How to CQB in the Dark | Techniques Every Civilian Should Know
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2024
- When the lights go out, does how we do CQB change? Whether you're dealing with a potential threat in your house at night or your workplace when the power goes out, understanding the principles and techniques of effective white-light usage goes a long way. We link up with Drew Estell from Baer Solutions, former 5th Group Special Forces, as he breaks down the what, why, and how of Low-Light CQB.
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00:00 Gucci Intro
3:13 Drew Estell
4:35 Context
9:36 Why use Lights?
17:38 Constant vs. Momentary
24:51 The How
37:00 Demo Run
40:59 Feedback
48:24 Final Thoughts
50:18 Comedic Endplate
It would be both hilarious and educational to see you guys film a middle of the night CQB from dead sleep to full go. No one ever talks about waking up from a dead sleep to a hostile environment.
Well said.
People need to act quick n and aggressive if waking up from a dead sleep to defending your home or family is a problem for you then train for that
You'll have to ask my ex. She said she woke up to it all the time.
This is something that training can help prepare you for. Have days planned that you're going to work through stressed scenarios. It doesn't mean waking up and grabbing your primary but you can do things like a plan every so often your partner or someone sets a random alarm to wake you up and you have to do a set number of tasks that you don't know beforehand. Like wake up, break down your rifle or pistol, safe and then move to the next object you're given that a partner is yelling at you. Like apply a TQ to a limb and resume to the next movement that might involve strobes, and loud music while you try to call your partner to give a description of the items you see and then do an AAR.
This probably sounds insane but doing gross motor skills from a dead sleep and having unknown things you need to work through allows your brain to learning immediately start to process under stress at a wake up. Having things like assembly of a firearm while still half sleep let's you get to know how well you know the system even when half asleep. Next medical, can you keep yourself alive if you stepped into a hallway and took a round. The strobes and loud music is distracting as hell and would be dealing with flash blindness and ringing ears after a shoot. Ringing ears and flashing vision can be mimicked. I would stay away from fire alarms in these trainings for obvious reasons of complacency in a fire or worse make your neighbors think your house is burning at 2am.
If you really want to push this have strobes staggered on a remote control for your person to switch on upon entering a room. High frequency buzzing at the same time. Start this with having to put in a 10-16 digit code to open your phone to start. Can you critically think under stress, remember numbers and move with purpose.
I wouldn't recommend this for someone with PTSD because the startle response is real on a wakeup and could really fuck them up for weeks on sleep. Hypervigilance and response under stress mostly happens on training like you have in the past. Someone who is woke up like that in my experience needs a few seconds to understand threat, action and movement. Not everyone but its the one positive of PTSD I've never heard anyone want to change is the awareness and response when needed but on a normal day to the movies or l dinner. Being "on" takes time to throttle down to a normal-ish level for some. Most cases its when things are calm and chill we are aware of possible threats XY and Z but when things are going sideways an almost calm comes over you because you know what to do. I've noticed not even shaky hands until adrenaline crashes after an event.
Out of all things i watch and read comments on and that’s a lot of stuff because I’m always interested in other people’s take, this comment is more than likely the best, most informative, well written comment I’ve ever read. I know my opinion doesn’t matter but, Well done my friend and thank you.
Georta Mack, 14, was killed by his dad in Cincinnati because thought he was an intruder. His son was sneaking back into the house after leaving for school.
TARGET DISCRIMINATION is everything. Kyle Morgan (SFOD-D) said "anyone can pull a trigger and kills someone. The hard part of the job is making these quick, critical decisions".
Paule Howe (Former SFOD-D and Blackhawk Down Vet) has so many videos talking about the decision-making process when it comes to taking or not taking a shot.
This is something most people don't think about. CZcamsrs always love teaching people how to shoot fast and acurate at paper and metal with cool gear. But, the decision-making inside your brain is 99% of it and what really matters.
100%
Very well put
Moving at a low/high ready at not looking directly down your sights is big so you don’t automatically squeeze reflexively at someone in their bathrobe.
@zachscott4867 that makes so much sense. I'm surprised it isn't talked about more.
@@Bigboi23847 it’s because it’s reality. Reality of a gunfight isn’t sexy or instagramable. So, it doesn’t sell. If it doesn’t sell, instructors don’t talk about it. They want to sell civilians cool and bad ass. Which in reality there’s nothing cool about shooting another person or being shot at. The legal battle, the trauma your wife and kids would endure and the mental toll it would take on you is beyond anything people understand or can prepare for.
"We've all dry fored into a mirror before" had me deceased 😂
The pain on Drew’s face in the intro was…gucci
Stop it 🛑
@@tunacrosswayz1891Gucci. 🤣
@tunacrosswayz1891 you can’t stop the Gucci 😂😂😂
@@coreysuttles1362 oh boy one of them huh 😏
@@tunacrosswayz1891 thank God no lmao I’m normalish
“How do you guys think that went?” The face rubbing gets me every damn time. 🤣
Drew walked in like disappointed father to his boys with the “yall done” 🤣🤣
I like how Drew actually teaches in a easy to understand way. Not just tell you how much more he knows than you do. Like a lot of instructors.
This couldn't have come at a better time. I've been studying and training with light techniques quite a bit lately and I've learned all this throughout my studies. Most of the time I'm only using my edc light in different places I might be. Having all this information compiled into one solid video is amazing and it's very much appreciated! Great work guys!
Instructor Zero has an interesting write-up on how colors/paint hues impact ‘2-way’ lighting in CQB if you can find it.
@@JB-uk7mn I'm def looking into that! Thx!
This will come in handy for me. My mom has a “lights out” rule in the basement after 9pm.
the first two minutes.. Im dead.... You guys are so spot on with so much.. And Im guility of it too... just perfect.. MORE!
Thanks for making these and for Drew dropping knowledge and wisdom from real life training and experience. Btw, Drew's disappointed/frustrated face in this vid and especially in the initial house clearing video is so intense it can make a successful the most successful and confident person feel worthless lol. Keep it up, fella's!
Will do. Thanks!
I watched the first video, and 20 seconds into the video I was all ready to leave a snarky comment, but I kept watching and it just got better and better. Then I watched this video, and now I'm subscribed. These are actually pretty good videos.
I'm just glad you guys mentioned listening to what's happening. Some videos don't even mentioned how much information is lost to not listening to your surroundings. It's all about the light. But at night or in the dark, silence is golden. You can hear somebody breathing and that would giveaway their position.
Love these. Glad to see Drew back dropping info. Keep it up guys
Loved the intro 😂😂😂 and drew kills it as always , love that the prepared civilian is a thing these days ...
Great video, definitely becoming one of my favorite youtube channels. Great combo of humor and knowledge.
Producing quality content with an original delivery. Awesome stuff
Great knowledge, humor, and production value as always fellas - I'm loving the collaboration between you all. Thanks for staying dynamic, and for bringing great topics to "light."
I have 4 classes scheduled with baer solutions! I am very excited, great videos as always guys!
The whole handheld vs WML debate is one of the most ‘unsolved’ topics in the community imo… it’s such a tough one. I never see any channels cover shooting with a handheld, I’ve never practiced it myself and it’s almost stigmatized as a 1990s cop movie style. I just find it interesting how a lot of guys softly advocate handheld and pistol but I never see anybody posting training videos implementing the technique. Great video as always thank you gentleman!
The reason this is one of my top channels is it gives out seriously good and valuable information on such a broad range of topics. For civs i think it's necessary. We dont really get to specialize. Your skill base needs to be as broad and diverse as possible. Majority of us arent working with a team of guys who can specialize. I think it's imperative for us to know a broader range of skills.
The other very important part is the humor. It's awesome to see the light side and the ability to laugh at ourselves. My favorite guests are drew and Kyle lamb. They embrace the humor, especially drew. It makes everything much more palatable for folks who dont like to nerd out like someone like me. Even though i nerd out, the humor still makes the video more enjoyable. It's awesome. Keep it up guys
Thanks man!
"The plan never survives first contact." I always liked that quote because it suggests the importance of versatility and flexibility. Being a jack of all trades is preferable when SHTF because there are so many possible situations that could arise. Having a general idea of what to do in each is what's going to keep you alive. Only after you have all your bases covered, should you start specializing.
With that said, once you get there, a good starting point for building a team is the book Concrete Jungle by Clay Martin. He breaks down the different roles in ODA (Operational Detachment Alpha) and how to build that team with dirty civilians. The aspect of it that's brilliant is that the specialization is based on existing skill sets from people's occupations and hobbies/interests. Putting a squad together isn't as difficult as one might think - you just have to find people that want to do it.
It's a general guide, so it doesn't get too technical, but it covers a broad range of topics. It takes combat experience and applies it to our circumstances in a practical, relatable (and humorous) way. Highly recommend. It's on Amazon, on the cheap.
Yall are doin it right. Also the color grading and editing is on point!
Fantastic overview. Good key points to keep in mind about using light.
I love the humor with the education!
Great work guys👍
Used to watch every video drew put out on his channel glad to see him on longer format and on your channel.
I’m a performance driving coach and was extremely happy to hear the driving reference while talking about the use of your vision.
You guys produce some awesome training videos! Your humor makes your teaching awesome! Be safe and God bless you!
Another great video. Motion lights and cameras strategically set up to make you feel as if you have a team backing you up. I agree being still in the dark using your senses extremely important skill set and will calm you down to help make better decisions
absolute awesome video! Tons of knowledge and information.
Haven’t finished the episode yet but I Gota say, the dynamic y’all have is “chef’s kiss”. 🥰😍goals
Awesome informative video and love the touch of humour. You guys are great
These videos are amazing. Thank you guys for your efforts and for leading by example.
Thanks for watching!
Fantastic video! Great instruction, Drew!
38:02 one thing about this entry is that you are going through space that'll trigger an angle you haven't fully cleared yet (open doorway you were looking into while opening the bathroom door) and if there's someone there he propably won't hit you or even open fire becose of how fast you're going past his line of fire but when you get out and peek through the treshold he's already going to be holding that doorway down becose he saw you go in. this could get you killed. just learned this myself when i started thinking about it and i'm glad i did, i hope this raises some new thoughts. this aside a very good video, learned some stuff and good reasoning for the tactics. love the content keep it up
Great video; thanks! I have backlit my living room for years, for the exact same reasons you state. Good tips!
love the intro, surprised this video didn't do better. Thank you!
Can’t wait to get my Baer belt! Awesome video guys keep up the great work.
On the note of lumens and stuff...one thing I'll say about Surefire is they measure the light past the lens, whereas a lot of the buzzword manufacturers advertise the lumens at the led source before it passes through the lens. A lot of the power is lost at the lens, and low quality lenses are a thing.
Bang for the buck...I love surefire. Cloud is excellent as well. Modlight makes good stuff but as an organization I've kind of sworn them off, but that's me personally.
All gear talk aside...it's always awesome to see Drew bring stuff back down to earth and make stuff simple and straightforward. Drew has a really good teaching style, based on the videos I've seen anyway. I'd like to take a Baer class in the future. Excellent video as always.
Top quality production value ESPECIALLY the intro! 🤣💯
Truly appreciate your content
Great video. Thanks very much!
You guys have great content. Thank you
we as soldiers (in my group) also have this as one of the things we tell and teach our privates, etc., that we must also be aware of our own houses/flats and learn about our surroundings. because we can just as well encounter it in our house today as it can happen when we are out, so it is therefore necessary that we also know what the rooms in our house are like and practice it so that we are ready to protect ourselves and our famille and friends in civil life (we never know what can happen) it can just as well happen in our house that a stranger (who wants us bad) can be or want to enter. and on top of that, it's also training for when we have to use it in other places than on the battlefield where we know it can happen "so why not be prepared at home too" and what about everything that happens around us, so that's why we teach our privates etc. about it, as we say (get to know your house and learn to defend it in the situation you may find yourself in where an uninvited person is in your house or wants to enter and do you harm) so that you are always ready to clear your house for enemies without shooting your friends and famillie only shoot the enemy.
Hey guys just finished the video, great job by the way, and I was wondering what your thoughts are on turning on the room lights as you clear the house?
Nice video guy's!
Keep it up !
I see something that can be key to clearing a room that you have to open a door to enter. Most of the time when you open the door and it comes back to you don't always believe nothing is behind it. You can take a second shine your light in the cracks of the door and frame potential exposure of someone hiding behind it waiting for you to enter the room and attack from behind the door. Just a odd observation on my part
Great video.
Blowers taught me another light technique with a wml was “bouncing” the light. Ceiling or floor.
Portals are what I know as adjacent spaces. Which is very often where a threat lies. It’s my understanding that adjacent spaces are where we took a lot casualties early on in the GWOT.
This also reminds me I need to get some more training in next year.
😄Great video… Especially the end!
Great video learned
Such a great intro!
If you are in a position where someone has broken into your home. I agree you need to be able to walk your home without being able to see anything even blindfolded. Also you need your family understand and use a key word like their own name to identify them. Using the light of the background is as important as white light. I was 17 came home at 2am after a race .I had a house key and dad heard me coming in because the door was very hard to open and loud in the winter. He met me armed in the living room immediately in the dark. I identified myself and him . He told me that I no longer needed a key to the house because I failed to call ahead and let him know I would be past 1am getting home. Lessons of both well taught to me by our home protection
That intro. I have been on both emds of that debreif. Lol. I freaking love it.
I like this perspective of having a teacher and students.
I love the intro amazing
About the FBI light technique comment, there was a Brass Fact's video "A case for civilian armor" where a guy commented, "Armor covers one of your one hit wonder zones but it relies on someone being good enough to hit it (paraphrased from Clint Smith)", I replied that this line of thinking also applies to holding the light up like that. It's cool that you held it up but doesn't that rely on a guy being able to keep a solid group on it 😂
OMG I think I've been laughing for about 10 minutes now I just had to come back to the video to finish watching after the intro. 🤣 You guys are awesome 👍
Another time going constant on with the light might be after you've cleared a structure and are doing further searching or assessing. Not necessarily in a military or police context either of course. For example maybe you've returned home to find the back door open. You may use momentary light when clearing the house to ensure nobody is inside, but then may switch to constant (or just turn on the lights) afterwards to check for broken glass or missing items. Just to help illustrate the need for both. Great content as always.
All of this is very important to train, don’t need to be special operations to understand that. I would like to see a video on non-weapon related things you can do to protect your home. Obviously ADT or something like that, but other tools to use to your advantage like having cameras internal to your home that can allow you to digitally clear a good portion of the house safety without even entering it.
Very good. I might be doing a video on that eventually. The reason they don't teach that, is there's no money in it, nothing they can buy and cuts out the wannabe special forces people who wouldn't make it if something actually happened. Those people have to watch this stuff. The average person needs to call the police then make sure everything is safe. Depending on the situation, they might be able to not get involved and wait for the Police. CZcamsrs act like this is a joke. Cameras and dogs are great.
That intro is comedy gold man...love it!
Honesty Dirty Civilians work is amazing, the amount of no bs straight to the point education in great, thanks for the knowledge guys. its awesome.
Freaking intro was hilarious
Great video guys
Thank you.
Intro made me laugh. Great content. I love what's coming out of your chennel!
Thank you for all do guys
I can't remember where i heard it; might have been Buck during a Beers and Breakdowns video but night lights.
If there's dead space behind a bar/bookcase/sofa etc or a recessed corner put a night light there if you can. If someone is hiding it may silhouette them or cast a shadow.
Also wish you would do a class or two around Colorado Springs.
This was really useful. Question about leaving the light on while coming down the hall. Wouldn't you be advertising your position to anyone in one of those rooms by seeing the light through the bottom of the door? I haven't tested this, but it seems like you'd be able to somewhat guess by watching how bright the light is getting.
Great content as usual.
The low-left shot placement comment on holding a light offset was an eye opener to me.
Everyone should train to do emergency reloads, under stress, while holding their light. Very gratefully, this is a lesson I learned during simunitions training, not on a call.
Shining a high lumen light on your target makes it extremely difficult for them to engage you. Strobing the light makes it even harder. (Source is personal experiences, and feedback from others)
It can also disorient you.
I love the skits at the intro.
Was really excited to see classes here in Pa, might not be able to make it to the rifle 1 so holding off. But it seems like Pa kind of gets forgotten about when it comes to training. Can we get a patch of Drew saying "Gucci"?
Solid knowledge transfer...
Best intro yet
Thanks!
lughalck, is that the sound you made at the end of that intro. I love the information y'all provide, but the intros are by far the best on YT. So Gucci! hahahaha
Thanks man!
The intro and out takes are perfect😂😂😂
First 3 minutes are hilarious. Great job boys.
Low light for me is trying to find something in the garage or attic I left a year ago, and my wife is “describing” to me in vague yet detailed information to where she last saw it, and I’m moving methodically slow knowing there may or may not be dead mice in sticky traps.
Everything the light touches... is our kingdom.
Great info about knowing your home if you've lived there a long time. Unfortunately, my wife moves the furniture every 3 seconds. Half the time I don't even realize anythings been moved anymore until I run into it.......
“Where is someone going to miss”
“Low left”
Never thought of it like that before. It’s the little things that count. 👏🏼 bravo DC and Drew!
That was a great intro
good stuff
Hi from Brazil!
lol!!!!!the intro was funny!!! couldnt help but to crack up..that was Gucci!!
Me and a buddy were practicing force on force and yeah I would try momentary, but if I was back lit, he would see me the moment I rounded the corner and shoot me before I ever got to turn the light on. Momentary only works if you are not back lit at all
Loving the content coming out of DC
Thank you!
I live close to you guys. Rural TN isn’t much of a place to be worried about cqb. I use light mainly fo target ID of coyotes getting on our property at night. Keep them away from chickens and the dogs
Would really love a video on how to open and check doors or enter into a locked room
You should try this in a force on force scenario , Iv'e noticed about "half" the time myself and others would lose the fight using a light , exposing location versus not ... Much better odds when sitting in the dark waiting for my target to light them selves up , very easy wins... This seems geared towards an offensive team scenario 'swat/leo" ,not the individual facing multiple or defending their home..
Yeah FoF is king
Static defense is going to have the advantage the vast majority of the time. This is why CQB is an inevitable death sentence even for those who have trained extensively, nevermind doing so by oneself. This is also why many advocate for not clearing anything unless a "driving force" is present, such as someone in danger. What it boils down to is "Am I willing to die to stop what's happening?"
Love the music. Where download. What is title called. Good music for haloween scare.
Great content.
When practicing at home: how do I know if I did something wrong? Don’t want to practice the same wrong thing over and over and really drive it home.
film yourself and be critical
Go take a training, I’d that’s available in your area. CZcams is fun, but it’s not a replacement for instructor-led training
You should only practice things that you have been trained to do. You can train yourself how to do things, but there is also value in having a "proven" trainer vet your skills and identify flaws or mistakes until you're able to do so yourself.
PLEASE do the sliding down the stairs railing open!
MORE CQB WITH DREW!
Ohhhhh.... you literally had me crying laughing with the sliding down the railing hitting the banister. That would be a fantastic intro.
Motion lights in outlet plugs are the best for this. Pick a spot and wait, they will give up and move. Cheap and really helpful.
What I learned from SF is when you in a hallway, just light it up with the flashlight just for a second with the arm away in case there are some tangos they don't shoot you especially more like the spot where the flashlight is and then kill the light and move on.
I keep night lights in every room that isnt occupied at night (bathroom, hallway, living room, ect.). They provide just enough light that, when paired with my knowledge of my home, ill be able to identify threat or friendly far faster and possible without needing my WML.
Thoughts on turning on the room lights as you enter?
Hahahahaha I literally died laughing from that little scenario debrief. Literally lived that scene numerous times.
One of the best preparedness channels on CZcams. Thanks guys 🫡
Thanks!