The Handgun Threat: The Problems and the Solutions
Small, fast and close. Why the handgun is the hardest weapon to control, and how you hold control once you have it.
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Take Away: Do You Even Have to Take the Weapon Away?
Take Away is the one step you never rush, and with some weapons, the one you may not need at all.
Attack: See It, Break It, Change the Odds in Your Favor
Every attack has one job: Create Damage and destroy their OODA Loop.
Control: What Is It Really and How to Get It Quickly
Squeezing is not control. Take the weapon, or the limb that runs it, to a surface and pull the air out.
Redirect: Take Urgent Action
The moment you recognize the weapon is the moment you move it off of you. A stance never moved a muzzle.
Weapon Defense Isn’t a Technique. It’s an Algorithm
Redirect, Control, Attack, Take Away. The four steps run in the same order every time, no matter how ugly the fight gets.
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Hick’s Law, Operational Honesty, and the Complete Predictability Framework How Everything Connects (6 of 6) You’ve made it to the end of this series. That itself tells you something. The person who reads five articles on the neuroscience and training methodology behind self-defense performance isn’t looking for a quick fix. They’re not interested in a … Read more
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Why Your Training Partners Are Your Most Valuable Asset Building the Threat Database That Makes Novel Dangers Feel Familiar (5 of 6) Nobody walks into a violent encounter cold. They walk in with everything they’ve ever trained, everything they’ve ever experienced, and every mental model they’ve ever built about how threats look, move, and behave. … Read more
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A/B Testing Your Way to Faster Decisions How to Build a Brain That Chooses Right Under Pressure (4 of 6) There’s a moment in training that every serious student recognizes. You’re drilling. Heart rate up. Partner giving you real resistance. The technique you’ve been working starts to feel different — not mechanical anymore, not something … Read more
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The OODA Loop Isn’t a Theory — It’s Your Clock Most people have heard of the OODA Loop. Most people think they understand it. Observe. Orient. Decide. Act. A cycle. A framework. Something military strategists use. Something that sounds useful in a seminar room and then gets filed away with all the other concepts that … Read more