Training Notes: Fight To Your Feet!
So there you are…caught at the street protest with your boys and the Commies are a little too close for comfort. Unbeknownst to you, you’re all alone in a high threat environment and out of the blue you find yourself knocked on your ass with a handful of thugs looking to make the next Jackson Pollack masterpiece.
You’ve got to fight your way through it. Kill or Get Killed.
So we’ve all seen the video and the pics from Kenosha. That’s going to become the unfortunate reality for more and more as this thing drags on, highlighting the real need to understand fighting in three dimensions. In class I often have martial artists of different backgrounds, and I continuously reinforce the notion that fighting with a weapon is an extension of those martial arts. Just because you’re down doesn’t mean your out.
Starting on your back, your weapon is retained across the chest, firing and support hands in place. One round into the target.
Work your way up to a kneeling position, quickly getting your knees and then feet underneath your body and placing two more rounds into the target.
Work your way to your feet and move laterally, placing another controlled pair into the target.
Just because you’re down never means you’re out- always fight to your feet, no matter what. Always keep moving, do not remain static, and whenever possible, you should be incorporating dynamic movement into your weapons training. People don’t stand still and let you shoot them, and neither should you.
Kill or Get Killed.
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Clack Clack
Two rounds from your back
Yeet Yeet
Almost on your feet
Bang bang
Get up; Make some freedom Rang (Southern Accent Only)
Rhymes help people remember stuff. I know it helps me.
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Do your sit-ups / core exercises!
Zombie Land Rule #1: Cardio.
I believe young Mr. Rittenhouse was winded from his run and need to catch his breath for getting to his feet.
In addition to sit ups, squat thrusts (or what ever they are called now).
He will need to get in better shape today, because they will be coming for him specifically now that he is an exemplar stand your ground.
Absolutely. One thing to remember though is how adrenaline affects your strength, speed, and cardiovascular endurance. Kyle, being a lifeguard, is probably already in great shape and could run 3-5x longer without the adrenaline dump and the cowboy boots.
I remember being able to fight my grappling partners *hard* for 15min after class. I went to my first competition and gassed out 3min into a 5min match due to the adrenaline dump. And that’s with me knowing the event was coming up for weeks ahead of time.
A helpful technique we used to simulate the adrenaline dump was the “shark tank.” You take a given amount of time to fight, and have a fresh person come in every minute or so as you continue to fatigue. It’s humiliating but absolutely worth it and it works.
I’m guessing there’s an equivalent to that for running; probably sprint intervals while imagining yourself getting killed will get you closer to the stress response you’ll get in a real event. If you’ve got training partners maybe have them chase after you while you’re wearing your gear, and they’re fresh, similar to the “shark tank” idea above but they get to hit you if they catch you.
Adrenline is suppose to make you fight longer, harder, and faster. It can also cause breathing trouble, and a retraction of blood vessels. I think you had shallow breathing due to the stress before your match. This will pass with time as you become more comfortable in this environment. But the effects of Adrenaline are not necessarily better, and yet, at the same time, this is an evolutionary trait. Another side effect is tunnel vision, loss of hearing, and the activation of both the parasympathic and sympathic nervious system. Which is why people get the “Shakes” as mentioned in the novel Starship Troopers. The shakes are both of your nervous systems firing off like a machine gun. In preparation fo you losing a limb, or severing a blood vessel or nerve.
This is why some people appear to be saved after emergency medical treatment, and pass away after about 15 minutes or so. They died when they were attacked, or struck, and the adrenaline kept their mind, and body alive JUST long enough to fight a little longer.
You need to prime your muscles with oxygen. All Olympians and professional athletes use oxygen priming.
It takes almost two hours to accomplish, using a series of deep, and shallow breaths at varying intervals.(This can depend on the activity)
Yoga is a good example of breathing exercises that isn’t marketed as oxygen priming, but could be, because it is.
Rappers and musicians also use oxygen priming. If you are getting into competitive sport fighting, you MUST use oxygen priming or your results will consistently end in failure when matched against an opponent of equal size and skill.
I saw a man take 34 opponents in a row. Granted, many of these opponents were well below his weight class and skill level, and we work our way up from the smallest to the largest(Or in reverse), but Oxygen priming works. There is no doubt about that.
Oxygen priming can have a negative value effect on your body. Same as drinking too much water, or eating too much food.
It is both a skill and science. As are a great many things.
Look it up, I hope you do better next time. Good luck, the ‘Shakes” never go away, but the effect does become more predictable as you tune your body to the effects. I was a bouncer in Baltimore for many, many years and have been in thousands of street fights. For me, the shakes vary in their degree. I would assume this was because of my diet, or level of sobriety depending on the situation.
I hope you research this topic. I found it to be very interesting and extremely useful.
Good points. Yeah, I’ve seen adrenaline do weird things to me. That was one of my first matches. In others I couldn’t hear properly. After a few I could tell it was happening and it wasn’t as much of an issue.
I wish I could replicate it more in training. :-)
Blind fold. Try training with a blindfold on. Also, you can get a job as a bouncer or security for a rock venue. Although, be aware, someone will try to kill you. Literally. At the very least, someone will meet you at your car with their friends and really, really hurt you.
I woke up in an ambulance twice in my life. One guy was a straight up black belt in Kempo(he was like 40ish, off duty Baltimore City cop, and he absolutely annihilated me) The other guys were on the Hopkins Lacrosse team. I still have the graduation ring stamped into my forehead. I was bleeding all over the place from my nose, eye, and forehead. They were so very, very strong and aggressive and they worked as a team. My first mistake was getting up again cause they fought with honor. My second mistake was running my mouth again.
There’s an elementary wrestling move called a Hip Heist. It’s invaluable on the street. Check it out on youboob.
When a man gets on top of me, I personally feel that the hip trust is the most effective.
Except against Antifa. They are experts at the man-on-man hip trust.
LOL, I assume you mean Thrust. Best shoot them before they get to you. They’ll leave drizzle on your pant leg. And nobody wants that.
This is a Christian website sir…
Thank you for the information and encouragement.
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