Hollow Point Group: "Your fundamentals will carry all advanced training"
Hollow Point Group started with no intention of becoming a brand — just active-duty soldiers from the Netherlands posting what they liked. The page has since grown, but the standard hasn't moved: quality over quantity, one post a week, nothing that doesn't meet their own bar. Their broader goal is straightforward — bring attention to gun and military culture for a generation that's largely lost touch with it, partly because current society treats the topic as controversial rather than something worth understanding the basics of. That's also why they've started posting more instructional content on YouTube — not to glamorize the culture, but to make the basics of firearms, medical training, and tactics more accessible.
We started HPG when we were active duty and had no intentions of making a brand — we based the page more on what we like. Once it started growing more we tried to maintain the style we stand behind and still maintained the standard to only post content we like. This is also the reason we only post once a week, since we prefer quality over quantity. Our current goal with the account is to bring attention to the gun/military culture to our generation.
It's obviously not just looking cool, but having to put the work behind it. Also, if you are in a military unit, I see a lot of people who think they made it and stop learning. I guess the main mindset in my opinion is to keep learning and make yourself useful, also in civilian cases where people might look to you in critical situations. Another thing we stand behind is that fundamentals is what eventually makes you good.
In everyday life, I keep the perspective that things can always be worse, which helps me not get stressed over small problems. I also avoid procrastination — when something needs to be done, I put in my full effort. These are things that really helped me along the way in my everyday life.
I think actually being there, seeing the strikes happen and seeing wounded people, is just like the videos you see online — but it feels very different once you are there. You see the pain and damage this war has caused. It's very hard to explain, but being there is really an eye opener for how good people have it in the rest of Europe, and how small the problems they make on a daily basis are compared to what the Ukrainian people go through. While being there we've also witnessed how tough and brave the Ukrainian people are. Instead of letting this war break down their society, they keep fighting and keep going.
Applying skills in a stress environment is always good — doing something hard on a medical topic, but also simple things like shooting guns in uncomfortable situations, always works. Training yourself physically and mentally goes hand in hand in my opinion — going out for a run when you don't want to, simple things like these are very important.
But developing these skills, you can do it everywhere and anywhere — even with a simple presentation in front of a lot of people, if that's what makes you stressed. Going through stressful and pressured situations works the same as pushing harder in the gym.