FLOORED-GROUNDED
Where do fight collisions occur? Where do the crashes, sticking points, and stopping points happen in conversations, arguments, arrests, fights, ambushes, violent encounters, Crime and war?
Many people refer to these areas as “ranges.” Students often ask range-related questions, and many training systems formally divide their curricula into ranges: kicking range, boxing range, grappling ranges. Then knife attack range. pistol attack range, rifle attack range, missile attack range, biological attack ranges, and so on.
Instead, I use collisions. Collision Six of my “Collision Six” module is all things, mixed weapon, floor-ground crashes. Note that I don’t just use the word “ground” or ground fighting. Why the hyphen? here’s why…
• Gound. Regular people think of the word “ground,” well, as everything outside, all surfaces outside. The dirt, rocks, grass, the streets, etc.. the ubiquitous “alleyway.” All that is “out of doors” geographically.
• Floor. Inside. Insides are where much fighting also occurs. We easily, quickly consider the word with all things inside like tiles, wood, carpet (over cement). Stairs. Etc.
Both pieces of geography have surrounding “stuff” too. To trip over, bang into, or even use. Needless to say, neither of these outdoor and indoor surfaces are…matted, padded.
I believe the two nouns “floored-grounded” linked together by a hyphen immediately conjures up, reminds people the harsh realities. Not just landed hard down on them, but also fishing-rubbing-sliding around on them.
In short, my decades in uniform and plain-clothes have taught me all that indoor, outdoor floor-ground stuff generally speaking, extra…sucks. I mean, you gotta’ do what you gotta’ do. But it sucks.
(In this photo above, I am in the process of showing these classic leg leg locks from Catch and Shooto. Figure 4 right leg. Figure 4 left leg. And the the hooking of ankles X. Having arrested struggling people for years, by far the figure 4s are the most secure. Of course you have to lean forward on the lower legs and if you lean and “lock in” the X can work. Yes. Sure. But the right and left 4s are just quicker, better and with a lean, more secure.)