The goal of our Imminent Threat Tactical training approach is to teach the fundamental principles of instinctive, threat focused defensive counter-measures skills, throughout the range and depth of threat spectrum, from up close and personal unarmed combat to long-range precision fire. Instinctive shooting (point-shooting; focused shooting) as well as instinctive unarmed combat solutions rely on the use of gross motor skills as opposed to using fine, complex motor skills in a critical incident response.
Students are taught to first allow their eyes to focus on a threat or specific area of a threat, recognizing that their hands will subconsciously align the firearm or weapon (edged, Kubaton, hands, etc.) system to where the focus of the eye is. Learning proper body alignment via an MI (Modified Isosceles) stance, grip and trigger press (shooting), hands, elbows, knees, legs, and feet (unarmed), makes for very accurately rapid first and follow-on shots (shooting) as well as viscously aggressive unarmed engagements.
The objective of the instinctive is to obtain acceptable combat accuracy while employing a weapons system rapidly. Students are taught to balance speed and accuracy while center mass (Thoracic Cavity and Fatal-T) targeting.
Students are taught to work with their body's natural response (gross motor skills) modes when they experience an "adrenaline high" in a dangerous, critical incident, as opposed to trying to use fine, complex motor skills. We accomplish all manner of training through "Automaticity" and "Metacognition".
Automaticity is that ability to do things without having to think about them at a conscious level. When we do something automatically, the mind isn't occupied with the small details of the task. Imagine some of the common every day activities you do with automaticity: driving a car, adding five plus three, walking around your house, dialing a telephone, and, yes, reading and writing. We acquire these skills through simple repetition and practice … meaningful repetition. Over time, such repetition establishes automatic response patterns that our brains call upon constantly throughout our daily lives. In achieving automaticity, we free our brains … our working memories … from the details of the task, allowing us to use that brain power to do more, building on those sets of automatic skills. IAD(s) … Immediate Action Drills … build Automaticity.
Metacognition is thinking about one's thinking. More precisely, it refers to the processes used to plan, monitor, and assess one's understanding and performance. Metacognition includes a critical awareness of one's thinking and learning … and oneself as a thinker and learner. Metacognition refers to awareness of one's own knowledge ... what one does and doesn't know ... and one's ability to understand, control, and manipulate one's cognitive processes. It includes knowing when and where to use particular strategies for learning and problem solving as well as how and why to use specific strategies. Metacognition is the ability to use prior knowledge to plan a strategy for approaching a learning task; take necessary steps to problem solve, reflect on and evaluate results, and modify one's approach as needed.
Thinking about our thinking ... knowledge of our knowledge ... limits begin where vision ends! We focus on improving performance ... not results!
Whether you rent or own, an apartment, a condo, a townhouse, or a single-family dwelling; in the city, urban suburbs, or in the country; you owe it to yourself, your family, your neighborhood, and your community to store, carry, and use that weapon (firearm, knife, club, etc.), knowledge, skills, and training safely and legally.
The most important real estate in any fight is also your most important weapon ... those six-inches between your ears!