Submitted for your perusal and edification just as received in the e-mail to me from Suarez International
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THE FORCE ON FORCE EXPERIENCE
Today we spent the day in Salt Lake City training force on force. This is about gunfighting and gunfighting is about killing. Pure, simple, and concise. The mind is not to fear the adversary like so many schools teach today. Rather to the contrary, the adversary must fear us. Because while we will try to avoid the fight, a point arrives where we are no longer concerned about avoiding. And when that point arrives, we have grins on our faces and empty guns about to be reloaded in our hands. That is the attitude.
We began with the Matt Dillon drill, where we take what 99% of what is taught at american gun schools and test it in the cauldron of force on force. No scores on paer and no timers. Draw and shoot the other man relying only on your speed. He gets to start with you reacting to his draw, and then the other way around. One shot.
We repeat it over, and over, and over again. The traditional gun school doctrine is found to fail. Students realize that such training is actually setting you up to be killed. The lesson is driven home clearly - in a reactive gunfight, you move or you die.
Next we teach them how to move. We discuss angles and their applications, as well as the direct benefits. Then we drill it over and over dry. Students lose balance, some fall in the hot sun, but eventually we all get it and can all pull it off.
To test it, we bring out the worst of the worst cases. Bad guy has his gun drawn and pointed right at good guy's face, finger on the trigger. The unthinkable and the no-win situation...the Kobayashi Maru of the gun world. When the bad guy sees good guy move, he will shoot him in the face. But, yet, the good guy is able to evade the shot via only his new movement paradigm. The impossible, at least in the minds of most modern gun gurus, is made possible. And we do it again, and again, and again.
Then we teach the draw. Most of the guys in class are running appendix rigs, and the benefits of those are quickly seen. We show and then train the draw, from concealment. It must be fast. It must be coincidental with the movement off the line of fire. We work it dry and then against live adversaries.
Can the good guy respond to an adversary going for his gun at four yards, and evade the first gun shot? And as if that were not enough, could he return fire in the same time frame, hitting the bad guy? Impossible? Not for us, because eventually through our drills, the good guy is able to respond in a way that not only keeps him safe from the bad guy's first shot, but he is also able to shoot and hit the bad guy between two to four times before that bad guy can recover.
"Amazing" some would say. Maybe for some. For our students it is just the first day of a two day force on force class.
Day Two found us on the very range where Dennis Teullers shot the photos for the article that identified the Twenty One Foot Rule. The article was called "How Close Is Too Close?", and was published in a 1982 issue of the then-reputable SWAT Magazine.
We began with a discussion on mental perspective. Like Nehemiah, the message is "Do not be afraid of them". Far too many gun people live life afraid of just about everything. No fear gentlemen. THEY are the ones who should be afraid of you. YOU are their predator.
We began with Gun versus Contact Weapon. The Contact Weapon could be a knife or a stick or a hammer or a tomahawk. The gun man could "stand and deliver" like many so called "state of the art" schools still teach....but from the lessons of the prior day, nobody wanted to try such a tactic. Wise decission.
We ran the Teuller Drill at 21 feet, the original distance. Everyone defeated the knife man. We progressively shrank the distances until we reached 9 feet! And using the dynamic movement paradigm the knife man was defeated, sometimes narrowly, and sometimes decissively by the more athletic, but defeated nevertheless. Amazing? No...it is called further development of the art and not stagnation via tradition.
We discussed the pre-fight situation and how to manage the problem and recognize a probe by the bad guy(s). Then we worked it with two and three adversaries. The day ended with several very chaotic, intense and unpredictable multiple adversary problems.
The bad guys approached and tried to encircle the good guy. The bad guys may have been armed with pistols, knives, and maybe unarmed. Yes, the good guy might have to shoot three unarmed attackers. The good guy's concepts - try to preempt the fight, try to stack them up, avoid being encircled, if encircled break out of the encirclement. Oh yes, up the violence and intensity.
Do you want the force on force experience? Check our class schedule for a class near you.
Gabe Suarez
One Source Tactical
Suarez International USA
Christian Warrior Ministries