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Video: Maintaining your reactionary gap

In this video tactical tip, Joseph “Little Joe” Ferrera discusses and demonstrates some of the fundamentals you need to remember about the reactionary gap. The first in a series of tips on the topic, this segment represents the foundation on which the rest of these tips are built.

Joe Ferrera

Joseph “Little Joe” Ferrera started his public service career with the Federal Reserve Bank Police Dept. in 1977. He worked as a Deputy Sheriff for Oakland County For 6 years, and has spent the last 25 + years as a police officer in a city that borders Detroit. He has worked various assignments over the years. He has been training law enforcement and corrections officers since 1987. He specializes in use of force and subject control from verbal skills to lethal force. He has attended several thousand hours of instructor training. He began studying martial arts in 1970.