Grounded Contact Shooting

Here's another important video from the Personal Defense Network. We've looked at how to train these positions in a vertically orientated situation, where we're pinned up against a wall or if someone has us pinned up against a wall, or maybe we are just in space, but we are oriented very close to that threat. The reality is, close quarters contact situations often end up horizontal, down on the ground. And we certainly can train these positions in exactly the same way. So, if we were here with this person, and they drew a knife, and started to hurt us, and we came in to stop that, and ended up going down to the ground in this situation, we would still be controlling that weapon, making sure that it wasn't gonna hurt us, at this moment, but if we realize that this person was smarter, faster, stronger, more skilled, was able to get this knife towards our leg, up towards our body, or maybe they have a gun, and that gun is orientated towards a crowd and they're firing rounds, again bringing that gun back towards us.

Or even just a physical threat, where they're hitting us with an object, or their hands. If we're in this position, we maintain our orientation with our body up against the threat, so that we know where they are. We don't have to look down, we could be up here, we could have a hand in our face, we could be blinded, it could be completely dark, it could be inside of a vehicle, any situation, as long as we have an idea where that body is, we grip, we've made the decision to transition to a lethal response, we come up out of the holster, we orient the muzzle towards the threat, safety officer again will check the angle, and then we will touch, press, and fire that round, okay. We again, maybe in a situation where we have to come up, orient and press multiple times, to get the threat to stop. While these shots that go into the side of the torso here wouldn't be optimum, again they wouldn't be the kinds of shots that we would get if we were standing up, extending, full arms extension, in our line of sight, parallel with our line of sight, maybe even using our sight alignment picture principle to hit the high center chest, or some other area that was more likely to significantly affect the target's ability to hurt us, these are still combat accurate, and these shots that we into the side of the torse are going to affect this person's ability to fight us.

Another thing I wanna point out is that in this environment we are in a training area designed for this situation, where we're shooting down into an area that's got rubber and metal grates with frangible ammunition and a safe steel stop with standoff underneath. This is a very controlled situation and not the kind of thing that you would wanna do in an uncontrolled environment. But again, in this position with an airsoft gun, or with a sim gun, I get exactly the same type of situation. At this point, again, we would assess the situation, if the threat were done, we would take the weapon, we would move back, maintaining a safe and secure posture, making sure that we kept our balance, kept our muzzle oriented in a safe direction, we're in that high compressed, ready, and we come back, assess the situation, discard the weapon, secure the weapon, make sure no one else is hurt, contact the authorities, do all of the things that we know we're gonna do, post-critical incident, during that aftermath. Understanding that these situations can go horizontal, as well as vertical, is really important.

Making sure that you don't just train these things in isolation. We've looked at some very static examples. I'm gonna have a training partner come in, we're gonna get a sim gun, and we're actually gonna look at some of this stuff now, at speed, how it would actually happen. You would never want to do this with live firearms in the area, so we're gonna go ahead and get rid of this, bring some training guns up, take a look at that next. Check out more videos just like this one at the Personal Defense Network.