Ahh, EXCELLENT! Joe's a Marine instructor!!! Joe: Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to get together this weekend with a friend, and try the "drop to the ground" technique against your icepick-grip training. Pick a partner who is "reasonably capable" at drawing (NOT someone that you would be grossly under-matched against). Start at arms-length, relaxed stance.
YOUR JOB is to come at him with a training knife, using your Marine Corps. trained techniques.
YOUR PARTNER'S JOB is to use his non-weapon hand to ENGAGE your knife (keep the knife at distance; it doesn't matter if he gets cut on the hand) WHILE he draws with his weapon hand. THEN, AFTER DRAWING, your partner will perform a backwards combat fall with his pistol in a high-ready position (close to the chest, as discussed above). Your partner will squeeze off as many trigger pulls as he can, before you can get to his torso with the knife (stop at 8 trigger pulls).
WHAT I WANT TO KNOW:
1. Could the guy get his gun out before you made it to the torso?
2. Could the guy get any shots off before you made it to the torso?
3. Did he get off all 8 shots?
4. Were you able to get in a cut to the radial artery on the non-weapon hand? How about the weapon hand?
Try this, and let us know how it works.
YOUR JOB is to come at him with a training knife, using your Marine Corps. trained techniques.
YOUR PARTNER'S JOB is to use his non-weapon hand to ENGAGE your knife (keep the knife at distance; it doesn't matter if he gets cut on the hand) WHILE he draws with his weapon hand. THEN, AFTER DRAWING, your partner will perform a backwards combat fall with his pistol in a high-ready position (close to the chest, as discussed above). Your partner will squeeze off as many trigger pulls as he can, before you can get to his torso with the knife (stop at 8 trigger pulls).
WHAT I WANT TO KNOW:
1. Could the guy get his gun out before you made it to the torso?
2. Could the guy get any shots off before you made it to the torso?
3. Did he get off all 8 shots?
4. Were you able to get in a cut to the radial artery on the non-weapon hand? How about the weapon hand?
Try this, and let us know how it works.