{"id":6108,"date":"2019-12-30T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=6108"},"modified":"2019-12-22T12:19:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T17:19:32","slug":"reunion-revelations-part-v-hand-to-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/reunion-revelations-part-v-hand-to-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"REUNION REVELATIONS PART V: HAND TO HAND"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"D-Jammer
Tak Kubota’s self-defense techniques work fine with the D-Jammer keychain I came up with in the ’80s for clearing jammed guns, and the ubiquitous Mini-Mag flashlight.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve always\ntaught the handgun as a threat management tool, and only one of the tools you\nwant in that particular toolbox.  Our\nDecember Reunion was four days of lecture and shooting, with an optional extra\nday of hand-to-hand work.  The reason we\nhad to do it that way was that in our regular Massad Ayoob Group format, the\nfirst 40 hours constitute our MAG40 class, also taught in some venues as two\nMAG20s. These focus on deadly force law, armed defense tactics, and handgun\nshooting. By the second 40 hours, we have time to get into handgun retention\nand disarming, along with defensive use of rifles and shotguns and more\nadvanced techniques such as wounded defender responses and shooting while\nmoving.  Not until the third 40 hour\nbloc, MAG120, is there time for lower force options, such as teaching the\nKubotan\u2122 and Persuader\u2122 mini-batons.  The\none day devoted to gun retention and disarming was only enough for refreshers,\nand so was limited to those who\u2019d already been exposed to the concept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Glock
Our weapon retention and disarming classes are taught with dummy guns like the Blackhawk, left, shown with the real Glock it replicates.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

While I was\nthere doing the whole thing hands on, that last day really belonged to Dr. Ken\nKelly and retired Captain Steve Denney. \nBoth are fourth-level MAG graduates with whom I\u2019ve taught for many\nyears. Steve is the senior MAG instructor for the Southeast US, a retired police\nsupervisor and SWAT officer; Ken has also served as an adjunct instructor in\nretired NYPD cop Phil Messina\u2019s Modern Warrior dojo in New York.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are my\ntwo most experienced Kubotan and weapon retention\/disarming instructors.  However, Steve was the guy who ramrodded the\nwhole Reunion in the first place and gets major credit for keeping everything\nrunning on time, despite three separate venues for classroom and different\ntypes of shooting.  The students, by the\nway, had come from a 13,000 mile span, from the Philippines to the UK.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Steve
Steve Denney kicks off the MAG Reunion. He was the lead organizer and manager of the event.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019ve always taught the handgun as a threat management tool, and only one of the tools you want in that particular toolbox.  Our December Reunion was four days of lecture and shooting, with an optional extra day of hand-to-hand work.  The reason we had to do it that way was that in our regular Massad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6108"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6116,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6108\/revisions\/6116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}