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DOGMATISM #1

I promised a s**t bomb.

Incoming!!!!

Take a look at the picture and tell me if it connects???
NOBODY will ever claim that it is a good idea to be standing in front of either of the objects pictured on the left side of the collage. Results would be devastating.

So...

Fi****ms safety rule NUMBER ONE: (all together now- just like a choir in the church)....
"THE GUN IS ALWAYS LOADED"

Firearm by design fires a high velocity ballistic projectile that has ability to cause severe harm. Or more. Fact.
Less known fact is that in order for it to cause the harm, 3 important ingredients have to be present:
1. GUN
2. CHAMBERED ROUND
3. A FORCE THAT PUTS IT INTO ACTION (that is trigger gets pressed)

Once all 3 factors of this unholy trinity are together....don't be in front of it.

Do you like that Bugatti? The blue one on the race track? Yeah. Me too.

A marvel of engineering and a true speed demon. One of the fastest cars ever. At $1,5 million or so- it better be.

Safety rules for pedestrians. Rule number one:
"THE CAR IS ALWAYS MOVING"

Wait? Whaaaaat??? What are you smoking?
Are you saying that because ONCE and WHEN the driver is in drivers seat, pushes the ignition button (yes- this Bugatti has a push button start), disengages parking break, engages the clutch, moves the gear shift into first gear, presses the accelerator while gradually releasing the clutch, thus initiating the forward movement of the vehicle, making it into potentially harmful ballistic projectile for any pedestrian in it's way- are YOU saying that because of that POTENTIAL, I should NEVER stand in front of that Bugatti to take a selfie with its super sexy front end behind my s**t eating grin? AFTER I and my 2 buddies with identical s**t eating grins have ensured with our very own eyes and ears that:
1. There is no driver in the car.
2. It's engine is NOT running.
3. Gear shifter is not engaged.
4. Parking break is on.

Should I be arrested or given a citation for standing in front of a parked Bugatti? Or a Yugo?

Is that what YOU are telling me?

When 2 practitioners remove the empty magazines from their Glocks, lock back the slides of their weapons- each inspecting and checking (visually and by touch) their own, AND their partners weapon- then re-checking their weapon, then after releasing the slides they both do unnecessary but reassuring trigger pull, resulting in dry "click", then have the whole procedure repeated in front of the instructor, who also double checks that nobody has a loaded magazine or even a stray loose round on their person- somebody PLEASE tell me how those guns are loaded...

Please. Use logic. Science. Religion. Whatever.... Yet. Many, after I ask the same question after outlining the above logic- they will look around, as if looking for support, blink 2 times, wipe the sweat of their foreheads and then say.... "Well... Yeah. It's unloaded, but......" their thought suspended in the vacuum of "what the f**k do I say to not look like an idiot with an IQ in single digits AFTER both numbers are added".

Think about it. Let it sink in.

And yes- I know that there will be backlash for this. "This is the reason Puzikas shot a man".... I know what will be said. And I give exactly zero fornications about the backlash.

Fi****ms are to be respected. Treated and handled with care and responsibility. Same goes for students in fi****ms training. Practice safety. Practice responsibility. AND- practice (after the above outlined procedures as a MINIMUM safety precautions) facing the gun and pointing YOUR gun at imaginary "that which you have to destroy"- because a gunfight is about that... And that 0.2 second delay- oh my GOD- to point your gun at the bad guy may cost you, or your loved one very very dearly.

Un-dogmatise your training.
Get real. Get serious.
Be safe to become dangerous for when it's needed.

Sonny

Got OODA? Or is it Something entirely different?

Observations (no pun intended) through participation and while teaching over the years have led me to somewhat of a strange conclusion...
Is most of the training even conducive to let that illusive process often called OODA work? To function as intended? To be true cycle of observing reality, orienting in real time, making decision to act in most appropriate way based on information present and then, finally- act...
And what I observed has somewhat surprised me.
Through training that is focused on specific solutions of the problems faced- most often very narrow and limited field of "view" is being cultivated. Narrow field of view that is also focusing (and I use that term loosely, as such "focus" will result in blurry picture at best) on given problem through a prism of preconditioned and yet again- very limited- "orientation" tools, which are all geared in reverse direction to justify the preconditioned, trained, premeditated action.
In essence- a lot of modern training methodologies create fighters/operators who are- for the lack of better term- goal oriented with specific action being that goal- often ignoring what can be observed, thus excluding the "orienting" in current situation, with decision being made to chase the action that is not the best, nor optimal, nor efficient in current situation...
Action- especially conditioned habitual action- should not be the ultimate goal of Boyd's loop. The two O's are the most crucial components. Yet- aren't they excluded from this new "loop"? By the virtue of a fighter "looking" for an opportunity to execute specific action, in the process he is missing so much- mainly the reality in real time. Where targets, opportunities abound...
Call it CPHA cycle... Chasing premeditated habitual action...

From DVD "The Forge" chapter 9 Chapter 9. Lower platform conditioning. www.gospelofviolence.com/store