knowing how to use movement effectively
is an important part of active
self-protection
there are live-fire training tools and
dry-fire training tools mantas X is the
only one that does both it will change
the way you shoot for the better it has
helped me immensely hi everyone this is
John with today's active self-protection
lesson out of Port Mosby in Papua New
Guinea here we're going to see an armed
robbery with a intended victim who's
just not having it so what we see here
is the truck that's parked with its nose
to us is where our defenders are and the
truck that's just pulled in is actually
where most of our attackers armed and
and but we're gonna see that the guy
that's standing right next to the
interest to the store there in the gray
jacket is also among the perps so
they're kind of setting things up
for them to be able to attack now again
everything looks normal here and that's
how these things go down they always
come in a hurry and now these guys are
gonna jump out and the fight is on and
we're gonna notice that the first shot
actually came from inside the truck now
the guy that got onto the the right side
the passenger side of the truck is now
running over this way and notice he's
come around several ways and he all by
himself runs these guys off and they
weren't I don't think expecting him to
be armed and he drives them off with
some really good tactics a little bit of
marksmanship a little bit of luck this
fight is over
thankfully this guy looks like he
prevailed boy I think that man really
shows us an awful lot of the ways that
we can go I do have a poll question for
you out of this one and that is have you
ever gotten to work in an actual
firearms class on moving and using cover
and concealment while you have a firearm
in your hand hit that pole and let me
know whether you have or not I'm willing
to bet not too many of us have actually
done that in a class under instructions
so that we can do it well I love doing
it as a student and I love teaching it
as a teacher out of this particular one
I want to focus there using cover and
concealment with a firearm in your hand
also want to talk today about
transitional spaces and about being the
first one to put shots on target
awful lot to think about here
particularly about transitional spaces
so all these kind of you know
gas station convenience stores stop and
Rob's that we call them our transitional
spaces because we expect people to pull
in and out we expect people to kind of
linger as they you know fuel their
vehicles and go in for you know a soda
or something like that now the guy that
they that's right by the door right now
in in the blue jeans in the gray shirt
that guy was there already and was
planted so I don't know what the all the
deal was there with him at the beginning
but this is bad juju all around and this
looks targeted to me for some particular
reason but notice that the first puff
that we see is not going into the car
but the puff of glass is actually coming
from inside the truck outside and I
don't know exactly what happened to that
first guy looks like they might have got
him to me but recognize that shooting
through a windshield very very difficult
not so hard shooting from outside into a
windshield it will normally drive the
bullet down unpredictably
but shooting from inside out of a car
very very difficult in significant ways
now notice here as well that our guy on
the right side of the vehicle is piling
out of the car if you can you want to
use your vehicle to get out of the
danger zone it is many times if it's in
gear and running your best bet to get
you out of trouble
but that's not always the case and if
you cannot move the vehicle it becomes a
coffin in a hurry so you want to bail
out of that car and get out of there as
fast as you can because if it's
stationary it becomes a place where they
have you pinned down and you want to get
out of there as fast as you can this guy
did an excellent job of getting out of
there so he can get out of the killing
zone as quick as he can now notice he
wasn't able to get his gun out in time
he just drew his firearm right here and
now he has to get in the fight the other
guy that had the gun my guess inside the
vehicle it doesn't look I don't see any
movement from him I don't know if those
guys got him or what that doesn't matter
to the guy who's just gotten his gun out
and he's in the fight all by himself and
noticed that he has basically a fight
across the bed of this truck with the
guy that's in the dark colored shirt
well what's he gonna do to that a couple
of things that are very interesting to
me number one he gets down and he's in
concealment here the bed of that truck
is not bulletproof guys it is absolutely
not covered but what we see in defensive
gunfights again and again is that 99% of
the time concealment works as well as
cover in most cases except for highly
trained folks and usually in military
environments so if you can get
in concealment that's usually good
enough and that's exactly what happens
here he gets down under concealment and
the guy can't see him and what he can't
see he doesn't shoot he got to use that
to your advantage to get to a place
where you can see him quickly and get a
shot on him so what we see there is he
started shooting and that made the guy
start getting out of there
now notice that our victim here has
moved he's not sitting on the right side
of the vehicle
or our left but it would be his right he
has moved to the other side - what in
the US we would look at as the driver's
side because he is moving to a different
spot if you keep popping up in the same
spot where they saw you last time they
will get a bead on you and you can
really be in trouble keep moving keep
finding in new places you know Pat
McNamara said people are pre-programmed
to pick up patterns of predictability
he's getting after it and keeps moving
on these guys and starts putting shots
their way marksmanship is always King
here and I will give him a little bit of
grief about this particular ones very
common but what we see a lot of times is
people will hug right up next to their
cover now he's behind cover right there
the engine block and the wheels may well
provide him decent cover but he's hugged
right up against it and if they missed
low those bullets can very easily skip
off the hood of the vehicle there and
catch him so if you possibly can got a
train enough to give your cover a little
bit of space so then that way that's
minimized and it's better for you in
every way so learn how to get a little
bit of space from your cover
it's another incidence where we see
people really love their cover so much
they reliably give it a hug all that
considered this guy did an amazing job
he bailed out he used his concealment
effectively he got himself into the
fight prevailed in that fight and
actually drove a huge number of bad guys
off all in all man guy did a fantastic
job he covered his ass
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