Day One.
We started the first day of this five day format off with a cold drill. A man on man shoot off on pepper poppers and hostage targets. No briefing, no warm up, Just sprint over to the targets and get it done. That's a gun fight. Sudden and unexpected. This drill took it's toll on many of the 27 students in attendance.
The class in comprised of about 80% LE, a couple of Marine scout/snipers and a few of us lowly training junkies.
The class was broken down into three groups of nine and we rotated through several very intense problems. We worked the knife charger from outside of and inside of vehicles, The high speed mover, and a number of other drills.
One of the drills had us working a problem in two man teams from the vehicle. The drivers side of the vehicle faced down range. On the signal, AMBUSH! The driver engaged pepper poppers from the drivers side window. The passenger exits the vehicle and goes to the ground engaging bowling pins from underneath the car. This is to simulate taking out the adversary's legs and shins. Keep in mind that the driver is still in the car. These type of drills do require that you be switched on all the way. Once the driver has the pepper poppers down he exits the vehicle from the passenger side door and also goes to the ground and engages any bowling pins that are still standing. Needless to say, this is a high speed very intense drill, and a ton of fun.
Given the amount of time we spend in our vehicles I feel that this type of training is essential to any serious combatives student.
We started the first day of this five day format off with a cold drill. A man on man shoot off on pepper poppers and hostage targets. No briefing, no warm up, Just sprint over to the targets and get it done. That's a gun fight. Sudden and unexpected. This drill took it's toll on many of the 27 students in attendance.
The class in comprised of about 80% LE, a couple of Marine scout/snipers and a few of us lowly training junkies.
The class was broken down into three groups of nine and we rotated through several very intense problems. We worked the knife charger from outside of and inside of vehicles, The high speed mover, and a number of other drills.
One of the drills had us working a problem in two man teams from the vehicle. The drivers side of the vehicle faced down range. On the signal, AMBUSH! The driver engaged pepper poppers from the drivers side window. The passenger exits the vehicle and goes to the ground engaging bowling pins from underneath the car. This is to simulate taking out the adversary's legs and shins. Keep in mind that the driver is still in the car. These type of drills do require that you be switched on all the way. Once the driver has the pepper poppers down he exits the vehicle from the passenger side door and also goes to the ground and engages any bowling pins that are still standing. Needless to say, this is a high speed very intense drill, and a ton of fun.
Given the amount of time we spend in our vehicles I feel that this type of training is essential to any serious combatives student.