{"id":24683,"date":"2018-08-24T18:56:28","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T23:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=24683"},"modified":"2018-08-24T18:56:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T23:56:28","slug":"civilian-operator-101-managing-a-strangers-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/24\/civilian-operator-101-managing-a-strangers-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Civilian Operator 101: Managing a Stranger&#8217;s Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Craig Douglas of Shivworks talks about how to manage a strangers aproach\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uwCtu79iMDs?start=36&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have always liked Craig Douglas and Shivworks&#8230;some of the first training DVD&#8217;s I got were from him. I still regard his <em>Fighting Handgun<\/em> DVD right up there with Kelly McCann&#8217;s <em>Combative Pistol<\/em> DVD. The guy is solid, has BTDT and knows his stuff.<\/p>\n<p>What I liked about this short lesson is it clarifies the <em>&#8220;Reactionary Gap&#8221;<\/em> ideal. How many times have we heard people say &#8220;Never let anybody get within 21 feet of you at ANY time!&#8221; Well, for all of us that live in the real world, we know that to be some unrealistic armchair ninja BS; mainly because it is terribly unrealistic to think we can go about our daily lives and never let anybody get within 7 yards (21 feet) of our position! What<strong> IS<\/strong> realistic is training how to manage people that get close enough to harm us;\u00a0 What Craig calls &#8220;<em>Direct Encroachment.&#8221;<\/em> For those of you that have not seen it, I highly recommend his <em>PUC<\/em> DVD and Class. It is one of the most street practical classes around.<\/p>\n<p>Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I have always liked Craig Douglas and Shivworks&#8230;some of the first training DVD&#8217;s I got were from him. I still regard his Fighting Handgun DVD right up there with Kelly McCann&#8217;s Combative Pistol DVD. The guy is solid, has BTDT and knows his stuff. What I liked about this short lesson is it clarifies&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[387,2863,10,404,405],"tags":[5630,372,5631,5632,5633,5634,7],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}