armed robberies look about the same all
around the world and today we're going
to get another reminder of what our draw
and first shot times need to be
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hi friends welcome to today's lesson
here at active Self Protection I'm your
host as always John Korea I promise you
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us from Houston Texas but nope it's from
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South Africa but could just as easily be
in Phoenix Arizona or Memphis Tennessee
dude comes up gotta pull a gun out from
his waistband tell the clerk you can see
him kind of hold off hey give me all the
money out of the till whatever and now
the clerk's gonna be like okay man
whatever and start getting into the till
now you notice this customer is going to
look a couple times and be like what the
heck is going on here then he's going to
decide to nope out of there our robber
is going to give a bag to the clerk
who's got the register open and I just
want you to pay attention this is taking
some time our Clerk is really kind of
taking his time getting some money in
the out of the till and into his baggy
nice and uh you know politely and all
that stuff watch our Robert here is
going to look around a little bit this
is going to be important a little bit
later in our lessons because our clerk
is chill and our robber is a thief and
not a murderer you're gonna see here he
gets all the stuff from underneath so
the bigger bills underneath there and
the clerk and the robbers know that
happens he's going to put it down there
and be like hey man whatever you want
the others or whatever I can't get you
money out of this safe or anything like
that now what's going to happen here is
is that our robber isn't going to reach
out grab a hold of that and he left I
don't have any information as to whether
they caught him or whatever news story's
kind of hard to find on that so if you
have any please put it in a comment for
me we're going to talk about it more in
the lessons but this is why I recommend
that you train with a timer go over to
active Self Protection extra we got
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over there disarmed robbery like an
armed robbery almost anywhere in the
world starts again the bad guy gets to
set the time in the place now notice
here that he did have a furtive glance
and we see these kind of Target glances
or looking around who's around to see
what's going on pretty regular now that
by itself is probably not enough to go
oh no I got a robbery I got a draw gun
and shoot this guy I'm not saying that
at all but when you see somebody making
these furtive glances looking around you
see himself grooming other pre-assault
indicators like that and that's a whole
nother discipline for us to talk about
but recognize that maybe something could
very well be up be on your guard know
what's going on so this guy is now going
to again announce his robbery and tell
the clerk exactly what he wants now
compliance is an option okay and if you
are a you know in this kind of case if
you try to draw a gun right now where
he's got his eyes on you and the gun on
you you are gonna die unless you've got
a draw and first hit that is under 0.6
seconds which from concealment I really
have never seen somebody that's got that
kind of speed consistently don't try it
if you try it you will die this guy can
see that so fast it's on there and his
reaction time is about 0.5 total to see
it to assess what's going on to know
that he needs to shoot you you're gonna
get shot now then I will notice if you
have a one second draw to first shot
this is where we saw it notice our bad
guy has turned his nose off and his eyes
are kind of looking away he's kind of
glancing just a little bit at the
bystander on our right his left
and at this point if you're ready and
paying attention and you have a 1.0 draw
from concealment in first shot he cannot
beat you back to that hit he it is not
physically possible he'll get his head
back around around 0.6 then it's going
to take him 0.5 to assess the situation
make a decision and code that decision
and go that's exactly what we see here
it actually took 0.6 seconds for his
head to get around which means it takes
him another quarter of a second to
recognize what's going on decide what to
do about it and a quarter second to
actually encode the action so you can
beat him on that first shot you may well
need to get him some more now instead we
got some other options here but first I
want to talk about the bystander you
notice that bystander is like kind of
hanging around I would really strongly
recommend if you see something like this
going on do not spend time wondering
what should I do here what you should do
here is get the heck out of the danger
zone unless you are a self-defender and
you have the attitude and the skills and
the plan if you're armed here of course
uh if you're the bystander you can see
this guy's back he showed you the back
of his head and if you're the bystander
here if you have a 2.0 brought a first
shot he can't beat you on it he probably
won't so you have the ability here but
not the clerk
again at this point the clerk has to use
purposeful compliance and full
compliance is a way here you can say hey
man it's not my money whatever and
that's true except for it's not the
money that's at stake right now it's the
life of the clerk that is being
endangered and so he has the right to
defend himself given that by God in my
opinion regardless of the laws of where
you are now notice here our bad guy
looks to the left and shows the clerk
his ear this is a 1.5 second draw to
first shot what we're going to see here
is he's not going to be able to get his
head back around faster than 1.1 seconds
which gives you some more time if you've
got a 1.5 and you're ready and that's
exactly what happens here if you go and
time it on the original it takes 1.1
seconds for him to show his ear then see
what he needs to see come all the way
back and decide that's as fast as he can
possibly do it so it takes him another
half second in order to make a decision
see what's happening decide to shoot and
then encode that path and actually make
the gun fire so he can't fire faster
than 1.6 so you got a 1.5 draw the first
shot he can't beat you to the first shot
now of course again you may have to fire
more than that so I will say this though
is that when we're looking at this this
clerk doesn't get a 2.0 draw the first
shot he doesn't get the the bad guy
showing him the back of his head in this
particular incident the bystander does
but the clerk doesn't this is why I want
you to work with a timer this is why I
want you to take a little bit of gun
school I want you to go to actual class
so then that way you know what your time
is and you can be taught to efficiently
draw your firearm and know how to do it
well
notice here that our bad guy shows him
his ear on the other side because
there's somebody else outside that he's
looking at so a second 1.5 opportunity
exists here and probably even a better
one than his previous one but if you
don't know and you're just guessing then
you're just guessing whether or not this
guy will be able to get back ahead of
you and I think that is a you know hope
is not a strategy for successful
self-defense a absolute confidence that
comes from absolute competence that you
know exactly what your capabilities are
therefore you know what your ghost
signal is and you can look for it and I
know people say all the time well John
there's no timer in a gunfight this
shows us that that's absolutely not true
you won't get to hear shoot already
stand by your ghost signal will be
Visual and if you know what that ghost
signal is like we see here then you will
know when it's time for you to launch
your counter Ambush when you cover your
asp