1of100 Deliberate Responder Adaptive Movement: Decision-Making and Mobility in Armed Encounters and Training

By Jim Shanahan

Most shooters train to stand still. Real fights don't work that way.
Modern defensive training has mastered marksmanship, gear selection, and social-media-friendly drills - but it has ignored the single most important survival skill in real violence:

Movement. Purposeful, intelligent, decision-driven movement.

The Deliberate Mover rewrites the way we think about fighting with a handgun. Instead of teaching choreographed footwork, "step off the X" clich s, or range rituals that collapse in chaos, this book shows you how to move with purpose, make fast, accurate decisions, and use space, time, and environment to win fights and protect your people.

Built on three battle-tested components:

✔ The Decision Engine

Adapted from Tatiana Whitlock's four critical questions - Who can help me? Who can hurt me? Where am I going? Where are my people? - this framework becomes your mental operating system before, during, and after any violent encounter.

✔ The Four Categories of Movement

You'll learn when to move first, when to shoot first, how to combine the two, and why "shooting while moving" is the least used but most misunderstood skill in the defensive world.

✔ The Four Phases of Movement

Violence follows a timeline. Your training should too. This system walks you through movement before the fight, during the fight, with the gun, and after the fight - including post-engagement repositioning, bystander responsibility, and managing law enforcement arrival.

You'll also discover:

Why most movement training is wrong (and what to do instead)

How terrain, structures, vehicles, and crowds change everything

Why speed is overrated - and how to fix the industry's obsession with it

The difference between choreography and real decision-making

Drills you can practice right now to become safer, smarter, and harder to kill

Whether you're an armed citizen, a law enforcement officer, or a trainer looking to raise the standard, The Deliberate Mover gives you the missing skill modern gunfighting has ignored for decades.

Stop moving randomly. Start moving deliberately.

Fight smarter. Fight faster. Fight like an adult.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G7CJ1GNL
• ISBN13: 9798278850465
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"