Knife techniques used on the street are brutal, fast and often very lethal. The goal of the “sewing machine” move is simple: To stab you repeatedly, as fast as possible, in vital areas, so you die quickly. This move is thought to have originated in Prisons, where inmates, needing to eliminate somebody before a guard…
Category: Training
Violent Mob Defense Tactics: Moving Vehicle TRUMPS All!
Let me be clear before I start this group of lessons. What is happening across this country right now is NOT protest, it is the behavior of common thugs. Going around needlessly looting, stealing, destroying private property, committing blatant arson and attacking innocent people WITHOUT cause is CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR, NOT POLITICAL PROTEST. As a Civilian,…
Blade Drills: Perfecting the “Snap” Cut & Thrust
I have been drilling lately with my small “hideout” waist-carried fixed blade knives, mainly, my Benchmade CBK and SOG Snarl. Training Notes: Since both of these shivs have an unconventional grip (CBK is a syringe type, the Snarl a single-finger loop, claw design), striking is a bit more unorthodox than if I were using a standard…
Quit Worrying and Start Training!
I have been literally assaulted on all sides lately by folks asking me to give them advice on how best to “prepare” for the current crisis we are all facing in this country right now. From Ebola to EV-D68 to ISIS coming across our borders, to our 1st and 2nd Amendment Rights being trampled…
Stopping a Dog Attack
Dog Attacks are so common now that it is hard to keep up. The worst attacks are always on children obviously, since vicious dogs always see children as the easier prey. The easy solution to an attacking, vicious animal has always been to put it down with hollow point “maul stoppers”.. but as the CO…
Learning from Insurgent Tactics: The Ambush
In our last installment, we discussed at length the “Hide n’ Glide” where Taliban and Iraqi insurgents/terrorist strategically hide weapons and at opportune moments, attack U.S. and coalition personnel and then attempt afterwards to blend back in with the general populace. Today we are going to discuss how the insurgents plan and execute the…
First Rule: Always Assume they are Armed!
[youtube=http://youtu.be/wQIAFeC10cY] Today’s lesson boys and girls involves ALWAYS ASSUMING YOUR ENEMY IS ARMED! As we see in the above vid, these two “loss prevention clerks” did not, and it almost cost them both DEARLY. The only saving grace in this incident was that the alleged shoplifter with the knife was UNTRAINED and UNMOTIVATED. As CO’s…
Learning from Insurgent Tactics: The “Hide n’ Glide”
Since the War in Afghanistan and Iraq began, we have seen a multitude of different “insurgent” tactics come to light, the most notable (and deadly) ones being the use of the IED and VBIED (Vehicle Born IED’s) in ambushes, booby-traps and suicide attacks. But as far as actual ground tactics the enemy uses, there…
CO Combatives: The Side Choke
There has been quite a lot of flak in the news lately about the use of illegal police chokes since the death of a New Yorker Eric Garner who died while being arrested in July. It was later found in the autopsy that Garner’s CAUSE OF DEATH was from the choke hold and “overt compression on…
The “Practical not Tactical” CO Sniper Rifle
In a previous article entitled “The 5 Gun Theory“ I expounded on the logic of the CO owning at least 5 types of firearms in order to be adequately prepared to survive and defend himself adequately. One of those guns was a .30 Caliber scoped bolt-action or semi-auto rifle to be used for hunting and sniper…