Hi everybody,

I hope everyone had a great holiday season and everybody is recharged for a Kick Ass year!

This week’s topic is dedicated to “the line of defense”:

As the entire HaganaH family is gearing up to teach the 1st of the 18 Street Scenarios in our FIGHT Curriculum around the country , that brings up the issue of the principle we follow in our method of teaching : Indentifying The Primary Danger!

In each one of those 18 scenarios we always start by asking our students “what is the primary danger?” , by the FIGHT Instructor indentifyimg the primary danger the students learn to understand logistics of attacks. The primary danger is always the IMMINENT danger. If ignored by the defender and if the defender’s first tactic deployed is adressing another logistic, the defender will faill…its that simple. In the FIGHT curriculum, if that mistake is made in the Hand-To-Hand (no weapons involved) part , that failure might be forgiving according to the toughness of the pratctioner. In other words if the defense failed but the attacker did not completely incapacited or terminated the defender , the defender is still in the fight.

However, in a knife defense scenario or a gun disarm scenario, its a complete different story…it will mean a serious injury, or death. So in the knife defesenses and gun disarms the 1st line of defense, which is indentifying the primary danger, it is a crucial element for assurance of survival.

In the IPTT curriculum its even more crucial. Garret always says : “100% must go in the imminent danger as soon as you enter the scenario!” in other words if 100% didnt go into the imminent danger in a gun battle (notice I said battle and not fight…more to come on this subject in future topic) , you are now dead and that battle is officially over!

After indentifying the primary danger comes the proper tactic to adress just that, so the 1st line of defense serves , or overlaps , into the 2nd line of defense…

Hope everybody is ready for a Great week of training ;-)