JKD: Attack & Counterattack DVD (Sample)

The idea looks very familiar to my way to fight empty hands, to use fakes and I always try to never think parry but counter attack, that removes the psychological problem with going from defensive to aggressive, all the parries have to hurt and create as much pain as possible, the pain will make the opponent become more tense and will make him less explosive and slows him down.

The human chess game of combat is to be at least one step ahead, either in an OODA loop or other ways to analyze the strategic situation and be one step ahead, I use mainly fakes or frame my opponent as it has a higher success rate, and I prefer to initiate instead of responding and set my opponent in a trap, being in a reactive mode is the last thing you should end up in, it is far better to have your opponent in a reactive state of mind as he will fail after 4-5 powerful and fast attacks, his mind will be overloaded on will never come further than the Observe or if he is good to the Orientate in an OODA loop.

I have lately started to wonder why I had to discover so many things on my own, luckily I have a toolbox from AMOK! to analyze what looks like the chaos of combat, why didn’t any instructor ever taught me how to set up attacks successfully, and instead showed me isolated techniques that would never work unless the opponent is an idiot, drunk or have some other problem.

My guess is that in most martial arts there is no opposition to test your skills and find the gaps that needs to be closed, that many of the instructors knows a lot of moves but have never been in a fight and have no idea what an adrenalin dump feels in a real life or death situation, I have fought in various tournaments but it will never be as scary as to be threaten to be killed with deadly weapons outside the comfort zone of training. 

Information Triage - The Second "O" in OODA

 

I recall the old days before computers in the police cars. We got real time information as it was happening relayed by the dispatchers. These "tactical air traffic controllers" would have the witness of the crime in progress on telling them what was up in one ear and they would be relaying it to us, moving us to our targets as it was happening.

Eventually, things moved toward the Mobile Digital Terminals and Computer Aided Dispatch and all of that changed. During the time of live dispatching, I or my team and I were able to respond to robberies in progress as a matter of course. Once the MDT/CAD system came on line, that stopped happening as the system was organized to gather the information, input it to the system, and then, and only then, send it out to the field.

The order of the information changed as well. In the past, one would get the crime, the location, descriptions, and then who was assigned. So the type of crime alerted everyone. The location got all thinking about where this was happening, likely approach avenues as well as escapes...and also those not otherwise engaged would roll that way as well. Descritions were third in importance as they often had predictable similarities.

Finally...of least importance was the responsible unit who would handle the scene...either investigatory or tactical. With CAD it was all farckled up with Assigned unit, the crime, descriptions and finally the location. No...don't ask me why it was not changed as I would have to go into the nocturnal activities of the patrol commander and the dispatch department head which would be distasteful...but I digress.

Information is constantly flowing your way and it is the ability to discern the important bits of information from the irrelevant that makes for quick tactical thinking. This is the Orient in OODA, and if you can snipe at those vital bits of info while ignoring those with little or no value, you will be a tactical monster and be able to pick out what is happening and kill the bad guy before others even have an idea that you are no longer in discussion with them.

"See what others cannot see... ...move when others are still sleeping."

Gabe Suarez