one of the things we say all the time at
active self-protection is don't draw
from the drop but sometimes you got no
choice welcome to today's active
self-protection lesson I'm your host
John Correa today's video comes to us
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video the little bit of news I have on
this one says that the two guys that are
talking here live in this neighborhood
guy has put his car away and he's
sitting out talking I think with his son
this other car has come up remember
right hand drive in South Africa so as
they're sitting there looking at each
other Jude jumps out of the passenger
seat with a gun in his hand but the guy
in the blue shirt has one too and he's
the first one to get a shot off and that
drives them off these guys had run
around the block a time or two found
these guys that they thought were an
easy target to rob weren't expecting him
to be armed would be my guess let's see
it one more time dude jumps out of the
car our defenders gonna go get his gun
out from an appendix carried position
get shots after the guy they ran off
have not caught them as far as I can
tell you know news stories are kind of
sparse on this one but that's where it
ends
full credit to that man for protecting
not only himself but his friend as well
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to the lessons so let's think about this
transitional space first and foremost
right standing in your front yard
generally speaking safe place and this
is even in a gated community but somehow
this car got in there so big thing that
I really am excited about dude has just
come home and he has his gun still on
him when you are able to keep your tools
on your person yes I get an in a gated
community at your own home you may say
that might be a little bit much but this
guy's awful glad he had us going on him
that day and he was paying attention
when the car came back up noticed that
he's seeing what's going on now then as
this guy is gonna get out there seeing
hey man what's going on with these guys
what are we going to do with that dude
gets out
here's his ghost signal you could see
the fact that the guy jumps out and he
has the gun down at his you know side so
when we talk about assessing a potential
threat eyes hands waist we see this all
the time
eyes hands waist and when he saw they
that guy had a gun in his hand he said
he drew his firearm and he went to town
so once again assessing the threat and
then responding to it means I have to
realize oh no there's a deadly threat
here and in a real-life defensive
encounter you're not gonna get an
audible beat but you're gonna get a
visual signal so knowing that that
visual signal is coming you got to get
the gun out now then for speed from that
signal if if our good guy had had a
one-second draught of first shot this is
what he would have been looking at his
bad guy there at this point has the gun
down at his side and he's presenting a
full on full value target to him from a
very closed environment so this is why
we talk about having a rocket fast
errata for a shot especially if you
carry appendix a one-second draught of
first shot is conceivable is usable is
good to have because again he would have
had a much better shot without the
danger of the guy having the gun pointed
at him now as we continue to move
forward at 1.5 seconds if he'd have had
the gun out and going at 1.5 seconds
then yes the guy would have had his gun
up but notice he is coming directly
towards him and are a good guy who is
moving back and quartering hasn't really
got a lot of momentum so it's still a
fairly stationary target and the bad guy
has not gotten the gun up so if you
don't have a 1.0 draught a first shot a
1.5 is our second our professional
standard and he would have had a much
easier shot on this guy but I'm gonna
slow this last one down he had about a
1.7 second drawn a first shot and
because of that when the shot breaks you
noticed that our good guy is moving away
a backwards in to his right he's moving
on the diagonal our bad guy is actually
moving laterally as well has the gun up
and is somewhat quartered so the longer
draw the first shot gave him a harder
target while he's moving and the bad guy
more time now he certainly met the
standard of a concealed carrier which is
less than two seconds draught a first
shot and he was out and got a shot off
at 1.7 so good for him on that but
that's why we say that the draw the
first shot is so important and having it
fast is important now the next thing you
notice is that the FIPS of factors shows
up fudge I'm being shot at bad guy
doesn't like getting shot at he's
getting to drive off he's starting to
get the heck out of there notices well
the device
and ER does not stand around he boogies
as well and he is boogie in four out of
the screen as fast as he can very very
wise last thing I want to notice notice
our good guy has two hands on the gun
that's exactly what we want notice that
his stance is not super ideal but in the
dynamics of a gunfight you're probably
gonna be moving that's why I don't worry
about stance so much but I do worry
about a stable upper platform now when
he really has to get after this guy and
the distance is open up notice here now
he's probably I'd say at least a good 30
feet from this guy maybe even 12 yards
or so and as he decides I don't need to
back up from this guy anymore but I need
marksmanship far more at these kinds of
distances notice then he stabilizes his
platform by getting in on a nice wide
stance and gets after this guy and tries
to get some shots on target those
marksmanship fundamentals incredibly
important now if you were paying
attention he actually dropped something
from his dominant hand when this went
down it's sitting in the driveway he's
gonna cross right over it right now and
then he's gonna get rid of whatever a
little bit of paper or something was in
his support hand in that point as well
and then kick his shoes off which is
just a little bit weird so one last
thing they're learning to get everything
out of your hands and get the gun in
your hand so that you don't have
anything else there that's monkeying
with your marksmanship principles is
incredibly important now this guy did a
fine job he did everything he needed to
do drove that guy off saved his own life
perhaps and the life of the person who
was with him but let's think about that
draw - first shot and evidence like this
is why I tell you that I want you to be
as fast as possible and that's why that
two-second 1.5 1.0 draught of first shot
is so important so let's work on our
skills so that just like this guy we can
cover our ass
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