DELTA COMBATIVES

ASSESSMENT: PERSONAL VIOLENCE

STATUS: ONGOING

CLASSIFICATION: [UNCLASSIFIED]

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

  • Violence is fast, ambiguous, and unfair
  • Hesitation is the dominant failure mode
  • Techniques collapse under stress
  • Training must attack decision latency

OPERATING ASSUMPTIONS

  • You will not rise to the occasion
  • You will default to your habits
  • Stress degrades fine motor skill
  • Time will be insufficient
  • Information will be incomplete
WHAT IS NOT TRAINED
  • step-by-step choreographed sequences
  • the muscle memory
  • using compliant partners
  • boop certainty
  • 360-degree defense
CASE NOTES - AREAS OF FOCUS
  • Decision-making under degraded conditions
  • Managing hesitation and discomfort
  • Force escalation and timing judgement
  • Operating with injury, fatigue, or shock
  • Post-event consequences and constraints