irish52084
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Jerry, your points are well said and valid. It's very unlikely that non military or LEO will need to use their weapon. It's a 1% kind of thing, but it's the 1% you can't get wrong.
I know for me it's both a learning/enjoyment aspect as well as good training. I've been training in some form of martial arts, sport etc... for so long that it's foreign to me to not train. I'm not interested in creating some sort of fighting style that incorporates a pistol, more of a how do I quickly and forcefully create the space and time for me to engage a weapon.
If I'm put in a bad spot, can I survive long enough to get to my weapon while grappling with an attacker? Can I get to secondary gear like a knife, oc spray etc... while in a physical confrontation? Can I win a fight quickly and decisively without my gun if I can't or don't want to use it? Am I prepared mentally for physical confrontation? These are all the kinds of questions I ask myself when I evaluate how I'm training.
I don't have the time, talent or resources to be the best in the world with a defensive pistol or any sort of martial art, but neither do criminals. They are usually criminals, because they aren't very motivated and even a small bit of training is a huge edge when dealing with an untrained attacker. Just knowing how it feels to move a resisting opponent, sense balance and weight shifts and use them to your advantage is a huge deal. Knowing that it takes up to 8 seconds to pass out from a blood choke and how to defend chokes and how restrain people is a big deal. I'm no bad ass master of fighting, but I know how to handle myself better than 99.9% of people and that's the best I can do.
Plus, it's FUN to train!
I know for me it's both a learning/enjoyment aspect as well as good training. I've been training in some form of martial arts, sport etc... for so long that it's foreign to me to not train. I'm not interested in creating some sort of fighting style that incorporates a pistol, more of a how do I quickly and forcefully create the space and time for me to engage a weapon.
If I'm put in a bad spot, can I survive long enough to get to my weapon while grappling with an attacker? Can I get to secondary gear like a knife, oc spray etc... while in a physical confrontation? Can I win a fight quickly and decisively without my gun if I can't or don't want to use it? Am I prepared mentally for physical confrontation? These are all the kinds of questions I ask myself when I evaluate how I'm training.
I don't have the time, talent or resources to be the best in the world with a defensive pistol or any sort of martial art, but neither do criminals. They are usually criminals, because they aren't very motivated and even a small bit of training is a huge edge when dealing with an untrained attacker. Just knowing how it feels to move a resisting opponent, sense balance and weight shifts and use them to your advantage is a huge deal. Knowing that it takes up to 8 seconds to pass out from a blood choke and how to defend chokes and how restrain people is a big deal. I'm no bad ass master of fighting, but I know how to handle myself better than 99.9% of people and that's the best I can do.
Plus, it's FUN to train!