TTEscrima

Never once did I bash any of the training from TMA or MMA as useless, I practice both, but MMA is NOT SD which was the thread title, I agreed and said neither are the TMA's. There is no perfect system, never was, never will be. I shot many a paper target, hunted live animals, used several types of sim ammo and participated in live fire drills, none of it prepared me for the first time I had live ammo and a live human in my sights. Keep in mind the British army was highly trained, had seen combat all over the world and was greatly feared when they met up with an untrained, under supplied and untested militia who used unfamiliar tactics to spank them. Thinking outside the box is superior to using the basics you're taught in any school, you have to make those concepts your own and that can't be taught it can only be learned from experience.

Wouldn't you say it was true that the tactics taught in school are never the ones used on the front lines because experience has taught the veterans the flaws in their schooling that will get you killed in the real world? In the Navy the saying goes, "that might be how they taught you to do it in school but that ain't the way it's done in the Fleet".