About the COMBATIVES CONCENTRATION

The Military Combatives Grappling Concentration (MCGC) is an annually-held, military hand-to-hand combat training concentration that utilizes a "competition-style" format with an emphasis upon the grappling techniques currently in use within all of the Canadian Armed Forces' (CAF's) primary combatives programs.  Since the concentration's inception in 2013 at Garrison Petawawa, this gathering of soldiers, sailors, aviators and special operators from across the CAF, representing both the Regular and Reserve Forces, has become the Force's premiere combatives concentration.  It's popularity has underpinned the modern combatives movement, spawning other regional military combatives concentrations  from the Brigade to unit level.  Within the framework of the CAF's core values and principles, combatives represents the essence of the war fighter and is a symbol of the Force's ongoing commitment to the inculcation of a robust warrior culture across all ranks and trades through the maintenance of a member's high state of personal combat-readiness.



Steven J. Burgess
Lieutenant-Colonel 
Military Combatives Grappling Concentration (MCGC) Technical Director
Snr Military Combatives Instructor
​Canadian Armed Forces
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