How can police engage in realistic close quarters or extreme close-quarters firearms training that incorporates empty hand?
• MD: I am sure that you and your readers are familiar with Simunitions training, scenario training, and so forth. These are all very good! What I would offer to the mix is what we call the Kali Fence and the Dog Catcher, weapon access once the fight has started, and both the restraint methods and the extreme violence methods which I have been taught. The Kali Fence is ideal for conducting interviews with dubious individuals, weapons retention, pre-emption, interception of all the likely attack angles. It is set up to work against larger and stronger individuals as well. The Dog Catcher is for when we are reacting to an attack. In ECQ, the reaction time is a split second. As I understand it, the idea is to survive the initial ambush strike and get into the fight. My concern is that if the attack is with a knife that the lung/heart are exposed to the very common hooking/stabbing motion, the belly exposed to the slash, and the groin/femoral exposed to rising hooking/stabbing motions. As
