Derrick McManus: Shot 14 Times in a Police Siege | Survival, Fear and Sustained Performance | The BEYOND Podcast

Surviving 14 high-calibre gunshot wounds in the 1994 Nuriootpa siege was not luck but trained mind management: over three hours on the ground while roughly 2,000 rounds were fired, McManus controlled panic and shock to keep blood in the prefrontal cortex, drew on preparation done five years earlier, and turned the experience into the philosophy he now teaches as sustained optimal performance, the deliberate alternative to unsustainable peak performance. This companion episode brings together Derrick McManus's conversation, entity by entity. What this episode covers:I was shot 14 times with a high-calibre roundsI fall to my kneesThe videographer kept the video runningHow can you stay calm if you're stuck divingNobody actually entered the house to risk their livesA scared animal is a very dangerous animal Derrick McManus, former South Australian Police STAR Group officer who survived being shot 14 times in a 1994 police siege, founder of Human Durability; Human Durability; sustained optimal performance. Listen to the source episode: Derrick McManus podcast · Derrick McManus episode on Spotify. Read the full story: Derrick McManus on Human Durability. This conversation comes from The BEYOND Podcast, hosted by Aleksandra King. Narration is AI-generated. Everything said in the conversation is human. BEYOND network:BEYOND (the podcast)Elliott KingAleksandra King Agency