Brief history
Difference between martial arts and combatives
Physiological effects of imminent danger
Duress dysfunctions

Go armed
Clear your body of the weapon’s line of attack
Be offensive
Simplicity (gross motor)
Simultaneity
Perpendicularity
Consequence
Dempsey drop
Create and crash gaps
Half-beat counters
High-low sequencing
Soft to hard, hard to soft
Incidental striking
Unbalancing
Unweighting

Triangle and diamond drills
Combatives shuffle
Vaulting:
- Driving forward vs. stepping forward

Plyometrics
Inquartata movements
- Opening the gate
- Striking on the movement (simultaneity)

Hook step
Change step
Throwing footwork

Establishing an athletic base
Hand and elbow placement
Establishing the defensive box
Protecting the chin
Biting down
Breathing

Step back set (two hands)
Shearing (and countering) inside and outside
Holding ground
Immediate offense (palm heel)

Stopping the shoulder/upper lever
Parry to outside
Parry to inside
Stabbing hubad

Armbars
- Wrist and elbow
- Straight arm (over the top)
- Under the armpit/neck trap
- Off the rear grab

Arm drag
- Under the elbow
- Off the rear grab

Movement commonality (unarmed, folder, knife, pocket stick)
Movement commonality outside, down and around
Cross-side wrist grabs
Same-side wrist grabs
Takedowns

Trap to arm attack
Clavicle-notch takedown
Trap and strike
- Chin jab
- Uppercut
- Cupped hand

What’s involved?
Entire bodyweight
Pushing against the floor using your feet, legs, hips, back and shoulders
Arms and hands (open or closed)

1. Moving forward with full bodyweight

Falling forward
Springing forward
Whirling
Surging upward
2. Establishing the power line

3. Relaying ...

Forming the fist
What the hand is doing and timing (snatching)
Jab (form, breathing, footwork, straight punching, defending while attacking, sitting down, etc.)
Cross (form, breathing, footwork, straight punching, defending while attacking, sitting down, etc.)
Slapping hook (form, breathing, ...

Evasive movement (back step)
Head movement (slipping/ducking)
Shoulder roll

Jab, cross
Jab, cross, lead left hook
Feint, lead left hook, cross
Rear uppercut, lead left hook, cross
Jab, cross, liver
Sit-under hook to kidney

Single-collar tie
Full clinch

Chopping ax hand
Horizontal ax hand
Diagonal ax hand
Forearm slam
Hammerfist
Back hammerfist
Cupped-hand blow
Bent-arm blast
Face mash
Chin jab
Finger jab
Slashing elbow
Upward elbow
Straight knee
Upward knee
Outside leg kick
Inside leg kick
Teep
Push kick
Shin kick

Spearing elbow
Ax hand
Knee
Slashing elbow
Stomp

Knee to groin
Clinch head to shoulder, striking base of skull
Chin-rip takedown
Stomp

Shin kick
Step outside
Left-hand single-collar tie
Right elbow and neck down
Right hammerfist
Right knee to leg
Stomp

Off-hand face mash
Shin kick
Slashing elbow

Side head lock
Guillotine
Front underarm bear hug
Front overarm bear hug
Rear underarm bear hug
Rear overarm bear hug
Standing rear-naked choke
Rear double-arm-lock restraint

Forehand stick strike (block, trap, lock)
Backhand stick strike
Pistol to head
Pistol to chest
Pistol to side
Pistol to back
Defeat a draw (foul the draw to elbow)
Knife stab
Knife slash (block, trap, lock)
Knife ice pick (elbow lock/Biddle)
Dynamic knife defense
The “Hail Mary” disarm