IF YOU PULL? YOU MUST SHOOT! OTHERWISE, NO PULL!
Every once in a while, in my years in police work ranging back to the early 1970s, we would get a new shift supervisor like[…]
STAYING APART IN COMBAT
I am full of old-school mainstays. Some I like. Some I don’t. In military training tips – I was in at the tail-end of Vietnam[…]
“Protecting the Belt,” Gun Retention Observations
I would like to tell 5 quick, pistol/holster retention stories Retention story #1: Several years ago I taught at a major US city police academy,[…]
Escalation! “I PULL, THEN HE PULLS!”
Trauma and drama. Years ago in a seminar in Kentucky, USA, an attendee, someone with zero martial or martial arts experience, just a regular guy[…]
OUTSIDE-INSIDE, Drawn Guns and Knives…or Not? And If So – When?
Not a lot of people practice drawing their weapons under realistic stress, if indeed some people ever practice drawing their weapons at all. In typical[…]
The Drop Dead Gun
“If I die in combat zone. Box me up and ship me home.” You’ve all heard that ditty? Or, maybe you haven’t? It comes for[…]
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