Modern Edged Weapons Combatives

New Warrior Training Courses for 2011

The new schedule for our Warrior Carbine, Pistol, and Combatives training courses for 2011 is up. Have a look!

Sayoc Tactical Group Training Course Schedule

Weapons Deployment

Tuhon Tom Kier discusses the extreme importance of practicing the deployment of your weapons, whether they’re edged, impact, firearm, flexible, etc. Progress your training so you’re capable of drawing your weapons against one or more combatants and in as many different environments as possible.

There’s little point to having a weapon, if you can’t get it into the fight!

The “Warrior Leader” Course

Nov 20th STG delivered its first “The Warrior Leader” course to 15 executives from a multi-million dollar consulting firm. STG brought in Kyle Defoor and 2 Operators we can’t name to put the execs under extreme time pressure while coaching them to plan, train, navigate, and execute recon, ambush, and hostage rescue mission!

The execs enjoyed a once in a lifetime experience they’ll never forget!

In this short video, Kyle Defoor interviews a few of the participants immediately after returning from their integrated recon and hostage rescue missions!

Here is a video of one of the hostage rescue teams going to get their man! It was a precisely timed rescue in conjunction with a full-on assault team going up against an entrenched and fortified OpFor to the west of their position.

Untill the next time…

The 200 / 60 Pistol Drill

The 200/60, designed by Tuhon Tom Kier, is an advanced pistol drill. Shot cold at 25 yds, on a NRA B8 bull, 60 sec PAR, STG Warrior 3.0 Standard is 170 points.

At the beep:

• fire 10 rounds standing freestyle
• SHO combat reload
• fire 5 rounds SHO
• transfer and perform OSHO combat reload
• fire 5 rounds OSHO
• draw blade

Here Tuhon Tom and HD shoot it in 59.46 with Tuhon Tom scoring an amazing 185 and HD scoring 176.

Emergency Escape Routes

When staying in hotels, or even at a friend’s or relative’s home, it’s not good enough to merely know where the emergency exits are, you need to actually walk the primary emergency route you would take. (If staying in a high-rise hotel always request a room on a lower floor.)

For example, once you’ve checked into your hotel room, the first time you leave to go outside instead of taking the normal way take the emergency route. Touch and count how many doors it is from your room to the emergency exit so you could still find it if you’re crawling on all fours in a smoke filled hallway. Know which doors open toward / away from you, what obstructions are along the way, what tools / weapons (e.g., axes, fire extinguishers) are available to you and how would you access them by feel alone, and what non-conventional escape options (e.g., windows, elevator shafts) are available if the emergency route itself is blocked.

Don’t forget, those in your team / family must know the same escape information plus the agreed upon external link-up points. You must have increasing perimeter link-up points in case it’s not possible to remain on the hotel grounds or even in the neighborhood. If you’re abroad, you should know where the American Embassy is located, it might be your final link-up point so don’t leave your passport in the hotel safe! Have it with you at all times so you can get out of the country with minimal hassle.

This type of preparation is a small investment in time so make it part of your SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) when you travel.

Review: Glock 17 Gen 4

One of our instructors ran a Glock 17 Gen 4 for 5 months putting approximately 4000 rounds through it. The weapon worked flawlessly till he started to use PMC 115 Gr Bronze ammunition at which time the weapon had 1 stovepipe malfunction approximately every 200 rounds.

Glock 17 Gen 4 malfunctions (failure to extract [looks like a double feed] and failure to eject (stovepipe) are well documented and unfortunately not that rare especially in early Gen 4 model releases. The malfunctions are primarily thought to be caused by the G17 having the same captured double recoil spring designed to solve issues with the G22 in .40 caliber. Glock made the decision to put this same recoil spring in the 9mm G17 (which didn’t have any performance problems from Gen 1 thru 3) because they’d done “parts sharing”  in past generations.

Shooters have tried many different approaches to fix the problem with their Gen 4s, from aftermarket recoil springs (particularly the tungsten 17# from Glockmeister), to gunsmithing, to getting a #02 replacement spring from Glock. The replacement spring from Glockmeister seems to have resolved many peoples problems along with the replacement factory spring from Glock. Glock’s response to the problems, apparently, has been: “Use NATO spec 9mm ammunition” because of its higher pressures to cycle the weapon.

As Tuhon Tom Kier said, is Glock going the way of the 1911? They couldn’t leave a good thing alone? The 1911, in its day, would shoot ball ammo all day in any conditions due to its looser tolerances. But then competition shooters wanting greater accuracy began to chase ever tighter tolerances which resulted in the less skilled “pistolsmiths” producing 1911s that were the ultimate workout in “tap, rack” drills.

Let’s hope Glock realizes an incredible weapon system needs help and they focus on resolving the problems and return the G17 to its title of undeniable champ of reliability . . .

Updated Site

Welcome to the new and improved Sayoc Tactical Group website!

We’re making some big changes here. The new Sayoc Tactical Group (STG) site will be a home for the hundreds of military, law enforcement, and civilian students who have completed any of the STG training modules and a place to stay connected and continue their learning. STG is committed to providing continuously updated, excellent content relating to edged weapons combatives and firearms training articles, and gear analysis and reviews.

Please feel free to explore the site and post questions in any of the comment sections.