[ArtFWTx]

From Suarez' Warrior Talk newsletter/emailing:

THE DANGER OF DEFAULTS
A default is something you revert to. Something pre-planned, that you will always do, under certain circumstances. "Keep it simple, gross motor skills", etc., are often the by-words used to promote the "default".

Now, as I am certain some people will get all weepy and boo boo faced because I am even talking about this, let me tell you that default resposes have been around since the first caveman went fetal at the sound of a T-Rex coming to eat him.

As the word denotes, a DEFAULT is never the first choice, it is intended to be the last choice. An workable analogy - your seatbelt is a default - your airbag is a default. And whatever you do to keep IGOR from caving your head in with a pipe wrench when it was in that dark brown smelly place, is a default.

A default should reset the adversary from proactive to reactive. Thus it should either allow for an immediate and violent counter, or it should BE a counter with little or no defensive thinking involved. At warriortalk.com we were discussing the idea of intercepting an attack. A good default is a perfect intercept.

This is a concept more than a technique. Don't forget that unless you have forward drive, the other guy will. If you both have it, the bigger man, or the man who began the fight will have a little more of it. The INTERCEPTION must take that into account. It must also preempt any and all lines of attack coming in. Not every attack will be an attack to the head. If your INTERCEPTION DEFAULT is to cover up like a boxer, but the attack is a low line knife thrust, you are actually setting yourself up better for the thrust by getting your arms out of the way. Context is everything isn't it?

Consider also that not every attacker is a meth head looking for a few bucks. There are lots of good fighters out there. Letting yourself go on defensive when attacked is a very bad mistake. I see this mistake in the police world and in the CCW world all the time. This perspective is brought on by excessive fear of civil and administrative liability. Some guys are more afraid of an internal affairs investigation than a trip to the ER, so they will err on the side of caution and withold a violent response.

A big part of the intercept methodology and concept is the cultivation of aggression and the ability to explode into the adversary when the incoming data suggests a fight is imminent rather than making the idea of negotiating your way out of it as the deafult. We will be doing a good amount of study on this subject here and at our forum www.warriortalk.com


Gabe Suarez

One Source Tactical
Suarez International USA
Christian Warrior Ministries

Matthew 10:34 Think not that I am come to
send peace on earth: I came not to send peace,
but a sword.

 

[BLACK LION]

He makes some good points. Much of the misconceptions out there are becuase of words and thier definition and not necessarily the concepts but the context.


I joined that site becuase I share similarities with Gabes concepts.


However, there are some meatheads on that site and in those forums that I just cant bear.
I have run across more pricks in a short time than I care to deal with.
Maybe I should DEFAULT to his newsletter only.

Good read as always ART...

 

[ArtFWTx]

He makes some good points. Much of the misconceptions out there are becuase of words and thier definition and not necessarily the concepts but the context.

I joined that site becuase I share similarities with Gabes concepts.

However, there are some meatheads on that site and in those forums that I just cant bear.
I have run across more pricks in a short time than I care to deal with.
Maybe I should DEFAULT to his newsletter only.

Good read as always ART...

I absolutely agree about WarriorTalk forums. I look for posts from Suarez or some of his instructor staff. There's usually good info from these guys. I just read over there, no participation. Now receiving his newsletter is very informative.

 

[Bubba FAL]

Predators generally expect prey to go defensive and can be taken momentarily off guard when faced with pre-emptive aggression.

Mindset is everything. Like Suarez, Jeff Cooper advocated immediate, violent aggression when the avoidance option was no longer possible. Once the decision is made to act, the action must be taken without hesitation and every means possible used to subdue the predator. There is no such thing as a fair fight in an encounter with a predator.

 

[Jamesb74]

Predators generally expect prey to go defensive and can be taken momentarily off guard when faced with pre-emptive aggression.

Mindset is everything. Like Suarez, Jeff Cooper advocated immediate, violent aggression when the avoidance option was no longer possible. Once the decision is made to act, the action must be taken without hesitation and every means possible used to subdue the predator. There is no such thing as a fair fight in an encounter with a predator.

+1 well stated. I am going to have to read some more about Mr Cooper. I have been receiving Gabe's letters for awhile. Since they have a training facility in Tyler I have been watching for when a class that I am interested in opens their. I have some issues with his past and some remarks he has made on his forum. But then I am wanting to learn not judge.

 

[BLACK LION]

Predators generally expect prey to go defensive and can be taken momentarily off guard when faced with pre-emptive aggression.

Mindset is everything. Like Suarez, Jeff Cooper advocated immediate, violent aggression when the avoidance option was no longer possible. Once the decision is made to act, the action must be taken without hesitation and every means possible used to subdue the predator. There is no such thing as a fair fight in an encounter with a predator.

+1

If any 2 legged or 4 legged creatures bring violence your way...they must be paid back a thousand times.

For many they see it as a fight. I dont...... I see a fight as something you get into over money or parking are a car part that just wont fit right. I see fighting as everything governed within the social and even antisocial realm.
In this realm lies all the moral and legal red tape. Too many tend to coagulate social and asocial which is a recipe for disaster and tactics and training are not tranferrable from one to the other. There are social standards that must be upheld in the social realm.... in the asocial realm, there are none, completely and absolutely non whatsoever.... no rules...no questions...nothing.

Enter the asocial realm of violence...which I as combat... devoid of rules and regulations and even the law. This is when one is capable of operating under natural law or Gods law... it becomes do or die...kill or be killed. In this realm uf survival one must don the cloak of destruction and seek to bring utter demise on all in your wake. They should feel thier life force drain as they gaze into your blank stare. You have to become a bigger monster than they ever dreamed or imagined encountering and in that moment you must seek to obliterate thier existence and all that stand in your way. I refer to this as my cup of wrath which can be poured over when the calling comes.

forgive my somewhat poetic intrusion...I spend a good part of my days discussing this very subject.

Good job guys. Watch your clocks out there.