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The U.S. Army's Basic Combatives Course (Level 1) is a five-day training program that teaches soldiers fundamental close-quarters combat skills to prepare them for hand-to-hand situations. It builds on the "Warrior Ethos" by focusing on skills to "close with and defeat the enemy" using a foundation of grappling techniques from systems like Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. The course includes instruction on striking, grappling, and controlling an opponent, and its goal is to improve a soldier's confidence, resiliency, and ability to respond to close-range threats both on and off the battlefield.
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U.S. Army Staff Sgt. William Smith, a combatives master trainer assigned to 157th Infantry Brigade, instructs a basic combatives course on Camp Atterbury, Indiana, 19 July, 2021. Day one of the course primarily focused on distance management techniques

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Credit to : U.S. Army Staff Sgt. William Smith

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00:00so we want to go butt lats chin tucked arms out of the 45 and slap the mat to
00:12displace energy out through your arms like this good like ragdoll a little bit
00:30a little bit of an athletic bend in our knees we don't want to be like way out here we don't
00:41want to be all scrunched up here whatever feels natural not a difficult concept really the only
00:49change from like a typical fighting stances instead of being completely weighted or hips
00:54forward our first option would be create space engage with primary weapon to do that we're going
01:02to use this post to either drive the opponent away come back to primary weapon or if they're big and
01:12strong and heavy or stubborn and they don't want to move or there's no space behind them whatever the
01:16case may be we're going to use our post to push ourself back and come to primary weapon does that
01:24make sense right so we have the post option one create space engage with primary weapon and that's
01:33an index point so no point am I flagging myself and I have to make sure I'm aware that my hand is on my
01:42target whether it's here here whatever so we use this thumb pectoral index to have like a physical
01:52understanding of where our muzzle is pointed at all times
01:59basic inside and laterals
02:01basic outside oh man I had high hopes so drop one leg to the net yep so we're going to drive there we go
02:22this is great and the hips will come up now that leg becomes your post the other one goes down
02:30boom boom right so hips hips go through this way boom oh hit it wrong when you get down there take your
02:44hip ips up hips up there we go yeah good good good good
02:55yep
02:56okay
03:02I didn't break me yeah I always say
03:05we think about it too much I just want a mess
03:07good
03:07we're supposed to have a knee
03:09apparently
03:11we're supposed to have a knee
03:13Yeah.
03:14I think that's...
03:15No, you're not bad.
03:16Come on.
03:17I'm good.
03:18Come on.
03:19You're leading with it.
03:20Come on.
03:21And do it again.
03:23Makes sense.
03:24Looks easy to put it for the rest of us.
03:27Looks easy.
03:28Yeah, it's fine.
03:29So you go from the...
03:30You roll.
03:31See the base.
03:32Roll, see the base.
03:33Get back to the knee.
03:34Then come back to your knees.
03:35Switch the knees.
03:36Right, so we're doing...
03:37We're rolling over both shoulders.
03:38Oh, okay.
03:39So, roll.
03:42See the base.
03:43Yeah.
03:44If you want to continue to roll, pop up to a knee.
03:46That works.
03:47We're good with that.
03:48Then I got to switch the knees, right?
03:49Yes.
03:50So make sure you're going the other way.
03:52Oh, okay.
03:53Over both shoulders.
03:54That's going to happen a lot.
03:55Let's roll in.
03:56I guess.
03:57Oh, look.
03:59Oh.
04:00And then I'm just going to...
04:04Side break ball.
04:10Yeah, there you go.
04:11I can see these two.
04:12Oh.
04:13Reached a little bit.
04:14Yeah.
04:15Definitely hurt your shoulder.
04:16Reached a little bit.
04:17You'll know if you don't do it right.
04:18Yeah.
04:19Oh, that's good.
04:20That's good.
04:21That's good.
04:22That's good.
04:23Doesn't matter.
04:24Yep.
04:25So let's go.
04:26See, whenever you're coming in, I'll just...
04:27Close down.
04:28I'm coming in, so now you're going to try to...
04:39Do I push you in there?
04:40You're actually pushing yourself back.
04:41Okay.
04:42In a way.
04:43Yeah, the knife is going to go...
04:44Do you want to do it in between the floating rib and the further side?
04:45Oh, that's right.
04:46Yeah.
04:47Boom.
04:48Oh, that's right.
04:49Boom.
04:50Yeah.
04:51We're shooting this out.
04:52So are you even pushing...
04:53Have you lean on?
04:54Yeah.
04:55If you're down like this, go ahead and do it with your head down.
05:08Do you see what I'm doing?
05:09No.
05:10Yeah, and you can't...
05:11Pistol here.
05:12Grab my gun.
05:13Super easy.
05:14Grab my gun.
05:15Can't do it.
05:16Right?
05:17If we have to do this, we should be thinking that that's a thing, and that's now in play.
05:24Because I can introduce my weapons into the fight, but so can he.
05:28Right?
05:29And so if we end up in this position, we need to get away from this position fast.
05:34And that's when we're going to go to either a different distance management technique,
05:39or get to a position where we can make this switch.
05:43We're really extended.
05:45And all your...
05:46All bad hombre is going to do is grab the top of your shoulders and snap them down with
05:51the ground.
05:52Because we're off balance.
05:54So be aware that we're in...
05:56When we're in these distance management techniques, these positions, that our hips are under our
06:01shoulders, and our feet are under our hips.
06:04Right?
06:05Just like...
06:06Just like our fighter stance.
06:07Just like our shooting stance.
06:10Make sense?
06:11Yes.
06:12Otherwise, it'll happen, and you'll see it.
06:15It starts from projectile weapons range, and then an aggressor comes forward, and we
06:23have the post, right?
06:24Because that's the farthest thing out.
06:26He keeps coming.
06:27We collapse to the frame.
06:29Because we're just a little farther, or a little closer together now.
06:33Right?
06:34A forearm 45 across their chest.
06:37Hand dripping the top of the shoulder.
06:40Grabbing cloth is good.
06:42Not required, but we like that.
06:45Nothing else really changes.
06:47This shoulder is still rolled, protecting the chin.
06:50We don't need to drive this chin, like, down in so I can't see.
06:54We're still up, looking at whiskers.
06:56Don't lock eyes with your opponent, because your eyes will lie to you.
06:59This serves another purpose, too.
07:01Remember when we were in the post, we were concerned about where our hand is.
07:05Now when we're clinch fighting with weapons, we don't like that that's now on our target.
07:10Now I've got more of my body on the target.
07:13Watch the target when I swim to the back of his head.
07:17Wow, I have more target.
07:19I've also opened up this side of his neck for knives.
07:25Make sure that our posts and our frames position themselves, just from static, are good.
07:36Because tomorrow, that will be the position that you start in as someone tries to strike
07:41you in the face.
07:42So, make sure we're not getting lazy and like posting like this and framing like this and
07:49doing weird shit, but make sure we're doing what we need and doing the right thing.
07:54BOOM!
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