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Originally Posted by baytor  1. Yes, as I said, I consider SPORTS drills for weapon clearing a type of kata, and am willing to accept that drawing and reloading could be one.
2. Yes, there are techniques used for dynamic entry and the such. However, because of the fluid nature of dynamic entry it is very difficult to put it into a kata. The techniques you may be thinking of are not necessarily strung togather in a kata. Far too often, you don't know what's on the other side of the door or around the corner. You don't get to do a kata because the layout and resistance you meet determines your place in the stack. Like I said, it's pretty fluid. I would say it's more conceptual than kata based.
3. That depends entirely on how much time you have to research a site. You don't always have that luxury. If there's an active shooter, you don't have the luxury of time, you have to act and that means sometimes going into buildings blind.
4. Goes with point 3. If you have the fiber optic tech that's great and it gives you an advantage. You don't always get those toys and you have to just go with speed aggression and surprise.
I'm not really trying to be a dick or anything, but whenever I hear the phrase "gun kata" it just annoyes me. It is almost always from some kid who watched some movies and suddenly thought it was such a great idea but has no idea about the reality of shooting. This discussion at least has some degree of reasonableness to it. |
I agree with you on all those points. In number two, I think that it just gets lost in something of a gray area. For instance, I would say that a form helps to teach you to string techniques together. For instance, having one team member ram a door in followed by a dynamic entry of your team. Two separate techniques that are mildly complex by themselves but require a great deal of coordination when done together. But then again, this is based on my personal view of forms. I could easily see how someone could argue that a form would crystallize thinking making the moves less fluid.