TACTICS :
“The way of acting and behaving that is considered the most appropriate and convenient to achieve a certain goal or result”
Aside from the definitions of Tactics that are provided to us by various dictionaries, in my opinion the most pertinent definition that I give to our field of application is this:
TACTICS is the art of applying the most effective techniques based on the circumstances (conditions) to obtain an advantage on the field with respect to an objective. This means that if the technique represents the suitcase of tools, the tactic is the ability to choose the right tool, or the correct technical solution
with respect to the problem/need/objective.
Tactics referred to the firearm is generally related to a broader context with respect to the technique which instead remains purely individual and is the coordinated, indexed and finalized application of one or more techniques in a specific macro-micro environment.
Tactics is deeply affected by the dynamics of the context, and by these we mean not only the dynamics relating to the terrain/environment, but also the social, cultural, religious, criminal dynamics and all those dynamics capable of generating conditions that in turn create needs that must be faced in order to achieve the objective.
Tactics require knowledge of the context as well as obviously an objective, without which there would be no sense or purpose in the application.
This is because it is affected by the conditions and needs coming from the context, which are those that generate the priorities that in turn determine it.
Tactics focuses on the coordinated use of technical skills within a more complex scenario, in which the situation and the environment require strategic choices, so we can say
that tactics require planning.
It can concern a single element or a collective and in this case it also represents the capacity for static or dynamic coordination and the sum of the technical skills of each individual element, which then translates into tactical efficiency of the collective.
The effectiveness of tactics depends on their relevance to needs, conditions and priorities, because they dictate them. The greater their relevance, the greater their effectiveness.
Tactics require competence, experience and attitude, being strongly correlated and tied to the context, the experience of context for a subject is absolutely crucial for the effectiveness and the application itself.
The speed of application of tactics depends on the mechanical development and the volume of repetitions, as well as on the indexing of the environment in which it was developed. In the case of a collective(team/group), it also depends on the development of the coordination and synchronization capacity of the individual technique in relation to the collective, the context and the objective.
Tactics require Flexibility and Adaptability, it is essential in fact, to be ready to adapt tactics based on sudden changes in the situation/condition but this can only happen if you have an equally solid and flexible technical base.
I do not want to go further because I believe that the value of tactical indexing applied to the asymmetric and defensive use of the firearm is important, but absolutely subordinate and secondary to the other two aspects discussed in this article. In fact, I believe that it should be treated in an adequate, correct and specific way depending on the context/conditions/needs, but only after having built all the technical, neurocognitive, neuromotor and psychophysical structures necessary to provide effective responses in compressed times under high stress loads in response to complex problems.
THE NEURO PERFORMANCE
Unfortunately it is very complicated to find a clear meaning or definition of Neuro Performance because it is not a word but two fields and applications that integrate, so I will try to summarize it based on my studies and the research I have carried out in recent years
“Neuro Performance” combines principles from the field of neuroscience with psychophysical and behavioral training techniques, with the aim of improving human performance. The goal of Neuro Performance is to optimize the neurocognitive, neuromotor, neurovisual, neuroauditory, emotional and physical abilities of an individual, often in contexts with a high level of stress such as sports and all those high-risk professions as in the case of our application field. However, what we often underestimate or completely ignore is the fact that improving neuro performance can also bring enormous benefits in everyday life performance. In fact, this is one of the concepts that I emphasize most with our students, during our Performance Labs.
ADVANCED MULTIDISCIPLINARY INTEGRATION
Certainly the main feature is given by the integration of Neuroscience with other disciplinary fields related to training, such as physical, mental, but also with extremely specific areas such as the field of nutrition with which today there are fundamental correlations.
Neuro Performance is fundamentally based on the discoveries and evidence of neuroscience which studies how the brain acquires and processes information, makes decisions and reacts to external stimuli.
Through this integration, we try to enhance mental and physical training by fully understanding individual neurological functioning, in order to improve concentration, memory, the ability to adapt and the efficiency in making effective decisions that are often irreversible in extremely compressed times, under high stress loads.
Personally, I believe that Neuro performance is the key to change and the absolute element of development in our field and I believe in it so much that on a wall of our Performance Center I had written “In this place we train your most powerful weapon: THE MIND”
