Image Based Decisional Drills Instruction Booklet
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The purpose of this "secret squirrel" page is so our wonderful clients can have information (NEW or otherwise) at your fingertips. As I have mentioned in several videos and in print, the subject matter may not vary much but the "options and decisions" may grow as our industry finds new and better ways to deal with threats and make better decisions. UPDATES will be HERE!
Please understand that this is not to be shared to "instruct" in any professional manner. If you are a "professional" in the firearms industry/community and want to share this knowledge to guide others then we encourage you to become an Image Based Decisional Drill Certified Instructor. THEN YOU WILL HAVE OUR FULL SUPPORT AND EVEN DISCOUNTS FOR YOU AND YOUR STUDENTS!
NEVER stop practicing decisions!
Brian & Shelley Hill
The purpose of this "secret squirrel" page is so our wonderful clients can have information (NEW or otherwise) at your fingertips. As I have mentioned in several videos and in print, the subject matter may not vary much but the "options and decisions" may grow as our industry finds new and better ways to deal with threats and make better decisions. UPDATES will be HERE!
Please understand that this is not to be shared to "instruct" in any professional manner. If you are a "professional" in the firearms industry/community and want to share this knowledge to guide others then we encourage you to become an Image Based Decisional Drill Certified Instructor. THEN YOU WILL HAVE OUR FULL SUPPORT AND EVEN DISCOUNTS FOR YOU AND YOUR STUDENTS!
NEVER stop practicing decisions!
Brian & Shelley Hill
Definition of Success: Make a decision. Choose your action. See the results. Think about the pros and cons. Learn to be more confident, decisive, efficient, & explosive.
People carry a lot of gear but gear does not solve the problem….you do. We may even go as far to say that decisions are more important than techniques.
Image Based Decisional Drills is a well thought out dry practice or live fire exercise with a deck of 21 Image Cards (with and without additional "tools") that provide IMAGES that will help you to recognize danger and to make smart decisions ahead of time. Recognition -prime decision (RPD) is a model of how people make quick, effective decisions when faced with complex situations. In this model, the decison maker is assumed to generate a possible course of action, compare it to the constraints imposed by the situation, and select the first course of action that is not rejected. RPD has been described in diverse groups including trauma nurses, fireground commanders, chess players, and stock market traders. It functions well in conditions of time pressure, and in which information is partial and goals poorly defined. The limitations of RPD include the need for extensive experience among decision-makers (in order to correctly recognize the salient features of a problem and model solutions) and the problem of the failure of recognition and modeling in unusual or misidentified circumstances. It appears, as discussed by Gary A. Klein in Sources of Power, to be a valid model for how human decision-makers make decisions. Image Based Decisional Drills will help teach you to you access the situation using a mental simulation for a plausible course of action, allowing you to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the strategies in the content of the scenario. If you are your first responder, then you are responsible for a wide array of skill sets. Seeing, recognizing, and believing danger is the first task. Having a plan for avoidance, deselection, and escalation are next. The first time you have to use verbal commands, put an object between you and another person, deal with a nuisance, identify a possible threat in the dark, or use non lethal or lethal force should NOT be when your safety is on the line. You MUST practice all of these skills ahead of time. In all scenarios the image is happening to YOU, in front of YOU, beside YOU or behind YOU. YOU are your first responder and decisions need to be made quickly. Please like/follow IBDD Instagram and Facebook for IBDD updates, current events, discussions, photos and MORE! Visit our Image Based Decisional Drills website for HELPFUL RESOURCES, REVIEWS, EXPANSION PACKS, IBDD INSTRUCTOR CERTIFICATION, IBDD CLASS SCHEDULE ACROSS THE COUNTRY, DOWNLOADABLES, AND MORE. Want more training? We recommend The Complete Combatant in Dahlonega, Georgia. The Complete Combatant is also HOSTED across the country, you never know, they may be teaching in your area. Visit thecompletecombatant.com to see learning options and course locations. They can be found on social media plus they have an outstanding YOUTUBE channel. |
Please consider SMART CHOICES IMAGE CARDS for your children. Smart Choices is a well thought out deck of 84 Image Cards that focuses on IMAGES that will help parents/teachers/educators teach children to recognize danger and to make smart choices ahead of time. Smart Choices will aid in having a plan for the whole family so you AND your child will know what to do when presented with some difficult decisions.
There’s a reason your child’s storybooks are filled with colorful pictures and images. Visuals are proven to help increase learning retention for kids, adds context and makes it easier for kids to follow along and interpret the context of your conversations.
According to Dr. Lynell Burmark, education consultant who writes and speaks about visual literacy: “…unless our words, concepts, ideas are hooked onto an image, they will go in one ear, sail through the brain, and go out the other ear. Words are processed by our short-term memory where we can only retain about seven bits of information (plus or minus 2) […]. Images, on the other hand, go directly into long-term memory where they are indelibly etched.” Smart Choices Image Cards was designed to focus on your child processing primarily in pictures rather than words, so ideas are interconnected, and your child can see the relationship between elements (verbal discussion plus visual learning) in the whole. Here are just a few advantages of this style of IMAGE BASED learning:
Please visit our Smart Choices BLOG and our STATISTICS: It Is Not The Odds, But The Stakes page. |
IBDD BENEFITS:
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IBDD KIT CONTENTS:
IBDD NO KIT CONTENTS:
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YOU WILL NEED:
HOW TO SET UP IBDD:
- FIRST: Make the decision if this is dry practice in a non-live fire setting or live fire on the range. Set up your “practice space” accordingly.
- Table
- Timer, stopwatch, etc.
- Target: The more realistic the dimensions, and shape, are to a “human” the better.
- We recommend using an IDPA Cardboard Torso Target (not included). Cut out the 2 circles (4 inch ocular cavity & 8 inch upper thoracic area) & now you have 2 NEGATIVE spaces in your target . Hang a regular white target back side facing you and place the IDPA Cardboard Torso Target OVER that. With this method it is very quick and easy to see the location of your misses on the IDPA Cardboard Torso Target or to see 100% accuracy because you will still have a clean IDPA Cardboard Torso Target.
- Firearm with holster OR firearm (with mat) to be used from a “table start” OR BLUEGUN, plastic trainer, or SIRT Training Pistol that can be presented from a holster or from a “table start”.
- WE HIGHLY HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend you purchase a SIRT Training Pistol to use during your practice sessions. IMMEDIATE FEEDBACK IS MOST BENEFICIAL. A BLUEGUN/REPLICA will do in a pinch. Order a SIRT Training Pistol from Next Level Training and use our promo code to receive 10% off: TCCSIRT
HOW TO SET UP IBDD:
- Target set at 4 yards: WHY? 4 yards is the boundary between Public Space and Social Space in proxemics.
- SHUFFLE IBDD Image cards and place on table with image side down (stacked or spread out).
IMAGE BASED DECISIONAL DRILL GUIDELINES:
- Remember you are working from 4 yards so consider your scenarios at about that range.
- Set TIMER at “random” start with a 5 second par time. Can use “stop watch” style as well.
- After you flip over an Image Card, you have 5 seconds (which is VERY generous) to look at the image and make a decision.
- Now ACT ON THAT DECISION.
- Would you call 911 after? If so, DO IT.
- If you are practicing on a live range and you would choose to walk away, side step or run away after looking at your Image card then SAY IT, DON’T DO IT, and explain your plan of action. “Movement” like “J step or side step” can be considered an “advanced” skill so if you have no experience with “movement” then we would advise against movement on a live range. If you are DRY practicing and the space is available, then movement can be introduced. SAFETY FIRST!
- After your drill, place the card to the side and continue on.
- Start with just ONE decision at a time and gradually build on your decisions and your actions as you get more comfortable. You may even reduce the time allotted.
- Example of DRY practice cognitive stacking and staying in the process: Consider placing the “IBDD tools” on your person and wear your everyday carry (EDC) concealed. Let’s say that the card you flipped over is a person with a balled up fist raised above their head, angry expression, and heading your way.
- You consider walking away or running, but they are getting too close for that option.
- You put your frames/hands up and use your verbal skills. No go…they are not stopping.
- You deploy your POM stream INERT OC/Pepper Spray and spray them WHILE using verbal command with your support hand UP as another way to block or keep separation. You will also step to the right or the left. This will not only add a bit of space and time but you have also moved away from the last place they saw you right before you OC/Pepper sprayed them. BIG ADVANTAGE.
- After you spray, RUN AWAY (mock run).
- You get to a safe place and call 911.
- Now assess your drill. Confident? Good decisions and quick actions? 100% accuracy using OC/Pepper Spray? How can you improve?
- Once you are confident with your decisions then start changing things up and improvise. Before you start your next practice session, kick your imagination in gear and change the distance (closer or further), reduce or increase the time, place family members in front or behind the image, lighting, non permissive environment or location, in your car, etc.
- We highly recommend taking good notes if you are practicing solo so you can follow your own progress. If you are working with a group then please save time for valuable pro & con discussions once practice is over.
OPTIONS: Start with ONE decision that you are confident & efficient in and work your way up to quick multi-layered decisions that all lead to effective person protection with ONE GOAL....get to safety.
Walk Away:
Verbal Commands:
Run:
Flashlight:
POM Stream INERT TRAINING POM OC/Pepper Spray:
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Tourniquet:
Shoot = “Failure to Neutralize”. SIRT? BLUEGUN? Disabled firearm for dry fire? Live Fire on the range?
Call 911:
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IMPORTANT:
JEFF COOPER’S RULES OF GUN SAFETY: [...] I have lived a long and active life, and I am still alive because I have always been very, very careful. JC
- Research all subjects. Image Based Decisional Drills is intented as a training tool.
- Please check with your local range to make sure that you follow their range rules and always follow gun safety protocols. You voluntarily purchased Image Based Decisional Drills. You are choosing to participate in training activities that may cause physical or physiological injury, pain or death. The Complete Combatant, LLC and all other companies and individuals associated with IBDD are held harmless against any claims, suits or actions of any kind. You are responsible for your own errors, acts or failure to follow safety rules on or off the range. Image Based Decisional Drills is a training option with lethal versus non-lethal decisional drills and in NO WAY takes the place of medical training, firearms training, “mindset” training, OC/pepper spray training, or any other self protection training.
JEFF COOPER’S RULES OF GUN SAFETY: [...] I have lived a long and active life, and I am still alive because I have always been very, very careful. JC
- RULE I: ALL GUNS ARE ALWAYS LOADED
- RULE II: NEVER LET THE MUZZLE COVER ANYTHING YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO DESTROY
- RULE III: KEEP YOUR FINGER OFF THE TRIGGER UNTIL YOUR SIGHTS ARE ON THE TARGET
- RULE IV: BE SURE OF YOUR TARGET
- (TCC ADDED RULE V: LET FALLING GUNS FALL)
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www.imagebaseddecisionaldrills.com