An in depth review of the P40 Urban pants by UF PRO, written by Project Gecko.
When it comes down to the conceptualism of tactical techniques, methods or skills - The tool box analogy is by far an analogy which represents a false and mostly unforgiven understanding of the relations between stress and performance. I chose the word unforgiven, because that's how it is – Unforgiven as it tends to be proven wrong just in the moment when things go out of the window and shit is splattered all over the wall. Considering the fact that the majority of people aren't statistically going to get that far in terms of actually fighting a threat, the fundamentals and depth of understanding of this fallacy tend to simply fade away from the sight of the masses, leaving peoples certain that their imaginary box of solutions and tools for every problem or issue, will actually exist when the time comes.
The fast and furious mentality, which is largely entertainment driven, penetrated slowly in the recent century into too many tactical concepts. Primarily shooting, combatives and CQB resulting in a complete disregard of many little pieces or micro critical milestones if you will, that are existing in the reality between the moment you perceive a certain visual input to the moment you take a decision. We call it identification the middle ground between cause and effect.
he natural human responds coexists with the principles of LP, one which is a point of retreat or cover or anything immediate. The startle reflex is an important reflex that directly oppose most dynamic room clearing concepts from the approaching phase to the post entry. Any tactic that fails to coop with the startle reflex is essentialy a tactic that works in oppose to the human behavior principles and which makes it less likely to coop with his threat situations.