Excellent podcast. I've listened to a few dozen by now. Love your point of view on things, very analytical and methodical. Looking forward to reviewing your TLP book soon once I finish reading it. I would like to add, that the benefit of being a high security lock picker such as myself, is often misunderstood by the tactical community. Just because I have put in over 20 hours into a single high security lock, doesn't mean I would even consider picking the same lock in the field. Just because I can blind pick a mul-t-lock interactive out of the box within minutes, doesn't mean I would still even attempt that in the field. Understanding the locks security features, because I have spent hours taking them apart to exploit them, teaches me when NOT TO pick a lock, more than it does WHEN TO pick a lock. I can rake a lock, and the second it falls into a false set, I can know I'm dealing with security pins, and therefore my plan of attack will completely change, to include, skipping picking altogether and moving to a bypass or destructive method, depending on mission requirements. It's also like saying, because I wrestled for the Marine Corps, I will handle all physical altercations with a wrestler's clinch, leaving myself vulnerable to strikes, when in actuality, I'm fully aware of the difference between a sport that is performed in a controlled environment, and a street fight that is violent, exhausting, unplanned, terrifying, and ends quickly. Give us challenge lockpickers some credit, we know just as much when "not to pick", as we do when to pick. And the more you learn and know and are capable of, the more your willing to walk away from that lock... or that next fight. To assume someone is so skilled that they become a detriment to their own doing, would be a grave mistake to any opponent. -sandman
Excellent podcast. I've listened to a few dozen by now. Love your point of view on things, very analytical and methodical. Looking forward to reviewing your TLP book soon once I finish reading it.
I would like to add, that the benefit of being a high security lock picker such as myself, is often misunderstood by the tactical community. Just because I have put in over 20 hours into a single high security lock, doesn't mean I would even consider picking the same lock in the field. Just because I can blind pick a mul-t-lock interactive out of the box within minutes, doesn't mean I would still even attempt that in the field. Understanding the locks security features, because I have spent hours taking them apart to exploit them, teaches me when NOT TO pick a lock, more than it does WHEN TO pick a lock. I can rake a lock, and the second it falls into a false set, I can know I'm dealing with security pins, and therefore my plan of attack will completely change, to include, skipping picking altogether and moving to a bypass or destructive method, depending on mission requirements.
It's also like saying, because I wrestled for the Marine Corps, I will handle all physical altercations with a wrestler's clinch, leaving myself vulnerable to strikes, when in actuality, I'm fully aware of the difference between a sport that is performed in a controlled environment, and a street fight that is violent, exhausting, unplanned, terrifying, and ends quickly. Give us challenge lockpickers some credit, we know just as much when "not to pick", as we do when to pick. And the more you learn and know and are capable of, the more your willing to walk away from that lock... or that next fight. To assume someone is so skilled that they become a detriment to their own doing, would be a grave mistake to any opponent. -sandman