Don’t go Hungry Stalking the Bison

Don’t go Hungry Stalking the Bison

When we get that neck, we render our opponent or training partner helpless, securing our defense, and providing many next-step options.

While understanding this paramount and ideal objective, we need to also avoid getting so tunneled towards it that we take unnecessary risks in it’s pursuit. We need to be mindful of how much time, energy and focus we put into getting to the neck. We have our own neck and cascading lower order objectives beneath it to defend as well. The longer the hunt for their neck continues, the more opportunities we create for a tide reversal, opening ourselves to their attacks.

If a lower priority target presents itself with reasonable certainty, we should take it. It reduces their weaponry and feeds our strategic capability, not to mention building momentum (successfully or not) toward our neck pursuit. We shouldn’t starve ourselves by bypassing lower-order objectives in pursuit of the Bison. Although we may not get the Bison yet, we don’t go hungry this day. The quickest way to the neck isn’t always the most direct. Take pit stops along the pursuit to tackle more easily attained lesser animals, or safe foraging, building energy for and momentum toward the prized Bison. If their vulnerable arm or dangling foot gets in the way of their elusive neck, we take the limb.