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Old February 15, 2014, 12:31 PM   #43
Tucker 1371
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I noticed that too. Kraigwy has posted something similar where a person can act faster than a person can react.
The person acting has the initiative, they have already thought out their next steps and mentally prepared for the next series events, wheras the reacting person has to perform an OODA loop in fractions of a second. In short, the person with the initiative already has the Observing, Orienting, and Deciding parts of the process out of the way wheras the reacting person must perform all four while their opponent is only doing the Act part.

In this case the thugs were initially inside the officer's OODA loop, but when he appeared the comply they gave up the initiative and allowed him to come up with a plan and gain the initiative.
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