Howdy gents. I had no idea this forum existed. Right off the bat I will say I am no air warrior, just a guy with sore feet. Anyway...to the videos.
They are youtube clips of a video we did titled Advanced Close Range Gunfighting. First a note on our methodology. We train pistol with the fight in mind. In other words, the range to us is like hitting a bag is to a boxer. It is only a small part of the training. We do a great deal of force on force training. We use Airsoft or simmunition or whatever is available and we set up gunfights. We do them over and over and over until we identify 'trends" them we train to those trends. Most of the square-range marksmanship-based shooting schools and trainers hate me and what I do.
No big deal...we have a higher calling than the opinions of others right?
Video #1 addresses defending from the Sul Ready position. This is a worst case situation where your tactics failed and you find yourself in that situation. You do not get into this problem intentionally. We are showing that you can easily orient the pistol on target and shoot. That's it. We are not looking at the situation if the bad guy is a foot farther away or if this or if that. Only that there you are...bad guy has crashed into you and you are grabbed up in the fight.
There is an entire block of instruction with the extreme close range material that addresses more that is not shown.
Video #2 addresses a fight in a narrow environment. We are big advocates of moving off the line of fire. If we have space we will use space. So what if you don't have alot of space?
We took that question into our training room and worked it for an entire day trying to find an answer. We were shooting the hell out of each other with airsoft. Toward the end of the day, when the goofy-factor was beginning to come out, I ran the drill again. I executed this same technique and was not shot once. We all woke up real quick then. We ran it again and again and it substantially increased our survivability.
What is it? It is a fencing move called the In Quartata. We use it in a worst of the worst situation. Narrow environment - bad guy has initiative and is drawing.
The initial move gets your gun out and gets you off the line of fire for the first couple of shots. I like plan Bs. In our original drill, Rudy our training partner swept his muzzle right to my face, but I had used the space available and dropped below his line of fire, hitting him a few more times. If Plan B is good, a Plan C is better. When Rudy brought his muzzle down to me, I moved offline again and closed in on his flank.
Anyway...that is it in a nutshell. Somewhat out of the box, but we have found that the majority of traditional range training won't hold up in force on force so we proof-test everything we do.
Thanks
Gabe Suarez
) I don't subscribe to "leaning" back -- rather moving back to create space w/ weapon deployment. Unless you just wanna fight, then go for it and be prepared for the possible consequence. I always strive to keep my CG directly over my feet -- allowing balance and the ability to move in any direction of the compass. Ahhhhh ... that ol' perfect world. I LOVE livin' in it!
) and if in a full body-press situation, I am confident of my ability to access and use a blade to effect, messy and potentially painful (to me) as it might be .... because I've already done my "mental homework".
