Air-Soft and SIMS Training

Air soft and SIMS Training has become a major factor in dynamic firearms training. They both offer rapid decision making, dynamic movement (by every party) and add a bit of confusion and stress. One thing this brings out is that your fundamentals have got to be mastered. If the fundamentals are not mastered you will find yourself having to think about things you should have already been doing. Draw stroke, movement, reloads, stoppage drills, painting the zone and scanning have got to already be re-active. I can attest that if you do not train to move, get off that X you won’t do it at any point, you have to add this to your training and it has to be reactionary, moving to cover or making a lot of distance. Just remember we cannot run as fast as a 350 fps piece of plastic much less an 850 fps piece of lead. Make it dynamic, get your movement down right and if all possible go to cover.

Keep your eyes on the threat, taking the eyes off the threat to reload or perform a stoppage drill and you look up and he is either on you or you have no idea where he went. Learn to see what you have to shoot and shoot it to the ground.

Once your threat is on the ground and you know it’s safe, scan. Look left, right and check the six to make sure bad guys do not still need to be shot. When you do this scan be sure you pay attention, do not just do lip service to it, look and know what is there. We some times add something to the background and ask the student what you saw. Most cannot tell you and it’s not something small, maybe a target stand with something on it.

Once that is done get the gun topped off!!!!

If it is a situation where you have been hit with the adversaries round, don’t just stop. This trains your mind that if you are hit you are supposed to stop, lie down and die. Keep the fight going for at least a few rounds as not to train yourself to perform bad habits. Then go thru the 360 scan. Always train to win, keep your mind focused on winning.

Video tape your air soft and SIMS training as well as your gun training. You will notice that you do not always perform as we thought we did. The video will tell you exactly what you did. Even in dry firing video tape it, review the tapes and critique yourself. I have thought I had done certain things and would have sworn I did it that way, and after looking at a video, say holy hit I did that or didn’t do it.

Master the fundamentals!! Once that is done everything else will just fall into place a little bit easier.

DRAW STROKE

Draw Stroke
I am posting some pictures with my preferred draw stroke. It is a 4 count draw stroke as learned from South Narc.


Count 1, with a solid fighting stance we obtain a grip on the pistol, the non-firing hand comes to the center of the chest.

Count 2, bring the gun up the center of the body, keeoing the elbow and shoulder high, letting the thumb of the firing hand rest at the pectorial index, the muzzle will be slightly canted down at an angle. This position is used to shoot from retention, you can use it in a stack and it is a extremely secure retention position for close quarters shooting (0 to 5 feet).

Count 3, brings the gun up high into the line of sight, the gun appears from your point of view to be on the center line how ever if you look at it from an opposing view it will be under your dominant eye, this is where the support hand meets the grip.

Count 4, is any where from here to full extension. Remember you want to extend the gun in approximation to the adversary to prevent a gun grab or fouling the gun.Remember the sooner you get the sights into the line of sight the faster you can make accurate shots on target.
Here is what it looks like from the adversary point of view.

MY THOUGHTS ON PERSONAL PROTECTION BEFORE THE TOOL

Before we run out and buy the latest of the new self proclaiming wonder guns, knives and rifles there is something we must look at and train for first. You and your brain has got to be the ultimate weapon in any fight. So we must first rain our self mentally and physically, especially us older guys, guns, knives and all are secondary.

I am going to use Jeff Coopers “Principals of Personal Defense” as written in his book titled the same. Just not as long as he has written it, so if you have not read the book I would recommend it HIGHLY!

There are five principals listed:

Alertness; stay alert, know what is going on around you, who is there and why they’re there. Action beats re-action every time, we must always strive to be the active guy and not re-acting to the assailants actions. That puts us at a significant disadvantage yet most people do it day to day. We constantly walk around with our head in our PDA’s, cell phone or fumbling with something and totally oblivious to our surroundings. Train yourself to stay alert, not paranoid but a good sense of being ALERT. Look around, pay attention, know the environment and what should be there and should not. Avoidance is the best way to win.

Decisiveness; be decisive, most men today cannot make a decision to do anything quickly. We are trained to have a meeting, to schedule another meeting or we have to go discuss it with the significant other. In the time that you are being confronted with a emergency situation like your life being at stake is not a time to have a meeting. You have to make a decision and make it happen at that moment. You have to be confident in what you are doing in order to do that and if you see it happening while in the alert mode you are acting or avoiding it all together.


Aggressiveness; yes we have also been raised in a passive society, to be kind polite and courteous. I personally met a guy that was robbed at gun point, when the bad guy said give me your money, he replied, ok how much do you want. Not that is a polite guy!!! Once you have made that decision it has to be aggressive, don’t thumb a guy on the noggin and think that will end it all for you. Put on the war face, look aggressive, and provide an explosive counter attack. Once the fight is on be aggressive and continue to fight regardless of pain or fear, you must fight to win!!!

Speed; be swift in your actions, you may lose the fight but don’t lose any time about doing it. Combined all of the above and following items with training will allow you to be victorious. Be fast and aggressive.

Coolness; be calm and collected as possible, keep your head and wits about you. Pay attention (alert), decisive, aggressive and keep it all together. You cannot just fly in a mad flurry, know what you are doing, this comes from training. Introduce yourself to some stress, boxing, paint ball, something that requires thought under pressure.

Ruthlessness; be ruthless, this person trying to kill you has no pitty for you. Make that decision to be ruthless as anyone can be, in this fight everything is fair, only losing is unfair. That will mostly be on your shoulder to train in these areas and be victorious. It is not as easy as you think to go from normal peace loving dad to a ruthless kick ass machine in the flip of a switch.

Surprise; let the attack be a surprise, never tell someone what you are going to do. Do not telegraph your actions, use your head and keep it to yourself and all of a sudden act. Let them be on the reactionary side of the equation. You can and will dominate the situation, just continue doing it.

I know I have not done Col. Cooper any justice by piece meaning his writings but I am sure some of you have never heard of it before and may be interested.

Another excellent book to obtain and read is MSG Paul Howe (RET), Leadership and Training for the Fight, this is an excellent read!!
Both of these books deal with yourself mostly and what you have to do. No excuses about I didn’t know or no one showed me, because if you take it serious enough you will seek it out and learn, train and be prepared.

Ken Forbus
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Cut out the bull shit!!!!grw

As we see the news today it has to make us wonder what our government is doing? The news is full of US Troops shoot innocent civilians in Iraq, US Troops do this, they do that and before an investigation is even conducted our own congressmen are calling them murderers!!! This is piss poor politics and the soldier, marine or which ever American it is should have the benefit of the doubt.

Shit happens in war or even a battle, everything is dynamic, loud, and fearful and if you’re stupid enough to hang around to watch well you must have a reason and probably should be shot at.

When the two soldiers from the 101^st were abducted and later found mutilated, IMMEDIATELY the US Command should have started some serious operations aimed at killing every one that may have been involved. We should have kicked every door, every car, every barn, and every hut within 5 miles of that spot and killed everyone with a weapon as soon as that happened. As Paul Howe said in his book Leadership and Training for the Fight, look your commander in the eyes and ask this question, “How many people are you willing to kill, to bring us all back alive?” If there is not a clear and positive answer well you may need to worry a little bit.

I had personally rather see 100 Iraqi die vs. one American!!!!!! Our military leaders, congress and others look at it as an acceptable loss. I support the war but leaders need to stop their self serving ticket punching agenda. If you read and hear stories of US Action Guys they have seen grown men use their very own children as human shields, hide between a woman’s legs to shoot, all because they know the weakness of the American Government and the self-serving media.

It is high time they turn the small unit leaders loose and let them work with available intelligence and get the job done. I am writing this in reference to an article I read where two US Servicemen were killed by gun fire from their own Iraqi Civil defense Force Team. Another US Soldier should have killed the Iraqi Team!!!! How ever if they had all you would have seen was the headlines, Americans Kill Iraqi Civil Defense Force members.

The only reason we have ever lost is the shit heads that are self-serving ticket puncher who want to follow the politically correct rules. Politics do not save lives when there are bullets flying, at this point politics have failed and violence of action is what wins. We have won the hearts and minds of those that are willing to won over, the rest are all enemy combatants. Troops should be allowed to engage the enemy and destroy them; the doubt should always be in favor of the US Fighting Man. No one else in the world is using the righteous rules, only American Soldiers pay the price and that’s stupid as all hell.

All we do is worry about what the rest of the world is going to think of us, who really gives a rats ass. No we are not mass murdering Gestapo and we should not be committing atrocities but we should have the freedom to defend and win without wondering if someone is going to press murder charges against us as we see several soldiers and marines being accuse of.

The doubt should always go to the American Fighting Man!!!!!!!!!

Soutn Narc Extreme Close Quarters Concepts

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ECQC I & II

The ShivWorks Extreme Close Quarter Concepts (ECQC) course is a one or two day block of instruction which focuses on a multi-disciplinary approach to building functional, combative handgun skills at zero to five feet. The course is designed to instill core concepts of seamless integration and provide the platform for aggressive problem solving during a life or death struggle. A heavy emphasis is placed upon commonality of body mechanics between skill sub-sets, which means that all combative software is reinforcing. Once the student's skill sets are initially ingrained, the participant will be stress inoculated with force on force drills utilizing Simunitions and protective equipment.

Topics:

Day One

• Diagnostics
• Introduction to the components of the Combative Drawstroke
• Building the #2 position in live-fire
• Firing throughout the horizontal line of presentation
• Off-hand fending positions
• Default position
• Basic empty hand blows
• Theory of in-fight weapon access
• Grounded basics

Day Two

• Challenging the potential attacker
• Preemptive weapon access
• Muzzle aversion within draw-stroke
• Negotiating the F.U.T.
• ECQ Handgun retention in holster
• ECQ handgun retention out of holster
• Handgun recovery
• Handgun striking

Prerequisites: This class is not recommended for beginning shooters and prior documented training or instructor approval is required. Students should be relatively fit as this is a contact class. Most of the latter half of each day will be spent utilizing Simunition marking cartridges and FIST helmets, to allow the students to gain confidence in applying their newly acquired skills against moving aggressive opponents.

Required Equipment: Holster, pistol, two magazines, eye & ear protection, heavy sweatshirt or soft body armor, mouthpiece and cup, 600 rounds of ammo.

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Length: eight hours per day

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In-Extremis Knife Course (IEK)

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armament and equal initiative. Pre-fight and In-fight tactics to dissuade, break

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and the specifics of edged weapon application.

Topics and curriculum

· Parameters of criminal assault

· Awareness and distraction

· Challenging the potential attacker

· Preemptive blade access

· Deceptive kinesics

· Default position

· Basic empty hand tools and the F.U.T.

· Theory of in-fight weapon access

· Convulsive draw-stroke and edge orientation

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