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Reverse 180's, J hooks, forward 180's, left and right slides etc. can be used to extricate the vehicle from a scenario quickly, or used to take aggressors out all the while keeping that vehicle moving.
I was going through some old threads and found this in a post from 2009, brought back some great memories of that weekends course..
"Well, as I remember it we left the restaurant and got into Brownie's rental car--a compact automatic (car, not a gun). Behind the eatery was a shopping mall with a good-sized parking lot. The lot was mostly empty with a few cars sporadically parked.
Brownie must have been remembering the good ol' days because he had a hankering to do a 180-degree turn while backing up. So, he found a good spot to do the maneuver. The idea behind the backup and turn is to immediately put distance between a hostile force looking to roadblock the car and, thus, get to the person being escorted. In this particular scenario, that would have been me because I was the pretty one in the back seat.
We're all set--Brownie stops the car, puts it in reverse and hits the gas. Accelerating to somewhere between 20-25 mph (normally, I think he mentioned it would be done around 30 mph or so) he cuts the wheel sharply, the car swung around and quick as a wink we were going forward again--a perfect 180-degree turn! It all happened very quickly and I couldn't catch all the steps performed but I can tell you this, the car turned around in the space of a single lane. We then motored on out of the parking lot as if nothing happened except all three of us had these big grins going on."
In 81 I was taught counter assault driving skills by the then VP of stunts unlimited in Ca. [ Bobby Bass ].
We were given the skills to either extricate the vehicle [ and thus the principle ] from the area or and more specifically, use those same skills in a tactical manner to take out people trying to force the vehicle to stop [ ambush's ]. Staying in your own lane while doing 180's is the epitome of commanding the vehicle you're operating.
Can you command the POV to perform the above driving skills on demand? When the above was written, I'd not played with the skills for close to a decade. But from 81 to 99/2000, I'd rent a vehicle 6-7 times a year and beat the snot out of it for an hour or two, bringing it back the next day with square tires. I haven't performed the skills not in another 10-12 years, but I can get into any vehicle and command it to do what I want it to do.
What skills do members have where defensive driving is concerned?
I was going through some old threads and found this in a post from 2009, brought back some great memories of that weekends course..
"Well, as I remember it we left the restaurant and got into Brownie's rental car--a compact automatic (car, not a gun). Behind the eatery was a shopping mall with a good-sized parking lot. The lot was mostly empty with a few cars sporadically parked.
Brownie must have been remembering the good ol' days because he had a hankering to do a 180-degree turn while backing up. So, he found a good spot to do the maneuver. The idea behind the backup and turn is to immediately put distance between a hostile force looking to roadblock the car and, thus, get to the person being escorted. In this particular scenario, that would have been me because I was the pretty one in the back seat.
We're all set--Brownie stops the car, puts it in reverse and hits the gas. Accelerating to somewhere between 20-25 mph (normally, I think he mentioned it would be done around 30 mph or so) he cuts the wheel sharply, the car swung around and quick as a wink we were going forward again--a perfect 180-degree turn! It all happened very quickly and I couldn't catch all the steps performed but I can tell you this, the car turned around in the space of a single lane. We then motored on out of the parking lot as if nothing happened except all three of us had these big grins going on."
In 81 I was taught counter assault driving skills by the then VP of stunts unlimited in Ca. [ Bobby Bass ].
We were given the skills to either extricate the vehicle [ and thus the principle ] from the area or and more specifically, use those same skills in a tactical manner to take out people trying to force the vehicle to stop [ ambush's ]. Staying in your own lane while doing 180's is the epitome of commanding the vehicle you're operating.
Can you command the POV to perform the above driving skills on demand? When the above was written, I'd not played with the skills for close to a decade. But from 81 to 99/2000, I'd rent a vehicle 6-7 times a year and beat the snot out of it for an hour or two, bringing it back the next day with square tires. I haven't performed the skills not in another 10-12 years, but I can get into any vehicle and command it to do what I want it to do.
What skills do members have where defensive driving is concerned?
