 Welcome back guys to the 21 convention before our next speaker was a teaching pickup with Neil Strauss himself for a couple years He was actually training law enforcement and military personnel how to kill without further ado. Here's Bravo the man himself Thank you for that awesome introduction, which I help right All right Before I got into pickup. I was actually a full-time firearms instructor. I'm a CCW instructor I have three NRA certifications. I'm a taser instructor edge weapon instructor low light I went around and helped teach various military and law enforcement SWAT teams special forces group hostage rescue room clearing all that kind of fun stuff Did this just go out or is it still on? Okay So When I actually I got divorced too, and that's how I got into this whole pickup stuff But beforehand this is what I did and we're talking about doing a cool like self-defense Awareness and also how to pick your first firearm So I was really trying to put all that together in this presentation If you guys have questions when I'm going through this stuff I'm gonna try to have a large Q&A section at the end. So write them down Don't so you don't forget them. I'm happy to answer as much as I can First off who here has ever fired a gun in their life before raise your hand awesome I'm from Arizona, which is a pretty pro-gun place. So that's pretty cool How many people here have ever studied martial arts before raise your hand? All right, hopefully I don't make any of you mad when I rip on some of the bad ones Anyways when I first got into Tactical training This is something I always thought was if you cannot protect yourself for your loved ones, you're not a man and You guys all heard about that court case a little bit ago Where the two drug dealers like kidnapped the wife went to the bank pulled out all this money Went did math came back raped the wife raped the kids set the house on fire the husband got out And then he lived everyone else died that whole court case just recently happened one of the senators houses Just got broken into like two three days ago And it was the grandson that came out with a shotgun and like actually protected him with a gun So that was always one of my things was if I can't protect myself I can't protect the people I care about I just didn't feel complete So I took this on my own to figure out how to defend myself how to defend my loved ones And if you guys want to do that too if especially with doing a firearm The I get to ask this all the time What should you go to a range and actually pay someone to teach you how to do it Just like I got a motorcycle a little bit ago I didn't just go down to the dealership hop on it and ride home I went to the riding class learn how to do it responsibly so that way I don't kill myself or kill someone else This thing blew me away when I learned this the police have no duty to protect you. It's a little hard to see but that's a really overweight police officer eating a turkey leg and I have no confidence that someone like that is gonna come to my rescue and help me and Most of us have seen officers where they're pretty overweight and out of shape And you think they're gonna be there and help you out My brother's actually a cop my ex-father-in-law is a cop. I've trained more than I can count my brother's also a lawyer And a firefighter. That's what I had to compete with growing up But this blew me away when I learned this because we're all we're all brought up to think that when you call 911 The cops are gonna come there and help you well That's if they get there they might be dealing with something down the street And my brother would tell me that he would get a call and it would take 20 30 minutes before you get to the house So the whole time he's thinking like hopefully they can make it until then so when we're teaching the CCW classes we get into this kind of stuff and What I would recommend is you guys when you get home all Google this phrase The police have no duty to protect and just read all the shit that comes up But these are the two big ones and this is actually from the ACLU website, which I don't like the ACLU Just to show you how that other people besides crazy gun guys think about this Jessica Gonzales versus the USA and I'll just read it to you guys real quick June 1999 Jessica Gonzales's three daughters age 7 9 and 10 were abducted by her estranged husband and killed after the Colorado police refused to enforce restraining order against them Although Gonzales repeatedly called the police telling them of her fears for daughter safety. They failed to respond Hours later Gonzales's husband drove his pickup truck to the police department in open fire He was shot dead by the police the slain bodies of the three girls were subsequently discovered in the back of his pickup truck Gonzales followed a lawsuit against the police, but in June 2005 the US Supreme Court ruled She had no constitutional right to police enforcement of her restraining order That sucks because you think everything we've heard get a restraining order That's gonna keep them away, but the cops can only enforce it if they see the person there So a lot of times they'll call and say hey someone says at my house I have an order against them by the time the cops show up. They're already gone Nothing they can do So the cops can only enforce the laws they see them being broken now. Some of you guys might be thinking too Well, I don't have restraining orders. I don't have to worry about that What about someone else? Warren versus the district of Columbia March 16th 1975 Carolyn Warren and Joan Tala Faro who are roommates and Marine Douglas Four-year-old daughter who lived on another floor were awakened by the back door being broken down by two men later identified as Marvin Kent and James Morse They entered Douglas's second-floor room where Kent forced Douglas to sodomize them and then raped her So that's fucked up. Obviously, but the sodomize that's Extra fucked Warren and Tala Fino heard Douglas's screams from the floor below and they called the police They ended up going outside like the balcony. There's like this adjoining roof They waited outside and actually watched a police car do a slow drive-by past the back of the house The cops never even got out. They just drove by real slow Another officer knocked on the front door, but left when no one answered a few minutes later So they called the police a second time saying what the fuck? Someone's getting raped and attacked come back here Well, that what that 911 call got miscategorized as an investigate trouble. It was never even dispatched a Little while later after the screaming stopped. They thought the police were there They called down which ended up alerting Kent of their presence for the next 14 hours They were raped robbed beaten and forced to commit sexual acts upon one another and the four-year-old daughter was there After this all happened they left they ended up recovering calling for help Sue the police department the court held that the police are not liable for failure to provide adequate police protection So it sucks, but you're on your own you got to learn how to defend yourself You got to learn how to take care of yourself and then afterwards What I always recommend is then calling the police and letting them know hey I just use my gun or whatever and then deal with it That's at least my thought because I've trained a lot of cops and I don't feel safe around a lot of them So how can we defend ourselves? So the first step is to actually be aware and they have the different levels of awareness The first one is White Unaware and oblivious to your surroundings and I'm gonna give you guys the first analogy for this And I want you guys to help me out with another one, but white people who are in the level of awareness. It's white That's like the people who drive in their car and they run out of gas Has anyone here ever run out of gas driving their car? I had a couple Snickers Okay, I've never done that. That's I can't even understand how people do that But it's also like maybe you're just not paying attention for a minute. You miss your exit So that makes a little bit more sense to him so If you're just zoning out for a minute, that's white But really white is like when you're asleep and you're totally not aware what's going on And another good example would be the girl who's jogging with her iPod on at night Down the street like anyone can come up behind her and grab her. She has no way of even know what's going on But let's stick with the car analogy So yellow is aware of your surroundings and you're alert to new information So does anyone have a an example of like a yellow State of awareness if you're driving your car Perfect driving down the street. You see the light actually change instead of just running it and you see it beforehand So a highway analogy would be I know my exit's coming up. So I get over like a mile beforehand Okay, but that was right on Orange so this one is your impossible danger and you're preparing to act So for this one, maybe you're driving down the freeway and all of a sudden people start slamming on their brakes ahead of you You haven't slammed on your brakes yet But you're starting to like think like uh-oh something's going on And then finally red fight or flight fee flea defend or attack So this is you're slamming on your brakes. Someone's next to you You're maybe putting your hand out to stop them from sliding out You're trying to swerve around or something you're acting Or you could also they have another color that the marines and other people used to is black Where people just freeze totally and they do nothing. So this is the type of person you like sees people Break lights going on. They don't even react. They just freeze and slam into a full force Which you guys have seen car accidents before it happens a lot So for being aware of your surroundings the the example for this would be White we're out at the bar. We're never in white yellow. We're aware of our surroundings So maybe you're in the bar and you see like this big group of guys kind of dressed up like thugs and gang bangers or whatever come in And you just happen to notice it because you're already scanning it And then when they get your attention you focus on them. Now you're an orange Maybe they're making a ruckus making a lot of noise acting dumb stuff starts throwing around now You're like in heavy orange and you're like, okay, I might have to act in a second And then when the fight breaks out and you got to either get out of the bar Or fight defend yourself or whatever that would be red Um another thing too would just be at your home like I was at home with my ex-wife And it was like two in the morning and I always used to come home and I had an ankle holster I would take it off and I always set it down on my nightstand because when I went to sleep I liked having it next to the bed So it was like Midnight two in the morning something we're watching tv and all of a sudden boom boom boom on the front door And I freaked out. I thought was like a home invasion or something And I go running out. I get up and I go running to where I normally keep the gun and I didn't have it there I put it somewhere else So for a good like 30 seconds, I'm looking around at my house fucking. Where is it? Boom boom boom on the front door and I'm freaking out finally I get it I go over to the front door and I go who is it and as I look through the people it's covered up So I couldn't even fucking see who it was So I'm fucking freaking out like Orange I'm I'm preparing to act And then all of a sudden the thumb comes off and it's like two high school girls And they're like oh, let's carry here And they'd have the wrong house so they were fucking kicking on my door And also too one of my friends in high school one of my best friends Um pounded on his door He just opened it because he thought it was his cousin didn't even look Two guys came in and did a home invasion on them shotguns Took him down tied him up with an extension cord Tied up his little cousin with an extension cord kicked the guy in the head They thought he had all this money He did like flooring like vinyl flooring so he's not rolling on the dough at all And uh, they ended up trying to go over to the stove and heat up spoons on the stove And they were going to burn them and torture them And luckily they were idiots and they turned on the oven and out the stove and they couldn't figure out To fucking use it and after a while they got tired. They ended up leaving but right after that He came to one of my gun classes after he was like fuck. I can never let that happen again Actually right after it happened to he went outside they left they took his car keys They took off his phone and everything he goes outside. He's in this nice building There's a security guard going around He's like I just fucking got robbed the guy said guns pointed at me like my friends are still tied up I just got robbed and the security guard wouldn't even call 911 because he's like I can't get involved You got to call 911 So even worse than the police not taking care of us and they can't be held liable for not doing their job security officers are Pretty dumb most of us who know those guys and see them at walmart and shit But uh, they won't even fucking call the police Because they're like, oh, I can't be involved. They're just there's a presence. They're instructed not to get involved So you're really on your own So martial arts training and this to me is being aware is number one because if you're aware You can always avoid this stuff And I had one of my students one of my pua students was talking to me He said uh, I was in this I was out at the beach and some guy wanted to fight me And I was like no I didn't want to fight and he needed to believe in and he goes And afterwards I just felt like the biggest pussy because I backed down And I had to explain to him. I was like, dude, what did you what did you want to have happen that night? Did you want to get in a fight or did you want to not get in a fight and walk away? He goes, I didn't want to get in a fight. I wanted to walk away. I okay. So your decision of the outcome that you wanted is what happened Why is that a problem? And even me like I'm I've done a couple cage fights years ago. I've done brazilian jiu-jitsu I've done collie I've done a lot of stuff which I'm going to get into in a second But even me if I'm out I don't want to fucking get in a fight because someone could just pull a knife out One of his buddies. I don't see one little poke and it could be over. I could be really fucked up You guys have all seen those youtube videos of people Pounding on someone and just stomping them and fucking them up and knocking their teeth out and all this crazy shit I don't have anything to prove so I never have a problem walk away from anything But if I needed to fit myself if someone draws me to that level, yeah, I've done enough training with knife guns empty hand I'll probably be okay But martial arts training The bad news guys We were lied to Karate kid crane kick None of that shit works You guys all watch ufc. Yes Okay, did you guys ever watch the old ufcs? We're talking about this earlier. Okay, when it was style versus style And you learn really hard and fast what worked and what didn't and the jet lee Taekwondo now that stuff works my argument is if that stuff worked George st. Pierre would be using it All these guys would be using it now people might say anderson silva did the little jump kick and stuff recently That's just a front kick. That's not and so did machita, but that's nothing crazy So doing stuff like this and waiting for him Doesn't work and also a lot of martial arts are complete bullshit Because they'll teach and I studied it for years too. The guy throws the punch You block you step out of the line of attack trap strike grab throw down You don't get to do six moves And the guy does one move and he just freezes there and waits for you to do all this stuff You guys have seen this in the any boxing ufc. It's one move for one move. It's like checkers or chess It's back and forth So if the guy throws the punch and you trap it or even parrying it in boxing You'll very rarely see guys in the ufc be able to just parry and push it down But taekwondo tanks. I did tanks who don't as a kid I did ikei jutsu, which is a 400 ikeido and kin jutsu, which is a 400 kendo So it's even more like old school and traditional Man, we used to like block and it was like 12 moves or something like really the guy's going to stand there It's horrible. So if you are going to study martial art Look at any of the stuff that works brazilian jutsu is my number one Learn a striking system. So boxing boxing or kickboxing and then also obviously weapons I'm a big fan of a filipino martial arts. So kali la costa screma any of those kind of arts I did sciat kali for a while and I saw one of the guys last year wearing the sat kali shirt up here And the when you go to the website that's awesome stuff And one of the guys I trained for is like I think the only american guy was like actually an instructor in like four different kali systems And those are pretty fucking nasty things. I was like stick fighting knife fighting. I broke my nose multiple times I've been tased. I've been pepper sprayed. I've been some crazy shit But uh doing the kali training was like one of the hardest most difficult things i've ever done And it's awesome. I love it So one of my friends just emailed me Four or five days ago a guy from high school too and he goes oh my uh fiance We want to get like a weapon for when she's walking her dog because we're worried about Her being able to like defend herself take care of the dog if there's like a pit bull rolling around And who just someone just had to shoot a pit bull the other day Okay, so someone just had to shoot a dog and once again youtube this shit You can see the police officers having to fight like a pit bull and stuff and it's insane how how fast they are And so let's leave the force options I was going to say no one here's a cop but actually there's someone but For most of us we aren't police. We don't have a job where we actually have to apprehend someone I don't have to take someone into custody my only job is to defend myself and my loved ones So I don't need less lethal force options because if I have less lethal and someone has lethal And i'm going to pepper spray someone who has a knife or a gun That's insane and also if i'm justified in using a taser or a stun gun or pepper spray on someone because i'm in fear of my safety more than likely I'm justified in using lethal force also So less lethal force options I'm sure you guys know a lot about these pepper spray People get it for their girlfriends. They put it in the bottom of the purse How long is it going to take you to pull it out? And even cops don't even like pepper spray because what happens is they spray it and the wind's going around everyone gets cross contaminated They usually don't practice it with that much. So I'll spray it and have you guys ever done it with deodorant or cologne where you go And this is it totally Okay, so imagine pepper spray. I've been pepper spray in our fucking store I worked at one of our customers like let me see this and accidentally just blasted me right in the face And I used to train with collie and they pepper spray us and his mistakes and all that too when we trained through it But this is when I was younger and uh, he's just sitting there and I even paying attention to pss right in my face So if you can do that on accident when there's zero stress When you're like fighting somewhere a dog's coming at you the girl's not going to be able to dig in her purse Pull this thing out that she's never practiced with Undo the button flip the safety and then spray it and know where that line Of attack's going to be So i'm not a fan of pepper spray and some people keep it in the car or something with the heat in Arizona It can make it blow up then you can't fucking go in your car Um And it's so powerful too that someone sprayed it in the trash can in our gun range before which was like a 40 000 square foot warehouse And then we had like almost evacuated the whole building. It was so fucking bad people were confident stuff Uh people say mace but mace is a chemical pepper spray stronger and it just comes from peppers Ocea listerine capsulate. It's like two million scovial heat units Which is I think like a jalapenos like a hundred or something or a thousand and then if you guys ever watch man versus food Where it's like the ghost chili and it's like a a million or something. So yeah pepper spray. They have like two million five million It's insane And when my brother got hit with it. He said it was through the police academy He said it was the worst thing he's ever done and he's he was mr. Teen arizona as a bodybuilder He's a cop. He's a cage fighter did way more cage fights than me And um, he got hit with it instead. It was the worst thing. He's ever been through wasn't that bad for me I was able to like totally Functioned through it now taser was fucking horrible for me and he thought it wasn't that bad So it also shows you that if someone gets zapped with something It might not that you can be that effective and you're used to seeing something The guy's gonna freak out Well, if he's on drugs if he's very determined if they're drunk or if there's one of the people doesn't affect him as much It's worthless And just counting like your life and safety on some pepper spray that's been sitting in your purse for five years insane So my friend who's doing these walks he asked about stun guns He's like, well, I don't want to carry like pepper spray But maybe a stun gun and I was like dude like a pit bulls coming at you and you just want to shock it Like bad dog because they have like shock collars for dogs. That's all it is You have a shock collar to teach a dog not to bark when it barks it zaps them on the neck after a few zaps They'll quit barking. I was like that's not gonna stop them I used to get stun guns and to show people how worthless they were when they'd buy them and come to our range I would just zap myself and hold it in the leg I even did a field report on this old style. I former. I was there. I was like Stun gun dhv and I would just go this is it I'd go Yeah, this wouldn't stop me But people think because the movies that you get zapped with a stun gun And you go and you fall and hit the ground But if you think about it only has these little metal electrodes that are that big So when you zap it it only is going to affect that muscle area so the taser See I perfectly say The taser is stronger It's on a different frequency where it actually overloads the muscles to where like When I got hit it felt like the worst muscle cramp I ever had And I couldn't control any muscles like on my ankle and on my shoulder And I went on my tiptoes my cast fucking cramped up and it felt like I was getting hit with like baseball bats every time It cycled it was fucking horrible Took everything I had not to scream like a girl when I got zapped because I was around all my friends And this is before every police department was carrying them and stuff too because they are the rep came and he's like Oh, yeah, we sell tasers like those are fucking worthless. That's not gonna work And then right then we were setting up our our tv with the dvd in it of this guy hans marrero Who I've trained also with him He was the former chief hand-to-hand instructor for the marines and in this video He's getting ready to get zapped as they're setting up my zap This we hit play on this and he gets zapped and he's like huge and buff and he goes Oh, and he stopped stop and they turn it off and they go How does this compare to other things you've been hit and he goes? Oh, I got hit with a grenade once and he turns around has this giant scar on his back And they go what you do he goes, oh it knocked me unconscious But I woke up he was a dislocated my knee I popped my knee back in place duck taped it and continued on But he's like that's the worst thing I've ever been through And then like five seconds later. They're like, all right Steve's ready to get zapped And I was like, oh fuck. What did I get myself? But it's also the the electrodes are spread out So anything that's in between it gets affected. So it's a larger surface area So stun guns and then also tasers you can do a dry stun where if you take the cartridges off Or if you shoot and miss you can hit them with the front of it and you dry stuns with it But again, it's only hitting that muscle area So if someone has a knife and they're in contact range and the knife can reach my throat And all I'm going to do is zap them in the stomach and they'll go out and they'll bend over now It's not making contact anymore. It's having no effect Ow now they slip my throat and I'm dead. Not a good defense And I even zap my ex maybe that's why she's my ex my zaptor in the butt once with it at work With a stun gun and she just thought it was a rubber band hitting her. She was like, ow What was that? But people because they're trained from the movies and everything you think a stun gun hits you And the guy goes and falls and hits the ground. It doesn't work like that Another thing is asp, which is the collapsible ton. It's a brand of a baton People have pr24 is the side handle batons and stuff baseball bats again. Those are nice But even the police a lot of guys I know don't even like them because you have to strike And they really aren't that the best sticks like to actually like stick fight with They only use them for pain compliance generally So they're hitting like muscle areas and stuff and if someone is if there's a crazy guy with a knife And you'll see this if you see pictures or videos There's a crazy guy with a knife and someone has a baton and they're trying to like knock the knife out of their hand Or they have like a taser and they're pointing at them There's always multiple other officers with their guns drawn at the bad guy So then they're trying to like take the guy out without having to kill them But if he makes a move they're all going to have to unload with them And even then that's when they when the law enforcement officers will will deploy these They're only going to use their taser if other people are right there with shotguns and handguns So if someone's coming at me with a knife, I'm not going to go Let me zap them and hopefully they learn their lesson or let me pepper spray them and hopefully they can't see me for a second So let's leave the force options really take it off the table for civilians Because you're either defending yourself or you're getting out of there So the next one is lethal force options Now how many people carry a pocket knife? Where's your hand? Yeah, I saw one last night. There's four or five. Okay. I like knives. I'm a big fan of them But you guys have all heard that old saying don't bring a knife to a gunfight So I don't even see it's the indiana jones scene where he shoots the guy with the sword Do you guys know about that scene? Originally he trained for weeks and weeks and like months with the whip He was gonna like disarm the guy and everything But I guess he had food poisoning that week and he was like I can't do it and he's like He has a gun. Why is he fucking just shoot him and so they ended up using that scene But anyways, uh, don't bring a knife to a gunfight, but also don't bring a gun to a knife fight And this is stuff we used to teach really close quarters If I have a gun out all it takes is my gun going off a couple degrees and it's not going to make contact It's not even going to hit the guy But a knife up close can keep working can keep working doesn't run out of ammo doesn't Malfunction it's not a jam. It's a malfunction and up close. There's definitely a lot of advantages to knives But I'm not going to get in a knife stuff on breaks if you guys want to talk anymore about it We can Right, but the baton would be a better striking instrument and I don't even really want to do that So I prefer guns It's dirty harry with his gun So I don't want anyone to answer necessarily who shot firearms or anything before But between the two of these this revolver and these are real pitchers too. So this revolver right here or this Big revolver Which one do you think actually kicks more and actually we'll do like a raise of hands Who here thinks the Small one the black one if you shoot that gun that one's going to kick more than the big one raise your hand Okay, now if we are shooting the large one Who thinks that one's going to kick more have more recoil One two three four Okay, actually these are both chambered in 38 special And 38 special is just a type of bullet. It's for revolvers 38 special 357 magnums a bigger version of that These are both 38 specials. That's it. That's all they can shoot So if the small gun is shooting the same bullet as the big gun And that's actually the the ankle gun I carry. It's a titanium alloy. Nice small super lightweight one That's a five shot j-frame This is a full-size six or seven shot They both shoot the same bullet. Well, that one's a lot lighter And every action has an opposite equal reaction. So when you're shooting the gun they explode The primer goes off and ignites the powder shoots the bullet out the bullet's also pushing back on you So if I have a lot more weight and mass to absorb it, it's actually going to kick less So there's a gun that almost looks exactly like this and it's silver And then there's a wood grip. This is a nice soft rubber grip But there's like a real thin little wood grip on it and they call it a lady smith And people would come into our gun range all the time girls and they go I want to buy a lady smith because it's a lady smith And I would go that fucking thing like isn't fun to shoot at all, right? That little gun back there that you got a blister on your thumb Not fun to shoot lightweight ones like this like they hurt I had my ex-wife shoot that a couple times five shots of broader to tears because it hurts so much in her hand But it's a carry gun. So you always got to balance it out So people would buy that little gun because they're like, well, I don't want a big one like I don't know I'm not gonna But if you're not going to carry it why not get something bigger which we'll get into more in a second But this is what happens is people who don't know anything about firearms End up feeling this like right to make laws about guns and telling other people who What they can and can't do with guns like in arizona They recently changed the law to where you can take firearms into places that serve alcohol So restaurants bars stuff like that everyone's freaking out because they're like, oh my god It's going to be fucking crazy people are going to go nuts and start shooting everyone Well, the people who already have that mindset are already going to be doing that stuff The people who follow the laws and aren't idiots aren't going to do that So everyone will say oh, it's going to be horrible. Everyone's going to be shooting up the place Well, it happened a couple months ago. Nothing's happened at all and anyone who gets into gun stuff This is actually what got me to like get into politics and stuff Is just learning about how crazy and dumb so much of this gun stuff is like the high capacity gun mag ban Which just one day they're like, uh, you can't have a mag in a semi automatic gun that holds more than 10 bullets Like who came up with that? There's no data to back it up Just someone pulled that number out of their ass and that went from 1994 to 2004 There's no data backing up had any effect whatsoever on it So then they let it sunset and it came back and everyone's like, oh high capacity mags These are assault weapons and all this stuff ars. It's all horrible. It came back None of the crime rate went back up or anything like that California and a couple other places still have the law to where you have to have a 10 round mag less bullets in your gun But again, it doesn't show anything and the bad guys can buy Standard capacity mags not high-cap mags. They can buy it from other states and bring them back to california and carry them illegally when they're going to rob people But only the good guy is going to go well shit. I can't have a 13 round mag. I got to go buy a 10 round mag. So My point with this is if you're going to start making choices about firearms learn about it So at least have the knowledge to learn about it Have the knowledge before you make a decision on it So how many guys have seen a gun like this either in a movie or real life? An old school 1911 Awesome gun. They went out of a vogue for a while A lot of people said oh, we don't like them and stuff But a lot of guys have actually been bringing them back. Like I think la pd swat was using them the marine debt one Detachment one marsok unit they started going with the gun They had kimber especially build one a lot of people are bringing these back these 1911s I'm not a big fan of them because it's an old school handgun Where it's a metal grip with the grips actually screwed into it And the grip is what they call um well the magazine is what they call a single stack mag where it's just one roll of bullets So this one could have like seven or eight rounds in it. It's 45 acp Which is semi-automatic. We'll have a bullet chart in a second But I just don't like it because it's real big and heavy and you don't get that many that much capacity with it It's also what they call a single action gun You guys have ever seen the old cowboy movies where the guy would pull out his gun And shoot like this Yes, okay, and you ever see it in the movie where they go click Right that's single action then so what they're doing is like this actually this hammers down right now If you inserted a magazine Chambered around when the action slides back that hammer is going to get cocked So then is in single action mode what single action means is when I press the trigger straight to the rear That performs one function it drops the hammer down it forms one single function The round then exits the barrel It slides it chambers another round it kicks out the spin casing if you guys watch matrix All the cases can fly out that kicks out and it chambers another bullet and as it cycles it recocks the hammer So when this came out old school cowboy guns, you always had to cock it each time And then that last slide This one has a hammer on it right here Now if I do this and actually have the gun in my hand in that position and I press the trigger to the rear It's actually going to pull the hammer back with it And then as it hits that certain point it's going to release it and it's going to fire And that would actually be called a double action trigger press if I pull the hammer back The trigger also goes back a little bit further and it goes from like a 15 pound trigger press to like a two pound trigger press So a lot of people who aren't familiar with guns when they go out to the gun range they get it and they cock it Up here, which is very unsafe. You only do it when you're on range and really I wouldn't do it at all That's why my revolver actually doesn't have a hammer on it at all. It's double action all the time That way when I'm drawing it this hammer doesn't get snagged on anything maybe on the way out Also, if that hammer gets jammed up with anything the gun won't fire So that's why I like the revolver without it because it's one trigger pull it always works single action on the 1911 This one has a safety a lot of people are like, oh certain guns don't have safeties glocks don't have safeties I'll get to in a second and they freak out but revolvers don't have safeties That was a new feature and it really came out with this gun because what it would cock It's now in single action mode and basically it just took a real light press on that trigger for the hammer to come down So they came up with a grip safety that's right here that basically when you grip onto the gun it disengages it And there's also a thumb safety. Sometimes it's on both sides where there's a little lever right here But it's actually on the opposite side of this and so when you carry a 1911 They call it carrying it cocked and locked Which means chambered cocked hammer back but locked the safety on So then you had a train when you draw it out of the holster you have to disengage that safety as you're going on target It's okay. It's not my favorite thing to do But that's a 1911 good gun go out to the gun range practice a whole bunch of different ones Maybe this is the one you like kimber springfield armory. They make these really good stuff Now this is a sig also. This could be an hk Breda a bunch of other guns, but this one falls into the double action single action category a little different than revolver What happens with this one is I insert a magazine and I chamber the round and there's a lever on the other side That lets me sweep it with my thumb and it safely drops the hammer down without discharging the firearm What happens with this is my very first shot when I press the trigger to the rear It has to cock the hammer back. It then releases it fires It then chambers the round all your follow-up shots now become single action So your very first trigger pulls double action All the follow-up shots are single action Then when you're done shooting you have to decock it and put it back in your holster The problem with this is people buy this gun and they don't practice that first shot Because that first trigger press is really hard They cock it chamber it load it and they practice that at the range well in real life You might only get one shot off So you want to practice with what it is and then the mindset behind this too is Instead of having good training where your fingers always off the trigger until you're ready to fire They came up with this idea of well, let's make the trigger pull a little heavier So that way if the people are dumb and they're running around with their finger on the trigger It's not two pounds and it accidentally goes off. It's like 12 pounds So it's a little bit harder to do your first shot, but all your follow-up shots are easier Some people like that I think it's dumb because then you have to master two different trigger pulls You have to master a whole other step of decocking because I can't holster that firearm with the hammer back So when I'm done shooting I always have to decock before I put it back in Something else you have to worry about the hammer getting jammed up like I said before but two trigger pulls to learn I don't like it So then some people they do like sigs that are double action only HKs and stuff like that too where the hammer can never get cocked But to me that's kind of just a bad idea So I'm a big fan of double action only a Glock. That's one example Springfield armory What model is that does anyone have one of those with the grip safety? That's the plastic one Xd there we go. Yeah, that originally came out was like an x D9 or something like that and then springfield bought it did a little redesign out springfield armory and everyone sold it Good gun too, but Glock was the original one Basically the same as is this one and a lot of other guns like sigma was a Glock clone They did this this gun's double action only I'm a big fan of that because There's no hammer So up close cqb you're wrestling for the gun for some reason it's jammed up against me because i'm fighting someone There's nothing that's going to prevent that hammer from coming back There's nothing they can get in the way of preventing the hammer from coming down and firing. It's always going to work The trigger pull on this one is the same every single time So instead of it being 12 pounds and then two pounds It's like five and a half across the board unless you're new york where they put a big spring in it because they don't think their guys are safe and they make them Make them do a heavier trigger pull it sucks But you can actually get a lighter trigger pull too for like for the race guns like a two and a half three and a half pound I like the stock one because that's what all the police officers have Then if you ever use this in real life Also, too if you're buying bullets, I like using the one that either a local police department uses Or like the fbi or someone else uses because then liability wise later if you're in court well, how come How come uh, how come you're using these bullets on the guy? These are like so Nasty and stuff. I was like hey, this is the same stuff fbi uses which the brand they used to spear gold dot So that way just liability wise you're covered But anyways, this one's double action only the trigger pulls the same every time And when you load the gun and chamber the round it's then prepared to fire This one has a little trigger safety. It's called There's a little tooth in here and when you actually chamber it you'll see the little tooth kind of kicks out And when as soon as you put your finger on the trigger that disengages that safety And I used to do demos with the gun I would unload it and I'd be in the range And I'd put like a sharpie marker in the trigger and I would try to like dry fire the gun Which is pressing the trigger to the rear with no ammunition in the gun I would try to dry fire it and I couldn't get it. I couldn't get enough leverage and strength So it's actually pretty hard to do there's no external safety But the hammer and all the striker and everything's inside So there's nothing that's going to accidentally grab and release it to where the gun goes off The police departments when they tested them They threw them out of the window of cars ran over them on the freeways threw them out of the helicopter None of them went off or anything and you guys remember the shit years ago I don't know how old you are but when they started freaking out about plastic guns going through x-ray machines and stuff That was the Glock But once again, that's them being stupid because if you actually x-ray this it looks like a fucking gun And this is all metal and there's metal all in here. So Man the stuff I've seen one of my buddies got in a shooting once and actually it was Him and he went to like this private catholic school super nice guy goes to church every week Like one of the nicest guys I've ever met And his partner who's an Hispanic guy this gangbanger was driving a car They wreck it they go chasing after them and the the bad guy pulled out a gun and tried to shoot my friend And he ended up shooting him once to the chest the guy dropped instantly It actually turned out that his partner the spandex guy was this guy's cousin They grew up like together and they knew each other But in the paper the next day, it was like officers shoot suspected whatever and it's like you read it and you're like What the fuck is this? It isn't that but then real life is This guy was a gangbanger. He was trying to shoot a cop And so anytime you ever see the stuff in the news too, man, like not just say there's a lot of stuff Police stuff I don't like but anytime you read the stuff in the news It's just so many dumb things that you you read about that just aren't true But I've never seen stuff that is like as crazy as I've seen with the guns It's we actually know about this stuff too. It's just insane. Like why didn't they shoot him in the leg? Why don't they shoot him in the arm real life less than 20 percent of shots fired hit their target With law enforcement shootings most of them occur within I think it's like five yards three yards So like 15 feet So less than 20 percent of shots fired hit their target They missed the guy completely So somehow the gop's going to be able to like shoot the knife out of his hand or shoot him in the foot And even if you shoot someone the leg the femoral arteries there they can still bleed out very quickly So just very dumb stuff people have no idea about what real life is trying to come up with this stuff caliber selection a lot of people Rip on nine millimeter and 38 and all that stuff too. That's dumb. This is a 22 This is a nine That's a 40 And if you look next to each other, there's not a big difference between the two And a 40 caliber is actually a neck down 10 millimeter That's like what they're trying to do with like the fbi It was a 10 millimeter gun Glock makes a 10 millimeter 10 millimeters kind of like a 45 which is that one But it's just like a newer round because the 45 has been around for a long time 1911 so 100 years The nine millimeter isn't that much difference in size. It's a lot cheaper to purchase boxes ammo There's less recoil so you can practice you're more accurate with it Also because it's small it fits in you get more rounds in the gun The Glock that was there that's a Glock 19. That's my favorite gun the magazine holds 15 rounds So the 1911 I talked about earlier, maybe has seven or eight Well, the Glock has 15 and if I got an extra mag or two It's 30 rounds on my belt. It's pretty nice to have Nine millimeters of NATO round. So it's easier to find military uses it if shit really hits the fan Also, I'm super accurate super Fast with the nine. So I tried nines 40s. I've gotten all these guns And I ended up cycling all the way back to nine and just to show you guys the difference 357 magnum Is right there, but that's revolver round 38 special came out first then they made a 357 magnum then they did a 44 special And then later came out with a 44 magnum, which is the dirty harry gun And then nine millimeter 40 cal 45 50 cal that's a desert eagle round. I wanted you guys just to see that Those are all for semi-automatic guns and the way they work is because they have this little ridge right there That's what allows the gun to cycle and feed these out it hooks it pulls it out and lets you cycle it over and over Whereas these don't and you can also see how much bigger this is Because that's an older round the 38 came out way back in the day And a 38 special plus p 357 magnum a nine millimeters kind of right in between the both of those You can see how much smaller it is because this technology gets better They can make smaller bullets that are more powerful. They actually have one called a 357 sig Which is a 40 caliber casing With a nine millimeter put in top and it's like bottlenecked down like a coke bottle And that's basically a bolt that's this big with this size and it's like that powerful 357 magnum But a lot of these gimmicky rounds that come out 45 Gap which is a real small 45 caliber 45 caliber A lot of those it's just gimmicky rounds I wouldn't mess with any of that wait until they start getting used if you guys are going to buy guns Find ones that are common that are out there that are around for a while because otherwise you'll buy it and you get burned Because everything's so expensive So gun selection we talked about earlier with that big gun and the small gun. What's this gun going to be used for? I don't know if I want to ask this question, but just think about it if anyone here is going to conceal carry Are you guys going to carry that big ass revolver? Probably not Also, too that gun's really big and it only has like six or seven shots in it Where I carry a Glock that's about that big and has 15 rounds of it So what am I going to carry some people just want a gun for the house So you're going to keep it in the house next to the night stand Then don't do what I dealt with all the time at the gun range where people would come in They're like, oh, I don't want a big gun. I'm just going to keep it in the house Well, why wouldn't I want a bigger gun that absorbs the recoil more? I don't have to worry about concealing it It's just going to be for self-defense. So why not have a shotgun? Or a big ass handgun or a full size so Another thing you want to think about is price because guns start getting kind of expensive. What was your spring filled xd? Do you remember how much it cost? Okay, so you're a gun fan and I think they're like 500 600 bucks Glock's are like in arizona 450 529 dependent on the accessories So it's been planning about spending about 500 dollars HK sigs a lot of that are more expensive and sometimes you'll go to the gun range And they have like those 1911s that are all tricked out and that could be like a thousand 1500 dollars So find something that's in your price range But highly highly recommend going out shooting it first go to the range and try it Because nothing's worse than like buying a gun really liking it going out to the range and then just hating it So I mentioned this a second ago, but I want to get more into it but balancing power and capacity with concealability So that little small revolver I had in the picture that only holds five bullets And it's real small and it fucking kicks like a motherfucker. It's insane But it's so lightweight that I can carry it almost anywhere So I can throw on my ankle and I have it. I have another gun. It's a keltec 32 which is a little semi-automatic gun. It's a little it's real plastic grip very small And I can just put that in my pocket in my cargo shorts If I'm just running to the store hitting a drive through something I can just throw it in my pocket So I always have something if I'm dressed in an area that has like Colder weather where I can wear jackets and stuff then obviously I can carry a bigger gun So you have to think about How you're dressed how many rounds you want how powerful you want it to be obviously the more powerful the gun the bigger It's going to be because it needs to be able to handle that those larger rounds Carry options It's like a garter belt. I think it's like a steampunk chick or something like they're kind of bringing it back And that's a derringer, which is such a dumb gun to have But carry options generally people want to carry you want to carry on your strong side Which is your primary side. So if you're right handed right side left hand left side ankle holster Obviously, there's a higher level of concealability because I can dress like this I can ride on my motorcycle I can have it no one knows I have it But it's going to take me more time to get to it It's also smaller and I have less capacity So if I have a Glock and they have different holsters like ones on the outside Then I might have to get like a jacket or untucked my shirt to cover it They have holsters that go on the inside of the waistband Which then you might have to get bigger pants to accommodate it Which then if you care about style that kind of fucks things up because we have like baggy pants um Small the back holster. I'm not a big fan of shoulder holsters They look cool, but really it's not a lot of times when you're drawing it too You're kind of covering other areas. It's not the safest It's also not very secure if you're like wrestling or fighting But if you're going to see the position a lot of times and it might be good Like I was thinking about it on a motorcycle if I needed to like mad max someone when I'm driving But uh, I just bought a Harley a little bit to go to so that's a Harley iron I posted pictures of it on facebook. It's all black. It's like nice and small It's not like a big grandpa bike But anyways, I was trying to think like carrying on that I didn't know if my my ankle was going to work my ankle holster with my revolver I was going to have to go with the Glock and like wear like a Writing jacket to cover it up and I even wear a shoulder holster with my revolver one day to kind of test it out and see what what it worked So I recommend like what's going to happen is if you guys buy a gun you start carrying it You're going to have all these different a drawer full of holsters Outside the waistband inside the waistband shoulder holsters fanny packs all this kind of stuff I would never wear a fanny pack though All right, that was actually my segue because one of the things I do want to talk about too is 80% of shootings occur on low-light situations. So if we could dim the lights for a second We're going to kick these off. I want to do a little demo and explain some stuff And actually I'm going to have uh, anthony help me out with this Yeah, damn That one too, please. There we go. Perfect So he's gonna be my bad guy And I want us to kind of just get used to the darkness for a second too. I explain this So first off You see that cool picture that's actually me I was posing for something for a magazine for a catalog, but I'm actually doing bad stuff with the gun You never have your gun low like that. I'm also backlit Like I'm actually going in and all the lights are on behind me. That's bad tactics FYI if anyone's looking at the picture of critiquing and I know that that's for a catalog But 80% of shootings occur in low-light situations When do predators come out to pray at night? When are someone when is someone going to break in your house? Usually at night when are people drunk and acting stupid usually at night So if you have a firearm, I highly recommend you have a flashlight a good flashlight with it And you guys have probably seen those big-ass mag lights before Or stream lights those big ones you can blind people with you can hit them with it. Those suck. I don't like them I'm a big fan of these nice small ones and I'll show you guys More in detail when the lights are back on what I want to demo with this is just by having a good flashlight A lot of times I this is all I have because if I'm out Yeah, no pictures if I'm out or when I was flying here I can't take a knife with me on an airplane. I can't take my gun with me But I can have a flashlight with me and no one is going to think twice about a flashlight If I pepper spray someone in the face and I wasn't justified I can get in trouble if I stun gun someone I should have brought all that stuff I should have pepper spray doing stun gun and taser jet I can get in trouble But if you shine someone in the eyes of the flashlight, what are they going to do? They're going to sound like a bitch if they're whining about that Unless it's this flashlight. So anyways what I'm going to do is this demo Take actually one step back And pretend that you are a bad guy with a handgun and you're pointing it at my head So this is a big problem when I would teach military and law enforcement They don't know how to use a flashlight properly So a lot of times they're kind of target fixated and they're looking at the gun and they're shouting in the flashlight at them But they're not really like shining it right in his eyes and of all our senses our eyes are really the strongest That's why a lot of martial arts saying there's like if you take the eye You take the body pepper spray you want to hit them in the eyes if you take the eyes out of the fight It's pretty nasty. So I'm going to move around and I want you to keep your fingers pointed at me Yeah, keep a point in my head. So if I move You're able to trace me So just by being Smart with this flashlight if I shine him in the eyes He can't even see me So when actually we would do advanced training when we're coming in rooms We would have our flashlights out We'd keep it away from our body and we'd strobe and move around the whole room And this is why I wanted the lights to be off for a second because you guys get acclimated to I'm going to blind everyone for a second just so you can see what this is like So imagine getting someone's trying to get in your face start a fight You're in a bar or something and they can't see you And this one's really cool too because it has a strobe feature Which is even more fucked up lights on So I remember when I was working at my gun range this one guy Ken Good came in He works for the company surefire if you guys have ever seen those Weapon-mounted lights on the ar-15s and on the shotguns and all that that's surefire. That's like the best stuff The shotgun light I have is uh Like five six hundred dollars just for the light, but it's a special light. It's really bright really powerful This is an led so no bulb to burn out it runs off the three volt lithiums which are the camera batteries So they have a 10-year shelf life So this light is like my oh shit light. I keep it next to the bed. I maybe keep in my pocket if I'm out Um keep one in my car a lot of my you guys saw me with my bag earlier with my uh iPad bag. I keep one of these in it. I'll usually put a knife on the other side But again you got with a flashlight. No one's going to think anything of it This one's nice and small. I actually have another one that's even smaller that I carry you too But I want you guys to see this one it's uh Like I said small easy to carry no one's going to freak out if you have this I'll tuck it keep it in my back pocket had it out last night with me And then all you got to do is if I'm going somewhere where they're like going to maybe look for things I'll untuck it put it in my pocket and go. Yeah, it's a flashlight and people Just think it's like a little mini mag light or something even with the lights on you can see how bright it is Pretty awesome But that's why I wanted you guys to get used to it because at nighttime It doesn't just get dark instantly people get used to the darkest They're in the bar for an hour or two You know how it is when you get up in the middle of the night to go piss And you flip on the light, especially if you've been drinking or something you flip on the light and you're like, oh man Like it fucking hurts So imagine we'll be able to do that whenever you want Um some of these lights like I said are pretty expensive. I really like this one. It's a stream light protac 2l The other one is a 1l. That's usually the one I carry. It's just the three volt version This is the six volt version These retail for like 60 70 bucks So they went from being A couple years ago when I was teaching this full time To 300 for some of the ones I have to now 50 60 bucks The place I used to work at two back in the day is called Arizona tactical And what I'm gonna try to do with them is if any of the guys are here want to order the stuff Just google Arizona tactical And it's arizona tactical.com and you guys can call them up and just say hey steve bravo He shows the flashlights a small black led one and they said they tried to give you guys a discount on it I don't know for everyone who's watching this video years from now I don't know if it's going to work for you guys, but for everyone in the near future. They said they try to hook you up Just it's something cool to do like I don't get anything back from that So 80% of shooting is the current low light Some people have seen those flashlights that go on the guns that mount on the bottom Those are nice, but the problem is if I hear a noise, maybe I don't want to cover that with my muzzle yet Maybe I'm not justified in pointing my gun at it yet So instead of pointing my gun at everything and then I turn out it's like a kid or something in the house Or some kid in your backyard and now I got my fucking gun on them I could go out with my flashlight And be ready if I need to and also they're blinding. They don't see anything And like I said, um When we were doing training to keep it away from your body And they would actually shoot at the flashlight because they can't see you like right here If he couldn't even see me he couldn't fight so you could just blast someone I had some homeless guy come up to me one night acting really squirrely getting up my face wanted some money He was drunk on something and I was like, dude, I don't want to like stay away from me Ah, give me something kept getting close and I zapped him in the eyes with this and he whipped his head back so fast They stumbled and almost fell over just from that And they're like, what the fuck was that he's freaking out just from fucking shining a flashlight in his eyes So And I don't know if you guys noticed but when police officers do stops They always kick on their high beams in the spotlight and they blind you That's they're they're doing that on purpose They walk up they shine the flashlight in your eyes right away or they shine it at like a white piece of paper or something It backlights you same thing. They're trying to fuck up your eyes on purpose So that way if they have to get to fight with you They're already at an advantage the other thing we used to teach was how to create a wall of light So if all these headlights are on eventually i'm gonna have to cross this light and i'm gonna get backlit like this picture See how you can totally see my silhouette if you're shooting at it Well, if this is getting shined in your eyes, even if i'm backlit you can't see me I actually for that picture I had to hold it down because it was too powerful was too bright for that picture So they would actually stop create a wall of light with their headlights their search lights and all that Well, then as they're walking in front they get their handhelds out blind you and then they can get right up on your car And they don't you don't even know they're there because they've just it's white light until they're right on top of you But like I said something that you can carry with you all the time Is it gonna draw any weird looks you can't get in trouble for blinding someone for a second with it a flashlight So Knives are fun. I love them. I got lots. This is one of the ones I was carrying for a while I'll show you guys some It's called a karambit and they do all these moves with it We twirl it instead of like a ballet song knife where you flip it around Which really is like back in the day they used to try to flip it and hit someone's hand Like kind of disarm them or something with it. This is actually cool because if i'm trying to like Reach someone and I can't make contact with it. I gotta be careful. I don't cut the screen But you want to reach out you can't cut them. I can actually extend it And now I can make contact with it you can also twirl it around and actually get two cuts with one move because it's curved It's actually it's designed where it'll puncture and everything that's caught in there as it cuts out It'll sever any predators teeth and fangs are shaped like this for a reason So i'm a big fan of this knife. It's called a karambit. I'll talk more about that maybe on the break or something I didn't want to start doing knife training and stuff on the video But i'm a big fan of knives But obviously for defending myself I don't want to get up close and fight with someone And all it takes is one lucky shot and I can be knocked unconscious I obviously always want to have space and have a firearm because that's going to be the best weapon So creating space use a superior weapon if I could use a shotgun if I knew I was going to get into the gunfight I don't want to sniper rifle I want to be as far away as possible to save as possible never let them see me If I had to be a little closer and someone's coming at me with a knife or a handgun I'd want my shotgun or a rifle If it's even closer, maybe a handgun. I didn't have enough time to prepare I don't I always want to get into something with the best weapon I have But you always have to balance that out. You don't want to be in level orange all the time when you go out And you can't relax. That was one of my problems. I could never relax. I was always the guy at the bar or the restaurant with my friends See if I can do it now without making like without laughing But I was always the guy that they're like, what's wrong? Why are you so angry? And I was like I'm fine Because it's hard for me to do now without even laughing. I didn't teach myself how to do it I was really bad. I like a stone face all the time But it was because all this training that I did when I got divorced I was like, man, I got to learn how to relax and actually act normal And so I don't go out carrying a gun with three mags and all that stuff And I never did that but there's people that do it and they take it that far So you really have to balance this out with your life Are you going to go out always with three guns and four knives and all that stuff if I was going to war How many guns would I carry? guess Number throw it out there three I'd carry as many as I can As many as I can effectively carry and utilize that's what I'd carry knives weapons all that stuff as many as I can But if I'm just going to like target I was going to say wal-mart, but I don't go to wal-mart. I go to target Target So if you want to be a little fancier you go to target I don't want to go out there with like five six guns Like because I don't want my life you finally got it target. That's what we used to say to la Actually, man target in la in hollywood. It was like the hottest girls. You'd see celebrities and stuff That was one of the best places seemed to But you got to balance out your life with all this stuff now I don't have like crazy shit all in my house But I definitely have access to a weapon in the bathroom In the living room at my desk or something because if someone kicks in that door all of a sudden I don't want to have to then run and try to get something I always just want to be around something If i'm in my car, I always have something around on me. I always have something So but if you guys look at me, I look like just a normal dude and if I was in arizona I had my gun on me and no one would know so you really got to figure out a way to balance this with your life I didn't get into any legal stuff Because everyone is in from different states and there's different laws Some places like arizona if someone breaks in my house castle doctrine in a domain Someone breaks in my house. I'm in fear of my safety. I can defend myself Other places we used to do this as a demo in our ccw class Someone broke into a house the guy was in his upstairs and he ran into his basement With the gun the guy chased him downstairs into the basement He ended up shooting the guy the guy was coming after him to fuck him up to maybe kill him He shot the guy Well, then later the guy who did the shooting who was the homeowner got in trouble Because he didn't try to hop out the basement window and try to escape So to me that's fucking insane. That was one of the reasons I moved away from california too because it's just the laws I can't defend myself. That's insane but I always recommend to whatever state you guys are in Either they have a book called the arizona gun owners guide and every year they update it But this guy started writing the book for other places too So you might be able to buy his book and find the laws on lethal force Otherwise, I'd try to go to the gun range and see if they have any guys there. Maybe the ccw instructors Law enforcement guys there or a lot of times they have lawyers who help teach the classes And then you can get a lawyer who's pro gun Who can then explain this stuff because the shit I've heard people have asked me well, what about this? What should I do in this situation? I'm like, are you in fear of your safety? Yes, and I'd shoot It's really all that comes down to in arizona. So everyone's different Obviously can't talk liability wise. So I always say just be careful And even when I did my ccw instructor course It was taught through dps, which is the state police in arizona and the head dude was running it who's a cop He said even you guys here if you guys ever get in a lethal force encounter and end up having to use it Don't say anything Don't even say anything because anything you say can I be will Can and will be used against you. He goes even if it was a completely justified shoot You could say something like oh my god. I can't believe I shot like 15 times like he kept moving I kept shooting them and I couldn't believe these hollow points these new ones I got really fucking blew a hole in his head was crazy because you just fucking are in this crazy life or death situation Adrenaline's pumping. You're not thinking straight. Maybe something like that comes out. He writes at the report Well, you're totally justified in that shoot, but later the civil case His family is like why'd you have to kill my baby? And end up suing you later and then He had cop killer bullets or human killer bullets or any of that stuff in it too So shut up. I would always say too like I just had a life and death situation I need to get checked out and he makes sure I'm okay and then talk to a lawyer protect yourself Which I think we were talking a little bit legal stuff before there's a really good video on youtube where it's a college professor of law And he gets on stage and does like a whole little 30 minute speech Where he goes down all these laws of things that can be used against you you imported a fish from another country Well part of the constitution part of all these amendments and everything is we honor laws of other lands Well that having that law as a fish Is a is a felony have this fish because it's like a protected fish Well now you can be charged with that in america and it's this whole crazy thing and right after him he goes Okay, now there's a detective a homicide detective He gets on stage. He's like let's see his point and he gets up there and he goes Yeah, don't say anything because anything we can get against you is going to be used against you He goes even if you didn't do the shooting there's cases this where The guy they go oh so-and-so got killed. They think he did it And he's like I was with my mom's house that whole time. He's like well, it's your mom That's a bad alibi. So they throw that out the window and then he goes uh During the statement they go why didn't kill him? I'm glad he's dead, but I didn't fucking kill the guy So then later in court they go didn't you say that you're glad he's dead and they can use that against you You guys ever watch the show The Wire Yes, that's one of the most amazing tv shows of all time. It was on HBO a while ago awesome Very accurate with the law enforcement stuff And there's a lot of scenes where they're trying to get the drug dealers there They lie to them. They flip cops are allowed to lie to you about stuff too. So they lie They try to get the guys to flip it a lot of times we shut up Especially and I'm not saying do stuff illegal and then Lie to the cops wherever I'm saying if you're doing something like this. I just defended myself. I had to use a gun on someone Two minutes later. I don't want to start blabbing and talking about all this stuff All right three things I want to talk about for a follow-up reading and then we're gonna get into q&a So one thing I want to get into and I didn't cover it here at all, but it's the oda cycle. It's called the oota loop It was written by colonel john boyd who people consider the best military strategist of all time But a lot of people don't even know who he is So I recommend reading as much as you can about this guy. It's fucking awesome He went to the air force top gun squad I think the top gun school is like the navy and he went to the air force one And it's a huge deal to be invited to go there It's a huge deal to fucking graduate and if you ever get invited back later to teach that's insane Well, he went through it graduated. They asked him to stay and keep teaching They used to call him 42nd boyd within 40 seconds. He would let someone get on a six and he would flip things around and always get behind them He actually came up with a mathematical equation to show why the migs Were smoking our f-14s, which is the top gun plane where the wings moved so stupid It's like get one plane to do a couple things shitty instead of one plane to do one thing. Well, he actually With a lot a lot of people knowing developed f-15 Which then became one of the 16 and the 18 which is the baddest shit out there And his buddies that worked with him developed the 8 10 warthog if you know about that Which is like the best ground support airplane there is but a lot of people never even heard of them Um during the first desert storm two he was an advisor. It's amazing stuff. Oh oda cycle. It's a thought process loop Observe orientate decide action whoever goes through that thought process loop first generally wins the engagement And the whole time you're gathering information and operating updating your choices and if you're already cycling through this And someone else is reacting you guys have heard actions faster than reaction That's this is the better breakdown I got really into this stuff and that's why when I got into pickup I picked things up so fast and so good because I already knew about stuff like this Oh oda loop just google that and you can also I have a forum my website's bravo pua.com But I have a free forum and I just added a section a little bit ago called the armory Where we're talking about some guns and stuff, but it's like an off topic A lot of my guys are ex-military guys and stuff. So we talk about guns and gear and stuff But oh oda loop. That's something I talk about just google that phrase read about it on wikipedia. It's fucking awesome On combat. That's a book. I recommend you guys read it's written by uh, colonel grossman who also had um On killing on combat actually on combat and on killing those are good books But he has this great post and a couple people we already talked about it. There's this great, um breakdown I posted it in the armory section of my site where it's basically there's three types of people in the world sheep Wolves wolves are the bad guys sheep they're the civilians most of the people just They don't care about anything they don't worry about anything and just Hopefully no one comes into tax them and then there's sheep dogs Which are usually military law enforcement the people who step up And will protect the sheep from the wolves that they need to Great little breakdown because it talks about how the sheep if the wolves haven't been around for a while The sheep start looking at the sheep dogs and they don't like them because it reminds them That there's wolves out there and the sheep dogs kind of look like a wolf They have fangs they kind of look like them But when a wolf wants to attack a pride a group of sheep just takes one sheep dog to scare them off So reading that I say that's something every every man needs to read and understand where you fall out in that category And I'm not saying one's wrong and one's right. Well being a wolf is wrong But I'm not saying being a sheep is necessarily wrong, but it's not for me Also gates of fire. That's just like one of my all-time favorite books. I think every man should read that Basically like the battle of demopoli the 300 and all that So I wanted to get to q and a I saw the guys like earlier raised their hands and we're talking about some stuff But I'm sure you guys have either had gun questions things You've always thought about any myths you guys want me to dispel anything you guys want to cover Go for it and let's get the microphone ready whoever has questions. So who's up first? Red shirt Wait for mike What would you say is the uh, the most practical martial art to Take up if you're going to take one up. What's the most practical martial art? I'm a big fan of brazilian jiu-jitsu One of my friends I taught with he's in afghanis. He's overseas right now He was a red sash in kung fu. He was a black belt in kimpo He's a sea lot instructor which does karambit stuff indonesian martial art He was a collie instructor too, which is the filipino shit. I talked about earlier He became a cop and he couldn't get almost any of it to work on resisting opponents Any of it he started doing brazilian jiu-jitsu Carlson gracy side He got his blue belt and he said after he got his blue belt all of a sudden all the other shit He started learning all those years He was now able to do the problem is most martial arts don't train realistically And if there's not potential for you getting hurt you're not trained hard enough And it's a waste of time so most most schools they train at like 5 or 10 percent like when I did ike jiu-jitsu It was like okay grab the head we sweep them and we throw them and that's a neck break I can never fucking practice that move ever so in the in the heat of the battle You don't rise to the occasion you default to your training So if you train here, that's all you're going to be able to bring if you train here Which is what I love about jiu-jitsu because you do an arm lock Tap that's it. Well if I need to Broken choke hold tap. Okay. He's out if I need to I hold on for a couple more seconds. He's unconscious So the training is so close to real life And then when they did the old ufcs Jiu-jitsu destroyed everyone else, but it seems like a lot of guys who are like kung fu and taekwondo and all that stuff They're trying to like come back and go. Oh mma is like a sport Now if I was in a bar fight with someone I'd rather have randy couture or anerson silva in my corner There's some old fat Elvis looking dude who does like Kicks boards and shit so and he was Brazilian jiu-jitsu And if you want to get more serious in it boxing kickboxing Do some gun training and then I do some edge weapon, which is collie And I don't like a lot of the martial arts most of the ones that try to jam it all together Like the combative stuff world war two combatives are all out even cross maga a lot of stuff I've seen they try to cram it all together and then they do they do it all poorly So I'd rather do one thing and get good at it and then supplement to it later And also too we talked about too because you're taller. I'd go boxing kickboxing for some reach and uh length for you And as far as like If you're gonna look for a good Like a good knife, what kind of investment should you be making into that? Good knives bench made a good brand spider coast a good brand Um columbia rivers an okay one. Uh, this is a blade tech. It's made by 511 now Which makes all those cargo pants and all like those military guys and stuff where Microtech. I like I'm a big fan of strider knives. That's when I had yesterday That was like a 400-dollar folder But bench made spider codes you can get those like 50 60 bucks But you want to think about is it a tool that you're gonna be cutting boxes open? I'm probably not gonna be cutting rope and shit with this It's mostly a self-defense one and I also like this too because folders aren't that great because you have to open them And under stress I'm gonna have to pop this open It's kind of hard to do but I like this because I can pull it out It was basically like a brass knuckle if I get hit and my hand loosens up That necessarily doesn't drop out of my hand and it's also very good defensive because it's enclosed You can cut and dig and it's really gonna fuck shit up But I like it too because I can use it in a closed grip And then just go out go to the don't buy the ones that like the knife mall mart. Shit. That's all garbage stuff I need that so that's 10 20 dollars and a lot of the locks too. That's that's a whole other talk The locks there's lock backs or the locks on the outside There's ones with outlocks like the swiss army knives and there's ones with the liner lock where it's inside I like the liner locks, but you got to be careful because a lot of those are loose So I like frame locks where it's actually part of the handle the whole handle pops over the one I had last night So when you're gripping onto it, you actually reinforce the locking mechanism because you don't want to close on you Other questions If you can't tell I'm very passionate knowledgeable about this stuff I studied it for fucking years and I joke that I even know more about this stuff than I do pick up I'm pretty good at pickup Um, I really appreciate this talk and uh, but one of my friends he recently got mugged and he's the tactic He wrote on the internet. It's called like I mean just He just um, he just got mugged and what no, but yeah My friend got mugged and he used this like the crazy tactic The robber was kind of crazy. He was drunk or high or on something But he pretended to be even more like crazy and just started like self like just started hurting himself Your friend did yeah, and then the guy was like you just you just like completely threw him off balance And kind of like I don't want to mess with this guy. He seems really more like even more fucked up or something What have you had an experience with like random encounters like that or I was gonna say for what your friend doing it's glad that it worked. So it's hard for me One of my problems is I never like critiquing or monday morning Monday morning quarterbacking anything that worked, right? But my philosophy is instead of me like biting myself and going ah i'm pissing my pants or like uh homer simpson he goes Cry like a girl and play dead scream you have hemophilia. Yeah, and he goes then when he turns around It's back kicking time That's not my philosophy So someone does it i'm aware of my surroundings first So I never even let it get to that point and I have had to draw my gun down once I have pulled my knife out before I have pulled my flashlight out and shine it so even that someone starts getting close It's out and i'm like But it's also just being aware of your surroundings There's one story where I was at the bar with the chick if you guys go to my website There's my little opt-in thing where you put in your email and there's this 30 minute interview I have with the chick. It's this hot asian chick. I picked up why she was working It's funny. She's a she worked in an apartment complex And I had her start calling around other places because I didn't want to live there But I had her hunt out places for me and then she was calling me going go here Go here and then we went out to dinner that night. She paid it was pretty cool But anyways, we were at a bar and she actually got into the stuff She'd helped me teach when we'd go out. She was like a wing girl And um, we were at a bar one night and all of a sudden the bouncers come running in Like in because by the door there's outside and they saw go running in and I saw it We're at the table and she's in the middle of the story and I just come in level yellow I see him go running in that got my attention now. I'm in orange and I was like You know what because I know this place. I know the layout. This is like the exit right by us Where this table by right by it so all the bouncers had to go running in I was like, you know what stop talking for a second Let's get up and move and she's like, well, let me finish my story I was like, no, let's get up and we got up We walked about 10 feet away and then all of a sudden five bouncers come bringing this and they're all big They bring out this fucking giant like ASU football player and he's freaking out and fighting drunk Boom right into the table that we were sitting at everything goes flying They end up going outside and she's sitting there and she goes. How the fuck did you know that was going to happen? I was like, I just saw the bouncers go running in so I figured There's probably a fight and I didn't want to be by the one door when they're dragging people out Because that's always what they want to do if you watched road house They always want to drag the guy out the cooler Love that movie except for the rip throat at the end. That doesn't work in real life Anyways, uh, so if I'm doing that I went off on a tangent But anyways, if I'm doing that I'm aware of my surroundings first. That's number one Second someone starts coming up to me. Well, I usually have something So even beforehand I might have it out in my hand ready but Freaking someone out fucking with their head. They're looking for someone who's in level white An easy target So if you do anything to throw that off and you're no longer being Going to be an easy mark an easy victim a lot of times that's all it takes screaming running whatever But in my situation someone starts coming up to me give me your money or whatever Hey, man, I don't want any trouble And I would even try to like get my wallet out first and maybe like toss it on the ground or do something Because 50 bucks or whatever I got on me right now It's not worth a chance of me anything happening But maybe when he's reaching for it I'll pull out my knife or if he has something else and Then I reach down and I'm able to grab my gun or if I have it and pull it out But even then I could still shoot him. I could shoot him three times and he could pull out his gun and get one shot off And That could kill me instantly and he could live right so you never want to bet on anything but Being aware of your surroundings is number one never be in those situations Okay, and one last add on to that and going along with that You think needles will be an efficient deterrent like if you had like a needle full of just blood and you hadn't Pretended like you had AIDS or some crazy shit and like even they'd be like I mean that's just kind of like unexpected and just All right, go for it. Why carry a needle in your pocket where you have to They're not gonna have um like the pepper spray and whatever so she's gonna reach into her purse pull out the needle Pull out the hypodermic that she carries everywhere That's gonna be filled with the right. It's gonna be filled with Kool-Aid She's gonna pop the thing and go I'll give you my fucking AIDS Yeah, like the skill set for me to pull out pepper spray is like probably less Complicated than this because she's probably not drilling it so she's not used to pulling out the needle But also to if i'm gonna have to carry something why not carry something that would actually work Why waste this time the space the money any of that stuff having something that's not really gonna work And also to this is also a moral choice too And I worked at our range and there was there was a couple suicides at our gun range when I was there And I had to go out and get people off and like the dead dudes laying there and it all matters like how it affects you I have no problem drawing down on someone I have no problem doing whatever I need to do to defend myself and make sure I get home at night Because it's not me going out deciding. I'm gonna kill someone. It's their actions dictating my reaction So if someone's coming to me and causing that level of reaction for me Then I have no problem doing whatever I have to do Especially a lot of times I was doing private lessons at the range We have like a soccer mom come in or something. She's like, I don't know if I could ever shoot someone There's I think there was more questions back behind. Oh, okay She goes, I don't know if I could ever shoot anyone. I was like, oh, do you have a kid? And they go, yeah, I go, how old are they five and I was like, okay So the guy's in the house at night. He has a knife over your kid and you have a gun. What are you going to do? I'll blow his fucking brains out And I was like, right, so you can do that to protect your kid But you can't do that to protect yourself And then also if you get raped and killed and your kids in the house And they experience that and they possibly get raped afterwards and then they have to grow up without a mom And they're like once you kind of start getting in that mindset, but to me it's I don't I just always thought this way. I was like, there's no way I'm ever going to let anyone Fuck with my shit and put me in harm's way No problem But yeah, why why do something half-ass I'm going to do it do it for real Can you elaborate a little bit on the term udaloupe? I've heard that a few times before I find it really interesting But I don't quite get it and also how it applies to pick up if it does That's I'm going to quickly go over it. Maybe I'm going to break we can go a little bit more in depth But I actually haven't So observe orient decide act I've seen a lot of like ebooks and all these brain process things where these guys like come up make up the shit to explain it This is actually like real science like the guy's actually really split like I said He came up with a fucking mathematical equation To show why the mig was better than our jets and why they fucked us up so bad That's insane So When you're in the observe Observation phase you're gathering information from old unfolding circumstances outside information And also you can see how they're all looping back because you're always getting feedback from each step The orientate that's kind of like almost yellow. You're in orange. You're focusing on something and you're drawing from generic genetic heritage Your previous training cultural traditions and this is what I'm teaching pick up a lot of guys are like Oh, we don't talk to girls like we don't do that where I'm from Well here we do so it's totally different But that's where that's where that information is coming into play So then they're going to their decision phase and they're making a decision or hypothesis And maybe when they get to this decision phase the situation's changed Now they need to loop back and keep going through it until they get to their action phase If you do this enough if someone goes to choke me, I don't have to go through all these steps. You can see it actually Skips because your body gets so good at Perceiving these threats someone goes to choke me from behind. I don't have to go. Oh, someone's checking me What I need to do you instantly I'll start grabbing and tucking my chin because it's just a reaction So I did this I got so good at like going in rooms and hostage rescue and having to Process all this information very quickly. Otherwise I get shot with stimulations or paintballs and stuff and really fucking hurt Um, I got so good at doing this that when I got in a pickup I'd go out and I'd start perceiving all these things on girls They'd wear a necklace that had a little yin yang symbol and I start or the little Namaste kind of thing and I just picked these things up And I just thought like kind of everyone did this stuff because I started getting into guns when I was 19 And I was like, oh, that's what most people do So I just got good at reading the situations and I have people thinking like I'm psychic and stuff But I'm like, well, no, I saw like what you were wearing earlier or you said this and I thought okay Why did they use this word unless they have this job and I read a lot too like I get on the internet Something grabs my attention. I start reading all over the place. I'm always drawing new information in So anyways with this I have seen Robert green artist seduction 48 laws of power 33 strategies war He wrote a blog post about this once it was talking about oolup and curl john boy But I just recommend getting on it. You can actually pull up He used to do briefings of the military just on this it was like hours and stuff And you can actually just find this stuff for free on the internet It's better than I'm going to say it but what I would recommend is googling ken good ood a cycle And it's called got a second And it was something that was the guy I did the surefire class with and basically he breaks it down Where at the end he goes um the decision and the acting phase is the the easiest It's all the other stuff before that's the hard stuff So his example is a fighter pilot Getting behind the guy getting your sights locked on him getting in that perfect position That's all the hard stuff hitting the button acting Release in the missile shooting them. That's the easy part. So it's all the other stuff So just kind of it's like nlp when you know the four levels of learning once you understand that stuff It just helps out a lot because you're familiar with it Okay, last question And then I'm also here tomorrow too. I'm gonna teach uh online game tomorrow So I'll go into pua mode But in between now and then too if you guys have any questions Right like that except for marshal arts. Don't try to show me stuff and show me choke holds like that's the only thing It's like up but anyways go um actually obviously through your uh pua training and The the combat training you've become very aware of your surroundings like it's probably like a natural thing You know where exits are you know who's wearing this? So what would you recommend as a Training mechanism for us maybe when we're out and about to increase great questions great question Actually close your eyes real quick How many people are in the row to you on the left on the left in the same row? There's uh I believe four open your eyes and check Two So that's how you drill it go out to places and actually there was that one movie with uh brad pit and Robert redford I think where he became like a cia spy or whatever they got busted. It was an okay movie There's a good little drill that where he opens the fridge and he closes it and he goes, okay What's in there and he goes starts laying he goes? Oh, there's milk and he's like, what's the due date? He goes it expired last week and it was like literally like that That's those kind of things just going into an area and I do this for demos now that I had you do it It's kind of cheating if I close my eyes and go, okay, you're wearing a black hoodie There's two guys here. He has facial hair. He's wearing a green shirt um someone just walked out of the building um Irmin who's the announcer is wearing a black button-up shirt black t-shirt dark slacks Loafers Anthony's wearing his uh polo shirt Stripe pants brown five-toed Vibram shoes So that's just me being aware of all those things. I'm just processing that information animal earlier red shirt We were talking about so just things like that just being aware of it But a lot of times like I'm just absorbing and I'm not even aware of it But you got to start programming yourself to do that So as you go out do that with games and when I'd go out with martial artists guys That's what we do we go close your eyes How many people are the table behind you and you just do little things like that Then you start picking things up and you're just aware of more things and like you said always being aware of your surroundings Close your eyes. Where are the two exits here? How many steps are there on the bench? What uh, how many slideshows did I have how many slides did I have? Another thing I did in that surefire class he'd do demos where he would go over here talk for a second And he'd come back and you go, okay. How long did that take for me to do that just now? Tell me Yeah, that walked right here. How long did it take? Okay, see actually it was probably like 1,001 1,002 1,003 1,004 pretty close But the thing is no one ever thinks like 1.2 seconds Because of the way our minds brains work. We always try to like keep things simple So you don't ever try to get really focused So I was thinking like oh this guy's maybe taller than me You don't know well how tall try to be very specific with it and just being aware of that's like step one Then testing yourself But we do that and just drill it and go okay. How many guys behind you when I go out? I'm always looking like I saw the knife yesterday And the back pocket your back right pocket It was a silver Clip and there's some holes in it and it was a green handle and I said oh what kind of knife is it? I thought it was a sever tech. He said it was a soggy pulled it out. There's a thumbstead on it. Sog it's silver It's a clip point blade and I saw it last night for like two seconds So I can just remember that so just practicing your brain gets used to doing this But because I was already good at this beforehand Then once I got into pickup And that's why a couple months later after I met style then I was working for him and then For four or five years. I was like his head coach and all that stuff So that helped Cool, we go with the questions All right guys, hope you guys enjoyed the gun talk. Obviously you can tell I'm very passionate about it So if you guys have any more questions, I'm here till tomorrow afternoon. Happy to help as much as I can. Thank you