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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nA key element of self-defense is knowing how fast an assailant can close on you from a distance. In 1983, my friend and colleague Dennis Tueller published his study in SWAT magazine titled \u201cHow Close is Too Close,\u201d proving that the average adult male could close seven yards from a standing start and deliver a fatal knife strike in an average time of 1.5 seconds. We made a \u201cTueller Drill\u201d out of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In June of 1993, Larry Anderson was a student at my LFI-I class (now known as MAG-40) and I watched him perform the drill. I detected a stumble, but he still made contact with his \u201cvictim\u201d before he fell\u2026with a spiral fracture of tibia and fibula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was a learning moment in more ways than one. We now had witnessed proof that even an assailant with a fresh, severe leg injury could be a deadly threat at that distance. I recall Larry closing that gap and simulating the fatal strike in a mere 1.8 seconds. Larry remembers it as 1.6. Same point still made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Larry had felt a \u201ccrack\u201d in his leg as he began the run but charged through it anyway, aggravating the injury. He still has steel screws in his leg from the surgical reconstruction. Second lesson: testosterone can be a substance of abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the Deadly Force Instructor class I taught in Pittsburgh a few days ago, Larry was kind enough to stop by and tell his story to the thirty-plus instructor candidates. He allowed that, yes, there is such a thing as too much testosterone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But no such thing as too much heart, as Larry went on to prove. A fine instructor in his own right, Larry teaches house of worship protection. He has done a lot of good in the intervening three decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Larry, my brother, you\u2019re a solid guy and a true mensch<\/em>. Larry Anderson has more steel in him than the bolts in his leg bones, and I herewith publicly salute him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you ever took one of my first level classes in the last 29 years, you\u2019ve heard of Larry Anderson. A key element of self-defense is knowing how fast an assailant can close on you from a distance. In 1983, my friend and colleague Dennis Tueller published his study in SWAT magazine titled \u201cHow Close […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7533","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\/7533","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=7533"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7537,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7533\/revisions\/7537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}