Category Archive: Training

BFE Labs Urban Schlub

For several years now we’ve been intensely focused on the “Grey Man” concept. Through our study and development, we’ve come to possess a robust and proven ability to disappear into the urban landscape.… Read More

Woods Competency

Recently, a client made the comment that he was a “student of wilderness survival, not a bushcraft type”. This struck me as sort of odd, so I asked him a bit about how… Read More

Awareness Notes: Training for Blindness

In our quest to better ourselves and hone our necessary skills for staying alive in our field, we should be training often and hard. From time to time, in our efforts to train… Read More

Awareness Notes: “Satisfaction of Search” & Multiples

In a short 2010 paper in i-Perception, Dr. Daniel Simons noted the following; “[The finding] is consistent with the phenomenon of ‘satisfaction of search’—people are less likely to search for additional targets once… Read More

Will & Skill

Will; noun; (1)The faculty of conscious and especially of deliberate action; the power of control the mind has over its own actions: the freedom of the will. (2)Purpose or determination, often hearty or… Read More

Trauma Comi/x Teaser

Trauma Comi/x are a training aid we’ve developed to expand our range of written and visual training materials for first aid in the “tactical” environment. The comics are intended to provide an easily… Read More

Non-Commercial Use of BFE Labs Material

At this point BFE Labs has only provided a single document, both on this site and external to it, intended for widespread dissemination: The “Proposed Guideline for Tactical Medical Self Care in the… Read More

The Training Blowout Kit

Carrying a blowout kit (penetrating trauma kit) is a good thing; If you’ve paid much attention here at BFE Labs at all, we’re huge advocates of everyone owning and carrying a blowout kit.… Read More

Frakkin’ Knife Fighters

I’ve been doing the knife thing since I was a teenager. Being a smart, mature and capable individual for my age, I was aware of the need for protective skillsets and actively practicing… Read More

The Brave Enemy

I try to avoid rants and random thought-dump type posts preferring to focus on substantial content growing out of actual work and sweat. Typically I like to leave the mental gymnastics and thought… Read More

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