{"id":30019,"date":"2019-08-10T07:22:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T12:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=30019"},"modified":"2019-08-10T07:22:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T12:22:36","slug":"refining-the-mozambique-for-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/10\/refining-the-mozambique-for-the-21st-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Refining the Mozambique for the 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Yo Homie is that My Brief Case\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1waAV9cs34U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2>While training the other day I put in 20 rounds on the tried and true Mozambique or &#8220;Failure to Stop&#8221; Drill.<\/h2>\n<h2>After I ran through the drill once I realized something: I had trained myself to PAUSE between the transition from the two shots to Center of Mass to the shot to the Cranial T (Head) Why?<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-30027\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/08\/t-target.jpg?w=224\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>When this drill first came on the scene back in the day via Jeff Cooper, it was being taught primarily to Federal Law Enforcement who, in turn, after a while, begin to teach it to Armed civilians. The drills&#8217; origins centered around an armed suspect who was HIGH on drugs not going down immediately after being shot twice in the Center of Mass. Therefore, putting a shot through the brain stem and severing all motor functions was necessary.<\/h2>\n<h2>The &#8220;Pause&#8221; between the transition shot from the body to the head was mainly a Force Continuum\/Use of Lethal Force aspect Cops were being trained to follow. <em>&#8220;Use only the LEAST Amount of Force necessary to subdue the suspect&#8221;<\/em> or, in other words, don&#8217;t shoot the son of a bitch in the head if you don&#8217;t have to.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Fast forward to the 21st Century and we now have Criminals like the Dallas mass shooter Brian Isaack Clyde and the Ohio Mass Shooter Connor Betts just to name a couple suited up with body armor making the Mozambique\/Failure to Stop more of a necessary skill than ever before for BOTH Law Enforcement and the Armed Citizen.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-30024\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/08\/dallas1.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"420\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Bottom Line: Training to give the shooter ANY advantage in the fight is STUPID, even if that advantage is a one to two second pause in our cadence of fire.<\/h2>\n<h2>Therefore, eliminating the &#8220;Pause&#8221; between the transition from the body to the head in this drill is a practical refinement we all need to adopt when running it.<\/h2>\n<h2>Stay Alert, Armed and Dangerous!<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While training the other day I put in 20 rounds on the tried and true Mozambique or &#8220;Failure to Stop&#8221; Drill. After I ran through the drill once I realized something: I had trained myself to PAUSE between the transition from the two shots to Center of Mass to the shot to the Cranial T&#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":[3312,3786,5445,5464,5477,13,6200,3986,398,399,404,405],"tags":[7432,5575,7433,680,7434,385],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30019"}],"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=30019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}