CQB Week
Course Description:
You can take our entire CQB course series step by step over the year, or all at once in a single week. CQB Week is the second option: seven days of continuous building training, finishing with live fire in a kill house.
CQB Week combines basic and advanced CQB (Close Quarters Battle, fighting in buildings and confined spaces), vehicle interventions, ballistic shield work, breaching and other specialized procedures into a single program. It is not a series of separate courses. Each day builds on the previous one until you bring the individual skills together into complex scenarios that you work through as a team.
For most of the week you train with FX Simunition weapons, a force-on-force system with marking ammunition, and with role players. That way you test the procedures you've learned in situations very close to reality. FX training weapons and ammunition are included in the course fee. On the seventh day, live weapons and live ammunition come out in the kill house.
We never have more than 8 students per instructor, so everyone gets real attention and we go over every situation with you in detail.
Choose a date in the calendar below.
Who Is This Course For:
For those who want to complete building tactics training as a whole, rather than piecing it together from individual weekends.
Dynamic Pistol 1 and
Dynamic Rifle 1 are required, because you work with both pistol and rifle during the week and need to have basic weapon handling mastered.
What You Will Learn:
After a week you can safely move down a hallway and enter an apartment and a room, apprehend and secure a suspect, deal with uninvolved persons and coordinate clearing a building with other teams. You can enter a building through a window, with or without a ladder, including break and rake, work with a ballistic shield and breach doors with a ram, a pry bar or a shotgun. You know how to position a team around a vehicle, block it, take down its occupants and carry out a complete safety search. And you have tested everything in many scenarios, finally with live weapons.
Contents:
Basic theory, slicing the pie on a room, apartment and room entries, hallway movement, door opening system, apprehending and securing suspects and uninvolved persons, reacting to non-standard situations, multi-team coordination when clearing a building, alternative building entry through windows with and without ladders (break and rake), tactical procedures with a ballistic shield, mechanical breaching with a ram and a pry bar and ballistic breaching with a shotgun. Basic team positioning around the target vehicle, a system for blocking the suspect's vehicle with intervention vehicles, extraction techniques using control holds, takedowns and a baton, complete safety search of a stopped vehicle. Many varied scenarios focused on tactical procedures in buildings, with a detailed debrief of each one.
FX Simunition weapons, plenty of ammunition and role players add a whole new dimension to the training, bringing it very close to reality. The course finishes with tactical procedures and solving situations with live weapons and ammunition in a kill house.
Required Equipment:
Comfortable civilian or tactical clothing and solid outdoor or sports shoes (both suited to the current weather and outdoor temperatures), a belt and, if you have your own, a high-quality and safe hard holster for a Glock 17 Gen4/5 worn on the strong side and covering the trigger guard (preferably kydex) and spare magazine pouches, or a plate carrier or any full ballistic protection including a helmet, AR15 magazine pouches, shooting glasses, hearing protection (earmuffs, earplugs, etc.), knee pads, tactical gloves and a flashlight. Above all, come to the course in clothing and gear that match your everyday carry or work as closely as possible, without having to buy any tactical gear. It is not required on this course.
If you would like to try modern ballistic gear, click on your chosen course date and you can rent one of the plate carriers on offer, including ballistic plates, or a top-of-the-line Galvion ballistic helmet.
Nylon or similar soft holsters, whether inside or outside the waistband, as well as shoulder holsters, are very dangerous for the user both in training and in real-life carry. Please avoid wearing them on the course and in real life. We can rent you high-quality kydex holsters by RH Holsters for Glock 17/19/26/43, Walther PDP/PPQ/PPS/Creed, H&K SFP9 and S&W MP9 pistols, together with a magazine pouch, for a small fee. Just click on the course date of your choice and order the holster you need in the section below the weapon selection. Appendix carry holsters, worn at the front of the waistband, are allowed provided they meet the definition of a high-quality and safe hard holster, preferably kydex, worn on the strong side and covering the trigger guard.
Weapon:
We will provide you free of charge with our FX Simunition force-on-force training weapons: Glock 17 Gen4 or Gen5 pistols, AR15 or H&K 416 semi-automatic rifles and H&K MP5 or MP7 submachine guns. Long guns come with a sling and a magazine, pistols with a kydex belt holster. You can bring your own AR15 or H&K MP5, and we will lend you just the FX conversion kit for it. That way you can train with the weapon you are used to (please let us know about this in advance by email). FX Simunition ammunition is included in the course fee.
On the seventh day you will need a semi-automatic pistol with two magazines, a semi-automatic rifle with two magazines and at least 200 rounds for each weapon. For subcompact pistols (for example G43/42) we recommend at least 3 magazines.
If you do not own one or both guns or would like to try a different one, we can provide a pistol or rifle with holsters, ammunition and other accessories for your chosen course date. Just click on the course date and you will see a full list of weapons available for that date. In the first section you will find complete packages, which always include a pistol or rifle with two magazines, kydex pistol and magazine holsters, eye and ear protection and the number of rounds needed for the course. If you bring your own factory ammunition, you can choose to rent the gun only. The full list of rental guns, along with the option to order ammunition, holsters or protective equipment separately, can be found in the sections below.
Tactical Courses and the Law:
Czech law does not regulate participation in tactical courses in any way. You don't need a firearms license or any other permit, and it doesn't matter whether you are a citizen of the Czech Republic, another EU country or a country outside the EU. Czech law sets no fixed minimum age, but a minor participant must be reasonably mature, both mentally and physically. We do not recommend registering children under 15 for a course this intensive.
Firearms and the Law:
You do not need a firearms license, background check or criminal record extract to attend this course. Our instructor will hand you the weapon and you will train with it under his constant supervision. Czech law sets no fixed minimum age, but a minor participant must be reasonably mature, both mentally and physically. We do not recommend registering children under 15 for a course this intensive.
There is no restriction on the barrel length of semi-automatic rifles, and high-capacity magazines are allowed. Suppressors and weapon-mounted lasers and lights are legal in the Czech Republic.
If you hold a European Firearms Pass (EFP) with your firearm listed in it, you may temporarily bring it to the Czech Republic and use it for training. Under Czech law it is enough to prove the purpose of your visit, for example with your course booking or another document confirming the reason for your trip. An official invitation is not required by law. The EFP also covers carrying an amount of ammunition that matches the purpose of the trip, for example for a competition or training. Please note that transit countries or your airline may apply their own limits or requirements. If you plan to travel through several countries or by air, contact us and we will help you prepare any documents you may need, such as an invitation.
Timing:
Class starts at 9:00 am. Please arrive at the training site no later than 8:30–8:45 am. The course usually ends around 6:00 pm, with a 30-minute lunch break during the day.
Venue:
We run our courses at various locations across the Czech Republic. You will find the exact venue for each date in the calendar, just click on the date. For multi-day courses that use more than one location, all venues are listed there.
Please check the venue carefully before booking. The same course often runs at different locations on different dates. Every now and then a student books a date expecting it to be at our home base, the Oleško shooting range, only to find out on the day that the course is taking place in Moravia, some 300 km away. To avoid this, always click on the date before booking and check where that particular date takes place.
Language:
Czech with English translation available.
Accommodation and Food:
Accommodation is not included in the course fee, each participant arranges and pays for it themselves. There is a 30-minute lunch break, so bring food that doesn't need cooking or ordering, such as an Adventure Menu type ration, an MRE or food from home, and enough to drink for the whole day.
Where to Go Next:
The direct follow-up is
CQB NIGHT, where you take the procedures you've learned into darkness and limited visibility. CQB Week replaces the individual CQB courses that are required for it.
Have a Question?
You will find answers to the most common questions in our
Questions and Answers section. Didn't find what you were looking for? Write or call us using any of our
contacts, we will be happy to help.
Online Video Course:
Before you come to CQB Week, we recommend watching the free
CQB Basic video course on our YouTube channel, which has over 115,000 views. You will see the basic building procedures that the whole week builds on, so on site you can move on to the more demanding topics faster. Please note that the video is in Czech.
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