This blog will pick up where the last one left off. Actually, I haven’t blogged then because all
the time I have allocated for things like blogging have been dedicated to
figuring out how I am actually going to pull off the class I described at the
end of the previous blog.
Hence the title of this blog – The logistics of training.
It is one thing to have a neat idea, it is an entirely different
thing to turn that idea into something tangible.
How?
This is the approach I took
The raw materials I took from Rory and Marc can be boiled
down to this
- Chiron 2 day DT course
- Principles and Concepts (unpublished manuscript)
- Drills
- Facing Violence
- Logic of violence
- Conflict Communications
- Violence Dynamics
- Force Physics
These things are generally taught in a seminar format and /
or an academic setting
How do I square that with what I already teach in a Dojo setting?
I took the approach of mimicking a semester (10 week) long
college course.
Tuesday and Thursday are class room
Saturdays are like “night class” (all of the material from
the day classes jammed into one longer session)
Sundays (The New Class) are “Lab”. To experiment on your own and come up with
your own methods
On Sunday’s I’m more of a facilitator than an
Instructor. Primarily making sure no one
gets hurt or blows up the lab.
However, there is a ton of “academic” stuff that I lump
together under the category of [Things your Sensei / DT / Combatives Instructor
never taught you, but should have]
Things we hit once a year with the Violence Dynamics seminar
but that I feel I need to train more often, and that more people need to know
(more on that to follow)
So, 4 of the 10 Sundays the 45 minute skill conditioning
portion will be replaced with a brain conditioning lecture
Things your Sensei / DT / Combatives Instructor never taught
you, but should have lectures:
(1) Human reactions to interpersonal violence
- Human reactions to interpersonal violence
- HOW YOUR BODY REACTS TO COMBAT STRESS DURING VIOLENT CLOSE QUARTER CONFLICT
- Your brain on violence
·
The Lizard [Hind Brain]
o Survival
instinct (rhythm , and ritual)
·
The Monkey [Limbic System]
o Emotion
o Social
behavior
·
The “Human” [Neo Cortex]
o Rational
thinking
o Judgment
- OODA
- Moral / Ethical
- Breaking the freeze
- Legal - Use of force
(2) Violence Dynamics
n
Violence Dynamics
•
Social Violence
•
Asocial Violence
n
Conflict Strategies
•
Avoid
•
Run – Escape / Evade
n
Predator Eyes
•
De-escalation (Social Violence)
•
Fight
(3) Logic of Violence
- Understanding how and why “bad guys” operate
(4) Awareness
n
Deterring Asocial Violence (You can’t de-escalating
asocial violence) {Thanks Marc}
n
What the predator wants
n
Predator Counters
n
Awareness
n
Threat Assessment Scanning
n
Operator Mindset
n
After
•
Medical
•
Legal
I have been busy developing teaching tools to help me
present this information. Power Points
for the lectures, lesson plans, and an excel program to help people understand
the logic of violence and to help me generate custom training scenarios that
are logical and meet the needs of individual students.
I feel I am ready to go.
I will be dong a test run starting this Sunday (October 7th)
and running through mid November.
CLASS SCHEDULE
Training
Dates:
Sunday
10 /7/12
Contact
Controls & Joint Locks
Sunday
10/14/12
Takedowns
Sunday
10/21/12
Impact
/ Drives
Sunday
10/28/12
Counter
Assault
Sunday
11/4/12
Ground
Skills
Sunday
11/11/12
Vascular
Restraints
Sunday
11/18/12
Scenarios
All
classes incorporate scenarios and reality based drills. If you want to participate in the scenario
training 11/18/12 you must attend at least three other classes to learn
scenario safety protocols
Where:
(The
Basement of the Elk River American Legion)
When:
11
am – 1 pm
Cost:
$75
for the entire course or $20 per session
This
training is provided free to Law Enforcement and Military personnel
This will give me a chance to work out any bugs and refine
the class for full 10 week implementation next year
By then I hope to have lots of students that want to work
scenarios, so I plan on have scenario training on the lecture classes 4 out of
the 10 weeks.
Of all the elements of the new class, I am the most excited
about implementing scenario training for “civilians”.
I have developed and run scenario training for Law
Enforcement and Tactical Teams for the better part of a decade.
I even wrote a blog detailing how to run scenarios for your
martial arts school based on that experience that was featured in Aikido
Journal Online
But I haven’t really used this training method with my own
guys very often. Here is a video of some
scenario training we did with Jeff who was a security guard at a medical electronics
company at the time
Not to rip on Jeff but you can see from the video how his
performance could have been enhanced by the - Things your Sensei / DT /
Combatives Instructor never taught you, but should have lectures.
And Jeff is one of my guys; he has been to the Violence
Dynamics seminar, which brings me back to:
I feel I need to train this more often, and that more people
need to know this.
Case in point
This summer a Police Officer was arrested for assault.
Like any incident I review on the blog I make it clear that
I am not second guessing or judging the people involved. I am just trying to learn from the incident
Even more so in this case because I know and respect the
Officer involved. Dave ran my initial
SWAT school, and just recently ran some advanced team leader tactical training. He is a top notch Operator and from what I
know of him a good guy.
But this summer, he got in a bad situation and the only
information most people have about it came from the media (who are generally
not friendly to cops) and the best buddy of the victim.
MINNEAPOLIS
(AP) — A Minneapolis police sergeant and SWAT officer — who was apparently angered by a loud
cellphone conversation — was charged with assault Monday for allegedly punching
a man in the head, seriously injuring him.
"You
wouldn't think a police officer would behave in this way," said
Anoka County Sheriff's Cmdr. Paul Sommer.
"It's kind of a shock to our system."
Sommer
identified the victim as Brian Keith Vanderlee,
34, of Ramsey. The hospital was not providing information about Vanderlee's
condition, but Sommer said that, as of Monday morning, Vanderlee was on life
support and had undergone two brain surgeries.
Minneapolis
Star Tribune spokesman Steve Yaeger said Monday evening that Vanderlee is an
account executive in advertising sales at the newspaper, and spelled his last
name as Vander Lee. A report in the newspaper also said that he is 43 years
old.
The
discrepancy in the spelling of Vanderlee's name and his age could not be
resolved Monday evening.
"Our
thoughts and prayers are with the Vander Lee family," Yeager said.
Sommer
said video surveillance from Saturday night shows that Clifford and Vanderlee
were seated at adjacent patio tables at Tanners Station, a steakhouse and
restaurant in Andover , a Minneapolis
Sommer
said Vanderlee was apparently talking loudly on his cellphone to a friend when
Clifford got up and approached him. Sommer said the video shows Clifford
appeared to say something to Vanderlee, who was still on his phone.
As
Vanderlee was about to get to his feet, Sommer said, "Clifford strikes him
with a closed fist, just once in the head."
Vanderlee
fell backward and may have hit his head on concrete, Sommer said.
"From
what I saw, there was no fight," Sommer said. "It was a one-sided
assault."
Clifford,
47, of Andover
According
to the criminal complaint, Clifford told police he was at the bar with his wife
and others to talk about National Night Out, and that he "took offense to
some language" Vanderlee was using and asked him to stop.
Clifford
told authorities Vanderlee stopped using the offensive language for five to 10
minutes, but started using it again. Clifford said he went over to Vanderlee,
and when Vanderlee stood up and cursed, Clifford punched him, thinking he was
going to be hit himself.
"The
defendant admitted he did not de-escalate the situation by talking to employees
or moving tables," the complaint said.
According
to the complaint, employees of the bar did not hear Vanderlee use offensive
language and heard no complaints that he had done so.
Clifford
has been placed on home assignment, and there is an internal investigation, Minneapolis
Palmer
said Clifford joined the Minneapolis
He
also has worked for the United Nations as a police officer in Kosovo, Palmer
said.
The
name of Clifford's attorney was not immediately known. The Anoka County Jail
does not accept messages for inmates.
___
Jeff
Bienne contributed to this report from Minneapolis
Here is an example of
how the story was reported on TV
Mind you the
person being interviewed was in the parking lot and never saw the alleged 15
step running start superman punch he described.
My point in sharing this is – If a top notch Operator like Dave
with all his training and experience can get caught up in something like
this. Anyone can get caught up in
something like this.
That is why the learning information in the “Things your
Sensei / DT / Combatives Instructor never taught you, but should have” lectures
is so important, and practicing using that information and those skills under
stress in scenario training even more so.
I feel I need to train this more often, and that more people
need to know this.
That is why I have gone through all the trouble developing
the teaching tools (logistics) to provide this type of training.
Taking a neat idea and making it happen.
So again shameless self promotion
If you want to join us on Sundays c’mon over
If you want me to visit your school or if you want help
developing this type of training yourself – contact me samurai2717@hotmail.com
Train Hard, Train Smart, Be safe
It is a commonly accepted aphorism that "we fight like we train".
ReplyDeleteYou said, "My point in sharing this is – If a top notch Operator like Dave with all his training and experience can get caught up in something like this. Anyone can get caught up in something like this."
In counter-point, I say that your friend Dave (who apparently works as the last surviving PBX switchboard "operator" in America?) undoubtedly fought as he had trained, to apply immediate, overwhelming violence to the opponent in a perceived confrontation. While an on-duty police officer doing so is (however questionably) going to be defended by the courts as necessary behavior, Dave-at-dinner-with-his-wife isn't "operating" as an officer of the court and thus both is and ought to be just as susceptible to the legal limitations on personal behavior as any other citizen. Dave didn't get "caught up in" any behavior he wouldn't have committed while in uniform it would seem, which calls into question the nature of that training IMO.
Those who train police officers (to specifically include those who write the regulations/laws mandating that training) ought to examine the logistics of how and why their existing training doctrine contributes to this type of apparently unlawful behavior by their students. To the extent we do in fact "fight as we train" and fighting is only sometimes legal, maybe we need to adjust our professional training emphasis to include the rest of the student's life as well. Perhaps something as simple as an additional step in the conflict progression as "check for presence of back-up/legal jurisdiction" would accomplish sufficient a change to reduce the incidence of this type of occurrence both on and off the job for our country's police.
I got so involved in this material that I couldn’t stop reading. I am impressed with your work and skill. Thank you so much.
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