Will the "pendulum" help to dodge a bullet? "Pendulum" - training materials Swing the pendulum in hand-to-hand combat.

Tourism and rest 28.06.2019

Tourism and rest

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Once, about 35 years ago, the writer V. Bogomolov in the novel "The Moment of Truth" mentioned a method of evading someone else's shot called "pendulum". Since then, this very “pendulum” has been haunting athletes, military and special forces personnel. detailed instructions no one saw on the pendulum and shooting with the “Macedonian grip”. There is nothing left in the archives. Old-timers on this account are politely silent with a stone smile.

Gradually, the opinion was formed that the “pendulum” is a myth or a secret complex of some kind of combat movements based on a bioenergetic technique.
The author is forced to disappoint skeptics - the writer Bogomolov did not lie and the pendulum really exists. Moreover, the officer's pendulum is as simple as a soldier's footcloth. So simple that Bogomolov, who clearly knew how to do all this, did not consider it necessary to describe its technology in detail. Yes, and the novel was created as literary work, and not as a combat instruction.
Like any writer, Bogomolov mentioned the main provisions of the pendulum in passing, creating the necessary intrigue, but what he mentioned was true. The decoding of the “pendulum” technology presented in this material was made according to the numerous and persistent requests of employees law enforcement and anti-terrorist special forces.
In order to understand how this is done, it is necessary to return to the article "High-speed pistol shooting" (BIP No. 4 of 2008), as well as to the article "Aggressive sweep" (BIP No. 1 of 2002). These materials present the technique of tactical pistol shooting in the so-called "conditional method". At the same time, a very positive quality of this method is revealed - when firing from a pistol placed on its side, the trigger pull is practically irrelevant. The spread from the trigger pull will be obtained up and down, along the vertical of the growth silhouette. Accordingly, at rapid descent trigger and a quick, even jerky movement of the trigger finger on the trigger, the bullets will "diverge" vertically. In any case, the enemy will be hit, if not at the aiming point, then above or below it, if not in the chest, then in the shoulder or thigh. He will be amazed - this case the one who shoots first will be right.
Shooting from a pistol in a "conditional way" is a purely tactical method of combat work. "Conditional way" you can conveniently and quickly shoot in a confined space, sitting at a table or sitting in a car.

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A pistol placed on its side is fired “around the right corner” so as not to expose itself to an oncoming bullet (photo 1).
This point has been repeatedly described in the literature.

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Actually, once it all started with the fact that someone discovered how easy, convenient and fast cocked the thumb of the left hand with the trigger of a revolver placed on its side (photo 2).

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Now do an experiment. Hold the pistol as shown in photos 3 - 5 with your left shoulder raised, your left elbow pressed against your ribs and turning your left side (left shoulder) towards the target. Those who have previously been involved in boxing will habitually adopt this position, for it almost repeats the boxing stance. But it's not that. Take the target at the front sight, aiming at least with the right, even with the left eye, as it will be convenient for anyone.

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In this position, take a step forward with any foot that is more convenient, that is, to the side along the front from the target (photo 6). You will discover an interesting balance phenomenon: - the target will remain on the front sight. Take a step back in front of the target - the target will again remain on the front sight. It is this balance phenomenon that underlies the pistol shooting pendulum.
After a few minutes of this training, start taking wider steps, then practice making small forward and backward jumps, then increase the amplitude of these jumps. The target will remain on the fly. Naturally, when jumping, the front sight will go up and down, but, as mentioned earlier, when working on a vertical oblong target, this does not matter. Of course, in order for the fly to jump up and down less, you need to make sure that your “stern”, that is, the pelvic region, “walks” at the same level.

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All of the above is the basic "key" for an active minion. When working with the Macedonian grip with two weapons, the arms are slightly extended, the right shoulder is raised as much as possible, the shoulder girdle is enslaved (photo 7). The rest of the fabrication remains the same. Bogomolov did not lie: “... with revolvers in his hands raised to shoulder level ... .... he danced with his left shoulder forward, jerkily moving his body from side to side, and all the time moving himself, - something similar, only simpler, is done by a boxer in the ring " .
Here another interesting point opens - if you hold the revolver (pistol) in the generally accepted triangle, then in motion it will be almost impossible to catch the front sight on the target.

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And two revolvers held by the Macedonian grip in the same triangle (photo 8) behave very calmly and controlled in movements.
The author is once again forced to upset fans of military exoticism - the above described method of shooting while moving was not invented in the SMERSH system and not even in Russia. It appeared in Austria-Hungary, was developed by some junior officer of Magyar origin, and at the end of the 19th century quickly spread throughout Europe. At that time, it turned out to be simple, requiring almost no training, incredibly destructive and providing increased combat survivability the one who applied it. Among the Western European nobility, who professed nobility in a duel, such a shooting technique was immediately declared vulgar. Moreover, in the pendulum, increased shooting accuracy was achieved by men's sweatshop training.
What the aristocrats rejected took root in the secret services In 1898, in the same Austria-Hungary, a very good, easy-to-handle and very popular eight-shot double-action revolver of the Gasser cal system appeared. 8 mm. This weapon had a handle angle close to 90 °, for ease of holding in a "conditional way". The same can be said about the handle of the well-known Nagant revolver.

Designed in 1926 6.35mm. Korovin's pistol (see below "The Forgotten Weapon of the GPU") has a very specific shape of the handle. It somehow “sits” very badly in the hand with a vertical setting of the pistol and, like a “poured” one, fits in the palm of your hand when firing in a conditional way. This pistol, with the pendulum-like movement described above, is somehow very well attached to the target by the front sight. As old-timers said, this sample and Korovin's subsequent developments were mechanically balanced to work in a pendulum.
It cannot be said that in those days the “pendulum” was swung by everyone and sundry. The German Parabellum, the Austrian Steer, and many other commercial models with heavily inclined handles were not suitable for pendulum operation. But the designers - gunsmiths of those times tried to produce pistols suitable for both traditional shooting for accuracy and for a pendulum. So, the Soviet TT performed very well in the pendulum, even despite the very strong ammunition. The German Mauser Nikl, Mauser HSc, Czech Zbroevka, Spanish Star and so on worked perfectly in the pendulum.
However, let us return to the pendulum technique. From Bogomolov: ".... a boxer in the ring does the same thing, only easier." What a boxer does in the ring is to “dive” left and right. The same is true in the pendulum, only with shooting. When leaving by diving to the right, the boxer makes a direct blow with the left.

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When working with the Macedonian grip, the shooter, when dodging to the right, pushes forward left hand and shoots in a conditional way, capturing the target at the front sight with the left eye (photo 9).

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When leaving by diving to the left - the same thing, but only with the right hand, aim with the right eye, capturing the target either at the front sight, or at the right side of the bolt (photo 10).
Of course, the jerk to the side during such dives is much further and sharper than in a boxing match, because a hot bullet is not a fist in a glove. The reverse jerk is also done sharply. This will make it possible to make elastic deformation of the muscles and ligaments serving the femoral, knee and ankle joints, as well as the fact that at the moment the action of the extensor muscles begins to work much faster and stronger.

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Practice doing such forward and reverse jerks with the tilt of the body in the final phase of the dive, "towards the landing" and with a sharp extension of it when pushing off for a jerk in reverse side(photo 11 - 12). Push to the side, not up. Use the acquired inertia for maximum jumping movement in the opposite direction. Actually, such work from side to side with the inclinations of the body was called the "pendulum".
To make all of the above more effective, learn to do it at the lowest possible level on springy half-bent legs - the lower the better. Of course, while doing this, do not forget to visually control the aimed capture of the target. When your legs hurt from unusual loads, there will come a moment of firm confidence - you will feel that you are able to control events.
But that's not all. The starting push for a sharp departure to the side occurs first with support on the heel, with the immediate subsequent “turning on” of the toe of the pushing leg. To do this, turn on calf muscle and foot muscles. With a sharp jumping move to the side with the work of the foot, you can gain another 30-40 centimeters of jumping range. This is called the "pendulum offhand".

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Naturally, with such a repulsion, a person “lands” on the other leg with the heel turned outward (photo 13). This will allow a trained fighter to gain an additional 20 centimeters with a reverse repulsion and turning on the foot. That is why when working in the pendulum, it is necessary to have strong inflated legs.

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One way or another, when working “staggered”, a repeating preparation is formed with the heels set outward (photo 14). Its value lies in the fact that it significantly facilitates and accelerates the transfer of fire from target to target. And this transfer can be done at a large angle.

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If the employee is doing all this with one pistol, it is necessary to train the rapid transfer of weapons from hand to hand to fire at the appropriate tilt, as shown in photos 15-16. For a couple of days of training, the weapon will habitually “fly” from palm to palm.
There is a way to work in the pendulum without diving, but only by turning your left shoulder to the enemy.

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When stepping to the side, sharply move the pelvic area forward with a decrease in level (photo 17). Having fixed it in space (in no case should it be fed back),

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when stepping next foot sharply bend the body in the lower back (photo 18), use the forward leg as a push to jump back. This must also be done at the bottom level. The above technique is used when the enemy is going to shoot from the hip at an average level in order to remove the stomach and "stern" from the line of someone else's shot, and when it is necessary to protect the head from a hot bullet. Trained shooters make such tilts and sharp straightenings “one after another” very quickly, with a large amplitude and in alternating movements forward and backward, that is, to the right and left along the front from the enemy. At the same time, they represent a “flickering” target, which can only be hit by chance. Even more trained shooters do all this at a very low level, with wide strides and soft foot placements, first on the heel with rolling on the toe and vice versa, from toe to heel when moving in the opposite direction.
Without proper preparation, this will not work. It is for the training of the above that the so-called suples is developed. We read from Bogomolov: “Supples is the flexibility of the body. It is produced by special training exercises that increase the mobility of the spine and the elasticity of the intervertebral cartilage discs, the entire articular-ligamentous apparatus and the muscular system. Deciphering: in the word “suples”, freestyle wrestlers recognize the name of a wrestling technique, namely, to press the opponent to themselves, sharply bend back and throw it over themselves (over the back).

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To practice this technique, the wrestlers stand “on the bridge” (photo 19).

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Circus artists and those who train the shooting pendulum train the exit from the bridge to the standing position in one movement, without intermediate supports (photo 20)

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followed by a tilt and a wide step forward (photo 21). By the way, it is difficult to overestimate a well-established suples when working with a pistol as a strike weapon (see the article by Vladimir Nechvoglod “When the cartridges ran out”, “BIP”, 2008, No. 4) and in general in hand-to-hand combat.
In the literature, the term "counter pendulum" is sometimes found. In order to understand its essence, practice with a partner in a single sparring duel - when a partner makes, say, a move to the left of you, move to the right - your target will remain on the fly.
Of course, all movements to the right or left of the enemy must be done with different amplitudes so that a more or less experienced shooter catches you at the extreme point of movement.

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Bogomolov has a mention: ".... incessant deceptive movements - a feint game." This is again the same thing that a boxer does in the ring. In our case, after leaving with an inclination to the right (photo 22 - 23)

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the body does not unbend, but is transferred along the bottom with a jerk in the opposite direction (photo 24 - 25)

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followed by a rise (photos 26-27) or with a roll over the back or shoulder at the lower level - there are different options. In the performance of the pendulum, this is done with an increased amplitude up and down to the right and left. With inflated legs, this jerk can be done by jumping in the opposite direction without unbending the body. These are the usual boxing tricks.

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The pendulum is not static - the "conditional" position (photo 28) can be instantly transformed into a position for high-speed shooting. To do this, just stretch your arms and take this preparation.
The mysterious term "pendulum against pendulum" or "counter pendulum" is also simply deciphered. If, say, the enemy moves to your left, move to your right - with your pistol, put on its side, the target will remain on the front sight.
If you are just standing straight, at the moment of unexpected danger, just bend your legs with both knees to one side, while turning on your heels,

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And in the same direction sharply bend the body (Pic 30-31). After this starting movement, everything will go by itself. From the previously described pendulum techniques, the necessary combinations will begin to take shape along the way - just like in the ring. Especially if you play paintball with pistol-type markers, or you are “treated” with rubber bullets from a traumatic weapon in a protective suit, mask and helmet. After you get ten hits with paintballs in the side - and this is very painful - you will start to get very quickly and efficiently. In any case, try to move to your left if the enemy is shooting from right hand- it will be inconvenient for him to turn to the right of himself. At Bogomolov: ".... rapidly moved to the left ...".
As you can see, all this is not difficult, but it turns out only after a certain amount of time. We read from Bogomolov: “Tamantsev will train for at least half an hour now or after dinner ... in swinging the pendulum, in various jumps, feints and dashes, he will work out suples until the third sweat” In our time, of course, for this you need to stop drinking, smoke and lose weight. The question is, how much do you need to train? Answer: until it starts to work, and you stop getting hit in the side with paintballs.
The shooting pendulum technique was once widely practiced in many countries (including Germany) and therefore was never classified. The question arises - where did it all go? Answer: - all this and much more in the USSR began to quickly disappear from practice after 1937. Combat technologies are carried by living people and are forgotten very quickly. Combat instructions, having served a circular term, are destroyed according to the act. As a rule, there is no one to draw up new instructions. This is the answer to the age-old question: “Where did the bloody experience go?”
The same thing happened with the “pendulum” - they began to forget it in the late 30s. By that time, many carriers of operational-combat methods were shot, the rest "did not stick out." By the beginning of the war, the special services of the USSR focused on knocking out information, and not on specific "physical education". The place of the Korovin pistol was taken by the German Walter PPK.
Naturally, when it "squeezes", they try to restore combat technologies as best they can. From Bogomolov: "... in the spring (1944) Tamantsev went to Moscow and showed his skill in Macedonian shooting to a large group of officers and generals." The generals came to their senses too late. By the way, according to rumors, the fate of a real employee, the prototype of Tamantsev, after the war was terrible.
In the fifties, work in the pendulum, offhand shooting and much more at the Leningrad Military Institute of Physical Education. Lesgaft was trained by members of OSODMIL (the formation of voluntary assistance to the police). In peripheral bodies, in particular, in the criminal investigation department, the pendulum was trained back in the sixties. Then he was forgotten everywhere.
Of course, in the course of a real combat contact, it becomes necessary to make a combat somersault or roll from the extreme point of the pendulum with access to the legs. There are other spatial displacements in the pendulum. But more about this, perhaps, in the next issues of the magazine. The author is very happy about the appearance of sports pendulum clubs in Russia and considers this activity healthy and useful for law enforcement officers.

Alexey Potapov
Magazine " Martial arts Planets"

I receive a lot of messages asking "Tell me how to properly train and swing the "pendulum"" Answering, I decided to publish the article again.

The legend claims that the pendulum originally appeared in the cavalry, at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. The so-called cavalry shooting appeared, and it was carried out as follows. From two hands, and one hand, as a rule, was the left one, was at the level of the hip or belt, and the other hand was stretched out at eye level, as when shooting aiming.

During a cavalry attack with a ledge (to the left, to the right) and approaching the enemy’s formations, similar shooting was carried out, at the same time body movements followed, rocking the hull to the left and to the right to the maximum possible amplitude in order to make it difficult to aim fire at the advancing equestrian formations, since mainly the troops were armed with rifles and pistols (machine guns were generally a luxury).

After dismounting, the cavalrymen, due to injuries, etc. applied this practice and improved. As a result, a whole art of swinging the pendulum appeared, which included a complex of preparation, aiming and firing from a pistol with a simultaneous bias from the enemy’s shooting directory. I can't vouch for 100% accuracy, but that's how it was heard from one instructor.

Later, the pendulum was improved by SMERSH employees, after it was necessary to take the spy alive, if he died during the arrest, then the SMERSH employee himself could receive a ban for the disrupted operation. Here, in order to fire not to kill, but to suppress the enemy, while approaching him quickly to capture and not get a bullet himself, this technique was invented, which was later called the "pendulum".

The whole tactic of the pendulum consisted in one, maximum two quick rolls to the enemy, to approach and suppress him with aimed fire, so that the bullets lay as close as possible, in a separate case, a slight injury to the detainee was allowed. As a rule, this will work in the case of shooting from a pistol, I'm afraid that when shooting from an automatic weapon, you should not be heroic ...

Below I will give the pendulum training technique, but for now I want to give the opinion of one of the current GRU special forces officers, with whom I agree 95%.

Here is his opinion: In general, the use of the pendulum by SMERSH employees is a rather controversial issue. For there are legends that all employees owned it, such a conclusion can be drawn by reading Potapov's book. But, there is also the opposite! So you can argue endlessly. And the things shown in the film "In August 44" (according to Bogomolov's book "The Moment of Truth") - shows a variant of the training of a particular fighter ...

In recent years, in a near-professional environment of special forces, a bullet evasion technique called the "Pendulum" has become very popular. There are even publications under such headings. These books are bought, reprinted and bought again. There is probably nothing reprehensible in the fact that the people who write them want to make money. Potapov's "secret" books about how to swing in different sides. Everything is fine. Easy to read. There is a desire to try, even build a preparation plan based on what you read. And it's nice to think about how wonderful that the pendulum technique has not sunk into oblivion. And what a fine fellow the author is for giving us this wonderful work.

The only thing that is not there is at least one scientific fact. You don't need much. You just need to, from the standpoint of science, define this phenomenon: how a person evades bullets. Even if it will be near-scientific, but the facts. I understand that it is possible to tactically competently meet fire contact, and they will not hit you. This is one. This is pure tactics. But getting away from the shot, this, sorry, is completely different.

After all, it was necessary, well, at least out of decency, to publish the composition of the group on which the practical part this experiment, on the basis of which such things are written. I can continue the list of what is missing for a very long time, although it should be, based on even the minimum requirements for scientific papers. I firmly know that there will be no facts. Never. Because everything that is written there is a fiction.

Now why do I agree 95% and not 100% with the interviewer.

There is a fully developed training methodology on how to catch an arrow in front of your chest-hand, fired at you from a sports bow, from 50m. It was all made up on long cloudy evenings. Sitting in the kitchen, in the light of the lampshade. I do not at all mean to say that the pendulum system is missing, or to ridicule the people who believed it. Not at all. All this is, all this was. Only the difference between what the military security officers (SMERSH) did and what contemporaries present to us, as between vodka and a machine gun. Both knock down, but in different ways.

And here's what's weird. The only source that mentions the pendulum is Bogomolov's novel "In August forty-fourth ...". And then, the pendulum is described there in the form of an artistic narrative. Where is the source? You can ask questions endlessly. And in the end, we will find out that the only source is Potapov and Company himself. And that's it. Whatever you want with it, then do it. Don't you think this is strange?

Not a single instructor in fire training of the leading special forces of the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia knows anything about the bullet avoidance system. Not a single tactical-special training instructor knows either. Veterans who have gone through all the recent wars also shrug their shoulders. In the special forces of the GRU, without which not a single good fight can do, they also know nothing. Moreover, not a single foreign method, not a single school or center, deals with such nonsense. Even the Israelis, who are in fashion unconventional approach and they don't know anything.

But you, who bought this book for two hundred rubles, you know. That's funny. What's even funnier is that a lot of people are already doing it. There are believers. Teaching aids are being written.

People are busy, as it seems to them, a serious matter. They get tired in training, share with each other successes in the difficult task of dodging bullets. There are leaders who are already doing this. (Well, another year or two, and we will begin to dodge machine guns, and then, you see, why not take a swing at a machine gun.)

What the counterintelligence operas did during the war years could be called "Pendulum". Yes, it most likely was. Because you can't imagine better. Briefly, concisely and in one word defines actions. The pendulum swings. First one way, then the other. I do not insist on this word, this is a collective concept. For Bogomolov, this is a pendulum. I'm sure there are many more definitions. But it is very stupid to think that the body needs to be rocked. You need to shake up the situation. This is what it is all about.

All answers to all questions are here - shake the current situation. They swing from one extreme to the other. The operatives of the military counterintelligence (SMERSH) did not rock the body from side to side, they rocked the person. They played, forcing experienced scouts to make mistakes and reveal themselves.

Now I have to deviate from the topic a little to the side. Let's go back to the forties. We need to understand who these people were. How did they manage to do this without initiated cases and signals, without investigation and the sanction of the prosecutor, without a court decision and sentence, having met a person, if they suspected him of treason, simply kill him. And who were the people hunted by SMERSH wolfhounds. Some dry facts.

By a resolution of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars (Council of People's Commissars) of November 5, 1934, a special meeting was established under the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs. The Special Council had the right to exile persons recognized as socially dangerous without trial to labor camps. Up to five years. Just five years of a general regime zone. Anyone who, for example, was late for work. And this is for its citizens. This date is also considered by some to be the beginning of the Great Purge.

In 1937, the Special Council received the right to send to camps for up to eight years.

On November 17, 1941, the Special Conference acquired the right to pass any sentence, up to and including the death penalty. Death sentences were carried out immediately. According to the Decree of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR of December 1, 1934, court sessions were held without prosecutors and lawyers.

By order of the NKVD of the USSR of May 27, 1935, regional troikas of the NKVD were created, which had the rights of a Special Conference. The trio included: the head of the local department of the NKVD or his deputy, the head of the police department and the head of the department of the NKVD, who dealt with the case. All yours, as you can see. No frills.

A special meeting gave ten years in the camps for failure to comply with the decision to surrender personal radios. Think about it - ten years for a radio.

In 1943, the NKVD was again divided, and the military counterintelligence was singled out into an independent structure called SMERSH with direct subordination to Stalin as the people's commissar of defense.

SMERSH had its own investigative unit:

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1st Department of SMERSH controlled the General Staff of the Red Army, the GRU and the intelligence agencies of the fronts and armies.
2nd department was in charge of air defense, aviation and airborne forces.
3rd department- tank troops, artillery and guards mortars.
4th department supervised the intelligence and operational work of the fronts.
2nd branch SMERSH was engaged in the fight against desertion, treason, crossbows and was in charge of the barrage service.
4th department was in charge of the editorial offices of military newspapers, tribunals and military ensembles and academies.
5th department SMERSH was responsible for quartermaster supplies, medicine, and transportation.
6th department was engaged in operational maintenance of the NKVD troops.
7th department kept records of traitors to the Motherland, spies, saboteurs, terrorists, cowards, alarmists, deserters, crossbowmen and anti-Soviet elements. (If you fell under one of the points, you, of course, were shot.)

It was SMERSH who managed to emerge victorious from the battle of the two largest intelligence and counterintelligence services. The only one whom Stalin managed to oppose to Beria was Abakumov, the head of SMERSH.

The Main Directorate of Counterintelligence SMERSH worked as part of and together with the advancing army. Let's just say - on the front.

I wrote this to make it clear that the SMERSH operative in those years was a demigod - half a man. They could not shoot from service weapons. And the Smershevites, having met a suspect in reconnaissance and sabotage activities, could independently decide to detain or destroy, it doesn’t matter.

Did those people who were thrown into our rear know about this? They knew. They knew what awaited them in case of failure and what methods would be used to deal with them. And when these two met, it wasn't even their lives that were at stake. Behind the saboteur was ABWER, a network of agents that took years to build. Behind the smershevets is the effectiveness of entire armies.

That, having signed a decree on the division of the NKVD into two people's commissariats and approving Merkulov as the head of the NKGB, and Abakumov as the head of the SMERSH GUKR, in 1943, Stalin also signed a decree on the creation of a SMERSH shooting school ?! This is silly. Of course not. There was none of this. There were no secret techniques. Do you think they had time for shooting training?

The front line for them was quite different. The main struggle waged by the Smershevites was not fought with pistols and grenades. She was brainwashed. And the fact that the methods of forceful detention were bestial, merciless in nature (I mean leg sweeps and other things that were described in Bogomolov's novel) was dictated by the war. Yes, and there is nothing surprising in this.

I will say that, pulling out spirits at addresses, a couple of years ago (when trying to fire resistance), we did something else. And we all know that the interrogation did not end with shooting over the ear, the “cold pressing” of information is a very multifaceted thing.

So why did our colleagues go out in August of the 44th together to take three seasoned saboteurs. Three for three. Did they know something and knew something that we do not know and do not know?

If, among other things, we discard wartime, their powers, motivation, ideology and leave the momentary need, then what is needed right now to fulfill combat mission?

The ability to take initiative, oneself and information - this is what gave them the opportunity to fulfill their duty. All that is needed in order to swing a saboteur like a pendulum is to know the operational situation, feel the situation, understand psychological picture suspect, all the subtleties of the operational game. This is the secret that they are now trying to sell us in the form of stupid gestures.

And if you remember, they gave only a day to liquidate the Neman group. If Captain Alekhin had learned to shoot in Macedonian and swing like a pendulum, he would never have taken the Neman group. He couldn't have handled the situation. What shooting are you talking about? What are the secret techniques? Why put on a masquerade? Think.

The human body has more than a hundred degrees of freedom. There are laws of physics and chemistry. There is psychophysiology and biomechanics. There are ballistics, internal and external. There is also performance characteristics weapons and ammunition. And to digest all this, you also need a brain. There is nothing more

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There are no and never were any closed SMERSH shooting schools, in which only the management staff and "wolfhounds" were trained. If there were methods, then there were people, then there were documents. Where is all this? The authors of the books claim that they were lost, and now, after many years, they have finally managed to restore the pendulum system.

They weren't lost. They simply didn't exist. There was experience, rich experience of operational-combat work. SMERSH recruited the best. And there was no shortage of people. Very hard natural selection: the one who made a mistake, he perished. Add to this the experience of war, and here you have a "wolfhound". SMERSH operative could rock anyone. Read the memoirs of the old SMERSHs, and you will understand everything. Even the rich language these books are written speaks volumes.

There were no training systems, let alone documents. It's just a legend. Childishly naive. How do you imagine the loss of such documents in the structure of the NKGB-SMERSH-NKVD? This is simply impossible by definition. I know what I'm writing about. Even the most mediocre pieces of paper have been kept in the archives since the time of Tsar Pea. What loss?

There is a situation. There is an operative who controls the situation. And, besides just writing papers in the office, he must also take with arms and always alive those whom he develops. Shake, tear, force to show their essence. This is not an easy task. Knowing that there will be resistance. Interrupting fire contact was prohibited by internal instructions. Is it possible now? The answer is obvious.

For the failure of the operation, the officers were sent to the penal battalion for a period of two to six months. It was called cowardice. It hasn't been shot yet. But if the wording was, for example: connivance, negligence, cowardice, they were shot immediately. And a week later they could shoot all family members, including children from 14 years old. Therefore, it was preferable to die in battle. Then the family received rations and other valuables of that time.

A person, put by life in such a situation, squeezed the maximum out of the possibilities of his body.

I will give an example from my own experience of how a person, placed on the verge of life and death, can act. I have one favorite and fail-safe technique - capture. As soon as I manage to move slightly to the left or right from the frontal plane of the opponent with physical contact, I perform a neck grab, followed by a choke. After 3-8 seconds, depending on the physical condition, the enemy loses consciousness.

And now, using this technique for more than 25 years (not a single failure during this time), somehow I hold a hold from behind (generally ideal), do a choke and wait for the enemy to turn off.

And suddenly I find myself on the pavement with him, he has already left the choke hold. Then it turned out, when watching (they were filming), that he did a somersault back, and my body served as a support for him. As it turned out, he was neither a commando, nor a karateka, not even a gymnast. In his youth, he went in for sports (at the time of his arrest, he was 46 years old), graduated from a technical school of physical education and simply did exercises in the morning.

Feeling that he was dying (according to him), already losing consciousness, purely reflexively, he did a somersault back. In his youth, he did somersaults, but not on the ground, but into the water from the shore, or a stone.
He survived the fight. Gaining experience. With each time becoming more and more dangerous adversary. He is his own commando, opera, investigator and judge. Such was the situation at that time.

The pendulum is the brainchild of SMERSH, but it died along with its parent. Moreover, they had one habitat - it was war. I read more than once "In August forty-fourth .."

Yes, it is really written about technical actions, but it was performed by one, separately taken Tamantsev. Now, as then, every fighter with combat experience has their favorite fighting techniques. that help you win. Techniques that once saved his life. Own program of actions, for example, to roll out a grenade. Everyone has their own. Tamantsev danced like a boxer, and Ivanov Ivan Ivanovich carries a RShG-1 grenade with him.

And now what? In 80 years they will write about the secret that the special forces had in 2000.? If the level of intelligence does not increase, then they will write.

Now I'll get back to dodging bullets. I myself can personally guarantee that at a distance of 20 meters and closer with a pistol I will hit you as many times as I need, no matter how you twitch.

Take a piece of paper and a pen and count how many muscles you need to contract to take a step to the side, multiply by two, because by contracting one muscle, the brain sends a signal to the antagonist muscle to relax. Then count the step with the slope.

And how much is needed in order to aim the weapon at the aiming point and click on trigger. That more? That's all evasion for you. Which side are you going to dodge? And if the distance is five meters and shooting without moving to the aiming line, but from the chest?

Undoubtedly, in close combat, speed is one of the most important indicators. But there is another criterion. The most accurate, quick and devastating shot will be the one that is made on time. A shot that is tied to a given situation. Knowing and understanding the situation you find yourself in will give you the ability to make that shot. This shot will never miss. The one who takes the initiative into his own hands is the winner. The one who swings the pendulum of the situation is the one who makes the decision.

This is the pendulum system. Good investigators and the opera are fluent in it. Brothers on their arrows swing the pendulum so that you swing. Only they call it "pumping the swing." Prisoners, who have served ten years, can swing well. There is something to learn from them too. They, like the Smershevites, depended on it for their lives. In the zone, this is called "dissolve".

In life, if you have books of this content on your shelf, it means that the authors of these books have also lied to you. In all the variety of life situations, the same laws work. That in the Shilovsky forest "In August 44th ..", that in the zone in August 2010.

Take my word for it, when an adult kid tries to dance in a shooting gallery, like a dead man, and asks at the same time:

- "Well, how? And like this if? And so? Is it hard to aim?" - this is a nightmarish sight.

And given that he has two children at home, he becomes infinitely ashamed of this victim of the pendulum. I share the desire of the authors of secret books to believe in the best that all bullets will fly past, because we will dodge them. But we must face the harsh facts.

It is impossible to recreate what was in the Great Patriotic War before it, under Tsar Pea. For already, I hope, understandable reasons. And frankly, there is no need for this now. There are enough other problems in shooting now.

Today, it is almost always civilians who win practical shooting competitions. What is in the pistol category, what is in the carbine. From which it is clear that the population shoots better than those who are called upon to protect this population from the external and internal enemy. Here is the opinion of the current combat officer.

Now I have my own, proven method of training the "pendulum", but now with age and experience, I understand that we trained - the reaction.

In the army, we trained the pendulum as follows (I want to warn you right away that these were independent exercises, in no combat plans and physical training, they were not).

Two parallel lines were drawn at a distance of 1.5 meters and 10 - 12 meters in length - the "corridor". They took balls to play in tennis. One moved without leaving the corridor, and the second stood and threw balls, aiming at the chest, to the one who was moving. From lesson to lesson, the strength of the throw increased. Then they moved on to small stones, pebbles. When “skill in swinging the pendulum” appeared, they threw TT cartridges.

I must say that the "level of skill" increased quite a lot when we moved on to the stones. Yes, a very important clarification, you need to train naked to the waist in order to “feel a bullet with your skin.”

Well, whoever wants, in great detail, with descriptions, diagrams, drawings, etc., I refer you to Potapov's books.

Good luck and remember that it is better to hit the enemy with a bullet in the leg or shoulder than to swing the "pendulum" dodging his bullets.

cl words: Miskin, hand-to-hand combat, Russian style, saved, analysis, history, story

The conclusion suggests itself - if it saved and is a system of scouts (by the way, it really is the forerunner of the Soviet (and current) military intelligence), then at least this system has been processed and tested by the army. In other words, there can be no question of any transfer of tradition within the family - i.e. we return again to the versions about the military origin of the spas.

What do we get as a result? Sergey Cherny, the great-uncle of Leonid Petrovich, from whom, in fact, Leonid Petrovich studied, most likely was an experienced military professional who went through the crucible of the Great Patriotic War, and most likely saved - one of the army systems of a number of special forces (for example, military intelligence or counterintelligence SMERSH).

What evidence is there for this, besides my own reasoning, which may be erroneous? For example, the similarity of the training of military intelligence officers from Bulochko's book, a number of points from the training of partisans (the book "Partisan's Companion", M. - 1942), as well as instructions for conducting hand-to-hand combat classes from the Second World War with training in the rescue. Or, for example, the similarity with some other army systems. > Now let's look at these other systems. For example, let's take a colorful description of the practice of SMERSH from Bogomolov's no less colorful novel "In August 1944, or the Moment of Truth." Yes, we will talk about the very "swing of the pendulum", around which so many copies have already been broken. For example, about shooting "in Macedonian" - that is. shooting from 2 pistols at the same time, and on the move. In the Spas there is a whole section devoted to shooting from a pistol and from 2 pistols - and everything happens just on the move or at the enemy, or leaving the trajectory of his shots to the side, behind cover. Only this is not called "shooting in Macedonian" or "swinging of the pendulum" - but in a completely different way. Although I advise you to pay close attention to the word "goydok" itself - the expression "swing the pendulum" from Russian into Ukrainian can be translated as "hitati pendulum", or it can also be translated as "goydati pendulum" (but we will also return to this later).

The skepticism of critics regarding the "swing of the pendulum" is again not entirely correct understanding of the conditions in which this technique could be implemented. Of course, if in an open area, but at a great distance from the enemy, you fan out in front of you with a submachine gun, no "pendulum" will ever help. Such a technique could be implemented in conditions where the enemy does not expect the attack itself - either he did not have time to draw his weapon, or he had already been "knocked down" by diverting attention in various ways. The distance also plays a huge, decisive role - more than 5 meters from the enemy in open space, the problem of using the "pendulum" becomes very, very problematic. And in general, when they say "swing the pendulum", it seems that you can swing it, like a metronome, for an arbitrarily long time. This, of course, is complete nonsense! "Pendulum" can really be executed by dodging one, maximum two enemy shots - and then extremely quickly changing the trajectory of your movement: and during this time you need to either have time to go behind cover, or have time to shoot the enemy yourself. Those. everything happens literally in a fraction of a second - one, two and you're done. Fantasists who imagine that you can walk under bullets, as if charmed, for as long as you like, I ask you not to disturb.

And in order not to be unfounded, I advise you to refer to the books of A. Potapov "Pistol shooting techniques. The practice of SMERSH" and S. Ivanov-Katansky "Pendulum step" - many options for behavior in this situation are illustrated there. One of the options for "swinging the pendulum" is designed to draw a weapon and defeat the enemy, dodging his shot. Others are designed to evade the enemy's shot and approach him closely to disarm him or hit him point-blank. Let me emphasize right away that all these options of the indicated authors are absolutely working and real, but not exhaustive. For example, for many years I have collected other variants of the “swing of the pendulum”, which were introduced to me either by former military men, or by the children (grandchildren) of former military men and military skills passed down in their family. True, with reference either to the grandfather of a military intelligence officer during the Second World War, or to serving in special forces.

And I’ll emphasize right away that there is no goyd in these books, although there are remotely similar options. The most interesting thing is the fact that none of the options in the books of Potapov and Ivanov-Katansky fits the description of "swinging the pendulum side by side", when Tamantsev was exactly "dancing" in the "pendulum"! But when, in front of my eyes, Leonid Petrovich, with 2 dummies of pistols, began to move in a goydka, I understood exactly how that same "wolfhound" Tamantsev was "dancing". At least, under the description of Bogomolov fits completely! And in general, there are very, very many parallels with the rescue - although the author of the novel "The Moment of Truth" did not describe, for example, work with a knife or unarmed equipment that takes place in the rescue.

Let us now consider another system, around which many myths are also piled up - the St. Petersburg stapler. Although the head of this direction, Andrei Vadimovich Gruntovsky, in every possible way denies this name, preferring to call his direction simply Russian fisticuffs. The name skobar was replicated by journalists and given with the light hand of the ethnographer Mekhnetsov, who saw in the plasticity of the movements of Andrei Gruntovsky and his students many elements of the staple, folk tune and dance to it in a number of northwestern regions of Russia. Andrei Vadimovich himself repeatedly pointed out that his father, Vadim Iosifovich Gruntovsky, taught him this technique, who, in turn, studied this technique at the ShAR (Army Intelligence School) in 1953. in the training center in Brovary near Kyiv. Among the topics, the cadets went through hand-to-hand combat based on striking techniques, knife fighting, disarmament techniques, methods of movement and shooting from firearms. According to the memoirs of Vadim Iosifovich, the instructors called only the methods of fighting and disarming with the help of painful arms "jiu-jitsu", calling everything else only hand-to-hand combat, thereby emphasizing its difference from jiu-jitsu. By the way, "pendulum" or "jump" is one of the terms used in this school. Perhaps, emphasizing the name "jiu-jitsu", the instructors wanted to emphasize the police nature of these techniques. While the rest of the equipment was aimed at guaranteed destruction of the enemy, even superior in number - i.e. the army character of the system is obvious (the task was to DESTROY - and not to ARREST). Moreover, I understand that this fact will cause outright indignation among a part of the Ukrainian audience - but this technique was taught to employees of special forces, whose task was to fight, in the vocabulary of that time, with "Bandera gangs", i.e. with OUN-UPA detachments. This is not a very attractive page of history - but you can't erase words from a song. Although I have no data on the participation of Vadim Iosifovich in such operations, he simply did not have time to participate in them, because. autumn 1953 the training center was closed and disbanded.

In terms of the nature of training, the pattern of training, and the technique itself and the manner of movement, the technicians of the army intelligence and rescue schools are not identical - but very close. In other words, they are related - though not similar systems. I had the honor to see this for myself, having got acquainted in practice with the stapler.

In my search for the roots of the Spas, I also stumbled several times on some rumors about some other training centers army hand-to-hand combat systems, in addition to training in Brovary. A real find for me was the meeting with Sh-ov Vladimir Ivanovich in the same 2005. (I don’t give the full name of this person due to a number of moral circumstances - but several people from among those who worked with me on the rescue can personally testify to his real existence). Vladimir Ivanovich lived a difficult life, in the early 70s he served in a special unit subordinate to the GRU of the USSR Ministry of Defense. The task that his unit performed was to covertly approach enemy targets and install radio beacons on them - for their subsequent direction finding and destruction, either by landing (the scope of the DShB - airborne assault battalions), or by delivering a missile and bomb strike on them. Therefore, it was camouflage and covert approach to enemy objects that came to the fore. Engaging in hand-to-hand combat was tantamount to the failure of the operation. For the same reason, there was also no technique for removing sentries - the disappearance of a sentry or the discovery of his corpse signaled to the enemy that an enemy RDG (reconnaissance and sabotage group) was in his zone of responsibility. But nevertheless, an interesting version of army hand-to-hand combat was also taught to them - the main task, once a member of the group was discovered and engaged in hand-to-hand combat, was to strike the enemy, first of all, depriving him of the opportunity to scream - so as not to raise the alarm. It was ideal if the enemy was destroyed by the same blow. Therefore, the knife came to the fore. If this condition was not respected, the blow was delivered with an unarmed hand to vulnerable zones, depriving the enemy of the opportunity to scream - and only then he achieved. At the same time, the operation was failed, but it remained possible to evade persecution and maintain the strength of the group. Many of the techniques of this system coincide with the rescue - my friends also had the opportunity to verify this, which they can also testify.

This technique is related to the spas and the brace by similar plasticity of movements, similar structure and similar training methods. And although Vladimir Ivanovich did not demonstrate goydok, many of his movements resemble goydok very, very strongly. At the same time, Vladimir Ivanovich emphasized that they were given an "incomplete" version - although their instructors of the "more complete" version taught another unit, whose specialization was + just the destruction of the enemy's RDG!

Coincidences with spas - just a lot. For example, the same place for training was called a "polygon", and tendons, for example, were called "zhizhki" both there and there. Similar weapon simulators and similar training conditions were used. Moreover, even a number of stories that Vladimir Ivanovich remembered and heard from his instructors were almost a complete analogue of the rescue! For example, Leonid Petrovich talked about the origin of the hopak dance - they say, the Cossacks, who knew how to ride a horse, coming to the villages to stay and participating in evening parties, in order to somehow show their youth in front of the rural lads, in the dance they often performed the movements used in equestrian in combat - dismounting from a horse, jumping on it and pushing the enemy's horse. Almost a similar story was told by Vladimir Ivanovich - at the same time, I note that this story has not yet been published anywhere (in order to avoid the so-called secondary effect of folklore).

Interest in weapons and shooting is great. And, as a result, there are more and more sources of information every day. There are so-called "fashionable" themes in shooting. There are also "secret" ones. However, "old-secret" shooting techniques are now especially popular, they are also "funny". Such as, for example: SMERSH shooting technique, NKVD shooting, Tsarist secret police shooting. I hope to read about Malyuta Skuratov's squeakers soon. Somebody has to restore what has been lost. There are many authors who own "secret" shooting techniques and write on these topics. What is the secret, to be honest, I just can not understand. The pistol has been known to mankind for more than a century. And so, in the third millennium, secrets appeared. In practical shooting competitions, people shoot at moving and appearing targets at a speed that is hard to imagine. It would seem that they squeezed everything that is possible out of the weapon. The first shot in 0.5 - 0.7 s is already the norm. Six shots with the extraction of weapons for 1.5 - 1.8 also became in the order of things. The rate of fire is five rounds per second. They shoot and hit almost on the run and from the most uncomfortable positions.

But here are the "secret techniques". You will not see the authors of these techniques at any of the competitions; they also do not serve in special forces units. Each of them, I assume, has his own secret pistol, a secret cartridge of a secret caliber, the bullet from which flies along a secret trajectory. They have secret ballistic tables in their pockets.
One of these secrets I would like to touch and illuminate as far as possible. The reason that prompted me to do this is the substitution of concepts, and the universal disease of novice shooters with these, so to speak, crazy techniques. I want to help heal this. We have to figure out how it became possible at all that books with such titles are bought. For every product there is a buyer. It's right.

In recent years, in the near-professional environment of special forces, a bullet evasion technique called the "Pendulum" has become very popular. There are even publications under such headings. These books are bought, reprinted and bought again. There is probably nothing reprehensible in the fact that the people who write them want to make money. Everyone wants.
With these people, everything is clear. But with those who buy these books? For myself, I have long deduced that those in whom I saw the books of the author Potapov on the shelf are not normal shooters, and even more so professionals in their field.
Potapov's "secret" books about how to sway in different directions are given to read under an oath that you will return. The "secret techniques" for dodging bullets, taken from the same book, are hidden like obscene secrets. The happy owners of these secrets only smile with the smiles of people who have comprehended the great wisdom of the universe. And while the others are wandering in the dark, they already know where the light came from. And here you are, degreased family budget Rubles for two hundred commercials, bought a book about the "Pendulum". Opened it up. And there, the Bogomolov one, already beloved by the spetsnaz heart: "... the bullets went through the lap ...", "... dancing like a boxer ...". Nicely. Next comes Potapov's description of exactly how to swing and dance. Moreover, there are even names of these techniques. There are also such words as SMERSH, counterintelligence, residents, secret schools, and everything else that causes a slight spiritual thrill.
Everything is fine. Easy to read. There is a desire to try, even build a preparation plan based on what you read. And it's nice to think about how wonderful that the "pendulum" technique has not sunk into oblivion. And what a fine fellow the author is for giving us this wonderful work.
The only thing that is not there is at least one scientific fact. You don't need much. You just need to, from the standpoint of science, define this phenomenon: how a person evades bullets. Even if it will be near-scientific, but the facts. I understand that it is possible to tactically competently meet fire contact, and they will not hit you. This is one. This is pure tactics. But getting away from the shot, this, sorry, is completely different. After all, it was necessary, well, at least out of decency, to publish the composition of the group on which the practical part of this experiment was carried out, on the basis of which such things as about the "Pendulum" are written. I can continue the list of what is missing for a very long time, although it should be, based on even the minimum requirements for scientific papers. I firmly know that there will be no facts. Never. Because everything that is written there is a fiction. It was all made up on long cloudy evenings. Sitting in the kitchen, in the light of a lampshade, the most terrible phrases were spoken aloud in order to assess their weight. And from this, the wife woke up in the next room. Everything was like that. The man made money.

And in short, then you, comrade commandos, are invited to take the word of that technique that will teach you how to dodge bullets. Based on those already published, I propose to the authors of "secret" books the title of the following: "Methods for extracting bullets from the body and launching one's own heart using the SMERSH technique." Gunshot logic tells you that's exactly what you'll need when, during fire contact, you start to swing sideways and roll on the ground in front of four opponents.
I do not at all mean to say that the pendulum system is missing, or to ridicule the people who believed it. Not at all. All this is, all this was. Only the difference between what the military security officers (SMERSH) did and what contemporaries present to us, as between vodka and a machine gun. Both knock down, but in different ways.

And here's what's weird. The only source that mentions the pendulum is Bogomolov's novel "In August forty-fourth ...". And then, the pendulum is described there in the form of an artistic narrative. Bogomolov, no doubt, was a respected and competent person, and to this day his authority is not in doubt. So, he simply could not just invent everything that was written. with the authors modern editions he was not familiar with the "pendulum". It is a fact. And now, many years later, the "pendulum" saw the light again. Where? Where is the source? You can ask questions endlessly. And in the end, we will find out that the only source is Potapov and Company himself. And that's it. Whatever you want with it, then do it. Don't you think this is strange?

Not a single instructor in fire training of the leading special forces of the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia knows anything about the bullet avoidance system. Not a single tactical-special training instructor knows either. Veterans who have gone through all the recent wars also shrug their shoulders. In the special forces of the GRU, without which not a single good fight can do, they also know nothing. Moreover, not a single foreign method, not a single school or center, deals with such nonsense. Even the Israelis, who have an unconventional approach in fashion, don't know anything. But you, who bought this book for two hundred rubles, you know. That's funny.

What's even funnier is that a lot of people are already doing it. There are believers. Teaching aids are being written. People are busy, as it seems to them, a serious matter. They get tired in training, share with each other successes in the difficult task of dodging bullets. There are leaders who are already doing this. (Well, another year or two, and we will begin to dodge machine guns, and then, you see, why not take a swing at a machine gun.)

It's good to be busy with something. Too bad it's not. And if you are among the people who have these books and others like them, then I am writing just for you. And what I will write should prompt you to think about the proper training of a special forces shooter.
Yes, what the counterintelligence operas did during the war years could be called "Pendulum". Yes, it most likely was. Because you can't imagine better. Briefly, concisely and in one word defines actions. The pendulum swings. First one way, then the other. I do not insist on this word, this is a collective concept. For Bogomolov, this is a pendulum. I'm sure there are many more definitions.

But it is very stupid to think that the body needs to be rocked. You need to shake up the situation. This is what it is all about. All answers to all questions are here - shake the current situation. They swing from one extreme to the other.

Dear owners of "secret" books! You are being fooled. Silencing a tank does not mean yelling louder than a tank. This means turning off the engine of the tank. And you, excuse me, learn to scream. Yes, and come up with names for screaming techniques. The operatives of the military counterintelligence (SMERSH) did not rock the body from side to side, they rocked the person. They played, forcing experienced scouts to make mistakes and reveal themselves.
Now I have to deviate from the topic a little to the side. Let's go back to the forties. We need to understand who these people were. How did they manage to do this without initiated cases and signals, without investigation and the sanction of the prosecutor, without a court decision and sentence, from trophy weapons, having met a person, simply kill him. And who were the people hunted by SMERSH wolfhounds. Some dry facts.
By a resolution of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars (Council of People's Commissars) of November 5, 1934, a special meeting was established under the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs. The Special Council had the right to exile persons recognized as socially dangerous without trial to labor camps. Up to five years. Just five years of a general regime zone. Anyone who, for example, was late for work. And this is for its citizens. This date is also considered by some to be the beginning of the Great Purge.

In 1937, the Special Council received the right to send to camps for up to eight years.
On November 17, 1941, the Special Conference acquired the right to pass any sentence, up to and including the death penalty. Death sentences were carried out immediately. According to the Decree of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR of December 1, 1934, court sessions were held without prosecutors and lawyers.

These are the rights and powers our colleagues were endowed with at that time. Is not full list capabilities of the NKVD.
Yezhov alone shot 14,000 of his Chekists in those years. The civilian population was shot by the millions. These were people who somehow did not please the authorities. Every third person in the country was an enemy of the people. Now imagine what they could do with pest saboteurs? They were simply outside the law, in other words - they could be destroyed without any restrictions.

A special meeting gave ten years in the camps for failure to comply with the decision to surrender personal radios. Think about it - ten years for a radio. In 1943, the NKVD was again divided, and the military counterintelligence was singled out into an independent structure called SMERSH with direct subordination to Stalin as the people's commissar of defense. SMERSH had its own investigative unit.

The 1st department of SMERSH controlled the General Staff of the Red Army, the GRU and the intelligence agencies of the fronts and armies.
The 2nd department was in charge of air defense, aviation and airborne forces.
3rd department - tank troops, artillery and guards mortars.
The 4th department supervised the intelligence and operational work of the fronts.
The 2nd branch of SMERSH was engaged in the fight against desertion, treason, crossbows and was in charge of the barrage service.
The 4th branch was in charge of the editorial offices of military newspapers, tribunals and military ensembles and academies.
The 5th department of SMERSH was responsible for quartermaster supplies, medicine, and transportation.
The 6th department was engaged in the operational maintenance of the NKVD troops.
The 7th department kept records of traitors to the Motherland, spies, saboteurs, terrorists, cowards, alarmists, deserters, self-shooters and anti-Soviet elements. (If you fell under one of the points, you, of course, were shot.)
It was SMERSH who managed to emerge victorious from the battle of the two largest intelligence and counterintelligence services. The only one whom Stalin managed to oppose to Beria was Abakumov, the head of SMERSH. The Main Directorate of Counterintelligence SMERSH worked as part of and together with the advancing army. Let's just say - on the front.

Did those people who were thrown into our rear know about this? They knew. They knew what awaited them in case of failure and what methods would be used to deal with them. And when these two met, it wasn't even their lives that were at stake. Behind the saboteur was a network of agents that took years to build. Behind the smershevets is the effectiveness of entire armies.

Both were well prepared. What was this preparation? Stuffed kentos? No. Maybe a delivered kick (low kick)? Also no. Bogomolov would have written that, they say, Mishchenko had a low-kick. Is it possible to talk here about the special shooting school of SMERSH? What, having signed a decree on the division of the NKVD into two people's commissariats and approving Merkulov as the head of the NKGB, and Abakumov as the head of the SMERSH GUKR, in 1943 Stalin also signed a decree on the creation of a SMERSH shooting school ?! This is silly. What, Captain Alekhin knew how to dodge bullets? Of course not. There was none of this. There were no secret techniques. Do you think they had time for shooting training?
The front line for them was quite different. The main struggle waged by the Smershevites was not fought with pistols and grenades. She was brainwashed. And the fact that the methods of forceful detention were bestial, merciless in nature (I mean leg sweeps and other things that were described in Bogomolov's novel) was dictated by the war. Yes, and there is nothing surprising in this. I will say that, pulling out spirits at addresses, a couple of years ago (when trying to fire resistance), we did something else. And we all know that the interrogation did not end with shooting over the ear, the "cold pressing" of information is a very multifaceted thing.
So why did our colleagues go out in August of the 44th together to take three seasoned saboteurs. Three for three. They knew something and knew something that we do not know and do not know.

If, among other things, we discard wartime, their powers, motivation, ideology and leave the momentary need, then what is needed right now to complete a combat mission? The ability to take initiative, oneself and information - this is what gave them the opportunity to fulfill their duty. All that is needed in order to swing a saboteur like a pendulum is to know the operational situation, to feel the situation, to understand the psychological portrait of the suspect, all the subtleties of the operational game. This is the secret that they are now trying to sell us in the form of stupid gestures.

The operative shakes the saboteur, the saboteur of the operative. Both do what they do best. Both want to live. One takes the initiative, then the other. You can, of course, now say - why download, you can just arrest the suspect and that's it. It is possible, but time will be wasted. And if you remember, they gave only a day to liquidate the Neman. If Captain Alekhin had learned to shoot in Macedonian and swing like a pendulum, he would never have taken the Neman group. He couldn't have handled the situation. What shooting are you talking about? What are the secret techniques? Why put on a masquerade? Think.
The human body has more than a hundred degrees of freedom. There are laws of physics and chemistry. There is psychophysiology and biomechanics. There are ballistics, internal and external. There are also tactical and technical characteristics of weapons and ammunition. And to digest all this, you also need a brain.

There is nothing more.

There are no and there were no closed SMERSH shooting schools, which were taught only to the leadership and wolfhounds. If there were methods, then there were people, then there were documents. Where is all this? The authors of the books claim that they were lost, and now, after many years, they have finally managed to restore the pendulum system.

They weren't lost. They simply didn't exist. There was experience, rich experience of operational-combat work. SMERSH recruited the best. And there was no shortage of people. Very tough natural selection: the one who was wrong, he died. Add to this the experience of war, and here you have a wolfhound. SMERSH operative could rock anyone. Read the memoirs of the old SMERSHs, and you will understand everything. Even the rich language these books are written speaks volumes.

All these shameless and provocative, in many ways inhuman and insidious methods of struggle were passed on from the more experienced to the young. They worked, they were efficient. Maybe they were called the pendulum, or maybe something else. It doesn't matter. What matters is that they won.
There were no training systems, let alone documents. It's just a legend. Childishly naive. How do you imagine the loss of such documents in the structure of the NKGB-SMERSH-NKVD? This is simply impossible by definition. I know what I'm writing about. Even the most mediocre pieces of paper have been kept in the archives since the time of Tsar Pea. What loss?

A person, put by life in such a situation, squeezed the maximum out of the possibilities of his body. He survived the fight. Gaining experience. With each time becoming more and more dangerous adversary. He is his own commando, opera, investigator and judge. Such was the situation at that time. In addition, do not forget that the communist ideology hung on everyone like a beard on a Wahhabi.
The pendulum is the brainchild of SMERSH, but it died along with its parent. Moreover, they had one habitat - it was war. I have read "In August 1944" more than once. Yes, it is really written about technical actions, but it was performed by one, separately taken Tamantsev. Now, as then, every fighter with combat experience has their favorite fighting techniques. that help you win. Techniques that once saved his life. Own program of actions, for example, to roll out a grenade. Everyone has their own. Tamantsev danced like a boxer, and Ivanov Ivan Ivanovich carries a RShG-1 grenade with him.
And now what? In 80 years, will they write about the secret that the FSB special forces possessed in 2002? "If the level of intelligence does not increase, then they will write.

Now I'll get back to dodging bullets. I myself can personally guarantee that at a distance of 20 meters and closer with a pistol I will hit you as many times as I need, no matter how you twitch. Take a piece of paper and a pen and count how many muscles you need to contract to take a step to the side, multiply by two, because by contracting one muscle, the brain sends a signal to the antagonist muscle to relax. Then count the step with the slope. And how much is needed in order to aim the weapon at the aiming point and pull the trigger. That more? That's all evasion for you. Which side are you going to dodge? And if the distance is five meters and shooting without moving to the aiming line, but from the chest?

This is the pendulum system. Good investigators and the opera are fluent in it. Brothers on their arrows swing the pendulum so that you swing. Only they call it "pumping the swing". Prisoners, who have served ten years, can swing well. There is something to learn from them too. They, like the Smershevites, depended on it for their lives. In the zone, this is called "dissolve". In life, if you have books of this content on your shelf, it means that the authors of these books have also lied to you. In all the variety of life situations, the same laws work. That in the Shilovsky forest in "August 44th", that in the zone in August 2007.

Take my word for it, when an adult kid tries to dance in a shooting range, like a smershevets, and asks at the same time: “Well, how? And given that he has two children at home, he becomes infinitely ashamed of this victim of the pendulum. I share the desire of the authors of secret books to believe in the best that all bullets will fly past, because we will dodge them. But we must face the harsh facts.

It is impossible to recreate what was in the Great Patriotic War, before it and under Tsar Peas, for, I hope, understandable reasons. And frankly, there is no need for this now. There are enough other problems in shooting now. Sports shooting from 25 meters Bone marrow department heads. And they, by and large, are not to blame. There are simply no positions for instructors.
Today, it is almost always civilians who win practical shooting competitions. What is in the pistol category, what is in the carbine. From which it is clear that the population shoots better than those who are called upon to protect this population from the external and internal enemy.

The public first learned about pendulum movements from Bogomolov's book “In August 1944”, which very well described the moment when the “wolfhound” Tamantsev, nicknamed “Skorokhvat”, used such movements in a gunfight.

And although there it was mainly about pendulum movements and body slips, from about that time there was an interest in this type of movement in martial arts and what opportunities they can give. I say "type of movement" for the reason that there are other varieties of them.

For example, wave, circular or rectilinear, which are perfectly used in hand-to-hand combat, and sometimes even the fighting style is "entirely and completely" tied to them, for example, Fedin's "Wave Fight", and some wushu styles, for example, are entirely built on rectilinear movements, brought to such perfection by many thousands of movements, that they are simply terrifyingly mesmerizing, which attracts many thousands of fans to their ranks! And all thanks to the fact that some dude-enthusiast for several decades polished kata to the filigree of movements!

After the release of this book, due to the paucity of information, many different kinds of legends began to multiply, attributed to the "pendulum", which, according to rumors, could provide almost invulnerability. At the same time, a “fly in the ointment” was added about the huge development time, something like “You need to plow for many years every day, and if you miss at least one workout, you need to start all over again.” That is, a hint that no matter how much you train, if you miss at least a day, your entire skill will “zero out”, even if you worked there at least nine years out of ten.

Such a cunning "requirement-condition" immediately fought off any desire to master them. Indeed, who wants to sweat for many years and be afraid to lose everything even because of a missed week due to, for example, the same illness? And the fact that training, at least “not much, but will be interrupted”, due to some force majeure circumstances, is understandable to the absolute majority. Who would like to live in parallel all the time in anxiety, afraid to lose everything.

But be that as it may, regarding the timing, there is a certain rational grain in the constant and long-term training of such movements, and the reason here is that in the well-known psychophysical phenomenon, when on the basis of it they try to develop a self-sufficient fighting style called " ". Pendulum movements are very difficult to apply due to the specifics of the movements themselves, since they are rhythmic and always occur in the same plane at the “full zero-maximum-full zero” speed.

Anyone who experimented in training, trying to evade attacks in this way, immediately understood their drawback: acceleration of the body, stopping and picking up speed again - this is what prevents its successful use in a high-speed duel. Especially if the partner does not play along, but really works in good conscience! As soon as you reach the speed, you immediately have to throw it off to switch to the opposite direction. And the fact that the change of direction occurs in the same plane makes it very difficult for various tricks like “rounding movements”.

Suppose the task of a person is to evade a flying lead weighing 9.6 grams. From it, as you know, you can "leave" in two ways. One, semi-mystical, is associated with powerful stress, during which time seems to slow down and a person, if he is not “stupid” and if he has a good motor base, then he manages to step aside, even when the bullet is already flying into it. This kind of phenomenon is known, and such cases are described by hundreds, if not thousands, and there are also quite a few films like The Matrix.

Another method is more primitive and is based on the fact that a person, as it were, evades a shot in advance, but not "in advance, in advance", otherwise the enemy will simply shift the weapon and correct the shot, and then, when the shot has already almost taken place, i.e. directly into that the moment when the enemy has almost no control over his movements, because his brain gave the order to the muscles to shoot and the impulse to pull the trigger has already rushed along the nerves from the brain to the index finger. It is this moment that is difficult to control in terms of “correction” for an evading target, and the defender, as a result of the training, instantly determines the intended trajectory of the shot and dodges to the side. This slope is the first phase of the pendulum.

"First" for the reason that again you need to dodge - it is unlikely that the enemy has only one bullet. And, accordingly, it is necessary to perform the slope in the other direction, otherwise it will already be some kind of skewed defense with a constant sideways departure, and not a super-lighthouse "". And here the problems begin and they are of the next kind. After the slope, it is necessary to stop completely, that is, to reduce speed to almost zero. And the second problem is to switch to a new direction.

And so every time.

This is the reason for long-term training, since it is necessary to successfully resolve these two negative points, which is very difficult if the slopes are performed by the body while accelerating with the legs. After all, it is more massive than the same hands, which means it is more inert. Accordingly, it is much more difficult to manage it than, for example, by hand.

And only after devoting a sufficient amount of time, a person will understand that it is necessary to deviate a little from the canonical pendulum, executed in one plane. That it is better not to completely extinguish the acceleration of the body, but to redirect it to the desired plane, as if rounding off the movement with transferring it to the right place. That movements can be helped not only by pushing off the ground with your feet, but also using the same invisible zones of inertia, thanks to which you can push off, as it were, from an invisible support (in Senchukov’s book such knots were mentioned) and, accordingly, quickly and unexpectedly leave the line of the shot . This is where you sweat many times before you learn all this, but still, in terms of time, this is not ten years of continuous practice, which many frighten.

No one will constantly dodge shots, unless it is a suicide bomber, put to the wall. A person will either try to take cover behind some object, or go on the counteroffensive. If a person, “swinging the pendulum”, begins to approach the shooter, then by this action he will involuntarily begin to help the enemy, rapidly lowering the angle of fire, thereby making it easier for the enemy to shoot “at a jumping target”, since the distance to the target is getting closer and closer.

And, if we sum up the mathematical base, then the realities are such that the entire invulnerability of the employees of SMERSH, the NKVD, and ordinary citizens who practice these movements to use them in battle, equals about five percent of a hundred, if not less. Of course, that it is necessary to use all the chances to get out to survive, but invulnerability obviously did not even spend the night here.

So, pendulum movements in hand-to-hand combat are not as “great and powerful” as many people try to present, deceiving themselves and imposing this idea on others. But the fact that they are used with great success in various kinds of special training, helping to form the necessary skills for the same hand-to-hand combat, is already a fact. “Pendulum movements” (more precisely, here we already need to talk about the principle of “Pendulum movements”, since the principle implies an idea, having understood which a person understands what is required of him and begins to develop it more fully and productively, realizing his inner potential, learning physical capabilities and developing intuitions, but nevertheless working within the framework of the required principle) can be successfully used to control one's own psychophysiology, activate and control energy, develop sensitivity, enter into a "battle rage" and in hundreds of other cases.

The possibilities of the "pendulum" are very extensive, but they are not endless, as many like to claim, attributing some kind of power to them. Moreover, it even came to the point that the authorship of this type of movement began to be attributed exclusively to Slavic sorcerers and warriors. Accordingly, they are present exclusively in Russian mystical directions and martial arts and nowhere else, but all these statements are "nonsense nonsense."

They are found everywhere and the main reason is not in combat effectiveness, but in a powerful healing effect, normalizing the physical condition and managing the work of the psyche, and because of this, they have been practiced for many thousands of years by all the peoples of the world and are constituent elements of many health complexes, for example,. With its practice, the energy is activated, and rather quickly, and “live flexibility” increases, and the ligaments become elastic, and vitality and dozens of different kinds of effects, for example, in the general rejuvenating effect.

Of course, they need practice, not mental speculation, although they also "have great benefits." Plus, training for pleasure, and not in the form of self-rape. How can you feel better by torturing yourself? After all, there is no necessary mood, which means that the person does not work in the right psycho-emotional state, which means that the body does not release the necessary substances, resulting in the absence of a positive effect. You should always keep this in mind and before training properly tune in, for which there are many tricks.

And there are more than health-improving complexes, however, mainly based on one movement, and their performance is very pleasant for a person, which is instantly felt, even if they are performed in a passive version, for example, swaying in a rocking chair. You can also roll from toe to toe and vice versa. A very pleasant thing. Or sitting, swing the body in a vertical plane passing exactly through the middle of the body back and forth. As for the benefits, here, among other things, the “small celestial circle” is pumped - the anterior ... and the posterior median meridians. It can even reach the point that they, these channels, are activated, as it were, by themselves! By the way, the same movements are often performed by animals, for example, a bear.

Pendulum movements are the essence of “RHYTHM”, and it is one of the basis, by the way, of hypnotic techniques and, in particular, self-hypnosis, which will be discussed in a separate publication. If I don't forget...) And the rhythm, depending on its intensity, either calms or activates. By the way, here is the key to combat rage. Rhythmic accelerating movements, swaying of the body, multiplied by some kind of “hooting”, as is often shown in various documentaries dedicated to the customs of wild tribes, activates rabies. Binding the activated state to a gesture (for example, clenching fists) will allow you to immediately fall into the desired state.

So... This kind of movement is more for the option of a mutual shootout, i.e., if two people "pour each other with lead fire." For other options for conducting a fight, these movements are not suitable, unless we consider body slips from fist attacks as a special case of these same movements. But in psychotraining they are a powerful tool for manipulating their state, which will be discussed later.

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