What Violent Encounters Might You Need to Survive?

Light Over Heat with Professor David Yamane has a post about how you train, and what you look for. “When You Are Called on to Change History” - Gabe Suarez's training and Jordan Salinas's response in Twin Falls

As noted in yesterday’s post, Who Did It, With What, and Where? Playing “Tactical Clue” in the Civilian Gun Training Industry, rather than imagining the typical counter-ambush (defensive) scenario in his gun training classes, Gabe Suarez suggests students prepare mentally and physically for a counter-terrorist (offensive) scenario.

That post is at this link: Who Did It, With What, and Where? Playing “Tactical Clue” in the Civilian Gun Training Industry

In that post I love the quote:

“We live in a time of war,” Suarez tells his students. We never know when we will be sitting around, minding our own business, and then hear, “Aloha snack bar!”

That is essentially the position Jordan Salinas found himself in. He was minding his own business and suddenly he was in the middle of a mass shooting incident.

But back to the current post/first link above.

In terms of the civilian gun training industry, the final part of Suarez’s Pistol Gunfighting School completes the paradigm shift from Tactical Clue 1997 — the old Modern Technique of the (Defensive) Pistol — to Tactical Clue 2017 — the New Modern Technique of the (Offensive) Pistol.

Click thru for the details.

I have much to think about. My "self-defense" strategy is firmly in that 1997 paradigm, as described by Professor Yamane. Click thru and read both links. And you should be reading the Professor's writing; it is worth the time.