Frag Out! Magazine
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www.fragoutmag.com Quite recently the Stronghold Group from Łódź, Poland has established a cooperation with Eliran Fieldboy , owner of Project Gecko training company in Germany. This amiable Israeli, after serving in the Sayret Tzanhanim, moved to Europe and in 2014 he founded a company conducting training classes in scope of "green side" ops and close quarter battle. At the end of June 2016, for the first time in Poland, Eli conducted a CQB Level 1, using the airsoft replicas (in "dry firing" phase) and firearms (in the second phase, at the shooting range). Due to the legal restrictions, it is impossible to conduct this kind of the classes in Germany – there you may even have problems connected with possessing firearms (even a replica) with the flashlight attached. Therefore, in Germany, in a training center very well prepared for this purpose, only classes without live firing are conducted, and those more advanced, are being conducted in the neighboring Czech Republic. Maybe now, Poland will be a place where the Project Gecko will operate more often? The CQB Level 1course, lasting in total for three days, is only like smattering an issue of the close quarters battle subject and it is divided into three primary modules: theory, practice and live firing practice. The first two days are dedicated to familiarizing with the general rules of moving in the building, getting to know the most popular layouts of the rooms and doors, and then "slicing" and "clearing". This part enables to verify an ability to work in pairs and teams, efficiency of a communication process between the team members and a capability to acquire knowledge about basic rules of entering the rooms. When the teams tune better and the individual elements of the exercises work better and better, surprises can happen. One time a grenade appears under your feet, then a simulated opponent leans out from the doors and makes an attempt to take away a gun of assaulter who enters the room… All of this is intended to force a trainee to get into the certain habits and prepare him to improvising, what in the CQB conditions is also of the non-trivial importance.