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Like I said it's worth the money. The FoF is minimal on the DVD, basically just the Tueller drill and getting off the X.

It would have been nice to see more H2H/impact weapon/knife intergration in that section as "fighting to your gun" has not been covered that well that I am aware of.

Suarez Intl

Hello Gents,

I just enrolled on this forum. First of all, thanks for all the kind words. Second I want to clarify a couple of things -

The DVD - I must confess that I had never done a DVD before. I told Mike Janich and Mike Rigg from Paladin as much. They told me to simply teach the class to the camera. That is in essence what I did, with the addition of some fundamentals in the beginning. My hope was to create a package that someone could view before attending CRG and be better prepared for it. I think I succeeded. This will not be the last one.

The Close Contact Technique discussed in the photo. As it is practiced in that drill it is part of the presentation training. I teach the ability of being able to fire from any position along the line of presentation.

We begin with the forehead on the target (gutter gunfighting), left hand at the target's shoulder - we fire from there. We extend and take a step back, still holding on, and fire again (as shown in the photo). We take another step back and fire with the pistol held slightly away from your chest at 1/2 extension. And finally from 3/4 extension and full extension.

Done alone, the drill is simply an interseting range happening. When looked ta later in the crucible of force on force, we see that students don't always get a chance to punch out to full extension...specially as the distance closes. So I teach all of these possibilities.

The reason I leave the hand out is that at such close intervals, your other hand will be involved in the fight, or you will be hit by the contact weapon. So rather than teach things one way and say "on the street you'll do it this other way", I prefer to teach the right way from the beginning. Everything should be tested in force on force against resistive adversaries. In that environment, you'll see many range techniques fall apart.

I have already set a date in a few months to shoot the sequel to this in an all Force on force tape. I suggest getting both. One tape builds on the other. Think of going into a sparring match without basics...or training basics without ever sparring. If nothing else get a group of guys together and share the cost...it makes for some cool training sessions afterwards.

Anyway, I have to get the kids to school. Thanks again and God bless!

Gabe Suarez
Suarez International USA, Inc.
http://www.suarezinternational.com

JT

Welcome to the forum Gabe. I enjoy your books immensely (I currently have three of them), and occasionally lurk around your forum.

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AZG23

awesome! great to have you here Gabe....! Looking forward to the next one.

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grnzbra

I'm looking at the first page photo and wondering how that would play out in reality or FOF. Since the photo is an instant in time, I may have this all wrong, but it appears that the shooter is trying to stop a, let's say150 pound, moving body by just throwing his arm out there. It would seem that some body mass would need to be thrown in there too, and that doesn't seem to be happening in the picture. Just how much "oomph" was put behind that strike? Was it done again FOF?

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Suarez Intl

grnzbra,

Don't look at it like a strike. In the DVD we do some Teuller drill examples way close...like 3 feet. This involves deflecting the attack, or preempting the attack. Thus the support hand must be engaged in the fight.

The idea is not a linear "stop the advancing target and shoot". Rather it is a drill where students learn to fire through the presentation. And to show them that having their other hand in the fight is not dangerous at all, but a required aspect of close range gunfighting. It is not as static as it appears when it is applied.

Thanks again and God bless!

Gabe Suarez
Suarez International USA, Inc.
http://www.suarezinternational.com

Bud White

Welcome Gabe i have read most of your books and liked them .. Figure ill break down and buy the video after the christmas season

Bumper

Welcome to the forum, Gabe. Glad to have you join us!

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srfl

Welcome to the forum GS.

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grnzbra

Thanks for the clarification.

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