The SOCP® program is one of two combative programs for the Army that counts towards promotional points.
ERB Codes: (SOCP® I: BRT), (SOCP® II: FBR)
Too often martial arts and combat sports are viewed as unchanging monoliths that long ago reached a state of perfection. Most practitioners never bother to question this wisdom and spend their entire careers simply repeating whatever it was their...
TO FIGHT TERRORISTS, THE U.S. ARMY SPECIAL FORCES
EMPLOYS GREG THOMPSON’S REALITYBASED PROGRAM
BY DOUG JEFFREY / PHOTOS BY BOB SADLER …
On a recent trip to Ft. Bragg I had a chance to grab coffee with S.O.C.P® founder Greg Thompson. After exchanging some wrestling stories from the past, we got down to business and he gave me the run down on the direction he’s going his S.O.C.P®...
The United States military employs some of the most sophisticated weaponry known to man, but behind every SCAR (Special Operations Forces (SOF) Combat Assault Rifle) is a Special Operations soldier who must use his split-second tactical mind and array...
A lot of martial artists think of themselves as warriors, as latter-day samurai or Shaolin monks who possess esoteric skills that turn them into elite fighters. That can make for some harmless fantasy-as long as you don’t get too carried away...
MMA star Tim Kennedy talks about his life in the military and his involvement with the special operations combatives program. In the July 2011 issue of Black Belt, Tim Kennedy discussed his MMA training methods and fight strategies. In this interview,...
Representations by Benchmade, the SOCP® Dagger, in June at the exhibition Show, – it is not just “One more” knife a double-beam element of the new concept of martial arts U.S. Special Forces. I was able to communicate with the author...
The Benchmade SOCP® was designed to give the troops in the field a means of transitioning from a close-combat edged weapon to a firearm without releasing the knife from their hand. Benchmade also provides a manual and unsharpened trainer to go with...
Last month we examined the history of MMA in Colorado, site for the inaugural UFC. This month we travel east — make that upper south — to North Carolina, which hosted the third and fifth installments of the UFC before the state banned the sport...
Ep 187 A Look Into Special Operations Combatives Program® With Greg Thompson
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SOCP® (Special Operations Combatives Program®)
SOCP® Creator Greg Thompson's Combative Tips
To evolve the Modern Army Combatives Program (MACP) Greg Thompson was asked to help. He volunteered his time to be videoed demonstrating cuff prisoner handling vehicle extractions, post, frame, hook and other techniques. The Techniques will go on a secure military site for soldiers and Instructors. He closed with lecturing on things that soldiers forget or get complaisant with.
I strongly recommend Mr. Greg Thompson for consideration as a primary trainer and/or advisor for any unit’s combative program. I am currently responsible for the planning and execution of the Army’s Special Forces advanced Close Quarters Battle program and for the past 3 years we have incorporated Mr. Thompson’s combative program into...
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I strongly recommend Mr. Greg Thompson for consideration as a primary trainer and advisor for any unit combatives program. As commander of Range 37 I have the responsibility to train and to familiarize all of our Special Forces assaulters on the most up to date and current techniques, tactics, and procedures. This includes a comprehensive combatives...
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It has been my personal and professional pleasure to be acquainted with Mr. Greg Thompson for more than ten years. As a fourteen year veteran of the Special Operations Forces (SOF) community, with service in the Ranger Regiment and Special Forces Group, and better than twenty years of martial arts training and experience, I have found the...
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“Training with Greg Thompson for the past 5 years has been the best thing that could have happened to me. Since I started training with Greg I have gone 6-1 in my professional mixed martial arts career. He has been my premier ground and Jiu Jitsu coach. During my time with Special Forces Greg has been the primary instructor for all combatives...
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Two words describe Greg Thompson: ability and wisdom. As a martial arts instructor, Greg Thompson is a rarity. He has the natural physical and mental abilities of a worldclass fighter and has the skills to back it up. His wisdom as an instructor is unsurpassed, having exceptional skills in all areas of martial arts, from weapons to all ranges...
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Greg Thompson’s H2H program is the Close Combat overhaul Special Forces has been waiting for! As an instructor for Close Combat at SFARTAETC I had to fill a void that was painfully obvious. Conducting Close Combat with full kit is an expected part of CQB but not properly trained for. . . Greg formalized a program that fit the CQB environment,...
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As a nineteen year veteran of law enforcement, defensive tactics instructor, military veteran and 2nd Dan Black belt in Tae Kwon Do . . . Being a Certified North Carolina Subject Control and Arrest Techniques Instructor and former Defensive Tactics Coordinator of North Carolina’s largest law enforcement agency, I know the importance of accomplishing...
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Greg has developed his programs based on the feedback of soldiers who have “been there and done that” in the Close Quarters setting of Iraq and Afghanistan during the War on Terror . . . Greg Thompson is a true asset to the military or any other agency that he is acquainted with and I am honored to call him my friend.
William Clark,...
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