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Heavy and Light: A Discussion of Balance, Movement, and Weight Shifting
Fighting is fighting and it has so very little to do with stances and range work that I am astounded that these are still a focus for so many. Enhance your ability to shift weight smoothly and suddenly like this and watch how your ability to move improves dramatically. -
How Not to Get Shot by Police
It was July, 1992, right after the Rodney King Race Riots in Los Angeles. My partner Al Acosta and I were assigned to a perimeter surveillance point in Los Angeles on what I recall was a bank robbery … -
JUSTIFIED KILLING 101: FEAR AGGRESSION IN GUNFIGHTING
Continuing with our "Justified Killing 101" series I want to discuss a topic we see with dogs, but has rarely been ever used to describe humans in conflict. That is Fear Aggression. Look at the two … -
JUSTIFIED KILLING 101: THE PREDATOR MIND
When I teach a class I tell the students that my job is to teach them at three levels. One is to teach the mind as they need to know why they will be doing what they are doing. I encourage questioni… -
Managing the Interview: Manipulating Needs
This article discusses some of the material from our Killing Within The Law Series of Lectures. It is provided by one of our professional staff – Detective Wendell White On-line critics of the Killin… -
Perception and Reality
From the Killing Within The Law Course – “You can be totally wrong in your perception, but still be completely legal in your deadly force actions”. The important point is that those “perceptions” – … -
Simple Developments
We train for gunfighting. In gunfighting the loser generally dies. Simple methods allow deployment under the worst circumstances. Simple methods are high success methods. Thus we seek to simplify as m… -
SOME INTERESTING POINTS ABOUT STREETFIGHTS
Watch these videos. Response to presented violence can be described in a few words. Fight, Flee, Freeze, Submit, Posture. Fight is simple...as soon as you have seen enough to justify preemption, yo… -
Suarez International is Pro-LE!
Recently we have had a very spirited discussion here regarding the Mesa PD Dust Cover issue. Much of it I must say I drove with my article called, "YOU'RE FUCKED". But I should have known that so few …
