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Okay, we've just covered advancing on a target while walking forward. What we're going to
do now is we're going to engage a target while moving rearward, or in reverse. The same principles
apply, but there's two ways you can do it. It's always easier to retreat, or to reverse
your direction, faster than it is to advance on your direction. So, if I was going --
if I had already advanced forward and now it's time for me to reverse my direction rearward,
I can do the same thing. But instead of going heel to toe, it's toe, heel. So, I'm in my
good shooting stance, engaging the target, heel, toe, heel, toe, heel, toe, heel, toe.
Or, I can do what they call the step and drag. So if I'm here, and I'm engaging my target,
it's not uncommon for me to take a step and to drag. Step and to drag. Step and to drag.
Which is one of the most common ways of doing the rearward disengage, is to drag. People
are more comfortable with dragging than they are picking their feet up, because you don't
know what's behind you, and it may give you that uncomfortable feeling. But people who
are uncomfortable picking their feet up stand them down like this. And it's harder to stay
on a tightrope when you're doing this, unless you practice it faithfully. So those are the
two rearward movements to disengage from a target in a rearward motion. You have the
toe, heel, and you have the step and drag. Step and drag.