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Anthony, appreciate the comment! You are correct that the "flow and move" technique utilized in experiment 16 was judged ineffective until 26 seconds into the action. However, the reason for this as cited in the study was because the stream was initially directed into the dining room wall instead of the fire room. Water mapping is very important when discussing flow-and-move tactics which is why we spent extra time explaining techniques for hallway control in the video. There are times when hit and move may be a better option, but if you are finding yourself having to continually stop your forward motion to cool the area you will probably be able to move faster with less thermal insult if you open up and flow continually. We run into this scenario a lot with the residential building construction in our community...lots of ranches with relatively straight hallways that lend themselves to flow and move tactics because you can continually cool the area in front of you and then get the stream into the fire room relatively quickly. Like most things, the specific tactic is going to be situation-dependent and training on multiple methods will ensure success. Thanks for watching!