PPCT CORE REVIEWS ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS
SET A+
✔✔What is the forward cutting strike - ✔✔Delivered parallel to the ground, with the palm
facing up
✔✔What is the backhand cutting strike - ✔✔~Delivered parallel to the ground, with the
palm facing down
Weakest baton strike, only used when on weak side of subject
✔✔What is the forward fluid shock wave strike? - ✔✔Strongest baton strike in the PPCT
Systems and should be used whenever possible
✔✔Developing a weapon retention survival strategy - ✔✔is one method of minimizing
the chances of being disarmed
✔✔What are the 4 Weapon retention survival strategies - ✔✔~Maintain Reactionary
Gap (Keep Safe Distance)
~Identify Threatening Body Language (Watch Body Language)
~Develop a Predetermined Survival Response (Be Trained)
~Maintain Psychological Control of the Subject/Environment (Maintain Control)
✔✔What are the 4 steps in PPCT weapon retention? - ✔✔~Stabilize the Grip (Secure
assailant's grip with your own hand/hands
~Pull Weapon to Center (Gain leverage, T-REX that shit!)
~Release and Stun (Forearm Scrape and Stun assailant)
~Distract if Release Fails (Brachial Stun/Front Thrust Kick to shin)
✔✔What are the 4 issues that can help officers prepare for a disarming encounter? -
✔✔~Relative Distance (Within touching distance, determine weapon location)
~Distractionary Windows (Distract/Wait for Distraction)
~Absolute Commitment in Disarming (Go 110% - No Slack - Fully Commit)
~Disarming Procedure
, ✔✔What is the 3 disarming procedure? - ✔✔~Parry the Weapon and Move the Target
~Secure the weapon - 2 handed catchers mitt grip overlapping assailants hand &
weapon
~Disarm and Stun
✔✔ autonomic nervous system (ANS) is divided into two parts what are they? -
✔✔~Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS) "Flight & Fight" - activates for stressful
situation
~Parasympathetic Nervous System (PNS) "Rest & Digest" - operates in mainly a quiet,
non-stressful condition
✔✔what are the three mental states during combat - ✔✔~Combat Anxiety - prior,
anticipation of danger
~Survival Stress - during, deadly force threat perception initiates SNS discharge
~Combat Stress - post event mental/physiological symptoms that are a result of the
SNS activation and the sudden return to the PNS. "PNS Backlash"
✔✔What does tunnel vision do to your peripheral field? - ✔✔Reduction up to 70% of
peripheral field
✔✔what are the three basic motor skills? - ✔✔~Fine Motor Skills - 115BPM, fine motor
skills - report writing, survival reloading
~Complex Motor Skills - 145BPM, involve series of muscle groups, precision, tracking
timing
~Gross Motor Skills - skills involve large muscle groups, straight punch, increases in
effectiveness as SNS activated heart rate increases
✔✔What is the inverted U - ✔✔~Examines the optimal heart rate zone for optimal
performance.
~As arousal increases so will motor performance to a point, if arousal too high
performance decreases
~Moderate (Optimally Aroused) = Maximum Performance
✔✔What is the optimal performance heart rate? - ✔✔115/145 BPM
✔✔parasympathetic nervous system - ✔✔~Perception that the threat has diminished,
injury, trauma to a vital system, or exhaustion of the aerobic/anaerobic systems
~After SNS is activated situations can occur that cause the body to experience these
"backlash" triggers
✔✔What is critical incident amnesia? - ✔✔A form of temporary amnesia occurs
(subsequent) after SNS mass discharge, which includes the release of the stress
hormone cortisol
SET A+
✔✔What is the forward cutting strike - ✔✔Delivered parallel to the ground, with the palm
facing up
✔✔What is the backhand cutting strike - ✔✔~Delivered parallel to the ground, with the
palm facing down
Weakest baton strike, only used when on weak side of subject
✔✔What is the forward fluid shock wave strike? - ✔✔Strongest baton strike in the PPCT
Systems and should be used whenever possible
✔✔Developing a weapon retention survival strategy - ✔✔is one method of minimizing
the chances of being disarmed
✔✔What are the 4 Weapon retention survival strategies - ✔✔~Maintain Reactionary
Gap (Keep Safe Distance)
~Identify Threatening Body Language (Watch Body Language)
~Develop a Predetermined Survival Response (Be Trained)
~Maintain Psychological Control of the Subject/Environment (Maintain Control)
✔✔What are the 4 steps in PPCT weapon retention? - ✔✔~Stabilize the Grip (Secure
assailant's grip with your own hand/hands
~Pull Weapon to Center (Gain leverage, T-REX that shit!)
~Release and Stun (Forearm Scrape and Stun assailant)
~Distract if Release Fails (Brachial Stun/Front Thrust Kick to shin)
✔✔What are the 4 issues that can help officers prepare for a disarming encounter? -
✔✔~Relative Distance (Within touching distance, determine weapon location)
~Distractionary Windows (Distract/Wait for Distraction)
~Absolute Commitment in Disarming (Go 110% - No Slack - Fully Commit)
~Disarming Procedure
, ✔✔What is the 3 disarming procedure? - ✔✔~Parry the Weapon and Move the Target
~Secure the weapon - 2 handed catchers mitt grip overlapping assailants hand &
weapon
~Disarm and Stun
✔✔ autonomic nervous system (ANS) is divided into two parts what are they? -
✔✔~Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS) "Flight & Fight" - activates for stressful
situation
~Parasympathetic Nervous System (PNS) "Rest & Digest" - operates in mainly a quiet,
non-stressful condition
✔✔what are the three mental states during combat - ✔✔~Combat Anxiety - prior,
anticipation of danger
~Survival Stress - during, deadly force threat perception initiates SNS discharge
~Combat Stress - post event mental/physiological symptoms that are a result of the
SNS activation and the sudden return to the PNS. "PNS Backlash"
✔✔What does tunnel vision do to your peripheral field? - ✔✔Reduction up to 70% of
peripheral field
✔✔what are the three basic motor skills? - ✔✔~Fine Motor Skills - 115BPM, fine motor
skills - report writing, survival reloading
~Complex Motor Skills - 145BPM, involve series of muscle groups, precision, tracking
timing
~Gross Motor Skills - skills involve large muscle groups, straight punch, increases in
effectiveness as SNS activated heart rate increases
✔✔What is the inverted U - ✔✔~Examines the optimal heart rate zone for optimal
performance.
~As arousal increases so will motor performance to a point, if arousal too high
performance decreases
~Moderate (Optimally Aroused) = Maximum Performance
✔✔What is the optimal performance heart rate? - ✔✔115/145 BPM
✔✔parasympathetic nervous system - ✔✔~Perception that the threat has diminished,
injury, trauma to a vital system, or exhaustion of the aerobic/anaerobic systems
~After SNS is activated situations can occur that cause the body to experience these
"backlash" triggers
✔✔What is critical incident amnesia? - ✔✔A form of temporary amnesia occurs
(subsequent) after SNS mass discharge, which includes the release of the stress
hormone cortisol
