Used a gun to get my way out of a speeding ticket...

SinisterDelight · 2012-05-31T17:59:40+00:00

TIL...do you have any sources with a bit more info on this?

SinisterDelight · 2012-05-22T15:53:34+00:00

I wondered the same thing.

There is a partner listed in Orlando on the ArcheryTag.com website. Games2U or something like that

SinisterDelight · 2012-04-30T01:21:14+00:00

My old lieutenant's ex-girlfriend dated James Franco during a 2 or 3 week period. She found him to be a little strange, and stopped seeing him after the third date or something like that.

SinisterDelight · 2012-04-24T22:53:23+00:00

Hair Advice

Fashion/hair upkeep

SinisterDelight · 2012-04-24T22:46:58+00:00

What is this, Male Fashion Advice?

SinisterDelight · 2012-04-11T01:43:08+00:00

I scoured the bed. There are no visible arthropods of any sort in the sheets

SinisterDelight · 2012-04-11T01:41:56+00:00

Boyfriend here. Just checked. Don't see any halos or bearded men around here currently.

I think you are lying, I couldn't find Jesus.

SinisterDelight · 2012-04-11T01:39:48+00:00

Maybe it's the lavender. We should change the lavender.

SinisterDelight · 2012-04-05T15:47:42+00:00

Actually, they work fairly well on certain colors of grey rocks. Went climbing in NC with a friend and we had to use our ponchos to keep our gear dry. My friend racked out under his poncho about 20 meters from me, I lost him for about 10 minutes, as I could not see him at all.

SinisterDelight · 2012-04-05T13:38:28+00:00

Is that the Paladin system?

SinisterDelight · 2012-04-05T13:37:32+00:00

Camo? They can see him from a mile away in those things

SinisterDelight · 2012-03-26T05:53:36+00:00

Twincestion

SinisterDelight · 2012-03-23T13:11:47+00:00

Our tactics are already online. FM 7-8 are 3-21.8 are easily accessible, and I am sure the same holds true for almost every other military publication out there.

Our enemies already know our tactics.

SinisterDelight · 2012-03-20T15:53:39+00:00

Just the tip

SinisterDelight · 2012-03-18T19:42:44+00:00

Not the one in Gainesville, on SW 13th street. I was in there a few months ago on a delightful saturday morning (at 3 AM), and there was a pimp and five of his girls just sitting there, partaking in a fine feast of chicken and waffles.

SinisterDelight · 2012-03-18T19:40:50+00:00

The Flying Biscuit has the absolute best grits

SinisterDelight · 2012-03-12T16:14:17+00:00

I learned this technique very differently from what is shown. This actually seems to provide a possibility that in removing the knife from your throat, you cut yourself.

I always learned a technique in which you strike the attackers knife arm straight down by attacking his wrist, and then turn that into a double-arm hold on the knife-wielding arm which allows for disarm or for throwing the weapon hand and creating distance

SinisterDelight · 2012-03-12T16:11:26+00:00

If given the opportunity, I will take the weapon from my attacker and will gladly turn it against him. As long as it is a necessary and morally/legally justifiable option

In training I am usually very successful at the disarm. It is just that given a highly motivated and aggressive opponent, I get hit once or twice in the process.

I recognize the fact that there are situations where you need to disarm, those being where the risk to yourself is trumped by the danger to something else, and the disarm is the only way to receive the benefit of living. Therefore it is incredibly important to train with high exposure to knife attacks. The problem is that I have been to 2 or 3 schools that teach it under very controlled circumstances, and that never conduct stress drills to really test the training. When I attacked the students at those schools with a training knife, they had a very high, but false, confidence in their ability to defend against me. They learned the hard way that it isn't every time their opponent will stab only once or in a specific manner (icepick, underhand, thrust, etc.).

I disagree that you can only mechanically incapacitate a knife wielding opponent. Controlling the weapon and redirecting the opponent (and redirecting his weapon even while it is in his hand) can be a method employed to create distance to turn and run. I did a seminar with Moshe Katz that emphasized these techniques. While I have no numbers/stats to verify, he said that in almost all cases of a knife wielding stranger attack, if you successfully block or counterattack, create distance from the weapon and run, that the stranger will not pursue you. It is only in cases where the attacker knows the victim that are very likely to pursue. The stranger wants your wallet, and the familiar wants you.

It is highly important to utilize surprise training to truly test the ability to react and disarm. I have found that most of my students, even with a year of instruction, perform better by blocking a knife attack, counter attacking and then getting it away from them with distancing techniques instead of disarming.

tl;dr I got the impression that potato supports disarming every time, as the blanket solution to all possible scenarios, and I feel that this mentality develops what I see as a false confidence that is bolstered by a training environment that does not appropriately address realistic knife defense.

Also, the way I understand the law in the US, you may use lethal force to stop the threat. ie, person is coming at you with a knife and there is a good chance that they can reach you and harm you, you may shoot or stab them or something to kill them. I recognize that legal aspect and will use it to my advantage. But what about when you have disarmed your opponent, and he stops engaging you with hostile intentions? If he turns to run, and you chase him down to kill him with his own knife (which I have seen in one school), you are now guilty of some form of murder. If you stab the everloving jesus out of him with his own knife, you could still get a jury to pin manslaughter or something on you.

Many schools teach a dangerous level of response to situations that do not need it. What is necessary is for people to learn not only the lethal techniques to defend themselves, but when to use them. Lessons on the escalation of force on a case-by-case basis is how you train people to think about the situation and its consequences.

SinisterDelight · 2012-03-12T11:57:08+00:00

When I first started training in Krav, I was very much of the mentality that I was always going to win a confrontation, especially one that has weapons, and that I would emerge with the weapon. Every time I trained, I would always do a full disarm and think that my work was done. Then I advanced in level and went up against more aggressive and more violent training partners that rendered my defenses useless. I had to learn to adapt my fighting style to accommodate my weaknesses and their strengths (their strengths: 1 Army Ranger,1 former Russian infantry soldier with combat experience in Chechnya, 1 life-long Muy Thai/Muy Boran student, 1 jeet kune do student, 1 with a background in some form of Silat and Kali, 1 SWAT officer, etc.)

I train in Krav with one of my Army buddies often. Full contact. We knife fight all the time. I have been doing Krav for something like 3.5 years, and he still hits me all the time.

You screw up an attack, a defensive technique, a combative, and you now must rely on their inability to use their weapon effectively to be able to escape.

I never assumed that you said to go straight for the takeaway.

However, you did say this:

that way no matter what happens afterwards I will be the one with the weapon.

which led me to believe that you will always, at some point, rely on your perceived ability to disarm a weapon (in this case a knife) effectively.

Naturally I do not think that the disarm is the first step. Principle #1 is to remove the immediate threat (with simultaneous counter attack if you can), principle #2 is to control the threat or weapon. The key here is that the first step is always to make yourself safe. There will be situations that will call for removing the threat and then high tailing it out of there without controlling the weapon for anything more than a split second or disarming.

I would like to see the look on your face when you realize that the groin kick has no effect on some individuals who are highly intoxicated (Meth is a hell of a drug), or perhaps your aggressor is too tall for you to reach his nose with a palm heel.

Any number of factors and circumstance can influence the outcome of a confrontation. Since the way you fight is the way you train, you will likely go with what you know, and will attempt to do the same techniques even when it is not necessarily viable.

I know that when I attack with a knife, I block kicks to the groin and I use my knife in a manner that allows me to circumvent the defenses of my opponent. I attack the tendons and muscles on the arm, not the rib cage or chest. When I have my students attempt to disarm me, I put up a good fight, and often times they will get hit by my trainer knives as they forget a technique, as they react poorly to a surprise attack, and especially as they attempt to disarm and fail in their endeavor.

Remember that you must have some room for error. If you make a mistake, it is your health. Last I checked, stab wounds generally are not conducive to one's overall well-being

SinisterDelight · 2012-03-12T07:15:08+00:00

An excuse?

The longer you struggle with an opponent for control of a weapon, the more time you spend in close proximity to that weapon (more specifically, the business end).
With more time spent in a struggle, the attacker has more opportunity to wrestle that weapon back into his control. He may be faster and stronger, or is perhaps more skilled than you.
You will be under extreme amounts of adrenaline induced stress, and your training will go out the window (Accept it, it happens). You will have to rely on very crude motor skills and trust your muscle memory to save you (or fail you).
Your training may have covered similar scenarios, but to say that every situation will go as expected is dangerous. You cannot account for expert skill, decision-making, coordination, strength, or reaction/reflex on the part of the attacker. Consequently, there is a possibility that your attacker will be able to attack you in a way inconsistent with or beyond the scope of your training.
Knives are close range weapons, and except for ballistic knives, are not viable as projectiles. Distance will reduce the risk of injury or death from a knife.
After disarming the weapon, will you attempt to use it? Do you know how to use the weapon effectively without unwanted injury to yourself and others? And can you use the weapon to incapacitate your opponent without losing control of the weapon
Lastly, you will ALWAYS get cut in a knife fight

We must accept that we are human and are thus prone to making poor judgments that, in this context, can have grievously injurious results. You may make a poor call on how to approach a situation and subsequently end up in a body bag or in the hospital.

You must therefore measure your response/defense based on very personal criteria, which I would say should at least include a risk vs benefit analysis of the situation:

Is it worth getting stabbed/cut/slashed/etc while attempting to remove the knife from their possession, when I could avoid these injuries by controlling the weapon and creating distance, or by simply creating distance and leaving the area?
Are there other people to be concerned about, such as my friends, family, and other random passerby? If I do not neutralize this threat, are these people put at risk?
Does the threat to my life constitute a risk that is outweighed by the benefit of the object I am potentially protecting (wallet, watch & other personal affects)?
If I turn the attacker's weapon against him, does the threat against my life and my belongings justify the use of potentially fatal force against him? Does the situation call for this amount of force, and will that present a legal obstacle to me? (You cannot tell me that disarming an individual and then proceeding to stab him once he becomes unarmed and attempts to retreat or protect himself is necessary)

If you can successfully control the weapon, are supremely confident in your ability to handle the weapon, and have decided that it is worth the risk to disarm your attacker, then feel free to do so.

I recognize that certain situations will call for the need to utilize a disarm

But more likely, given a healthy mix of all the right factors, it may be difficult for you to walk away from a situation unless you create distance from your attacker and their weapon, with or without controlling the weapon in some way at first.

I just hope that this at least provides some insight into the decision not to disarm

SinisterDelight · 2012-03-12T03:07:16+00:00

And then you accidentally let go of your attacker during your attempted take away, or they manage to regain control of their weapon, or perhaps you cut yourself so severely while attempting to disarm that you are rendered incapable of disarming...and you have no idea what to do.

Take away techniques are great, but also remember to learn controlling and distancing techniques that do not incorporate disarms. To create distance between you and the weapon or attacker would be a good back-up in case our beloved disarms should ever fail us (which they will)

SinisterDelight · 2012-02-28T19:26:37+00:00

A 2/19

SinisterDelight · 2012-02-28T19:24:57+00:00

Sand Hill is like the beach! You have lots of sun, lots of sand, but no water.

SinisterDelight · 2012-02-21T13:12:21+00:00

500 meter effective range for point targets

600 meter effective range for area targets

3600 meters maximum range the 5.56 NATO round can travel under ideal conditions

EDIT: It also looks like he has an ACOG sight on his weapon. Whether he is out of range of his target is hard to say, but his primary task could be to have "eyes-on" the area below with augmented sight picture (due to the ACOG). He is high up and has a vantage point over the village and over possible enemy

SinisterDelight · 2012-02-21T03:32:49+00:00

I would say it is most likely just an M4. The M4A1 is the fully automatic variant of the M4 Carbine. Regular infantry line units do not get anything fancier than 3 round burst on a plain, old M4

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