Since this is a weekly series, I don't necessarily consider it serious training, so into off topic it goes.
Does anyone watch this show on Wednesday nights on the Outdoor Channel? I would LOVE to sit and listen to Michael Janich for a weekend.
I like the way they take a scenario and run it two or three different times showing different methods and improving on the typical methods. Good, better, best.
After scenario segments, they tend to go out in the field course and display the safety of common household furniture, and how feasible it would be to hide (or shoot through) behind a refrigerator, or bookshelf (hardback and paperback shots), walls, sheetrock, etc.
Third segment is usually a really good physical defense/knifework technique.
What I like most about them is that they enforce non-lethal self defense if you can help it. It's always a good day if you can walk away from a situation without anybody dying. They are quick to say if you need to defend yourself, fine. And they spend quite a bit of time with proper firearm self defense, but it's always paired with a scenario showing if you can talk your way out of a bar fight, an altercation with a person you know and so forth, it's the preferred route. Even the knife techniques come with the final follow up that if you practice with a knife, it allows you to immobilize and escape without lethal force.
It makes for a good evening. Instead of Date Night, we've spent many many Wednesday nights discussing safety and our own personal situational scenarios.
Does anyone watch this show on Wednesday nights on the Outdoor Channel? I would LOVE to sit and listen to Michael Janich for a weekend.
I like the way they take a scenario and run it two or three different times showing different methods and improving on the typical methods. Good, better, best.
After scenario segments, they tend to go out in the field course and display the safety of common household furniture, and how feasible it would be to hide (or shoot through) behind a refrigerator, or bookshelf (hardback and paperback shots), walls, sheetrock, etc.
Third segment is usually a really good physical defense/knifework technique.
What I like most about them is that they enforce non-lethal self defense if you can help it. It's always a good day if you can walk away from a situation without anybody dying. They are quick to say if you need to defend yourself, fine. And they spend quite a bit of time with proper firearm self defense, but it's always paired with a scenario showing if you can talk your way out of a bar fight, an altercation with a person you know and so forth, it's the preferred route. Even the knife techniques come with the final follow up that if you practice with a knife, it allows you to immobilize and escape without lethal force.
It makes for a good evening. Instead of Date Night, we've spent many many Wednesday nights discussing safety and our own personal situational scenarios.
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