The Combative Mind: Situational Awareness

Understanding Tactical Intelligence for Self Defence

What you'll learn

Understand Real World Violence vs Training Violence

Articulate the Precursors to Violence

The Fight is Won before Contact is made

Understand the Difference between Capacity and Intensity in Combat

Understand the impact of Emotional Limiters in Combat

Distraction is the Enemy

The Role of Emotional Intelligence for Combatants

BONUS: PTSD and the Coke Bottle

Real Life Briefing as delivered to Special Operations

Requirements

There are no prerequisites. That being said, come with an open mind and in interest in your safety and the safety of others, or don't come at all.

Description

Welcome to the Combative Mind. This is the word for word Briefing, sometimes just referred to as the Briefing, that is given to UK Special Operations, Undercover and Surveillance personnel. You have to remember that while some people have an aptitude for elements of combatives, everyone, no matter what level, has to be trained at some point. No matter what the physical capability of the practitioner; the situational awareness, being in the moment, or being in the zone, is what will keep you alive. This is true for people with smaller physical presence, children and under cover operators. If you are in a fist fight or a gun battle, you have already lost. This is the fundamental mindset training or combatives. This is the one hour lecture delivered to Special Operations: Hour one on day one. This is used to set the tone for all the specialist training that follows. We will learn about the level before situational awareness. PRE-SITUATIONAL AWARENESS.This will increase your capacity for self-protection by providing instruction in what REAL violence is, and how that differs from your training.You can’t provide solutions to problems when you don’t understand what the problem is.We will explore what Optimal training is and what is stopping you from reaching it. We will also look at how optimal training can fall short of REAL violence and how to cope with this disparity. All your training should be activity specific and appropriate to your tactical outcome. It should also be dangerous enough to challenge you but not kill you. Your Briefing is about training smarter, not harder.We will learn about the impact of Emotional and Physical Limitations on your awareness and critical thinking. This is where your Briefing comes into its own.Being distracted can be catastrophic for personal protection but being hyper vigilant is exhausting and unsustainable. The Briefing helps you clear the way to better situational awareness, 24/7.Really focused, maximum attention is difficult. Try doing that when the stakes are at their highest and lives depend on it. Fatigue is inevitable. The Briefing is the first introduction to the effects of fatigue and distraction on Situational Awareness.We will systematically increase your situational awareness using simple but highly effective techniques within the Meta Awareness domain. These reduce the processing of critical information to a Standard Operating Procedure, that then functions like a sub routine, always scanning and performing in the background.Stay safe by being dangerous.

Overview

Section 1: The Combative Mind: Developing Situational Awareness and Tactical Intelligence

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Intensity

Lecture 3 Capacity

Lecture 4 Understanding Violence

Lecture 5 Optimal and Attainable Training

Lecture 6 Physical Limiters

Lecture 7 Emotional Limiters

Lecture 8 Dangerous Limitation

Lecture 9 Pre-Event Dangers

Lecture 10 Till Next Time

Section 2: Operator Stress: Living with Demons

Lecture 11 The Coke Bottle

The Combative Mind is for everyone who is moving and living in this modern dangerous world. Physical Combative Training can take years to achieve competence, and decades to achieve any form of mastery, but the Combative Mind can begin to form immediately.