Close combat training

Close combat training involves combat fighting ‘up close and personal’. It is close quarters fighting. This is the real deal. There are no ‘roundhouse’ kicks and tip-toe stances with close combat training.

If you find yourself in close combat, you better abandon any notions of keeping your clothes clean. Imagine dancing intimately with your partner on a night out. Well close combat is like that, only the other person doesn’t want to dance they really want to hurt you or worse!

Often in a close combat situation, the ultimate goal is the incapacitation or death of the other participant. This kind of combat training usually comes from a military related profession or a policing career of some kind.

You won’t generally find these techniques taught on the local high mall or main street. These ‘professionasl’ - soldiers, police personnel, security services need this kind of instruction in order to deal with a deadly combat situation – that of being ‘one on one’ with an enemy; often another similarly trained person be it an enemy soldier, terrorist or criminal.

Close combat techniques and close combat training such as those found in Krav Maga, of the Keysi Fighting Method have been developed to extremes of effectiveness using methods that would be unacceptable in most normal situations for most average people.

But here the goal is to render your opponent harmless as quickly and as ruthlessly as possible before they do it to you.

Certainly anyone trained in these techniques would have an advantage in most fight situations and do better than most martial artist and boxers that they met who wanted to have a ‘go’.