Urban Combatives training day

So another great days training today with the lads. New additions today being Cathal and Paddy. The lads who have been training with me are the lads who work some close protection details with me, so the new additions are great as we open the classes up.

Today we drilled our main artillery working through the different strikes, cultivating impact, aggression and forward pressure. Once that was down we looked at an introduction to the sharp edge programme, designed by our lead man Lee Morrison and dedicated to the edged weapon.

As we only had one hour to dedicate to the module, we looked at;

Soft skills:

What is an edged weapon - by design and by improvisation
Current knife statistics from the Irish government
Video footage of live knife assaults as a learning tool
Photos of knife victims and wounds as a learning tool

Hard skills:

A knifers MO
Common knife concealment
trapping the draw (working off a rear deployment)
Breaking the structure and blasting the low line/followed by palms and elbows
Progression to trapping the draw

That's as much as we could get through in one hour and still not giving it proper justice but Lee always says, with your class, get them used to the concepts of the edged weapon programme from the beginning, knives are so common these days, to miss the opportunity to cover it is a mistake.

To finish the class we did some combative conditioning. Sprints, to press ups to burpee jumps reeling into knees and elbows to fatigue. A good days training had by all. Next week we'll add to the edged weapon module by dealing with the blade now in play.

Just give me a shout if you want to tag along, and stay tuned for www.combatives.ie

Tóg aire :)