KR Training Assistant Instructor and Houston Police Officer, Justin Galindo, posted the following videos and comments to his Facebook page:
Says Justin:
Interesting dramatized ad for body armor, but actually this a better ad for carrying a backup pistol. Watch the whole thing and you’ll see what I mean.
Then Justin posted this video:
Justin’s comment for the above video:
Contrast the difference between that last video and this one. Body armor is great, but I’d rather have a determined will to prevail and to win.
A good compare and contrast. In the former, she survived through equipment and luck. In the latter, he survived because of equipment, the will to live, the determination to fight and win.
Interesting coincidence. Prior to seeing Justin’s posts I was flipping channels on TV and “American Gladiators” was on. It was the woman’s Eliminator. Both contestants started about the same time, but one clearly was taking the lead and the other was struggling to keep up. The woman in the lead got to near the end where there’s that uphill reverse conveyor belt, and she tried, and tried, but kept failing to get over the top. Despite a huge gap between the two competitors, the other woman managed to catch up and go on to cross the finish line first — she wanted it more, she was determined to finish. Yes the first woman appeared to have physically run out of gas, but you could see in her eyes that she had just given up. Both women were physically spent, but the one that won had the will to prevail and win.
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Sorry, “I knew if he got my gun I’d be in a fight for my life.” What BS! She should have understood she already was in a fight for her life she just hadn’t shown up. Then, why the hell did she go into the store where she was trapped? She had to have had some other weaponry in her patrol unit. Why did she have to get to a phone? Was her hand held busted? Was her cruisers radio shot? Why not run over the bastard?
Sorry but she survived because she was lucky, she did nothing to save herself in this situation. Justin is right, the will to win is key, fight like your life depends on it because it probably does.
I realize that this isn’t a popular view but if the re-enactment is accurate, this goes to show that the real answer may be more stringent physical standards for the police force with no “affirmative action” for women. I hate to say it but folks under a certain height/weight (or over a certain weight for their height) are at a serious disadvantage in these scenarios and are forced to choose between escalation to firearms or ending up disarmed where a bigger officer may have been able to use nonlethal tactics to control the situation.
Maybe.
The reality is, no matter how big you are, there’s always going to be someone bigger. I’m on the statistically larger side of the spectrum, but I have no problem finding guys far larger than me that could physically man-handle me.
I tend to agree that the outcome could have been a LOT different if she had more of a will to fight and live (and a backup pistol, or a shotgun/rifle in the patrol car). She lacked a warrior mindset, and that was more harmful to her than her size.
Whoa! This is crazy. I’m glad they issue this stuff for officier’s. They deal with some insane people out there!
I see you’ve got a bunch of martial arts skills, do you think they should incorporate some of that in the training the police get?
Also, completely off subject, I’m new to this website and I was just wandering through blogs. Yours looks pretty neat. :] I will have to attempt to organize mine as you have yours.
Every police academy is different, but from what I know yes most incorporate some sort of “physical combative” type training. Usually it’s not very extensive because police don’t necessarily have the luxury of studying/practicing/training for hours every day and for years on end, so usually the skill work they get is simple and to the point and effective/sufficient enough to enable them to get their job done. If this particular (female) officer had any such training, I don’t know, but in many respects it doesn’t matter because in the end (it appears) she didn’t have any warrior mindset, any true will to fight… I mean, even a totally untrained person that’s willing to fight for their life can still throw a punch or physically struggle and fight… she didn’t.
Thanx for the kind words about my blog. Hope you find it interesting. I see that you just started so hey, I’ll reciprocate. 🙂