One of the thing that still always amazes me each time I work with any special forces group is how humble these operators are. In introducing the various members to us, the Colonel point to one operator and said, “ He is a very good sniper”. Without missing a beat the operator replied, “These hands are for praying, and these legs for running”. We all chuckled!
Real world warriors are always a far cry from the ‘reality based self defense’ (RBSD) proponents dispensing their killer brew on YouTube and all over social media (‘vomit’). The two worlds of play-play soldiers, and the real deal – could not be any more different. The RBSD crowd with their cammo pants, and incesent marketing of extreme perverted self defense techniques for civilians – poking eyes out, kicking groins, and all round Jason Bourne mimicry – simply doesn’t hold a real world warriors attention. Unlike the wannabe tacti-cool RBSD instructor, these operators have been on the ground, and survived to tell the tale (which to be fair, they hardly want to talk about anyway).
I know if you want to impress these real world warriors they want to see a pragmatic training approach, removed of all the fluff, that they can see work all geared up, after humpin all day long across rugged terrain etc. In other words, what we teach is everything you wouldn’t see in a Jason Bourne movie.
Very nice. You really practice what you preach.