"Bridging the gap between the police,
the military, the martial artist
and the aware citizen!"

"Thrive In Chaos!" - "Making the Surreal - Real!"

A 16 Year Anniversary "Hello, and thanks so much for visiting our Close Quarter Combat Group Overview page." The information about Close Quarter Combat here represents my life work and the direction the last 35-plus years has taken me. Below you will find the complete hand, stick, knife and gun outline of the entire CQC Group course, plus photos, books and CQC Group Camp scheduling. I believe you will find the equivalent of a college level doctoral course on combat here. There is much more info about courses, seminars and camps on other pages. The courses are listed to the high left of these words you are reading. For now, just keep scrolling down and learn more about how we can help you meet your self-defense goals. The CQC Group is an accumulation of the four separate, hand, stick, knife and gun programs. You can learn each course individually if you wish. Train for rank or just for knowledge. Makes no difference to me" - Hock

From Epiphany to Doctrine
By W. Hock Hochheim

I saw it all coming together into the true essence of combat. I came to understand the only reason I learned and taught fighting systems was to defeat two targets, the enemy soldier and the criminal, not to pass on grandmaster dynasties, become a trophy/sport champion or to preserve art for the sake of tradition.

There are two ways to defeat the enemy, less-than-lethal means and lethal means. In short-sometimes we take them prisoner and sometimes we have to kill them. A competent warrior can do both as legally, morally and ethically needed in a proper use-of-force continuum. Every conflict is situational. If you want to defeat the enemy soldier or the criminal, this is the system for you.

No one system, such as karate for one, or no one discipline, such as military science, holds the answers to every scenario. I began to forge a course that bridges the gap between the police, the military, the martial artists and the aware citizenry. This education never ends and is ever-changing.

To structure it as realistically as possible, I used a “reverse-engineering” approach by starting with the fight first and working backward in probabilities. After decades of real world, hand-on experience and training, in the Year 2000, I began to organize all my fighting tactics and strategies into one comprehensive program called the Close Quarter Combatives Group. The CQCG is made up of four separate, primary foundations, each a 10 level training program:

-Unarmed Combatives Course

-Knife/Counter-Knife Course

-SDMS Impact Weapon Course

-Gun/Counter-Gun Course

I still teach, promote and rank people in these individual courses because there will always be people interested in only one or two topics and not the bigger, CQC package. I will also continue to teach and ramrod the Pacific Archipelago Combatives Course. Unique to the PAC will be double sticks and the espada y daga (stick and knife) material. Soldiers, citizens and police are simply not interested in double stick drills and the like, so they do not appear in the CQCG Course. I also teach two other courses called:

-Pacific Archipelago Combatives:

The combative essence of Pacific Islands systems.

-Police Judo

CQC Group Training Mission Progression Overview:
All training is expressed in a “Modular Concept.” A module includes learning the basics of execution of a particular tactic, troubleshooting common counters to the tactic, skill and flow drill development of the tactic, counters, and then using the tactic in standing, kneeling and ground positions fighting with and/or against unarmed, stick, knife and gun weaponry. I believe in an organization of material that follows this macro to micro progression:

Epiphany. It is here for you already. Are you ready for the next step?

Week-long seminar at a U.S. Army Base, Ft. Dodge, Iowa,
Year 2000. One of the first, multi-day camps, attended by 63 dedicated people.

All of Hock's regular 2-day seminars build the CQC Group training. CQC Training is also conducted in EVERY one these seminars. See the seminar page! Instructorships in the individual courses can be achieved in these seminars, but to become a CQC Group instructor, one must also attend these special training camps. Attending seminars, working with regional instructors, attaining rank and instructorships in the individual hand, stick, knife and gun courses prepares you for the CQC Group instructorship success.

CLOSE QUARTER COMBATIVES GROUP "MAD ELEPHANT" LOGO

"Work with him! He's seen the elephant," or " Train with him-he's seen the elephant." The elephant symbol and expression has come to represent real action and real experience. If you can't live it, then try to train with the people who have. -- Hock

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