my name is dawn Bowen I'm a u.s. army green beret and this is my assistant
Keith Schiphol we're going to talk to you about the different ranges of combat
we have the projectile range and then we go into the into the the kicking range
anywhere between the kicking and the projectile range you have if I had like
a blunt object maybe like a pool stick or a mop that would be maybe like a
blunt optic range or something like that then we have the punching range or I'm a
little bit closer in and then of course as we get anymore closer in we're going
to get into what we call the clinch range and that's where too close to be
trying to throw any kind of like jabs or crosses and everything else but I can
throw an elbow I can headbutt I can you know get him a knee into the groin
that type of thing thing is that we don't want to be doing is trying to go
to the ground that's that's a big no-no because once you're down on the ground
you're no longer an assaulter now the projectile range that can be anywhere
from with it with the the rifle the pistol you know basically being able to
shoot then of course the kicking range is where I can actually you know that I
can actually touch them with my foot okay I can't touch with my hand of
course I would have to go a little bit further in but if I can touch it with my
foot that's my kicking range so and normally when I use my kicking range is
to try to make sure that he you know to kick him out of the way so as soon as I
come in through that in through the door you know I'm trying to kick him out of
the way or I can kick his knee and hyperextend his knee really
try to create a lot of damage and and hopefully take him out of the fight now
going to the punching range technically I cannot really kick I mean I probably
can but it what I generally happen is I'll cramp up you know as far as when it
comes to my kicking because I would need a little you know some space for my for
my kicks so right here I can actually punch if I can plus if with my rifle the
rifle will be way too close and of course of anything a lot from just my combat
experience these guys they like to grab the barrel and
you know that's that's what generally would type out what will
happen so from there a lot of times what we're trying to do is we try to pull the
gun back and then re-engage or or try to get this guy off of us and try to push
him out of the way key target points for this close range
a lot of times where a lot of guys are talking about with the punching
range they don't we don't want to damage our hands because this is what this is
our moneymaker because this is this mark trigger finger you know and everything
else so we're not going to be trying to do all this type of sport boxing or
anything like that so what we want to do is we want to make
sure that we're using hammer fists or trying to hit the the brachial nerve you
know hit the solar plexus area is really good at with the elbow hit the groin
area hit the knee and our main thing is to try to take this guy out of the fight
we have to kill them it will just kill them and that's point blank the also
right here isn't great target area everything is all about the soft target
right here in the throat if we can we can jab right in the throat maybe chop
right in the throat or basically hit them right there the nose or anything
like that got the eyes poking out the eyes gauge and of course we are jammed
up and we're really close to uh close to together and everything we do want to
try to create some space if we're going to get to any of our tools pull out my
knife and be able to jam this right into his hip pocket push him away and I
can cut them but a lot of times you know just like anything else whatever tools
that you bring into the fight just know that they can be used against you if I
have my pistol here I don't want to be bladed this way so if he's gonna be
turning into me I try to create the space right here and now I can get to my
pistol and I can go ahead and plug them just like anything else if I am going to
be using a rifle or my pistol I got to make sure that I know what's beyond my
targets so um and that's the thing if my buddies are behind or anything like that
I got to make sure that uh I'm not going to shoot right through this guy is going
to hit my buddy trying to make sure that we understand the different range of the
combat will will help us to be able to process the information at whatever
whatever situation we end up in so it's always best to make sure that we train
and drill at each range of combat and whatever we end up at any time at that
that type of situation we should be able to process the
information a lot quicker and the more you drill everything turns into a reflex
pattern thank you for watching greatly appreciate it if you have any
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