Reality Based E-Magazine

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Volume 1 WWW.DARKGIFTCOMBAT.COM Issue 18 October 03, 2009 10/03/09

Your monthly E-Magazine guide to Houston Premier Reality Based Martial Arts & Combatives, Fitness & Nutrition Facility.

Combative Techniques, Tactical Airsoft, MilSim and Combative Fitness & Nutrition. A New Place a New Beginning

Mr.& Mrs. Traylor Owner &

Founders of D.G.C.F. System.

Inside D.G.C.F.S. A new place 1 Ronald’s Fitness Corner 2 Coming events 3 Airsoft Products 4 Cont. new place 6 Art of Control 8 Street fighting seal style 10 Fight or flight 11 Terrorist look for soft targets 13 Good places to go 15

As some of you know, we have moved to our new location. It was with GREAT sadness we did this. We "Mrs.Traylor & I " have been at that location for over 4.5 years that has been our home for D..G.C.F.S. We grown from a humble 875 sq.ft. facility to over 14,657 Sq.Ft. We are Now down to 4,000 Sq.Ft as we wait for our new facility to be built out, Which will be around 14 to 18,000 sq.ft. Which will house both our tactical airsoft and our Reality based Martial Arts Center. At our new location we do still have our shoot house and our elevator room

"which we have to rebuild" This new location is fantastic we have had people walk in and ask what we are doing. Our student base is starting to Grow as well, GOD is GOOD. We are surprised as we are going into the Slow session for what we do. I want to Thank all the students that help to make this move possible. Mrs. Traylor and I have been moving

for over a two week, We are toast to say the least. With this new beginning, new things will happen and new RULES. We are going to make D.G.C.F.S. the school in Houston,Tx for Reality Based Combatives and

Reality Based Martial Arts. Here is a pic of Mrs.Traylor painting the new facility a labor of LOVE, SWEAT and TEARS. We are NOW Heading in a new direction. Going to the NEXT LEVEL. Our DVD series is about to start shooting. Our 1st series will be our Hand to Hand Combatives. All of you that have ask when.. when.. Ok

Now,LOL ;) So I will let you know on our next issues and pic to go along with it.

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Protect Yourself From Colds And Flu! Research conducted in 52 countries As the summer ends, another season - the cold and flu season - begins. Most people will suffer 1 to 3 colds a year, usually during early September and late April. Doctors call them "viral upper respiratory infections" or "acute viral nasopharyngitis" because big words always sound impressive to patients. Colds may be caused by any one of over 200 viruses that cause inflammation in the mucous linings of the nose and throat. They are more common in winter, possibly because the indoor heating dries out our nasal passages, which makes them more susceptible to cold and flu viruses. The familiar symptoms - nasal congestion, sneezing, coughing, runny nose, watery eyes and a sore throat - usually develop a day or two after exposure to the virus. The infection normally lasts about a week to 10 days. The symptoms are not caused by the virus itself, but by your body's attempts to get rid of the virus. In addition to the hundreds of cold viruses, there are dozens of the viruses that cause flu or influenza. Flu symptoms are similar to those produced by the cold virus - coughing, sneezing, muscle aches, fatigue, fever and gastrointestinal distress. One or more flu virus will certainly make an appearance during this winter season. Over 90 million Americans contract the flu every year at a cost of about 70 million lost work days and an annual $12 billion in lost production during epidemics. Thankfully, most flu sufferers will recover after one to two weeks, but according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) there are approximately 20,000 deaths in an average flu season. Do Drugs Really Work against Colds and Flu? Cold and flu sufferers spend billions of dollars yearly on various over-the-counter medications that are designed to suppress cold symptoms. But since the symptoms actually represent your body's efforts to eliminate the virus, the conventional cold remedies that try to suppress the fever, runny nose, sneezing and coughing simply don't make any sense. Antibiotics, often requested by patients themselves, make even less sense because they fight bacteria, not viruses. These medications are not only useless, they are often harmful and even dangerous. They can cause a number

of side effects, including drowsiness, elevation of blood pressure and increased chance of an allergic reaction. Some, especially nasal sprays, are addictive and can lead to dependence. Medical doctors are usually not very helpful either. Feeling pressured to provide some kind of treatment, they prescribe useless cough suppressants, nasal decongestants and even antibiotics that are completely useless against viruses. This practice is the main reason for the increasingly common problem of bacterial resistance, when even the most potent antibiotics become powerless against the bacteria.

Mr. Honore is NASM –CPT, CES , PES, Certified Personal Trainer & Apprentice Instructor in Hand to Hand Combat at D.G.C.F.S. Inside D.G.C.F.S. A new place 1 Ronald’s Fitness Corner 2 Coming events 3 Airsoft Products 4 Cont. new place 6 Art of Control 8 Street fighting seal style 10 Fight or flight 11 Terrorist look for soft targets 13 Good places to go 15

Mr. Honore is NASM -CPT, CES , PES,Certified Personal Trainer Apprentice Instructor in Hand to Hand Combat at D.G.C.F.S.

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Coming Events

11/14/09 - R.A.T. Seminar conducted by Mr.Traylor 10am 2pm 14/15 $150.00 2 day, $100 1 day Certification for those that qualify. postponed PFS Edge Weapon Seminar with Sifu Cruse, Ranking Date D.T.A. Tuhon Ray Dionaldo F.C.S. Filipino Combat Systems seminar at D.G.C.F.S facility 12-5pm At D.G.C.F.S Mr. & Mrs. Traylor are gearing up for the 2010 seminar tour, IF you wish Mr. & Mrs.Traylor to come to your school for a seminar please contact them. The seminar can cover what ever you want Just pick the module, All modules have Instructor certification available.

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AIRSOFT PRODUCTS

This is ONE BAD PUPPY check out the spec

Weight(without battery): 3,500g Length:980mm Spring:M120 Motor:ICS turbo 3000 high torque motor Magazine:Metal Magazine capacity:400 rounds Handgurad:Solid Wood Quick disassembly bipod:Yes Muzzle velocity:120 m/s?395 fps Ammunition:6mm BB Pellets ICS launch "Galil series", which is the AEG version of the classic rifle designed by I.M.I. (Israel Military Industries). This classic rifle combines the durability of AK74 series with the precision of M16 series. After Yom Kippur war, the Galil rifle was issued as the official rifle to the I.D.F. (Israel Defense Forces) military service. After the experiencing the small-scale battles, "Galil rifles" become one of world famous assault rifle because of excellent durability and accuracy. Then I.M.I developed more variant models, such as Galil ARM, assault rifles machine and Galil AR, assault rifles. Now ICS releases two versions of AEG for experienced Airsoft player. One is ?ICS Galil ARM? and the other is ?ICS Galil AR?. ICS Galil series have the following features, just here waiting for your review and enjoy the play with them! ICS Galil is worth more than its price. It will also be an ICS Icon master piece to satisfy market demand. Classic rifle lovers can buy ICS Galil not only for collection but also for war game. Take the 3.5kg "ICS Galil ARM? as an example, the quick release bipod let the player be a sniper and at prone-position easily. After releasing the bipod, the weight of ICS Galil Arm is only 3.0 kg. Players can quickly join allies and give fire support. As to "ICS Galil AR", it has the same barrel length, plastic handguard except the bipod. This rare classic AEGs allows you become the focus in the war game. Currently most Galil AEG on the market is super-expensive. The price is too high to buy one and the blow back system is easily broken. So many fans of "Galil rifle" have not dare to get one. ICS Galil AEG is made by real firearms industry production process plus affordable price to support ICS fans. The unique designs, "the simultaneous act grip fire select lever " let you keep your fire position when you are changing the firing mode. ICS has the spirit of innovation shown in the product design, again The new ICS Galil series utilize large number of steel dewaxing process to achieve the structure and material design concept the of real firearms. The steel dewaxing processes not only strengthen body structure, but also provide the vintage feel of classic rifle. In order to increase the collective value of Galil AEG, ICS copy the I.D.F. equipment in particular and inscribe Hebrew on lower receiver. ICS ARM has solid wood handguard. When the players hold ICS Galil AEG, as if the time goes back to the Arab-Israeli war. The scenes of I. D.F. to defend the their boundary and homeland just come into our sight. (1)Players can adjusted fire mode to safety, semi-auto and full auto without changing their fire posture.This design is practical, functional and fun. (2)Israel Defense Forces(IDF) officially uses Galil.Collectors will enjoy the consideration from ICS. (3)ICS utilizes the similar production process to real gun. The upper cover is made of stamping steel. The lower receiver is made of aluminum alloy die-casting. The solid gun body structure let you worry about nothing in the combat. (4)Gun body joint, folding stock bracket, rear sight set, front sight group, Quick release bi-pod?etc are all made by dewaxing process, the appearance shows the vicissitudes of life has gone through the battle and shows perseverance. (5)ICS Galil ARM has quick release bipod. (6)Quick release bipod can be ingeniously folded and fixed under the solid wood handguard. (7)The bipod simulate a more ingenious appearance of real bipod, wire cutting and bottle opener function. Only ICS Galil keep the appearance of real gun and the functions in the same time. (8)Quick disassembly step: Press the upper cover bottom. (9)Take the upper cover apart. (10)Unloaded charging handle set. (11)Unloaded magazine, grip, select lever parts set. (12)Push hop-up forward to take the gear Box out. (13)The quick disassembly is completed. (14)Assemble ICS Galil be sure to align the ? hole on the selector plate to the raised point on grip selector when you install the gear box into lower receiver. (15)Movable charging handle - You can enjoy the reproduced act of real gun. In the same time you could adjust hop-up to change the trajectory. It's another unique design which combine the practical and entertaining function. (16)Unlike the other Galil which use AK magazine, ICS design an exclusive Galil magazine replica for ICS Galil. Collectors will realize our consideration. Both pins are made of steel. It will not wear and tear. (17)ARM has solid wood handquard with quick assembly bipod.

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A New Place a New Beginning Most of all the painting was done in two days, flooring was about 3 days including the black water which at this time is not done yet. We still have to sew it and cut it to fit. We will be adding pull up bars and ropes with a bell on top all kind of good stuff for our new Combatives Conditioning program that Mrs.Traylor and I and Mr. Honre will teach. Again no other school will have this CUTTING EDGE program BUT they are individuals that teach C.C. course but NOT A SCHOOL. Plus when you see our new video it will BLOW away the competition. We are EXCITED about all the NEW things we are about to do. As you all can see a lot of work went into this new facility,

We hope that all of you will like it and it feels like home to you. Our matt is all most the same size I think we are short 6 feet over all give or take a lil. We have a A/C and Heater that works !!!! Yea I know that sad but our students are HARD CORE we have been without A/C/and Heat off and on for 4.5 Years. No worries NOW. We are going to have Kettle balls, medicine balls, dumbbells ect.. to be able to do our Hard core work outs for both Reality Based Martial Arts and our Conditioning course. Ok as you see my lil Girl Jazzie is helping we still need to paint the black trim on all the doors and windows

We also need to throw away old couches and paint over the Aikido Sign, This place use to be an Aikido Dojo. So it was a perfect Fit. We also installed a Fantastic Sound system for our conditioning course for our students enjoyment as well as mine LOL ;) at a later date we will laid down a wood entry that will display our Reality Based Trainingl products and airsoft guns also goes to the Ladies Bathroom. This is going to be a GREAT Location!!! We are excited about this new and fresh opportunity!!

Our Sign is also in the process of getting made HUGE you can see it from FODREN. We think is going to be a GREAT move better location and much much more traffic will be able to see us. We will of course have our bag forest up and our speed bags, double end bags, trapping dummies ect. Just like at the old place. YES we still have a shoot house pics will be forth coming.

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The ceiling to painted white as you see and we have a Asian wall in the back we will paint and stain a cheery color. WOW I get excited about how our studio will look. Mrs.Traylor and I along with some others have worked hard on this.

Ok what do you think so far? We have up on the wall tools of the trade what we at D.G.C.F.S. work with and against in the REALITY BASED WORLD we LIVE IN. we still need to paint the top & bottom boarders with black and stain the middle with cheery. But its is getting there we only have a few more things to do. Oh I forgot we have a shower Yea a shower needs a lil fixing but we got one.

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Here is our half finish school more pics to come please be looking on our forum for the rest of the pics, Ok GOD BLESS.

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The Art of Control In the years that I have been involved in this I'm at a point where I feel very fortunate. I'm very thankful for theopportunities that I have been afforded. I get to tour this great country teaching and helping people. I get to work with a greatnetwork of instructors that want to do

the same thing. I get tosee alot of things that most don't get to see. Some of it verygood and some of it pretty bad. Today I want to talk to you about a gray area that seems to get overlooked in alot of programs. I see certain organzations or schools talking about how their technique are so violent and how this agency won't use them because of it and it's basically aggressive marketing to get the uneducated to think they are the real deal. They talk about gouging eyes out and ripping testicles and ears and all this stuff. They basically just strike to maim. I had a friend years ago who got into a streetfight and used one such technique. It ended up blinding the guy and my friend got sued losing everything. It took him years to recover. You can have all the violent techniques in the world but if

you can't use them legally are they really functional for our society? Of course there are many situations where those techniques would need to be used. Such as on the battlefield, attempted rape, or attempted murder, but definately not for your average streetfight. Oh sure there may be a little chin jab here or maybe an eyes poke or smack an ear here or there to get a certain reaction but that's alot different than maiming someone just because you can. Sure those violent techniques work great but are they socially responsible? Shouldn't we aspire to be better because our society demands it? An ethical person doesn't do the right thing just because they are forced to they are ethical because they will do the right thing even when no one is looking. A few months ago I wrote an article called Kitty Genovese and Me discussing the bystander effect. Towards the end of that article I covered something called the biker mentality. Basically what scientists discovered was that if a group that witnesses a violent event feels the victim is part of their peer group in some way that they will likely intervene. Most people believe they are good and decent people and with the popularity of MMA competitions we are exposed to much more violence everyday. Don't worry I'll wrap all this up in a neat little bow as we continue. I hear people say all the time that there isn't any rules in streetfighting. Those people are wrong and hear is why.There are two types of truth in the world we live in. You have the ultimate truth with is the facts. Then you have truth in application which is what you'll actually deal with in life. You see the truth we deal with in life in nothing more than the perception of the majority. In other words, if 80 percent believe something is true even though it isn't that it actually doesn't matter because the other 20 percent are going to have to live with it. Laws and so forth will be made based on the perception of what is true not necessarily what is actually true. Let's say your at a

party or a bar or whatever and you end up in a fight. Ther's a bunch of drunk guys standing around watching whose only knowledge about "real fighting" is watching UFC or one of the other MMA organizations. The guy is fighting you toe to toe and you fire off these eyes gouges and goin shots your going to be in trouble. Whether there's a such thing as cheating in streetfighting is irrelevant because these people watching will perceive you as cheating no matter what. You just became the bad guy. It isn't a fair fight to them anymore it's an assault and your a bad person in their eyes. You just made the guy your maiming part of their peer group. In other words you just incited a multiple attacker beatdown and your it. You'll be lucky to get out of the night without being maimed yourself because in their eyes you'll deserve it. The biker mentality will take over which basically means if you fight one you'll have to fight them all. I believe any socially responsible system will dedicate a good amount of time to control techniques such as joint locks, wraps, etc. Since ancient times in most asian cultures control techniques have been regarded as the highest skill. It takes alot more skill to down an attacker without wounded them in some way. The belief is that anyone can just deck someone you don't need any training to do that. Let's say a guy just fired from his job and his ego has been dumped on and maybe he doesn't know how his family is going to make it. He's probably not going to be in a great mood. Let's say for whatever reason you get into it with this guy and he gets blinded by one of these violent techniques that so many teach. Maybe he isn't a great person and shouldn't have done whatever he did or maybe he is a great person and just made a mistake. Even if he deserved it does that mean his wife and kids deserved it too? Now he can't work and without a job he has no health insurance. I don't think there's any arguements that can break out where someone deserves all that in the end. The fact is in that instance you were socially irresponsible and you just cost a family everything over the fact that you didn't focus on the right things in your training. I hear things all the time like," I took that guy out that way because i didn't have a choice." Was he in that situation because he didn't have a choice or was it because he didn't have the training to do anything other than what he did? When your controlling a person with one of these techniques the good part is you are also controlling yourself. Instead of witnesses seeing someone tearing a guy up they see someone who is trying to keep a guy from hurting you or himself. They see someone who is just and responsible. They see someone who is a better person. I hear alot of instructors say that jointlocks for example are incidental and accidental that they can't be done under stress consistently. I find this to be a very ignorant statement made by people who haven't been taught the correct progression to set them up or just plain don't have the insight to figure it out for themselves. I myself have a program called the S.T.A.R.

Paul Green STONEWAL TACTICAL Inside D.G.C.F.S. A new place 1 Ronald’s Fitness Corner 2 Coming events 3 Airsoft Products 4 Cont. new place 6 Art of Control 8 Street fighting seal style 10 Fight or flight 11 Terrorist look for soft targets 13 Good places to go 15

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Method(Stonewall Tactical Armlocks and Restraints) that can nail jointlocks with extreme speed under extreme stress at a very high success rate that has already been proven in the field. It isn't very hard to do with the right training. This however isn't about me or my program I'm sure there are many out there that are also very good. I know there are many times when violent techniques need to be used in self defense situations and I teach them myself but their are also times when they definately shouldn't be used. My point is that the people I train have the choice and I believe that others should have that same choice. I believe it's the responsibility of instructors to make sure they have this choice. I also believe the only way they will have this choice is if control techniques are made an important part of any program otherwise you are making the ethical and moral choices for them and I don't believe that is right. It should be up to the individual. They can't be the person who makes the right decision when know one is looking if they don't have the tools to do so. So if control techniques aren't a part of your curriculum please rethink it. Give your students the choice to make the right decision when need be and the tools to follow through with it. Thank you for reading this article. Paul Green Is a Professor of Combative Arts with the American Budo Society as well as the International Technical Director, Alabama State Heavyweight Champion in Sport Jiu-Jitsu in 1999 I hold a 5th dan in Jujutsu a 5th dan in Ninjutsu a 4th dan in Karate and a 3rd dan in Judo/Yudo respectively also a certified instructor in The Defender Personal Defense Weapon System A certified instructor in the SABER(Strategic Anit-Blade Engagement Response) Method An Advanced Instructor in Knife/Counter Knife Combatives under W Hock Hocheim

Street fighting SEAL Style (Circa 1989 Virginia Beach) Scene #1… “It was a typical Friday afternoon, my partner Tom Cruse and I just got through working with SEAL team 2. As tradition would have it, the guys would take us out to their favorite hangout to have a (few?) beers. Our Motley Crew consisted of three Navy men, Tom, and me. Our three buddies also happened to be on the wrestling team for the Navy in the heavyweight division. When we arrived at the bar it looked like something out of a movie, a stereotypical biker bar. My visceral response was to say, “Guys, let’s go home, this place looks like a fight waiting to happen!” I glanced over at my four buddies, which translated into 800 lbs of trouble, and said to myself, “So what, if we fight, we fight!” That was Scene #2. A couple hours later, (and a few 6 packs), Tom is pulling a typical Tom Cruse, running racks on the pool table and pissing off the bikers right, and left. Finally, the whole bar goes into what one could only call a ‘huddle’ and out steps the king pin biker pool player from hell. Scene #3. Cruse is now having fun with a few hundred dollars of this guy’s money. My wrestling buddies are laughing, and I am assessing the situation. I’m thinking …I’ve seen this movie before. Now the pool players are down to their last game and Tom has a straight in shot on the nine ball to win the match. Instead of simply making the shot and going home winners, Tom looks over at our three friends, then at me. “You know Albert Einstein taught me this” he says as he makes a triple bank, and buries it! To say that the already volatile situation had reached critical mass would be a slight understatement.Every range has advantages and disadvantages. When discussing a fight, the person going forward can always move faster than the person going backwards. The boxer can have the advantage over the kicker, and vice versa. The trapper/ clinch fighter, who uses head-butts, elbows and knees, has the advantage over the boxer. This was Bruce Lee’s amazing revelation. Here we are back to our Central Theme again. The person that can fight out of his chosen range, and keep his opponent out of their range, will win! Within the confines of this philosophy, the wrestler has an advantage over the trapper. Most of my JKD contemporaries squirm when I say this, but fact is fact. At this point one must be wondering; if, the wrestler has an advantage over the trapper, why did Bruce Lee stress trapping?

The answer is simple. When one goes to the ground he is automatically restricted to fighting one on one. Picture UFC matches when both participants are literally stuck to the ground for half an hour. Now imagine if either of these fighters had just one friend. That one friend could practically walk down to the local hardware store, buy an ax handle, walk back to the fight, and smash his buddies’ adversary on the head. They could both then, walk away. So, yes, wrestling has an advantage one on one. However, one on one, like ground fighting, is a gentleman’s art. (If it wasn’t, they would all be practicing Kina Mutai, (biting and eye gouging), and we would have no gentlemen! In closing, remember when we discuss the word fight, like the game; Rock, Paper, and Scissors, there is no winner, just somebody who adapts better than someone else….

Sifu Paul Vunak World renowned

Navy Seal Training & Reality Based Combatives Instructor and also my

instructor Inside D.G.C.F.S. A new place 1 Ronald’s Fitness Corner 2 Coming events 3 Airsoft Products 4 Cont. new place 6 Art of Control 8 Street fighting seal style 10 Fight or flight 11 Terrorist look for soft targets 13 Good places to go 15

Paul Vunak

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Fight, Flight or Freeze Fight or flight. Fight or flight. Fight or flight. Heard that tune before? Chances are you have. Chances are every instructor you've ever had has regurgitated that mantra before you. It is quick and catchy, almost like a song really and so easy to remember. A snappy alliteration. You probably have locked the three word, two-prong, catch-phrase deep into your “these truths we hold to be self-evident,” inner sanctorum. The special place things go that never get questioned. The doctors we quote here later call it, “ingrained assumptions.” Since the early wars with stones, clubs, spears and swords, the militaries of the world have grappled with issues of bravery and fear on the battlefield, but the whole "fight or flight," catch-phrase really seemed to begin as a psychological category in the very early 20th century. The issue was rubber-stamped into posterity in 1929 by one Dr. Walter Canon with his original formulation of human threat response - the fight or flight.” I repeat 1929. Canon stated that when frightened, we flee or fight. Fright - defined as fear excited by sudden danger, from something strange, sudden or shocking. Sudden ambush. Some the greatest armies of the world were defeated by ambush, as well as some of the best solo fighters. The University of Washington uses a popular “angry bear” example to explain this, an example dating back to the 1930s and copied by so many "downliners" to describe the shock/surprise event. “It is a nice, sunny day. You are taking a nice walk in the park. Suddenly, an angry bear appears in your path. Do you stay and fight OR do you turn and run away?” Simple enough as one, two. But, somewhere lurking free in our understanding is yet another, vital, “F-word,” freeze. From the cave-men confronted by the saber-tooth tiger on the prehistoric veldt, to the soldier in Afghanistan, they, and we gathered here, all see and understand the...big freeze. We all intuitively know that we must include “Fight, Freeze or Flight,” in the first milliseconds of an ambush of any type. These three Fs are utterly and intrinsically connected to this. Okay, we know this, so what does the latest research show? Modern experts agree and can also now define and refine that not all freezing comes from fear or fright! You may freeze when shocked for several biological reasons that have nothing to do with bravery, courage or lack thereof.

I began reading about these other two Fs - Fright and Freeze in the 1990s. I grew impatient with the constant repetition of Canon's lonely two Flight or Fight. Without recognizing freeze and fright, the topic, the preparation training and post-treatment will be stunted and incomplete. A real recipe for wrong. Also, impatient and tired with the

over-simplistic Canon, two-prong Fs, in 2004, in an issue of Psychosomatics of the American Journal of Psychiatry, five doctors, specializing in psychiatry (see below list) petitioned the peers to change the flight or flight mantra. In an article entitled, “ Does Flight or Fight Need Updating ” they begin a challenging, yet common sense dissertation on the subject: “Walter Cannon's original formulation of the term for the human response to threat, "fight or flight," was coined exactly 75 years ago, in 1929.1 It is an easily remembered catch-phrase that seems to capture the essence of the phenomena it describes. It accurately evokes two key behaviors that we see occurring in response to threat. This phrase has led to certain ingrained assumptions about what to expect in our patients and, because of its broad usage, what they expect of themselves. It is a testament to the foundational significance of Cannon's work that the term he used continues to shape clinical understanding and to influence popular culture's understanding of stress as well. But the phrase has not been updated to incorporate important advances in the understanding of the acute response to extreme stress. Specifically, the term ignores major advances in stress research made since it was coined. Both human and animal research on the pan-mammalian response to stress has advanced considerably since 1929, and it may be time to formulate a new form of this catch-phrase that presents a more complete and nuanced picture of how we respond to danger."They go on: “The phrase "fight or flight" has influenced the understanding and expectations of both clinicians and patients; however, both the order and the completeness of Cannon's famous phrase are suspect. "Fight or flight" mis-characterizes the ordered sequence of responses that mammals exhibit as a threat escalates or approaches. In recent years, ethnologists working with nonhuman primates have clearly established four distinct fear responses that proceed sequentially in response to increasing threat. The order of these responses may have important implications for understanding and treating acute stress in humans."The article reminds their peers that people freeze in place for reasons other than fear/fright. One might freeze form a hyper-vigilance, and/or by just being overwhelmed by surrounding stimuli, Not fear. Therefore, the act of freezing can be clinically different that fright. You can freeze from fright and you can freeze from being overwhelmed in a sensory overload -which has nothing to do with fear. Many specialists such as Dr. Jeffrey Allen Gray state we all freeze FIRST to some degree! Then react. Page 11

By: Hock Hochheim

A pioneer in Reality Based combatives field and Military and L.E.O. trainer

also my Instructor.

Inside D.G.C.F.S. A new place 1 Ronald’s Fitness Corner 2 Coming events 3 Airsoft Products 4 Cont. new place 6 Art of Control 8 Street fighting seal style 10 Fight or flight 11 Terrorist look for soft targets 13 Good places to go 15

So the experts summarize: “We propose the adoption of the expanded and reordered phrase "freeze, flight, fight, or fright" as a more complete and nuanced alternative to "fight or flight." While we cannot hope to compete with the legacy of Cannon's phrase in the culture at large, adoption of this alternative term within the clinical community may help keep clinicians aware of the relevant advances in understanding of the human stress response made since the original term "fight or flight" was coined three-quarters of a century ago.” Medical professionals do use the full, four Fs now, in so many fields from speech therapy for stuttering to post traumatic stress treatment for combat vets. But that common “culture at large” the doctors mentioned, remains ignorant and still does love to sing the simple song of Flight or Fight. They sing on and on about the two Fs and the sympathetic nervous system and two F-shooting and Two F-fighting and two-F thinking and two-F training on and on. And, like so many blindly accepted principles spouted in martial, police and the military training dogma, ideas like the disproved Hicks Law, and the mis-quoted Startle Reflex, the “fight or flight” catch phrase has not been updated for most of us in 8 decades of steadily, advanresearch. In your humble correspondent's opinion here, a martial training doctrine might well function with just the three Fs of "Fight, Flight or Freeze. After all, a freeze is a freeze whether it be from a sudden fright or a sudden sensory overload. Just please explain it to your folks. The "Fourth F of Fright" may only be mandatory in the psychiatric world, in their post-event treatment world, where they grapple with traumatic stress syndromes. There are also many small hairs to be split in this subject. Is just backing up just a few steps, officially called a "flight?" What about under-reacting? Naive TV news viewers complain when they see films of citizens ignoring a vicious assault occuring on the street, or say - on a pizza line before them. They seem to freeze or ignore the crime! Dr. John Leach, author of Survival Psychology teaches an advanced course in survival psychology in Lancaster University in England. Leach has a name for some freezing (and for people who seem to ignore crimes happening before them). "It's called the "incredulity response." People simply don't believe what they're seeing. So they go about their business, engaging in what's known as ‘normalcy bias.” Under-reactors act as if everything is OK and underestimate the seriousness of danger. “Some experts call this "analysis paralysis. People lose their ability to make decisions.” Leach says the vast majority of us...(80%) in a crisis, most will "quite simply be stunned and bewildered. We'll find that our reasoning is significantly impaired and that thinking is difficult. It's OK, and it doesn't last forever. The key is to recover quickly from brain lock or analysis paralysis, shake off the shock and figure out what to do.” What is hypervigilance? Is the natural "stop-look-listen" considered a freeze? What is Tonic Immobility? Is there a natural progression to the Fs when you are confronted and does freeze come first?

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A training doctrine MUST at least include the element of Freeze! Some solutions are: 1) Train sudden fight responses form ambush and surpise. 2) Train responding from freezes and if needed..maintaining a freeze to remain undetected. 3) Train orderly retreats. 4) Work on Fear Management concepts. Three Fs or four Fs, there is certainly more than just the two Fs. In today's mental health industry, Stress Management is a major challenge as well as prosperous business. In terms of everyday sudden, short-term and long-term stress, mental health experts can easly refer to simple "flight or flight" in their articles and treatment programs, even despite the above protests of their

peers. For them, the majority of problems are marital, jobs, rush hour traffic, raising children, and the like. But, a training and treatment doctrine that includes routine violence and combat cannot function without this Freeze category in its equation. The first group deals with stress, the second group deals with proper response to sudden and planned combat. Why haven't we known this for years? We only have our lazy, unquestioning selves to blame. We have let ignorant, neophytes disguise themselves as medical experts and self-proclaimed" "human combat factor" tacticians and let them preach decade's old, deceased doctrine into our empty minds. Mindless regurgitators then regurgitate and proliferate this misguided information.. We memorize the words, but never understand the music. Just before teaching, just before you take the podium, remember to request that sadly, unique song called: "What Does the Very Latest Research Show?"

The article doctors mentioned are: H. Stefan Bracha, M.D., Tyler C. Ralston, M.A., Jennifer M. Matsukawa, M.A., National Center for PTSD, Department of Veterans Affairs, Pacific Islands Health Care System, Spark M. Matsunaga Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, Andrew E. Williams, M.A., Depart. of Psychology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, Adam S. Bracha, B.A., Biomedical-Research Consultant, Honolulu, Hawaii... Please read their full article at http://psy.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/45/5/448 Page 13

Study: Hotels seen as easy targets for terrorists

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/ Robb Hamic is an IAFEFI member since 2003, former Sheriff’s Deputy, Detective and Desert Storm U.S. Army Veteran. He is a Certified Law Enforcement Trainer (CLET) and is a state and nationally accredited firearms instructor for handgun, shotgun, rifle, patrol rifle and tactics.

terrorists and their selection of hotels as targets. It is a good read. Study: Terrorists shifting focus to 'soft' targets By RICHARD LARDNER (AP) – Sep 8, 2009 WASHINGTON — Terrorists are aiming for hosecurity measures at military and government facilities continue to improve, says a global intelligence company. Al-Qaida is changing from a c"franchises" with more parochial aims and strong grass-roots support, according toreport Tuesday from STRATFOR. These smaller cells get less training and less money, so they set their sights lower. That doesn't mean they aren't dangerotheir value or if they are able to link up with someone who is highly tactically skilled," the report says. According to STRsince the 9/11 attacks in 2001 when compared with the eight years before. Injuries and deaths caused by those attacks have increased six times over the same comparison period. A hotel is the ultimathuman traffic and shallow security perimeters. Hotels also attract many Westerngiving militants high probabilities of killing or injuring large numbers of them in a single attack, according to the report. Although hotel security guards try to mextremists know the way around this is to check in as a guest, giving them full access to the grounds. As an example, the report says the bombers who carriethe July 17 twin suicide attacks at the J.W. Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in Jakarta, Indonesia, had registered two days earlier. From a terrorist's perspective, the downside to hittingdon't generate as much "political and ideological mileage" as hitting a hard target such as a better guarded government building or military facility, the report says.

managers have been reluctant to equip their buildings with more security measures, which can be cumbersome and inconvenience guests.But that

mentality may have to change. An attorney representing the victims of a hotel attack in 2004 has demanded the owner accept responsibility for the security and belongings of its guests."Terrorism-related liability considerations, which could be called a hushed concern among hotel industry insiders since Sept. 11, are becoming a much more prominent issue," the report says.

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