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darrianation · 01-08-2008, 04:10 AM

The fighter who is really a warrior though, he can be in the military or work in law enforcement or security, he can also be just an everyday private civilian working a normal job but make no mistake he is different from 99% of the population.

The fighter takes care of his civic and familial obligations supporting himself and his family, he goes to work, he buys the groceries and pay the bills, and he may like to relax on the sofa every now and then just like anyone else but he is different because his thoughts are not wasted on cool cars, his next Vegas vacation because his thoughts are 24/7/365 on subjects of violence. His idea of a cool vacation is the next survival school he plans to attend. His idea of a great valentine present from his honey is a new tactical sling for his AK47 and a gift certificate for ammo at the local gun store.

The warrior trains his brain- he lays awake at night reading up on evolutionary, performance, and combat psychology, he reads books on the old gunfighters and outdoor survival, and he lays there late at night thinking of nasty ways of hurting the badguys. During the day and sometimes even late into the night he performs drills that are designed to train the software not just a bunch of physical repetitions on a heavy bag or in the air.

He trains his body- he has a very impressive bench press and he spends much of his free time pumping iron, doing killer kettleball routines, pounding out the miles of roadwork, dry firing his handgun, doing dynamic airsoft drills in the garage, beating the crap out his spar-pro and heavy bag, and beating tire piles with sticks. He doesn’t care if he looks
good doing it, he only cares that he hits fast, hard, and with emotion with the intent to wreak havoc on a future opponent.

He likes to spend his weekends training in various methods of mayhem, for instance, he has trained with folks like Andy Stafford, Gunsight, Frontsight, Ben Cooley, Blackwater, Mark Hatmaker, Mark Denny, Tom Soitis, and with his private training group of like minded warriors. In the last year he’s taken courses in electronic surveillance counter measures, tactical medicine, escape & evasion and counter tracking, terrorist interdiction, team tactics and clearing structures, snow and winter survival, and he has developed his curriculum along with his training partner for a new class they’ll be teaching this summer. In 2007 he shot nearly 40,000 rounds of ammunition in training…and he cannot count how many airsoft pellets he’s shot.

That’s not all…he holds black belts in karate, he’s trained in Muay Thai, wrestling (scholastic, freestyle and Greco-Roman), Kali, and is an ardent student of “Combatives”. He is a recipient of hundreds of thousands of Uncle Sam’s dollars spent on turning him into a killing machine (just like Mike).

His motivation is that someday all his hard work and sacrifice will pay off on that fateful day when he faces his perfect storm opponent in a fight for his life. And he has and it did.

Strategic deception- though, he dresses around his gear (guns, knives, leatherman tool, cell phone, etc) he doesn’t look like a thug, his goal is to be unseen because he doesn’t want to bring attention to himself and to the untrained eye he looks inconspicuous because he knows this increases his window of opportunity to trick his opponents. He knows that anonymity is the most important weapon he has in his formidable arsenal. he does not threaten, he does not allow himself to be baited, he does not warn, he does not talk shit or insult…those things take time and telegraph his intentions. If someone is stupid enough to **** with him he just acts…he makes him pay the stupid tax! He has trained himself to be that perfect storm opponent for someone else to have to deal with.

What he’s done to great effect is to synthesize his approach to fighting into a combination of very destructive, attack-oriented tactics and techniques that he can perform with maximal effort without much fear of hurting himself in the process. He can strike, he can grapple, and he can shoot and stab, and most importantly he is willing do it first, but since he knows he cannot always control all the factors surrounding the real world event, and if the other guy happens to do it first he will make him pay.

If someone were to want to fight him in an unarmed fight, is largely academic, because you will never, ever catch him unarmed. He has a CCW and he carries a G23, a folder and a fixed-blade with him at all times. His handgun is with him every single day of his life whether he carries it legally or not. He doesn’t care to strike with his hands given the slightest provocation his next likely move will be to draw his gun. If the badguy thinks he can disarm him or hit him he will most likely shoot him to the ground. And who says this fight will be fair? He most certainly will not fight fair, he will use ruse, deceit, and trickery to increase his opportunity to ambush his opponent from a position of surprise to gain the tactical advantage.

Guns aren’t the only things he trains to use…he also trains to use a knife to great effect. His favorite method is the Pikal and he trains the “sewing machine” method and sews his opponent into the ground. He has an extensive video library of all the James Keating and Michael Janach works. He owns all the Carl Cestari DVDs and Kelly McCann’s DVDs (combatives, knives, and firearms).

He is always ready and willing to do whatever it takes to win, if the situation requires that he run his opponent over with his truck, he will. If the badguy is more of a long range threat, he keeps a scoped M4 in a Pelican case in the trunk, next to his AK47, spare magazines, trauma-kit and bugout-ruck.

If the badguy thinks he can catch him unprepared in his home. His place is like a fortress, complete with a security system, multiple dead bolt locks, solid core doors, bars over the windows, peep holes, hedges trimmed away from the windows, sensor lights, three large barky dogs, and shotguns and other nasty implements of destruction placed strategically throughout his home.

Remember, he likes to move first and his first move is to draw a weapon on the badguy the second he identifies him as a threat. And he isn’t some stupid yahoo redneck from the sticks. He is educated, intelligent and a resourceful thinker. The warrior knows what he is capable of because he’s been tested but he also knows his limitations and he fights within the framework of his strengths and limitations. And because he understands the battlefield environment he can make decisive decisions without hesitation. He knows what his option are and he can choose between them like a surgeon carefully chooses his next implement from a tray of carefully organized surgical tools to hit upon the correct option, the one that fits the given circumstance. He can subdue his enemy with or without killing him and he knows when to attack or retreat though, he would rather attack.

The way he looks at his training is that he doesn’t know who he may face someday so he trains to face someone like himself…a worse-case opponent. He’s already faced some very scary monsters including terrorists, rapists, kidnappers, skilled ambushers and intelligent killers and he walked away unscathed. He doesn’t care if his next encounter is with a Middle Eastern jihad terrorist, a psychotic sociopath on a killing spree, or a fucking Jedi knight for that matter, because he has prepared himself for the worst and he is capable of dominating any environment, day or night, long range to colse range!

Many folks including martial artists, shooters, and sheep have called him names including but not limited to “paranoid”, “crazy”, “insane” and “paranoid freak”. That’s okay because he is, and you know what? He doesn’t care because he doesn’t hang out with normal folks anyway…he prefers to hang out with folks like himself.

He trains everyday so when his number gets called to face the final exam, he will face it with clarity of mind and purpose, with true confidence and without fear. He is a warrior and the thugs fear him not the other way around.

The bottom line is, the goal is to finish the fight by the most effective means available, period. The ax hand is good, a knife in his throat is better, filling him full of holes before he can reach you with his bullets, knife or friends is even better.

So, as you can see he is not your run of the mill martial artist, he is not a lazy Sunday after noon range rat. No, he is a “fighter” who doesn’t train as a hobby or for the sake of training he trains with a specific purpose in mind and that is to WIN any fight he enters into.

01-08-2008, 04:10 AM	#2 (permalink)
darrianation Registered User Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 2,061	The fighter who is really a warrior though, he can be in the military or work in law enforcement or security, he can also be just an everyday private civilian working a normal job but make no mistake he is different from 99% of the population. The fighter takes care of his civic and familial obligations supporting himself and his family, he goes to work, he buys the groceries and pay the bills, and he may like to relax on the sofa every now and then just like anyone else but he is different because his thoughts are not wasted on cool cars, his next Vegas vacation because his thoughts are 24/7/365 on subjects of violence. His idea of a cool vacation is the next survival school he plans to attend. His idea of a great valentine present from his honey is a new tactical sling for his AK47 and a gift certificate for ammo at the local gun store. The warrior trains his brain- he lays awake at night reading up on evolutionary, performance, and combat psychology, he reads books on the old gunfighters and outdoor survival, and he lays there late at night thinking of nasty ways of hurting the badguys. During the day and sometimes even late into the night he performs drills that are designed to train the software not just a bunch of physical repetitions on a heavy bag or in the air. He trains his body- he has a very impressive bench press and he spends much of his free time pumping iron, doing killer kettleball routines, pounding out the miles of roadwork, dry firing his handgun, doing dynamic airsoft drills in the garage, beating the crap out his spar-pro and heavy bag, and beating tire piles with sticks. He doesn’t care if he looks good doing it, he only cares that he hits fast, hard, and with emotion with the intent to wreak havoc on a future opponent. He likes to spend his weekends training in various methods of mayhem, for instance, he has trained with folks like Andy Stafford, Gunsight, Frontsight, Ben Cooley, Blackwater, Mark Hatmaker, Mark Denny, Tom Soitis, and with his private training group of like minded warriors. In the last year he’s taken courses in electronic surveillance counter measures, tactical medicine, escape & evasion and counter tracking, terrorist interdiction, team tactics and clearing structures, snow and winter survival, and he has developed his curriculum along with his training partner for a new class they’ll be teaching this summer. In 2007 he shot nearly 40,000 rounds of ammunition in training…and he cannot count how many airsoft pellets he’s shot. That’s not all…he holds black belts in karate, he’s trained in Muay Thai, wrestling (scholastic, freestyle and Greco-Roman), Kali, and is an ardent student of “Combatives”. He is a recipient of hundreds of thousands of Uncle Sam’s dollars spent on turning him into a killing machine (just like Mike). His motivation is that someday all his hard work and sacrifice will pay off on that fateful day when he faces his perfect storm opponent in a fight for his life. And he has and it did. Strategic deception- though, he dresses around his gear (guns, knives, leatherman tool, cell phone, etc) he doesn’t look like a thug, his goal is to be unseen because he doesn’t want to bring attention to himself and to the untrained eye he looks inconspicuous because he knows this increases his window of opportunity to trick his opponents. He knows that anonymity is the most important weapon he has in his formidable arsenal. he does not threaten, he does not allow himself to be baited, he does not warn, he does not talk shit or insult…those things take time and telegraph his intentions. If someone is stupid enough to **** with him he just acts…he makes him pay the stupid tax! He has trained himself to be that perfect storm opponent for someone else to have to deal with. What he’s done to great effect is to synthesize his approach to fighting into a combination of very destructive, attack-oriented tactics and techniques that he can perform with maximal effort without much fear of hurting himself in the process. He can strike, he can grapple, and he can shoot and stab, and most importantly he is willing do it first, but since he knows he cannot always control all the factors surrounding the real world event, and if the other guy happens to do it first he will make him pay. If someone were to want to fight him in an unarmed fight, is largely academic, because you will never, ever catch him unarmed. He has a CCW and he carries a G23, a folder and a fixed-blade with him at all times. His handgun is with him every single day of his life whether he carries it legally or not. He doesn’t care to strike with his hands given the slightest provocation his next likely move will be to draw his gun. If the badguy thinks he can disarm him or hit him he will most likely shoot him to the ground. And who says this fight will be fair? He most certainly will not fight fair, he will use ruse, deceit, and trickery to increase his opportunity to ambush his opponent from a position of surprise to gain the tactical advantage. Guns aren’t the only things he trains to use…he also trains to use a knife to great effect. His favorite method is the Pikal and he trains the “sewing machine” method and sews his opponent into the ground. He has an extensive video library of all the James Keating and Michael Janach works. He owns all the Carl Cestari DVDs and Kelly McCann’s DVDs (combatives, knives, and firearms). He is always ready and willing to do whatever it takes to win, if the situation requires that he run his opponent over with his truck, he will. If the badguy is more of a long range threat, he keeps a scoped M4 in a Pelican case in the trunk, next to his AK47, spare magazines, trauma-kit and bugout-ruck. If the badguy thinks he can catch him unprepared in his home. His place is like a fortress, complete with a security system, multiple dead bolt locks, solid core doors, bars over the windows, peep holes, hedges trimmed away from the windows, sensor lights, three large barky dogs, and shotguns and other nasty implements of destruction placed strategically throughout his home. Remember, he likes to move first and his first move is to draw a weapon on the badguy the second he identifies him as a threat. And he isn’t some stupid yahoo redneck from the sticks. He is educated, intelligent and a resourceful thinker. The warrior knows what he is capable of because he’s been tested but he also knows his limitations and he fights within the framework of his strengths and limitations. And because he understands the battlefield environment he can make decisive decisions without hesitation. He knows what his option are and he can choose between them like a surgeon carefully chooses his next implement from a tray of carefully organized surgical tools to hit upon the correct option, the one that fits the given circumstance. He can subdue his enemy with or without killing him and he knows when to attack or retreat though, he would rather attack. The way he looks at his training is that he doesn’t know who he may face someday so he trains to face someone like himself…a worse-case opponent. He’s already faced some very scary monsters including terrorists, rapists, kidnappers, skilled ambushers and intelligent killers and he walked away unscathed. He doesn’t care if his next encounter is with a Middle Eastern jihad terrorist, a psychotic sociopath on a killing spree, or a fucking Jedi knight for that matter, because he has prepared himself for the worst and he is capable of dominating any environment, day or night, long range to colse range! Many folks including martial artists, shooters, and sheep have called him names including but not limited to “paranoid”, “crazy”, “insane” and “paranoid freak”. That’s okay because he is, and you know what? He doesn’t care because he doesn’t hang out with normal folks anyway…he prefers to hang out with folks like himself. He trains everyday so when his number gets called to face the final exam, he will face it with clarity of mind and purpose, with true confidence and without fear. He is a warrior and the thugs fear him not the other way around. The bottom line is, the goal is to finish the fight by the most effective means available, period. The ax hand is good, a knife in his throat is better, filling him full of holes before he can reach you with his bullets, knife or friends is even better. So, as you can see he is not your run of the mill martial artist, he is not a lazy Sunday after noon range rat. No, he is a “fighter” who doesn’t train as a hobby or for the sake of training he trains with a specific purpose in mind and that is to WIN any fight he enters into. __________________ A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. -G. Gordon Liddy A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. – George Bernard Shaw NOBAMA!