarios
• Important military and police follow-up containment and control tactics
• Combat against stick and all impact weapon attacks
• Ground Zero-ground kick fighting
• Joint cranks, joint breaks, counters, reversals and flows
• Invading Hands (or Trapping Hands)- standing, kneeling and on the ground

*Non-classical, non-traditional, no katas, no sports, no kids

Modular Training Concept

All training is expressed in a “Modular Concept.” A module includes learning the basics of execution of a particular tactic, troubleshooting common counters to the tactic, skill and flow drill development of the tactic, counters, and then using the tactic in standing, kneeling and ground positions fighting with and/or against unarmed, stick, knife and gun weaponry. We believe in an organization of material that follows this macro to micro progression:

Strategy Training: This is an overall plan. Big picture. This training can be done in a classroom, in a lecture format. "Today we are talking about the defeating the mugger." "The laws say- "He will statistically attack you by..."

Tactical (and practical) Training: These are the general tactics that seem to cross-over into so many applications, such as - working on a pistol quick draw, slashing a knife, or palm-striking a heavy bag. You might call this basic training.

Situational Training: This requires more study. What are the situations you will be in. Where? This is crisis rehearsal in replications of scenarios. Who are you? Where do you think you will be? What will you need to make it through? You might call this the start of advanced training.

Positional Training: This is pinpoint right down to it. The general tactics may well work here, but where precisely are you and the opponent? This is the real fine tuning of tactics as needed. The finite situation. Like---bottom-side ground and his left leg is out. Arm Wrap trap or your knife hand/arm warp trap of his empty hand. His left hand is on your throat and you are up against a wall. Sometimes, solutions relate to finite positioning.

Scenario Training

This is finally where the rubber meets the road, full contact. In scenario training, everyone has a "role" whether it be innocent bystander, attacker, or victim. Nobody knows each others' roles and you never when you will be the victim. Common scenarios from real life will be played out such as bar/club scenes, social events, sporting events, parking lots, side walks, domestic distubances, gang attacks, assaults, etc. Attacks are carried out just as they would be in these real-life scenarios. You will test your stituation management skills as well as your self defense, fighting, and combat skills in a way that you will know they will work in real life, should you ever need them.

From Epiphany to Doctrine
By W. Hock Hochheim

I saw it all coming together into the true essence of combat. I came to understand the only reason I learned and taught fighting systems was to defeat two targets, the enemy soldier and the criminal, not to pass on grandmaster dynasties, become a trophy/sport champion or to preserve art for the sake of tradition.

There are two ways to defeat the enemy, less-than-lethal means and lethal means. In short-sometimes we take them prisoner and sometimes we have to kill them. A competent warrior can do both as legally, morally and ethically needed in a proper use-of-force continuum. Every conflict is situational. If you want to defeat the enemy soldier or the criminal, this is the system for you.

No one system, such as karate for one, or no one discipline, such as military science, holds the answers to every scenario. I began to forge a course that bridges the gap between the police, the military, the martial artists and the aware citizenry.

To structure it as realistically as possible, I used a “reverse-engineering” approach by starting with the fight first and working backward in probabilities. After almost 30 years of real world, hand-on experience and training, in the Year 2000, I began to organize all my fighting tactics and strategies into one comprehensive program called the Close Quarter Combatives Group. The CQCG is made up of four separate, primary foundations, each a 10 level training program:

• Unarmed Combat
• Knife / Counter Knife Combat
• Stick / Counter Stick Combat
• Gun / Counter Gun Combat

"My central focus is urban, suburban, rural and battlefield fighting winning, survival and self-defense, based upon military and police defensive tactics and the best of martial arts - bridging this gap." -W. Hock Hochheim