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Originally Posted by TTEscrima
I'm 100% in agreement, fight to win, winning fights is done with a good offense not by sitting and waiting to see what develops or hoping the other guy tires, that kind of thinking leads to counting on your friends to show up first.
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That's absolutely awesome!
I understand why you thought you needed to sit on your hands, but in all honesty (and all debate aside), I agree with you on that point 100%. I get why the Army does what they do, and in all honesty, it's a good thing to train for. I've seen groups fall apart because people in the group didn't know what to do and had no experience "helping." The good guys clogged the works and got in the way. So from that point of view, I know where they're coming from. Still, being a guy who worked in a very, very small team,
I certainly didn't train like that. What happens if everybody gets into a pile of shit and they all hang on and wait hoping the others show? Bad juju.
Dunno if you read it or not, but in the "FAO Mike" thread, I mentioned a combatives training project I did for my old unit? What do you suppose the driving reason we wanted something different was? (Hint: It had to do with the fact that groundfighting is an unmitigated motherfucker when you're wearing an interceptor vest, a gas mask, a thigh holster, and a butt pack.)