It’s also really easy to look at the advice and consider it obvious when you’re sitting at home reading it with plenty of time on your hands. It’s less obvious when you’re in a stressful real world situation.
The stuff that soldiers get taught in basic training also feels really obvious. “Stay physically fit. Be aware of your surroundings. Only point guns at what you want to kill. Follow orders quickly.” None of this should feel surprising to anyone with the most basic knowledge of what a soldier does, but drilling it in until it’s what you do automatically in the moment is important.
That’s one of my major takeaways from BJJ after over a decade: competition separates what you know and what you think you know. What you actually know and what you’ll actually do is a really short and simple list compared to the multitudes of knowledge and trivia you’ll see and collect like trading cards. I was practicing going from ashi garami to a heel hook for a year before going to a competition that allowed it and the moment I saw an opening for it I messed it up bigly and let a person I was frankly more athletic than win.
Same, but with combat LARPing. The difference between sparring in a park and a real brawl at an event with hundreds of people on the field is striking.
It’s important, because in stressful situations, most do not rise to the occasion, but rather fall back on their training. So drilling in the basics during training plays a very important role. It also applies to competitive sports as well.
Absolutely. As silly as it sounds, the couple of times I ended up in the middle of a firefight, i was able to function because I had a thousand hours in ARMA, combat LARPs, shit like that - Go for cover, direct civilians away from the fighting, shit like that. Didn’t have to think about it, just fell back on what I’d done in sim games thousands of times.
Going for cover is another great one. “Try to hide behind things so you don’t get shot” seems painfully obvious but in real life you can see how often civilians just freeze up instead.
Omg, i’m playing lots of helldivers rn and people absolutely will not use the simplest tactics! “The shield backpack is essential and you should kick anyone who doesn’t bring it” meanwhile i have used the clausewitz level strategy of lying down to avoid enemy fire
It’s also really easy to look at the advice and consider it obvious when you’re sitting at home reading it with plenty of time on your hands. It’s less obvious when you’re in a stressful real world situation.
The stuff that soldiers get taught in basic training also feels really obvious. “Stay physically fit. Be aware of your surroundings. Only point guns at what you want to kill. Follow orders quickly.” None of this should feel surprising to anyone with the most basic knowledge of what a soldier does, but drilling it in until it’s what you do automatically in the moment is important.
Dang, good point, never thought of the armchair stress-free aspect before.
That’s one of my major takeaways from BJJ after over a decade: competition separates what you know and what you think you know. What you actually know and what you’ll actually do is a really short and simple list compared to the multitudes of knowledge and trivia you’ll see and collect like trading cards. I was practicing going from ashi garami to a heel hook for a year before going to a competition that allowed it and the moment I saw an opening for it I messed it up bigly and let a person I was frankly more athletic than win.
Same, but with combat LARPing. The difference between sparring in a park and a real brawl at an event with hundreds of people on the field is striking.
It’s important, because in stressful situations, most do not rise to the occasion, but rather fall back on their training. So drilling in the basics during training plays a very important role. It also applies to competitive sports as well.
Absolutely. As silly as it sounds, the couple of times I ended up in the middle of a firefight, i was able to function because I had a thousand hours in ARMA, combat LARPs, shit like that - Go for cover, direct civilians away from the fighting, shit like that. Didn’t have to think about it, just fell back on what I’d done in sim games thousands of times.
Going for cover is another great one. “Try to hide behind things so you don’t get shot” seems painfully obvious but in real life you can see how often civilians just freeze up instead.
Omg, i’m playing lots of helldivers rn and people absolutely will not use the simplest tactics! “The shield backpack is essential and you should kick anyone who doesn’t bring it” meanwhile i have used the clausewitz level strategy of lying down to avoid enemy fire