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      "body": "![IMG_7272.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmYMhpucvFUbzQ4JZAoipbgkrwuJLPqGvaJfXQB8Q7S1z4/IMG_7272.JPG)“Not being there is way better than running, running is way better than de-escalating, de-escalating is way better than fighting and fighting is way better than dying.”  SGT Rory Miller\n\n“Self defense is recovery from stupidity or bad luck.”  SGT Miller\n\n“Self defense is a limited number of techniques and tactics that may get you out alive after you’re already screwed.”  SGT Miller yet again\n\nIt bugs me when I see instructors teaching self defense like they are developing unbeatable fighters.  I believe that they are setting people up to be hurt badly if they are teaching them to think that they are unbeatable bad asses.  I don’t think I’m developing fighters, I think I am teaching people how to be safe.  I teach don’t be there, run, find an object to smack the attacker with and, as a last resort….go batshit crazy and beat down whoever is trying to hurt you.   \n\nThis from an old article on UFC 175 i found on the internet;  This (from bjpenn.com) is telling;  “The UFC’s biggest card of the year, UFC 175, took place this past Saturday, and the medical suspensions are rather extensive, with both Chris Weidman and Ronda Rousey potentially out until January of 2015. Check out the full list: Chris Weidman: Must have left jaw, right elbow, right ribs and right ankle x-rayed, and if positive, then that injury must cleared by orthopedic doctor or no contest until Jan. 2; minimum suspension until Aug. 20 with no contact until Aug. 5 Lyoto Machida: Suspended until Sept. 4 with no contact until Aug. 20 Ronda Rousey: Must have right hand x-rayed, and if positive cleared by orthopedic doctor or no contest until Jan. 2 Alexis Davis: Suspended until July 27 with no contact until July 20 Uriah Hall: Must have right second toe cleared by orthopedic doctor or no contest until Jan. 2; minimum suspension until Sept. 4 with no contact until Aug. 20 Russell Doane: Must have right thumb x-rayed and cleared by orthopedic doctor or no contest until Jan. 2; minimum suspension until July 27 with no contact until July 20 Urijah Faber: Must have left rib x-ray series, and if positive then needs doctor clearance or no contest until Jan. 2 Kenny Robertson: Must have right elbow cleared by orthopedic doctor or no contest until Jan. 2 Bruno Santos: Must have possible nasal fracture cleared by doctor or no contest until Jan. 2; minimum suspension until July 27 with no contact until July 20 due to laceration George Roop: Suspended until Aug. 20 with no contact until Aug. 20 with no contact until Aug. 5 Luke Zachrich: Must have left hand x-rayed, and if positive then needs orthopedic doctor clearance or no contest until Jan. 2; minimum suspension until Aug. 20 with no contact until Aug. 5 for right eye laceration Kevin Casey: Must have left elbow cleared by orthopedic doctor or no contest until Jan. 2 William “Bubba” Bush: Suspended until Sept. 4 with no contact until Aug. 20”\n\nYep, the most in shape, most talented, best fighters on the planet in a sport fight with rules, referees and time limits and not many walked away unscathed.  Ronda only fought 16 friggin seconds and she’s injured for crying out loud!\n\nThis is what fries me with the “face four knife wielding thugs with no fear” crap that’s being taught.  You had better fear that, I don’t care how good you are.  Run like you’re on fire if ever faced with those odds.  Fighting for your life is one thing, not running when you had the chance is stupid.   We self defense instructors don’t teach nearly enough of what can happen if that fight goes bad.  We could certainly be killed.  We can win but have months of rehab ahead of us.  We can have limbs that never work right again.  We can be in a wheelchair for life, can be blinded, can be left brain damaged (that’s the one that scares me the most).  We can end up having a colostomy bag if stabbed or shot in the wrong place (your crap don’t come out where it’s supposed to anymore, you have a tube attached to your innards that comes through your abdomen and empties into a plastic bag).  Even if you’re unscathed you can end up going to jail.  Win that trial and you can be sued in civil court by the “victim” that attacked you and lose everything you own.  Still want to step up to that bully because he called you a name?  Learn to apologize and buy the idiot a drink.  Acting like a mature adult isn’t showing weakness.  Read Marc MacYoung and Rory Miller’s books for way more insight into this. \n\nThis is a subject most martial arts and self defense systems fail miserably at... letting their practitioners know that they can and probably will sustain damage.  This can be a game changer!  If you rely on both hands to do a joint lock and break one….what do you do then?  If you rely only on jump kicks and the attack starts with your ankle being crushed...what do you do then?  If we’ve never trained thinking about an injury and then it happens our brains will want to freeze because this wasn’t in the plan.  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I’ll take a ball bat and an attitude over any black belt in any system!   4) When it’s go time, GO!!  If you are in a fight that couldn’t be avoided you fight hard, dirty and brutal!\n\nWE can’t teach people to be heroes, to have them think that they can’t be hurt or to not let them know that there are always consequences to fighting.  We must teach that self defense is used as a last resort.  When it’s go time, it’s all out, swing for the fences, go time but…if we can avoid it, run away or de-escalate, that is what we should do!  BE SAFE!",
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      "body": "Let me start off by saying that I am not an expert on handgun training.   I train often, have been through some good courses and even have certification as a basic handgun instructor…but I teach Krav Maga.  The mindset, philosophy and thoughts on training that we teach for real world violence and unarmed self defense, in my opinion, matches up perfectly for handgun training.\n\nIf you are training handgun because you like target shooting, do it for fun or just think firing guns is cool, train anyway you like.  If y![IMG_7272.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmYMhpucvFUbzQ4JZAoipbgkrwuJLPqGvaJfXQB8Q7S1z4/IMG_7272.JPG)ou are practicing with your handgun for self defense, there are some things that you should consider.  First and foremost, study violence.  Study what stress, exhaustion, the adrenaline dump, fear and pain do to you.  As Rory Miller says in his great book on the subject MEDITATIONS ON VIOLENCE “You do not fight like you train unless you train clumsy, blind, deaf and stupid”.  These things that our bodies do under stress can be a major game changer.  \n\nAgain, I am not an expert on handgun training.  I do know Krav Maga, I do study the heck out of real world violence.  For example;  When we practice knife defenses we do not practice against a partner who thrusts at us once with a half assed stab and then keeps his/her arm straight and still for two seconds.  We practice after already being stabbed once by a blitzing attacker who is on us fast and furious.  The attacker will keep us off balance, hit us hard, use their off hand to keep us from blocking or getting to the knife, will “hockey punch” with the knife over and under our block and pump that knife like a sewing machine needle.  To practice against that first attacker will get us killed on the street because the attack on the street is much more likely to be like the second attacker.  The other thing we do is slather KY jelly on both of our arms to mimic the slippery blood that is most likely going to be there.  Now, when it happens on the street we have been there and done that.\n\nLet’s start with stance while firing.  I dislike the Weaver stance for self defense simply because if something startles me I am going to square up to it and hunch down.  This is a natural body reaction.  To think during the stress, fear and adrenaline dump of an attack I will do anything else is a mistake.  \n\nPracticing on a range standing still and getting accurate is what we start with of course.  We have to get basics down.  In our Krav classe one big rule is that, once we have the form down, we always go balls to the wall.  We always go all out and hit things our hardest.  In handgun training once we have these basics down we won’t train like that anymore.  In the real world if someone is firing at me I had better be moving and looking for cover.  At the range we had better be practicing this way.  We had better fire on targets while egressing, retreating and moving sideways to cover.  We had better practice firing from cover.\n\nAgain, we need to practice for what we’ll see.  Personally, I don’t like shooting steel plates that fall after one hit.  In the real world people take multiple hits mid chest and keep coming.  I don’t want to train that one hit takes care of the problem.    \nWe had better change our distances as well.  Back to that knife attack, I had better be practicing fighting that off, accessing my weapon and shooting close range from the hip with my front arm keeping the target at distance.  If this is what I am likely to see, this is what I had better have practiced.\n\nIn a gunfight I had better keep my eye on the person trying to kill me.  On the range do you practice reloads and clearing jams while keeping your eye on the target and not looking at your handgun?  What you practice is what’s going to come out of you during stress.  \n\nPart of the reaction to the fear, exhaustion and adrenaline (actually a cocktail of chemicals) is that your arms will feel heavy, your hands numb and your fine motor skills will degrade.  We had better be ready for this, had better practice this way!  As a shooter I need to try to replicate this in my training.  Instead of standing at a table and firing at a target down range all comfortable I need to practice like this;  Run several sprints, push ups, pull ups, have some partners push me around, knock me down and then, and only then, fire on my targets.  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      "body": "Lessons learned from training self defense on a bus;\n\n1)\tThere ain’t no sparring.  Sparring is footwork, changing distances, moving, etc.  On the bus there was no room for footwork whatsoever.  It was close in, clinch and flail away.  When kicks were there at all they had to be linear.  No looping roundhouses, spins, etc., just straight kicks and then not with power because there wasn’t any room.  Basically it looked like a hockey fight.\n\n2)\tGround…what ground?  Our BJJ guys found out there was ground techniques only if we fell perfectly down the isle and hit the ground…and then we were wedged and not exactly able to change positions.  If you were mounted, you stayed mounted!  Some of the attempted arm bars, triangles, etc. worked every now and then…until there was a second attacker.  BJJ, like sparring in general, goes out the window on the bus.\n\n3)\tKrav Maga’s choke defenses, bear hug defenses, hair grab defenses, full nelson defenses, etc, etc. didn’t translate well to those close quarters.  There was NO room to move, to throw the attacker away from us, to get side clinch to throw knees, etc. the way we can if we are in a gym.  Hence, the reason for all the preaching that techniques can’t be relied upon.  The philosophy of “get rid of the danger and destroy the attacker” paid off.  Those being attacked figured it out.  They got the attacker’s hands off their throat and turned the tables with fingers in the eye, biting, elbows in the groin and the like.  They made me proud!\n\n4)\tThe same goes for knife and handgun.  Many of those techniques didn’t translate to “I am pinned to the window in my seat by the moron sitting beside me who froze as the guy behind me is stabbing me in the head”.  As with chokes, etc. the techniques weren’t there but the philosophy was.  If it was a knife it was “don’t get stabbed, hit the idiot”.   Block that blade as best you can and punch the idiot in the throat, ram a finger in his eye, elbow his head so hard he looks like a PEZ \ndispenser.  In most videos we watch of those being attacked by a knife the poor person getting stabbed fixates on the knife trying to grab the attacker’s wrist and never attempts to hit the attacker.  Again, we were proud of what we saw!  With the handgun it was point the barrel somewhere besides at me (or others) and hit the idiot.  Technique didn’t happen but that philosophy kept people alive!\n\n5)\tScenarios.  These were cool.  In a bus full of people I would point to only one or two and tell them they were Krav students and everyone else on the bus was just going to sit there and scream.  We would have one or two attackers board the bus and attack with a knife or handgun.  Sometimes the attacks were random and directed at everyone and anyone, sometimes they had a specific victim.  We saw some cool things.  The Kraver figured out how to get to the attacker through the rabble and neutralize the attacker.  Some things learned were;\n\n     -going for the knife hand was hard, that hand is swinging up to 5 feet as the attacker slashes or stabs.  The arm pit stays in the same place.  Start there and slide to lock up the rest of the arm.\n\n     -Wrapping the knife or handgun arm and waiting on the crowd to jump in and beat the attacker works….unless the frozen goof balls don’t help.  Then it’s a fight!\n\n     -The attacker that jumped on the bus with a hand grenade threw us all for a loop.  Nobody said it was going to be only a knife or handgun!  Even the kravers kinda froze for a bit there.  Wrapping the hands before the spoon was released wasn’t easy.  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      "body": "You would expect me, a krav maga instructor, to answer that in the affirmative.  Krav Maga is designed to work for everyone…no matter how small of stature, how much strength they have, how athletic they are, and no matter what sex they are.  I teach a lot of self defense for women seminars, have written a book on the subject, read everything I can on the \nsubject, etc. so I think I’m qualified to speak on the subject.  Popular or not, here is my opinion…\n\nI do not wish to offend my female krav maga instructors and students but I do believe that in a stand up fight, there are very few females who can fight a man and win.  I know a few who I would put money on, but only a few.  I have a female affiliate in the Chicago area that I do believe could.  She is mean, nasty, tough as nails and has better skills than I do.  She is in the vast minority!  A man is generally bigger, stronger (especially upper body strength), quicker and, thanks to testosterone and the way we are raised, meaner.  When thinking about teaching women self defense I have to imagine my nightmare attacker.  The dude weighs 70 lbs. more than me, is way, way stronger than me, is way faster than me, is way more aggressive and has trained one hundred times more than me.  His best punch to my head will for sure knock me out and has a good chance of killing me.  My best punch to his head is just going to piss him off and he’ll come at me even harder.  Pretty damned scary to me!  This is the starting point for a woman learning self defense.  My nightmare attacker is her likely attacker.  I certainly wouldn’t go toe to toe and spar that attacker.  My only hope is to do major damage quickly and run like I’m on fire!  \n\nKrav Maga will help even the odds a bit, but still won’t make a female the favorite.  I thought of this blog after leading some instructor trainings with a few females who, because of their martial arts training, honestly thought they could win a fight against a man.  They were both fairly small teenagers but, unfortunately for them if ever attacked by a man, black belts in their art.  Everyone had told them how great they were, they break boards with their kicks, they train many hours a week, they spar often and yet, they wouldn’t have much of a chance against a male attacker.  I told one when we were doing a drill to get off the ground, that she didn’t want to be there.  She told me that she could take the guy who was running the drill with her on the ground, that she had tapped him a few times in the past.  He was a six foot two, two hundred and twenty pound guy.  I just stood there shaking my head in disbelief that she didn’t know the difference between a nice guy in class taking it easy and letting her train and that same guy being enraged and blitzing her to the ground, beating her with his fists and knees.  Another woman (a high level martial artist but a fairly small lady in her mid 50’s) was very upset with me when I flunked her during her krav maga testing.  She made the comment “if this were for real I could whip every man in here.”  This absolutely stunned me.  There wasn’t a guy in the room she had even a small chance against.  This false security of a martial art and others telling her how awesome she is will get her hurt if she is ever attacked for real.  She won’t be trying to do damage and flee, as she should, because she had been taught to believe she can whip large, enraged ![IMG_7272.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmYMhpucvFUbzQ4JZAoipbgkrwuJLPqGvaJfXQB8Q7S1z4/IMG_7272.JPG)men.\n\nThere are very few techniques that a woman can hurt a man with.  Knees and kicks can be effective.  Fingers in eyes, head butts, stomping the Achilles, crushing testicles and a few others.  Doing these under stress, exhaustion and with the adrenaline dump against an enraged, scary as hell, blitzing attacker who is punching and kicking is the hard part!  \nI absolutely believe that Krav Maga will make you safer…a lot safer.  I just want to make sure that you are training to escape, not win.  If you are ever attacked the only thing that is going to work is to go off with hatred and rage, to go forward hitting targets over and over with all you have with the end goal being to escape.  Run!  \n\nA few comments on this subject from my video blog argued the point by telling me they know of high level BJJ female practitioners who tap out lower belt level men often.  Well, in BJJ it is against the rules to punch, elbow, knee, kick, attack the groin, crush the groin, gouge the eyes, stomp the Achilles, stomp the knee, stomp the skull, bite, thumb the eye, headbutt, slam, use a weapon, hit from behind and run away, grab the hair and slam the head into a wall or the pavement, or have multiple attackers?  A sport with rules is totally different than a scumbag going ballistic with the intent to harm.\n\nWeapons…the great equalizer.  I know of a lot of ladies who carry pepper spray and tazers.  I’m all for them if the person carrying them practices with them.  They are not magic.  To pepper spray someone and stand there will get you hurt.  Spray, kick them in the groin and run to safety (to safety, not away from danger) is a better strategy…a strategy that needs practiced.  Tazers (which have only a 50% success rate) will lock the attacker down for thirty seconds.  How far can you run in thirty seconds?  When it lets loose of him he will get up and continue his attack.  I’m a believer in knives and handguns, they even the odds for a woman.  To carry one of these and not be extremely proficient by spending hours and hours of training will get you hurt.  Again, they are not magic.  You must learn, under pressure and the adrenalin dump, to access, hold, control and use these weapons.  \n\nBack to my point.  If ever attacked by a larger, stronger male there is only one option that has any chance of saving your ass in that situation.  That is to go forward with all the hatred and rage you can muster, become an animal.  Spit, cuss, claw, bite and smash targets (eyes, throat, groin, knees, Achilles) over and over…always looking to escape.  If that is the only thing that is gonna work for you that is what you better be putting your training time into.  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When we accidently do make contact with our partner in the gym what is it that we usually do? We stop and apologize. This isn’t the reaction we should be ingraining!\n\nWe train too often with pre conceived notions of what will work and what will happen in a fight. We get used to throwing three knees, dumping our partner to the ground and then starting the next rep. How do we know that those knees would have been devastating in a fight? He may well get up and come at us harder. In the real world people take pool cues to the head, stabs to the heart, multiple gun shots to the chest, etc. and keep coming. In training I’ve even heard students bawl out their partners with things like “I kicked you in the balls, you would have went down and been done”. This may be a true statement but I’m not willing to bet my life on it.\n\nIn the gym we purposely pull our punches and kicks to not make contact. Again, what kind of training is that when the goal is to kick and punch people? If we pull our combatives 1,000 times in training under stress we will probably do exactly what we practiced. I knew a young man who practiced our headlock defense in class always smacking his partner’s inner thigh instead of his groin. His partner appreciated it but he once had someone put him in a headlock on the street who was trying to hurt him and he did the defense…smacking the attacker on the inner thigh.\n\nWe fight in a gym that we keep open. padded and uncluttered for safety. When you’re jumped the surfaces will be hard and there will be obstacles everywhere. The cop who is the USKMA’s co-lead instructor, Brannon Hicks, swears he’s gonna bring coffee tables and shrubs into his gym. He says every time he is in a fight one of those two things are in the way! The difference between a hazard and a gift is who sees it first. We need to train to see that curb or corner of the bar and use it…our gyms don’t have these things!\n\nWe are told that we are training for life and death situations, forgetting about the in betweens. It could be life, it could be death, it could also be a colostomy bag, a wheelchair for life, blinded, brain damaged, etc., etc. We train with what Hollywood thinks is fighting in mind way too often! If we think about these other likely endings of a self defense scenario maybe we wouldn’t be so macho, maybe we’d spend more time talking about how to avoid violence in the first place.\nHow do we mitigate the flaws in our training? The old adage “you fight like you train” is a lie unless (as SGT Rory Miller says in his books) you trained blind, deaf, stupid and clumsy. There is no great way to prepare for the chemical dump, emotions, freeze, etc. that a real world violent attack will create. We run drills to exhaust people and put them under some stress in our Krav classes but the student knows that they are in a class, they aren’t really going to get hurt, they knew what was coming, etc. We cannot completely train for what is coming…that’s just the way it is. Here are some things we do in our \n\nKrav classes to keep our training flaws at a minimum;\n-Hit things hard…all the time! In our classes we spend the majority of our training time hitting focus mitts, kick shields, heavy bags, padded up people, etc. I have one rule in class when it’s time to work combatives and that is once you have the technique down (and this is very soon after being introduced to it) you must always hit your hardest. If you are working punches, knees, kicks, etc. in my class I expect full out, knock someone the #$%^ out power. If you are pulling combatives and always going half power during training why would you expect to do it different under stress?\n\n-Forget techniques. 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When we accidently do make contact with our partner in the gym what is it that we usually do? We stop and apologize. This isn’t the reaction we should be ingraining!\n\nWe train too often with pre conceived notions of what will work and what will happen in a fight. We get used to throwing three knees, dumping our partner to the ground and then starting the next rep. How do we know that those knees would have been devastating in a fight? He may well get up and come at us harder. In the real world people take pool cues to the head, stabs to the heart, multiple gun shots to the chest, etc. and keep coming. In training I’ve even heard students bawl out their partners with things like “I kicked you in the balls, you would have went down and been done”. This may be a true statement but I’m not willing to bet my life on it.\n\nIn the gym we purposely pull our punches and kicks to not make contact. Again, what kind of training is that when the goal is to kick and punch people? If we pull our combatives 1,000 times in training under stress we will probably do exactly what we practiced. I knew a young man who practiced our headlock defense in class always smacking his partner’s inner thigh instead of his groin. His partner appreciated it but he once had someone put him in a headlock on the street who was trying to hurt him and he did the defense…smacking the attacker on the inner thigh.\n\nWe fight in a gym that we keep open. padded and uncluttered for safety. When you’re jumped the surfaces will be hard and there will be obstacles everywhere. The cop who is the USKMA’s co-lead instructor, Brannon Hicks, swears he’s gonna bring coffee tables and shrubs into his gym. He says every time he is in a fight one of those two things are in the way! The difference between a hazard and a gift is who sees it first. We need to train to see that curb or corner of the bar and use it…our gyms don’t have these things!\n\nWe are told that we are training for life and death situations, forgetting about the in betweens. It could be life, it could be death, it could also be a colostomy bag, a wheelchair for life, blinded, brain damaged, etc., etc. We train with what Hollywood thinks is fighting in mind way too often! If we think about these other likely endings of a self defense scenario maybe we wouldn’t be so macho, maybe we’d spend more time talking about how to avoid violence in the first place.\nHow do we mitigate the flaws in our training? The old adage “you fight like you train” is a lie unless (as SGT Rory Miller says in his books) you trained blind, deaf, stupid and clumsy. There is no great way to prepare for the chemical dump, emotions, freeze, etc. that a real world violent attack will create. We run drills to exhaust people and put them under some stress in our Krav classes but the student knows that they are in a class, they aren’t really going to get hurt, they knew what was coming, etc. We cannot completely train for what is coming…that’s just the way it is. Here are some things we do in our \n\nKrav classes to keep our training flaws at a minimum;\n-Hit things hard…all the time! In our classes we spend the majority of our training time hitting focus mitts, kick shields, heavy bags, padded up people, etc. I have one rule in class when it’s time to work combatives and that is once you have the technique down (and this is very soon after being introduced to it) you must always hit your hardest. If you are working punches, knees, kicks, etc. in my class I expect full out, knock someone the #$%^ out power. If you are pulling combatives and always going half power during training why would you expect to do it different under stress?\n\n-Forget techniques. 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      "body": "Let me start off by saying that I am not an expert on handgun training. I train often, have been through some good courses and even have certification as a basic handgun instructor…but I teach Krav Maga. The mindset, philosophy and thoughts on training that we teach for real world violence and unarmed self defense, in my opinion, matches up perfectly for handgun training.\nIf you are training handgun because you like target shooting, do it for fun or just think firing guns is cool, train anyway you like. If you are practicing with your handgun for self defense, there are some things that you should consider. First and foremost, study violence. Study what stress, exhaustion, the adrenaline dump, fear and pain do to you. As Rory Miller says in his great book on the subject MEDITATIONS ON VIOLENCE “You do not fight like you train unless you train clumsy, blind, deaf and stupid”. These things that our bodies do under stress can be a major game changer.\nThis was driven home for me when we had our black belt candidates go through an RBT course with us a few years ago. We had a couple of people in this training who were gun geeks. They had been to every shooting course known to man, had very good training. They could shoot the eye of a flea at 100 yards, they knew their weapons. We geared them up, gave them weapons with sim rounds and put them through a scenario. When it came time to make decisions, when the “bad guy” started shooting…they went to shit. They froze, stood there, fumbled with drawing and getting their weapons on target. They had trained for shooting targets that weren’t shooting back. The stress and adrenaline that they faced in RBT was something they hadn’t trained for.\nAgain, I am not an expert on handgun training. I do know Krav Maga, I do study the heck out of real world violence. For example; When we practice knife defenses we do not practice against a partner who thrusts at us once with a half assed stab and then keeps his/her arm straight and still for two seconds. We practice after already being stabbed by a blitzing attacker who is on us fast and furious. The attacker will keep us off balance, hit us hard, use their off hand to keep us from blocking or getting to the knife, will “hockey punch” with the knife over and under our block and pump that knife like a sewing machine needle. To practice against that first attacker will get us killed on the street because the attack on the street is much more likely to be like the second attacker. The other thing we do is slather KY jelly on both of our arms to mimic the slippery blood that is most likely going to be there. Now, when it happens on the street we have been there and done that.\nLet’s start with stance while firing. I dislike the Weaver stance for self defense simply because if something startles me I am going to square up to it, thrust my arms out in front of me and hunch down (yep, just like the isosceles stance). This is a natural body reaction. To think during the stress, fear and adrenaline dump of an attack I will do anything else is a mistake.\nPracticing on a range standing still and getting accurate is, of course, what we start with. We have to get basics down. In our Krav classes one big rule is that, once we have the basic technique down, we always go balls to the wall. We always go all out and hit things our hardest. In handgun training once we have these basics down we won’t train like that anymore. In the real world if someone is firing at me I had better be moving and looking for cover. At the range we had better be practicing this way. We had better fire on targets while egressing, retreating and moving sideways to cover. We had better practice firing from cover. IF I ever find myself coming under fire this is what I had better be doing so…this is what I better spend almost all of my practice time doing!\nIf in a gun fight must I always go forward to end things and take down the bad guy? I am not a cop nor in the military…I shouldn’t be training as a cop or soldier. The video above of Keanu i think is great training for the role he was playing. This isn’t necessarily what i want coming out of me for self defense. Again, i am not a cop nor military personnel where my goal would be to go forward and kill twenty guys who have weapons. There are scenarios where this may be the thing to do but for me…i want to train firing as i escape. Shooting as few times as i have to to get the heck out of there! Not firing at all and not being fired at would be perfect! Firing as I get the heck out of Dodge and run like I’m on fire to safety sounds like good training to me! You think during a fight for your life there is a possibility that you may trip and fall or otherwise be knocked down? Better practice shooting while lying on the ground as well then. Furthermore, if ever in a gunfight I would think that it’s a good idea to keep my eye on the person trying to kill me. On the range do you practice reloads and clearing jams while keeping your eyes on the target and not looking at your handgun? What you practice is what’s going to come out of you under stress.\nAgain, we need to practice for what we’ll see. Personally, I don’t like shooting steel plates that fall after one hit. There are three ways in which a human is stopped by bullets. One; an extremely accurate shot that shuts down the brain and central nervous system instantly which isn’t likely in sudden real world combat. Two; the person bleeds out, which means they keep shooting at us while they do. Three (and the one we should be training) is massive shock and trauma, putting as many bullets into the attacker as we possibly can in a short period of time. In the real world people take multiple hits mid chest and keep coming. I don’t want to train that one hit takes care of the problem.\nWe had better change our distances as well. Back to that knife attack. I had better be practicing fighting that off, accessing my weapon and shooting close range from the hip with my front arm keeping the target at distance. If this is what I am likely to see, this is what I had better have practiced. Since the FBI has documented that most shootings take place, or at least begin, within 3 to 5 feet, we feel that one of the most important aspects of self defense and gun training is the ability to go from empty hands to accessing the weapon and hitting a target at very close distance quickly.\nHow about time of day and weather? If the only time you ever shoot is on a nice, sunny day you are assuming that’s the only time/weather you can be attacked in. Night training, training in the rain, training during a snow storm when it’s zero degrees suck…but so does having to defend yourself in those conditions.\nPart of the reaction to the fear, exhaustion and adrenaline (actually a cocktail of chemicals) is that your arms will feel heavy, your hands numb and your fine motor skills will degrade due to the blood pooling to your core (vasodilation). We had better be ready for this, had better practice this way! As a shooter I need to try to replicate this in my training. Instead of standing at a table and firing at a target down range while being all nice and comfortable I need to practice under stress and exhaustion. How do we train? We run several sprints, do push ups, do pull ups, have some partners push us around, knock us down and then, and only then, fire on targets. 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