Also remember that all of that training makes you react MUCH differently to the stress of a real situation. Someone completely untrained will be much more nervous about getting attacked than a martial artist. At the very minimum, even if your instinct doesn't kick in....you are much less likely to freak out and turn into a crying ball of flesh.
Take the military....We don't train shooting at real people. We don't train with real bullets flying back at us. But we train A LOT. We train at firing in many different scenarios. Different positions, different situations, different weapons. So much that when most soldiers are in an actual fire fight....instinct and muscle memory takes over. It doesn't matter that it is real, because you revert to your training.
Same with Police - a simulator like FATS (just like the military's MILES) doesn't mean that you'll be perfect and reactions won't be different in a real situation....but you have a much better basis - you will react to those stressors much differently.
To me, the difference between someone who is trained in Martial Arts and someone who hasn't is the same correlation between a police officer and a civilian. Neither is EXPECTING a fight...but when happens, one is much more prepared than the other.
Take the military....We don't train shooting at real people. We don't train with real bullets flying back at us. But we train A LOT. We train at firing in many different scenarios. Different positions, different situations, different weapons. So much that when most soldiers are in an actual fire fight....instinct and muscle memory takes over. It doesn't matter that it is real, because you revert to your training.
Same with Police - a simulator like FATS (just like the military's MILES) doesn't mean that you'll be perfect and reactions won't be different in a real situation....but you have a much better basis - you will react to those stressors much differently.
To me, the difference between someone who is trained in Martial Arts and someone who hasn't is the same correlation between a police officer and a civilian. Neither is EXPECTING a fight...but when happens, one is much more prepared than the other.