TAKING A KNEE IN A GUNFIGHT - TRAVIS HALEY 

As a Marine Veteran, I'm glad to see there are gentlemen like you that understand the warrior in a garden mindset. We all want peace, we all want to be left alone to live our lives in our own simple ways. But we need to understand that wolves are at our doors. If we don't stand together, we will all die with the sheep. Keep up the good fight.

Here's a simplified version of that whole thing: don't worry which way you're going to fall if you die it's not about that, worry about how much of your silhouette is visible outside of cover.

Travis consistently says what industry leaders are afraid to say. I thank God he fights for the future of this country, the second amendment community, and continues to provide coherent leadership.

Words that mean something and a truly inspirational speaker. As usual, his ability to address an issue and teach at the same freaking time. He is a mastermind and is wide open to share his wealth of information. He is a true American Badass!!!

Glad someone else is paying attention to the WEF and what they're up to. Keep spreading truth and knowledge.

Thank God for men like this. When we no longer have men in this world like Travis I no longer want to be a part of it!

Absolutely! I'm extremely serious about surviving the moment of truth.

Travis communicating mindset and technique is invaluable in our community. Too many people try to gain notoriety by tearing others down. They really are just exposing how small they really are. Work on your physical fitness guys. You can hear his breathing that this is not easy stuff. Nobody is shooting at him and his heart rate is up just talking and doing these movements. Train your body, mind and thought. Good stuff Mr. Haley!

wish we had more people like you! someone who actually gets it! I have been training 5 days a week for the last 20 years and i still learn something every time i hit the range.

💯% reality check. Thank you Travis. For all you do for everyone else.

God bless you Travis. Been learning from you for 15 years and hope to continue to do so for a long time.

As a vet and former LEO thanks Travis for telling it like it is. Keep the awesome content coming brother🇺🇸🥃🇺🇸

I'm an instructor. I teach outside knee high. If in my class you want to go inside knee high, be my guest. I know that thought process behind both. Outside knee high keeps your team mates from bumping you out of cover. Inside knee high exposes less of you to incoming fire. Way I figure it, I'll explain the pros/cons of both and let the student decide, so long as there are no safety issues. My job is to educate, not win arguments with students. I just explain and let them run their own drill and fight their own fight. I do agree you should ease into a kneeling, for reasons Haley outlined. I happen to find both knees down the most comfortable, but that is personal preference. I have spent hours in a position in a knee, on concrete, and pretty quickly you start dancing from one knee to another to both, even in knee pads, because its uncomfortable - you should think about how to shoot from either.

I perk up and stop what I'm doing when I hear Travis speak. Incredible amount of respect and please keep all the awesome content and wisdom coming!!!

Travis Haley is a phenomenal human. It's awesome that people like him share knowledge and tell it like it is. Keep on keeping on.

One of the best videos of 2023. Thank you for saying what needs to be said!

brother your words fill me with pride. thank you man. we're all in this together.

Retired SOF of 28 years all with extensive shooting . I use your methods primarily because you always explain the Why with the How. Keep doing what you do 🇺🇸

I now remember that I had seen this type of kneeling but I am grateful for the excellent refresher training. You Rock.

Thank you for putting some of these facts out that most who have such a huge platform are unwilling to say

Thank you Travis. This was quite simply the best first 10 minutes of any gun related video. I have watched in the last 10 years.

Love the intro, that's solid life advice that everyone on the planet really needs to be taught.

Thank you Mr Haley. I very much enjoy your ever expanding view. Thank you for your service, yesterday and today.

This point of view i miss so often, both online and in real life! Thanks for that.

Man, thank you for this. The community needs to hear it.

Student, Teacher, and a Master of his craft. Constantly evolving. Thank you 👊 🇺🇸

Came for some knee techniques, stayed for the front end motivation and truth bombs. Good seeing you back on more recently brother.

Words that NEEDED to be said Travis. Thank you!

Bro, I went from watching you in najaf to working those contracts. Know I’m an instructor and still I respect the hell out of you brother! Still learning, still updating, still a student!

Always great to hear Travis share knowledge. Thank you for the reset, Travis and Company

Awesome man. We gotta come together and this is a message for everyone regardless of knee position. The main lesson is that we are in the same boat and gotta be more together as a community. Thanks dude!

Great to see you back sharing skills with the public! And even more importantly putting it in the context of where we are as a nation and preaching unity.

As always, great stuff, Travis!!! Keep up your message.

So happy that u hit on reality points in life and not bs ur way through it

Thnx for sharing your knowledge and experience Travis through the years

Thank you for the great video, alot of good info, much appreciated. 👍

Cannot believe I just watched this for free, thank you Mr. Haley.

What an incredible 21 minutes of instruction and philosophy! Thank you!!

Love the theory and knowledge transfer, thank you!

100% agreed. I've taught for almost 30 years and weapons, techniques, tactics, etc, etc, are always evolving. It never stops and we have to move with it. What applied then may apply now or it might not, it may be a modification to older techniques, tactics etc. It also means we should not forget what we know/learned/taught or were taught in the past but to evolve to a smarter and better way of fighting by leaning from the past, the present and be prepared for the future and the unknown it holds over all of us. I have my favorite instructors who made me who I am today but all of my instructors are part of me, not just my favorites. I am a product of them all. You learn from everyone you seek instruction, the good, the bad, etc. A great instructor should always remember to be a great student and should not forget that we will never know enough as individuals and have to continue learning and evolving together. I've always listened to you and your information but unfortunately have never been able to take a class with you. Regardless, I can listen and learn as well as perform and learn so keep up what you are doing, you are doing the right thing broheim. I have been asked by many, why don't I do what you are doing and like so many of my friends who do what you are doing. The reason is exactly what you stated in the beginning, the animosity involved and commonality of CEI. I've seen it since the Corps in the 90's and I have never been a friend/fan of instructors who make a living shit talking other instructors. Do what you do and it'll convince me/them/us through learning and training but your hate, animosity and disagreements won't. I'm not a joiner by any stretch of the means. My friends have their opinions and enemies, they made them for their reasons but they're not mine, so I cannot and will not hate them for the reasons you chose. If I/We hate/dislike everyone that everyone else hates/dislikes, we're doomed to fail because eventually no one will get along and the process of learning and evolving will slow to a crawl if not cease all together.

I love when you rant, Travis. Your world view is on point. God bless you sir.

Hey man, lot of respect for you! More people in our industry need to hear this message.

Very good points and a great attitude check for a lot of us.

Absolute respect to you Haley for this response. Im more weary to distractions in media now, we have more in common than were led to believe.

I loved the truth and directness of the commentary before and after the concepts of kneeling during a gun fight. It's obvious you were and are a warrior and am glad to have watched this video. Your commentary on the 2A community and stopping to think about loose tongues when making comments about others is right on. Keep up the great work Travis.

Thanks for the reminder of why I subscribe to your channel. Mad respect for your perspective.

when people are physically and fiscally secure, they tend to make mountains out of mole hills..loosing sight of what is fundamental; grateful for how you are using the platform you’ve burned so much time, energy, and resource on to help good citizens to raise their sight line..see what’s going around them that matters; the only constant is change, and we must adapt; semper fi, brother

Amen , brother! I appreciate your work sir! You bring the pain every day. As it needs to be. Stay frosty.

Glad I found this channel first 5 minutes had me hooked awesome to see someone not afraid of the truth and willing to speak it .

Appreciate the knowledge transfer, Travis. Always enjoy your content. Stay safe out there and God bless.

Thank you for being who you are and sharing your knowledge.

This video should go viral! The shirt he is wearing says it all. Thanks for the content Haley Strategic Partners

I love the passion.....keep thinking, it's not illegal-yet.

What an inspiring intro! Hammers on the Taiwan situation, fertilizer situation, Klaus, the WEF, Digital Currency, and to top it off, sprinkles in some of the ancient Stoic wisdom...? Travis is the father I wish I had. Keep working; we need you and your voice now more than ever!

Truly appreciate you, your wisdom & your honesty... Be well & stay safe!

Thanks Travis. I had one of your older videos that came as a extra of something that I purchased. Makes me mad that I lost it. Been watching your videos ever since.

Damn... I needed to hear that. definitely facts. I'm just hoping my wife and I have enough time to get the tools and training we need before they make a move. i know we dont have much time but we just had a baby and were gonna do everything in our power to protect him. Good luck to the ones with pure hearts and good intentions.

Travis. You get it, brother! I’m glad there are still men like you in this country.

Thanks for all of it--since the beginning.

Thank you Travis! Keep up the great work!

More people need to hear what you said. We are in trouble. United we stand. Divided we fall.

First time watching one of your videos and in my own opinion I found the video insightful and to the point job well done.

At one point in the GWOT, I was on a 90/30 schedule for a year. It always had an impact on me at how much the battlefield would change in just 30 days. So yes, always adapt and evolve your TTP's.

I have been in EMS for 20 years, haven’t been in a gunfight. Have seen the aftermath. But I agree with all your points. And we all need to get back to the most simple thing. Treating other people how you would like to be treated. It’s not hard. It just takes a little thoughtfulness.

Great video! Thank you for the knowledge transfer!

Every time you post a video like this I feel the need to unite with my fellow man, be more compassionate toward them, to be a better man in general and just so happen to learn a fee things about weapons manipulation. Thank you for all that you share, and I hope you know your voice is being heard and you are making a difference in people's lives.

Travis is one of the most underrated Former Sf guys out here.

Thanks for the free class sir…is always good to learn from those who’ve been there and done that…and definitely we need to be united the future is looking bleary

Well said, there are much bigger events happening. Let’s focus on the real fight. The fight against the complete loss of freedom!!

This is the way. Thank you for speaking out again!

Really great instruction and explanation of this. Now just gotta wait until my rehab of my broken leg is further along to practice. Watching you do it so effortlessly and after multiple surgeries is a good sign. 🤙🏻

Bravo, well said. Thank you for speaking about the actual world we are living through

FANTASTIC VIDEO!!!!! Thank You!!!!!!!!!!

Just like your classes, sometimes about shooting, always about life. Well done.

Outstanding message! As an FTO for a large Sheriff's Office, I ALWAYS tell my new recruits there are no absolutes on how to do things. Don't forget all you learned, just add to it and understand life as a cop (or life in general) is fluid and there is more than one way to skin a cat.

Such an excellent entry speech into all of this. We are it guys. God help us all

Love the philosophical aspect of it! Great presentation!

I was bitching about our government the other day and how I'm scared, not for myself but for my kids. My oldest daughter interrupted me and said "Dad, you can't teach us to slay dragons and then be mad if we have to slay dragons." Thanks for putting out these videos and your take on things. Keep up the good work, our future generations need it.

Absolutely. Thanks man!. There are some ignorant fools out there. I hope this finds someone.

On a side note, because Magpul Dynamics Art of the Rifle is 15 years old, it would be awesome to make an updated series, not in name, but in content. Either posted on RU-vid or on DVD/digital download.

"We must all hang together, or we will surely hang separately."- Ben Franklin

Travis makes such a good point at the end. If you're going into or assaulting/clearing a building against a decently trained and motivated opponent, I'd say the chance of being shot is above 80%. I've done significant amounts of force-on-force with above average military units, and even as a lone opposing force shooter in a room, 9/10 times I can put Simunition rounds on the first guy through a door, and 8/10 I can put them on the second guy through the door. And that's after they enter, not slowing down because the first guy was shot three times, and not even considering that they could literally be shot through the door were it real bullets. If they explosively breach or use flash bangs it honestly doesn't change the scenario that much, *if* the dude in the room is in an alert security posture. If you ever have a chance to do real deal force on force with Sims, or at least airsoft/paintball, do it. Set it up with your buddies out on public land or however you can. It is an eye opener for those who haven't been downrange when going up against a peer apex predator.

Thank you Travis, for telling it like it is!

Oh my God. This was hands down the best tactical training video I have seen. It had nothing to do with taking a knee. However, I did learn a little something on that as well. It has everything thing to do with how we teach, train, learn, and communicate. Excellent video.

To many “ know it all “ period. We are to divide to meet middle ground. Thank you addressing and sharing your experience.

I appreciate the rant in the beginning because I 100% agree about our global and local problems.

Thank you for this most important message...

Best video I have seen in a long time! Thank you!

it’s good to see you dropping truth darts on the ytubes again travis. thanks for sharing some more free words of wisdom

I've never really watched yo before man but the first 10 minutes of the video summed up so much of what I have thought for a while. Keep it up man thank you.

Only if everyone was like this man right here. Absolutely love watching your videos and pep talks.

That first ten minutes was some cold spit. I appreciate you sharing and educating. I hope to attend one of your classes soon.

This man has quickly become my #1 hero! It's so nice to hear the real truth here!!!

Much love man, thanks for taking the time to talk about this with us. I also just wanted to mention that I haven't seen a new episode of The Bridge in a while, and I'm looking forward to the next one.

Inspiring and educational. Time to better myself and be better prepared.

Wise words my dude. We need to be united, some scary shit is on the way. We need to be a cohesive force pushing back.

Destroying the basis of common enemy intimacy is the actual point of the video, and I appreciate that.

Wow Travis! All the things you covered in a nutshell just says about it all!!

Incredible video Travis, thank you. Saved to favorites.

Amazing to watch a warrior's mind being to share wisdom. Years ago i read a book that said that the greatest warriors all eventually become able to give philosophy due to warfare giving them deep insights into life. Glad to see Travis go that path i to warrior maturity