The Master speaks on: Mental Color Code
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Cooper lectures on his Color Code pertaining to awareness and threat assessment. Unfortunately it is often taught incorrectly (I know I was taught a contorted version in the Marines) so here it is straight from the horses mouth. The overlays at the end were added by me and don't appear in the original video.
Interesting tidbit, his description of dissuading possible attacks simply by appearing aware and ready has a parallel in nature; the behavior of several African deer species called "stotting"is a signal to predators that the prey knows it's there and that an ambush would be futile, the deer therefor avoid getting attacked at all.
This is the color code before other people mucked it up. Massad Ayoob only slightly over complicated it, by adding black, but it was unnecessary. Others, like Dave Grossman have WAY over thought it, adding physiological stress levels, more color categories. The Colonel's purpose for the code was a SIMPLE pre-disposed, pre- planned course of action because utter surprise is often fatal.
I met him in 1996 on ASU campus, in a talk he gave. One of the high points of my life.
Apparently universities back then didn't try to block any possible conservative view points like they do now.
If you listen to Cooper, he’s not talking about awareness (that’s assumed), he’s talking about readiness and focus.
I try to be in yellow all the time and my wife calls me paranoid. I hate that! Ha!
Thanks for posting this, and all the other Cooperisms you've posted - Col. Cooper is probably the most influential of all the pistoleros from back in my day... his lessons don't get old, they may yet save lives. When I was a kid I had subs to Guns and Ammo and Shooting Times, it was Cooper's and Skelton's columns that I hungered for.
Great advice, thanks for vid.
Condition white killed Chris Kyle.
God damn just about right! A master swordsman forgot to sharpen his blade...once.
Condition yellow. Turning around with the “uhh?” “tends the left cheek” to the right hand which wants to strike you or that struck you from behind on the right cheek.
At least Massad Ayoob only added "black" and that was not REALLY necessary. Grossmans's adding colors to indicate panic and incapacity is just plain silly
Robert Lehnert Massad Ayoobs color codes were based on Lt. Grossmans.
Robert Lehnert Ayoob, Grossman, and Cooper.
3 blowhards who have never actually been in a gunfight who fancy themselves to be authorities on the subject 😂
Rifle Shooter Channel are you saying Cooper never saw combat? He was a combat veteran of both WW2 and Korea. Perhaps I misunderstood you, but you listed his name as one of "3 blowhards". Cooper's combat record is well documented.
thank you for posting this
She'll love you if you ever stop something before it starts because of condition yellow though.
Great stuff!!
Anyone know what year this was filmed?
Old post but in case anyone still wants to know. He talks about Rhodesia in past tense so that make it later than 1979. He talks about the "new" pistol the US Army is using and the issues with its double action trigger; that sounds like the M9 Beretta which came into service in 1985 or thereabouts.
August 1986
My father produced these for Cooper. I can see myself in the classroom shots.
Yeagers the master
Even Yeager would tell you he isn't, lol.
Ive never seen Yeager shoot a gun, just shoots his mouth off.
Baboon!! Perfect description of ours in America