Our Curriculum

Glenroy Browne's Close Quarter Combat Grappling System is the most efficient and effective martial art on the planet that works within the confines of Canadian Law, and it works for the smaller, weaker, less athletic defender. But it does lack in having a standardized curriculum. It lacks this because people have different body types, fitness levels, handicaps, goals and belief systems.

To solve this dilemma our teaching methodology is based on simplifying the art of self-defense for the smaller, weaker, less athletic defender because a bigger, stronger, more athletic defender could still use this method of self-defense and because of their superior attributes they will have even more options.

So the curriculum is broken down into 3 areas of learning:

1. How to deal with aggression safely
2. What to do when you get into the Clinch Range
3. How to defend yourself when you are on the ground-Ground Defense & Control

These areas are taught through concepts combined with efficient, effective and practical techniques, strategies and tactics so that you are able to survive, escape and to finish your attacker if needed.

What makes The CQC Grappling Training Programs unique:

It is in the way in which we teach the techniques. The teaching methodology used allows students to learn at their own pace without the fear of injury because all classes are taught with the utmost concern for safety.

At The CQC Grappling Training Facility, we don't condone violence, but we develop in our students the confidence to know that if they ever need to defend themselves, they can.

What is CQC Grappling?

The CQC Grappling System is a well rounded non attribute based self protection system that teaches striking, clinching and grappling and for self-defense purposes there is a strong emphasis on close range combat because in the street you are usually surprised and/or you are the smaller person in the conflict.

The most important thing that we teach is the difference between fighting and self-defense and that is your mindset.

Fighting is all about winning. It is all about being able to finish your opponent by any means necessary and that does require the development of physical and mental attributes.

Self-Defense is all about survival. Your goals are to avoid confrontation and if attacked your only objective is to minimize the amount of damage that your attacker can do to you until you can safely escape and/or to finish your attacker, but at no time are you focusing on finishing your opponent.

CQC Grappling is a system that understands that if you choose to fight on the street or to become a combat sports competitor then you will need to have conditioning, heart, good techniques, good strategies and some good battle tested combat tactics.

The CQC Grappling System has a core group of Positions, with Rules for transitions, backed with Strategies & Tactics that do not need any athletic ability to be effective. Then as your athletic ability develops you will then add more techniques, strategies and tactics to your game that will work for you.

So, every student is taught the core of the system and then as an individual given the time to grow and to develop their own form of self protection that works for them under the pressure of a progressively resisting opponent.

All of the core techniques, strategies and tactics come from moves that have been used and proven to work for the smaller, weaker, non athletic person defending themselves against a bigger, stronger, athletic attacker.

People always ask is their a difference between sport and street, the answer is yes, but the truth is that the person who would win in the street fight is usually the same person who would win in a full contact combative sport because when it comes right down to it the better conditioned combat athlete who can fight in all the ranges of combat will win 95% of the time.

The only way that a less athletic fighter could win against a bigger, stronger, more athletic attacker would be during the verbal and pre-emptive strike stage of the confrontation " was your attack and finish effective " or else after the first contact was made is your survival strategy and tactics efficient and effective.

That's it, that's the bottom line, no secret moves or mystical techniques. If you do not have a superior strategy the superior athlete that can fight will win 95% of the time and an MMA fighter, a Thai-boxer or Submission Grappler they are all combat athletes who have highly developed fighting instincts and reflexes and self-defense at the end of the day is still about fighting for your life.

So if you are not sparring in class with progressive resistance against an uncooperative opponent then how do you really know if you have the ability to defend yourself when it really counts.

Don't be delusional, you are not going to beat a trained combat fighting athlete who decides to attack you on the street with a simple bite or eye poke maybe the kick to the groin but if he or she wants to hurt you bad enough I wouldn't put all my eggs into that saving my life.

WHY IS THAT YOU ASK?

Well, what type of a person usually does well in combat sports? A highly competitive, motivated, pain tolerant, well conditioned, focused individual who is a well trained fighter. Now take that person and tell them that they can bite, eye gouge and if they want they can use a weapon against their opponent and you now have an animal that most athletic and especially non-athletic people can not handle, and that is why all this talk about just poke the attacker in the eye or bite them or just kick them in the groin and you will get away is just a lot of B.S; but what I can guarantee you, is that if you try one of those techniques and they don't work, you will now have an even more pissed off attacker who now wants to do more damage to you than when they started.

If you choose or are forced to fight someone like that then either your athletic ability is up there with your opponent or else your survival strategy better be far superior to their drive to want to kick your butt.

Self-Defense Should Be

Our Curriculum

What is CQC Grappling?

Train to know that you can survive an attack