{"id":5859,"date":"2015-06-09T17:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T22:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=5859"},"modified":"2015-06-09T17:00:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T22:00:16","slug":"movement-in-combat-and-the-historical-imperative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/09\/movement-in-combat-and-the-historical-imperative\/","title":{"rendered":"Movement in Combat and the Historical Imperative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lars Andersen: A new level of archery\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BEG-ly9tQGk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but my jaw hit the floor watching this guy. I think part of the reason for my amazement was he literally, in the span of about 5 minutes, through historical fact and obvious demonstration of <strong>SKILL<\/strong>, broke every stereo-typical ideal I had about archers in combat.<\/p>\n<p>Think back to every movie you have seen set in Medieval times; what are the archers doing? Standing still, casually drawing their bows, aiming to the sky (the enemy force is typically a few hundred yards away) and on command, letting loose their arrows, right? Wrong. In fact, I was thinking back to the most recent movie I watched involving archery and combat, Robin Hood with Russell Crowe (a terrible movie btw, one of his worst IMHO) and in it, we see all of these stereo-typical fallacies promoted, including: Standing still in Combat and Running around with a quiver of arrows (which Larson in the above vid proved was BS). Lesson to be Learned? Not really new advice. Hollywood is full of sh@#! Don&#8217;t take anything you see on the screen to heart. Most historical films get it wrong on so many levels it is not funny. Moving on&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>So here we are in the present time, 2015 not 1515. We have replaced our horses with humvees and our bow and arrow with Glocks, AR&#8217;s and AK&#8217;s. But surprise, surprise, our tactics have not really changed a lot when we fight. Movement is still key to survival just like it always has been. For the soldier, it is &#8220;Fire and Maneuver&#8221;, for the Cop, it is \u00a0&#8220;Get out of the Kill Zone&#8221; and for the Civilian it could be &#8220;Get off the X&#8221; or all 3 phrases combined!<\/p>\n<p>So fellas it all boils down to this: If your self-defense combat training does not involve movement, ie, moving and shooting, you are not only being unrealistic, you are ignoring the Historical Imperative! Get with the program!<\/p>\n<p>I leave you with these words from the Bible, which pretty much cement what we have been talking about:<\/p>\n<p><em>What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. \u00a0<strong>(E<\/strong><\/em><strong>cclesiastes 1:9)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stay Alert, Stay Real, Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I don&#8217;t know about you, but my jaw hit the floor watching this guy. I think part of the reason for my amazement was he literally, in the span of about 5 minutes, through historical fact and obvious demonstration of SKILL, broke every stereo-typical ideal I had about archers in combat. Think back to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[1286,397,17,10,404],"tags":[1501,1502,1503,1504,1505,1506,1507],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5859"}],"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=5859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}