As to being faced with multiple enemies and having to keep both eyes open to prevent a bad guy from sneaking up on you in the "blind spot", folks who worry about such things should find more likely concerns.
engaging a whole room full of bad guys is just not realistic.
It stands to reason a wider area of awareness should be possible with shooting.
What we can do is resolve to be a dangerous target, and work to that end.
Are your self-proclaimed limitations the result of physical shortcomings, lack of training and/or practice, or mindset?I know the limits of my ability. If multiple determined and competent attackers chose to ambush me the best I can hope for is to go down swinging.
Then I failed to articulate my position because that is effectively the position I intended to take with "go down swinging"
Are your self-proclaimed limitations the result of physical shortcomings, lack of training and/or practice, or mindset?
Not to pick nits, but resolving to go down fighting, and working on the skills to do that effectively in a multiple attacker situation are two different things. One says, I will do my best with what I have. The other says I will train to be effective against multiple attackers. One is defeatist, the other pragmatic in my opinion.
What?Pragmatism. I know, from training, there is a limit to what one can accomplishAre your self-proclaimed limitations the result of physical shortcomings, lack of training and/or practice, or mindset?
Well, "two or "three" means" multiple".I will do my best with what is on hand but in a situation where I am faced with multiple attackers (ok 2 or maybe 3 I stand some chance) that is not likely going to result in coming out the other side.
Yes indeed.Time is a commodity and we all have a limit on the time we are going to devote for training.
Training is among the most important mitigation stratifies to allow us to overcome violent situations....If we devote training to situations we cannot reasonably expect to overcome we devote less training to situations we can reasonably expect to overcome.
Even if they are not the most serious risks?I'll devote my time and resources into preparing for the situations I will have a likely chance of overcoming.
How could we ever know what situations will arise?If we devote training to situations we cannot reasonably expect to overcome we devote less training to situations we can reasonably expect to overcome.
How could we ever know what situations will arise?
Training and practicing for the situations we can only imagine will happen has to be misleading.
The real world doesn't really make accommodation for what we think, only for what is.
The better we can get, the better we can deal with what happens, whatever it is.
Good.I make the assumption that anyone who would instigate and engage in violent force is at least as competent as I am.
Okay.As such it becomes a number issue. Add in the element of ambush and the advantage is heightened.
All good, but if you are attacked, none of that will matter.I don't make a good target for anyone. I am in reasonable shape, wear store-bought denim jeans, and drive vehicles that are ten years old or more. I avoid crowds of people due to social issues and am generally unobtrusive.
Well, sure.I assume anyone who has taken the time to bother to attack me is doing it for a reason....
You seem to be concluding in advance that you "cannot handle" the most likely violent crime scenario.I cannot handle the two or three competent and determined people who have decided I am a valid target and have taken the time to set up an effective ambush.
How many victims can?The good news is I cannot figure out why anyone would bother with me as that specific of a target.
If you were doing all those with your eyes you'd be correct.Pax,
Talking to the spotter while zipping down the race track and shifting gears should qualify as a convincing example of doing multiple things at once.