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decision you do make, needs to be executed with instantaneous and scorched earth commitment. It doesn't have to be pretty; gunfights are messy and training must reflect that messiness.

MINDSET OVER METHODS & MANUALS… ALWAYS!

The most difficult thing to train-in/ overcome (in my experience) is mindset. How do you train-in the correct mindset for dealing with what must've been going through the minds of Howes and Woods, inside that vehicle? How do you train-out/overcome being frozen with fear? How do you train-out/ overcome the ever-present, conscience-on-your-shouldersecond-guessing-voices-in-yourhead of your decision-making process, under a situation like this? Frantically thinking about what to do - being caught in the terrifying surrealness of a situation that has just escalated to cataclysmic proportions, in the space of a few seconds. Not quite believing that it's actually happening to you.

My answer to that, from an instructional point of view, is, I have no fucking idea - I can only reference my own experiences and then use those experiences to form training content, in the hope that it'll make sense to them/add context for them/hit home how crazy situations like this are. So, that they MIGHT be better prepared to deal with them, should they find themselves in one of those "...how the fuck did THIS happen..?" situations.

You should NOT be building training content from a manual, YouTube video or what YOU think would work, based on your best mate's cousin's sister's boyfriend, who was "in the military" for 6 years, but doesn't wanna talk about...coz...you know...it's secret and...well...people are watching him - you know the kind, I'm sure.

If a crowd has surrounded your vehicle and you cannot drive through/reverse out - what then? The time it took for this crowd to pull the guys from their vehicle was seconds - just seconds. There are no good options here – NONE. And it is mindset that is going to help give you the strength to make the most life changing and difficult decision you will probably ever make. Nothing short of a "... fuck everyone…" approach and not giving a second thought to the consequences of what you're about to do will work.

The current plethora of scientific algorithms that are constantly thrown around about what you must and must not do are exhausting. How do you "manage space" when you have a crowd like this around your vehicle? Give me a drill. In fact, show me one drill that addresses this, and I'll show you someone who has never