Hi Guys,
Just got a new toy to play with: an aluminum dummy gun, to practice disarms and retentions.
All right, I've got a willing buddy, and an appropriate tool. We can both wear gloves, and we've both been through a class which covered disarms and retentions.
But ...
I don't have a lot of faith in some of the techniques. In some cases, I know I'm not doing 'em right yet, so will have to practice practice practice at slower speeds. That's ok. But some of them seem to me as if they wouldn't work at full speed, against an opponent bigger and stronger than I am. I don't know that, since they can't be done at full speed lest my buddy and I break each other's arms. Still, it worries me that I don't have much confidence in the techniques. If confidence in the techniques is warranted (people I trust tell me it is), how would you go about building more confidence?
Related: some of the techniques (the LFI 'destructive disarm' for example) just about have to be done at full speed in order to be practiced at all. But I don't want to break anyone's bones merely in order to give myself some confidence or in order to build in the muscle memory.
Is there a better way?
pax
If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot. -- Dean Smith
Just got a new toy to play with: an aluminum dummy gun, to practice disarms and retentions.
All right, I've got a willing buddy, and an appropriate tool. We can both wear gloves, and we've both been through a class which covered disarms and retentions.
But ...
I don't have a lot of faith in some of the techniques. In some cases, I know I'm not doing 'em right yet, so will have to practice practice practice at slower speeds. That's ok. But some of them seem to me as if they wouldn't work at full speed, against an opponent bigger and stronger than I am. I don't know that, since they can't be done at full speed lest my buddy and I break each other's arms. Still, it worries me that I don't have much confidence in the techniques. If confidence in the techniques is warranted (people I trust tell me it is), how would you go about building more confidence?
Related: some of the techniques (the LFI 'destructive disarm' for example) just about have to be done at full speed in order to be practiced at all. But I don't want to break anyone's bones merely in order to give myself some confidence or in order to build in the muscle memory.
Is there a better way?
pax
If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot. -- Dean Smith