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Heavy and Light: A Discussion of Balance, Movement, and Weight Shifting
I was doing some research on Karate stances and footwork recently and saw that images of the old masters showed relatively normal stances. More lik ...
Things to Look For in a Shooting Instructor
Firearms training seems to have become the “Nail Salon Business” for men. Everyday there are more new schools and classes. Much like the “Karate Kid” craze in ...
Things the Gun Community Gets Totally Wrong
We tend to face the same things year after year. We do videos, we teach classes, and write articles like this. If just one mind is opened up and one more bad ...
The Sword That Kills
Katsujin-ken / Satsujin-ken In the last few years I have been revisiting my origins, but from a perspective of experience. So much of what I do...and did, is b ...
The 12 Precepts of the Suarez System
Defense does not exist – there is attack and there is counter attack.Everything begins and ends with marksmanship.Justify Shooting first.You must understand the ...
The Silence
Some of us are comfortable inwards - at times...and it is the only place, alone, that we can organize the horror and the beauty of the life we have thus far liv ...
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I got back to the station and my uniform was in shreds. My knees and
elbows looked like I was some little kid that fell off his bike. In
short, I looked like crap. I had just concluded a nice little ground
fight with an MS-13 gang member. In retrospect, I should have simply
stabbed him in the neck...but we learn and live…thankfully. He was
brought in beaten up bad, and choked out...but very much alive.
In my experience, fights do not always go to the ground. They do if you
lose your bala...
Here is what you see - suddenly and unexpectedly. What is it? You have a couple of seconds to decide. Guess wrong and you die. Can you justify shooting the bearer? You can be mistaken in your perceptions and still be legally justified. ...
I recall what could now be considered "yesteryear". Our uniform pants had what was called a "Sap Pocket". It was intended to carry - wait for it - a sap. This was the first line of less than lethal for most. And most carried something like a 415 Gonzales. It was an 11" piece of something hard wrapped in black leather. And when in the sap pocket it was inches form the casual hand. Many times I saw older deputies and slightly built officers, who probably would have never done well in a fist fight,...
1). All fights involve one
party taking the initiative and the other party responding. There are no
mutually agreed upon fights. You start
the ambush, react to it, or avoid the danger area altogether. Most
modern gun training, takes the assumption that, due to a super
developed mind-set, that the “modern operator” will never be surprised
and thus always have the initiative. Very wishful thinking for anyone...ninjas included.
2). If you have good
information and can trust what you see, ...
1. High level of marksmanship ability via Skill and Equipment
2. High level of applied tactics and concepts via proper and complete force on force indoctrination and associated disciplines
3. Complete understanding and internalizing of real world ROE via
memorization and daily exercise of the Flowchart of Justified Deadly
Force
4. Gentleman Warrior self-image that sets the stage for the requisite mental attitude, and simplifies action.
Have those four...really have them, and any active...
I was reading the debriefings from the recent active shooter events. It appears the LE responders often had enough identification of the shooters to eliminate any question of who they were engaging. Yet the officers didn’t shoot them.
Shooting a man that has just shot others, is justified at first sight. Even if they are not currently involved in the act, but your contact is contemporaneous to the act. Having just shot a bunch of innocents a few minutes earlier doesn’t make him unable to do ...
I was doing some research on Karate stances and footwork recently
and saw that images of the old masters showed relatively normal stances.
More like "real life" than anything you might see today. Today
everything is exaggerated. A front stance is like a deep lunge for
example. And many modern schools - never having learned it properly -
promote the deep stance thing. But I believe the original purpose of
these was to teach a shifting of weight and a sense of the transition
...
I have participated in more than a few gunfights in reduced light. For 15 years, with few exceptions, I worked between 1700 HRS and 0500 HRS. And I hunted bad guys in buildings and in the street. When I discuss this low light problem, I speak from personal experience. But we are not here to discuss me. The article on using weapon lights was been read quite a few times and it seems to polarize the reader. They either agree with my position, or they question my sanity. The gun world, like most of ...
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