combatives!!! so today we did combatives for 5 hours. Combatives in the army is basically mixed martial arts (MMA, like UFC). Its ground grappeling and choke holds and that kind of stuff. We train on the dominant positions, learn a couple choke holds, and a couple arm bars. At the end of the training we actually competed against each other for 30 sec matches and rotated. I went against 2 of the girls and one of the guy sergeants. I got choked out in the first one and then was choking the other one when the fight got stopped and in the last one we jsut kinda went back and forth and nobody really had an advantage. It was good because they stress combatives isn't about winning, its about maintaining long enough for yuor buddy to get there.

After the combatives we did scenerios. 2 good guys had headgear on and a bad guy had punching gloves. The bad guy would be noncompliant somehow, sometimes it was obvious he was noncompliant and sometimes he snuck up on you. Here is a video of my fight, im in the red, craig is in the black and mack is the bad guy. he pops me once but as soon as he did i had the choke hold on him and craig had his arms. it was fun i actually enjoyed it and a bunch of the people in charge were really cool and gave me props for taking a hit without letting it phase me. My platoon sergeant told me if anyone ever fell out on his team he would gladly pick me up. the platoon leader was also pretty cool.

Tomorrow we are doing driving training and i think that's about all of it. too cold to do much else, i guess friday we will go back to the range, hopefully not since it will still be in the negatives im pretty sure. now im hearing we may go to the 9 mm range tomorrow... def praying we dont.