A student request for drills to recognize anomalies. Especially negative ones.

Take a group of people and make sure they know the safety rules and create rules of engagement to fit their physical abilities and mental preparation level. This will vary for soldier, police officers, civilians and will vary between city people and country people.

1. Take a small group apart from the main group and give one of them a dummy knife or pistol. Bring them back to the group and have them walk around. The main group needs to discern who is now armed and slowly using body language circle and disarm the dummy weapon. Everyone needs to preserve their teeth in this drill.
2. Divide the group into smaller groups of threes. Have them walk around as small groups as every twenty steps or so one of the members of the small groups will attempt a take down of one of the others and they need to read the body language and avoid the contact together. How do you decide who is the attacker. Whoever does it first.
3. Sit in formation in rows and columns. Hide two to three attackers in the group and have the group cooperate as they draw their tools to avoid harm. The attackers need to work together to use distraction and tricks to make the group respond to false alarms. For example, one of the attackers will shout that one of the pray is the attacker and first engage with them as the rest draw quietly.
4. Night drill – For this drill use strong flashlights and especially strobe lights. Hide a few attackers at the sides of the training perimeter. Have the group engage in a common activity and have the attackers use loud shouting and strobe light to corral and control the movement of the pray group. Be ready to add breath control and awareness to all the drills.
5. No night drill – have the group within a monitored perimeter react to the following scenarios

• Alerts of attack from different directions ( how do you use the crowd and how do you use the terrain)
• Alerts from within the group by a slow moving attacker
• Alerts from within the group by a swift moving attacker
• Fake rock barrage (use paper balls dipped in water for example)
• A small group trying to kidnap one or two members of the group
• Test how the group maintains both alertness and calmness while a prolonged wait for something to happen occurs – use breath and movement patterns to maintain alertness without fear. More on that in other posts and in person.

Stay safe and evolve.