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Originally Posted by Bill Harsey
Yurk,
I had the privilege of many meetings, traveling and working with Col. Rex Applegate over a 14 year period.
One of the training facilities that was built under his direction during World War Two was called the "House of Horrors' and was the very first military shooting house built to train firearms tactics. The reason for the name was that is was designed to induce a high stress level to the candidate while moving and shooting through it.
Hang with me here, I have a point to all this.
Historically martial arts were not designed to use against other people of the same training starting from a face to face position. When people trained in martial arts fight against one another, most recognize that this does not represent what fighting will be like when faced with someone who has no training but is very determined to do anything to win. A common example, the street fight.
Since searching room to room is of interest in some training, I think it would be quite possible to make a mock building with rooms and halls and lot's of blind corners that could be fitted (or not) with matts wrestling style, for training what it's like to have to go hand to hand in full combat gear when the threat appears out of seemingly nowhere.
You guys could have your own 21st Century "House of Horrors".
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Mr Harsey,
You are ahead of your time...
One of the things I teach here is a MAC version of Advanced CQB training. Using simunition rounds, a team will stack on the door, enter the building, continue to search, and we will randomly place a soldier with a Full Blauer Suit on in a short room. We set up different senerios where the soldier in the suit will either grap the muzzle as soon as they enter the room, or we will force the first person in the door to have a weapon jam, etc. Using MAC training, instead of taking a knee and completing "SPORTS", we teach to the soldiers to close the distance with the enemy and drive his muzzle thru the enemy skull, Bronco Stomp Him, Butstock to the head, etc. With the Blauer Suit we can do this at 100%.
I think the senario training would make Col. Applegate proud (I think NDD would be into it too
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Yurk