Counter Ambush Concepts: Preparing Your Response Session 1: Intro to Preparing Your Response

We're gonna talk about counter ambush training and the concepts of counter ambush preparation for personal, for home defense, for the defense of others. The reason that I've focused on this counter ambush concept as being really important to how we train, and even why we train for personal defense is because I think a lot of people come to the personal defense problem. A lot of people come to wanting to be able to take care of others, take care of themselves because they feel like, and they're, and actually, I would say they're aware of the fact that we can't always be in control. And people want to control their environment, right. It's natural to want to control your environment.

And for the person who seeks to gain that control whether it's financial control, sustenance, a job, your employment, maybe you wanna own your own business, you have an entrepreneurial streak. People that want to be in control, sort of seek out those opportunities to improve themselves, to surround themselves with people they can trust, to be put into situations and keep themselves in situations where there are fewer surprises. And they have a higher level of expectation, an accurate expectation of what's gonna happen. And seeking out that control and combining that with personal defense sometimes makes it hard to really admit or grasp or accept, or be comfortable with the idea that you can't always be in control. And that's where the counter ambush concept gets its roots is accepting that we can't always be in control.

If we could always be in control, we would choose not to encounter violence, we would choose not to encounter predators, we would choose not to have people try to victimize us. We would see it coming, we would avoid it, we'd live somewhere where it didn't happen, we'd keep our family protected from it and isolated from it all the time. We know we can't do that. Evil exists. You could be visited by that evil, and you need to be prepared to deal with that evil if it shows up.

And some people go as far as to be prepared to deal with that evil in relation to their family members. Some people get the flashy red and blue lights and the shiny badge or the camouflage uniform. And they decide that they're going to protect others from that evil as well. And they're gonna make that their job and their lifelong pursuit. Other people take on what Colonel Grossman refers to as that sheepdog role.

They decided they're gonna be prepared to defend themselves, but they're just gonna live their lives. Before the sheepdog concept became popular in our community, we referred to those people as, as citizen soldiers, right. The idea of the national guardsman or the reserve officer, the reserve enlisted man, the reserve military personnel who was going to be prepared to answer the country's call if we needed it. Now we have more and more people who are prepared to answer their community's call if their community needs it, to answer their family's call if their family needs it. And of course, to answer their own call if you find yourself caught off guard, the victim of an ambush needing to defend yourself.