Focus: Police officers of any rank, SWAT and narcotics officers, as well as agency and unit firearms instructors.
Length: 8-hours
If you want to learn to survive a fight, you eventually need to be in a fight that looks and feels real.
Everyone has shot a gun at paper, punching holes and feeling good about themselves. Like martial artists who punch in the air, the air, (or the paper target) never punch back. There are many myths that are accepted as fact about "how to survive a gunfight." Most are based on shooting games or a result of excessive range safety concerns.
We use Airsoft handguns, shooting small plastic BBs, to test your training, to refine your survival doctrine, thoughts, and philosophies. Force-on-force training is the only activity that permits you to actually be in a gunfight with real consequences--getting hit by the BB is uncomfortable, but certainly less uncomfortable than being shot with live ammunition. Airsoft is much safer than primer-fired FX cartridges at close-range--where you will likely respond in the field to an attempt to murder you.
Rigorous "triple-level safety checks" ensure no-live weapons will be introduced into the sterilie training area. Protective masking and eye-protection ensures no permanent injury. It is in this environment that you can experience different situations where real officers have been attacked, and where some were murdered.
We begin the day in exercises, letting you experience, likely for the first time, someone attempting to "kill" you. You will learn about your training--is it sufficient? Did you respond well enough to keep him from harming you?
Then we go to the classroom, and examine tactics, objectively reasonable force response standards, "MAPS Pre-Assault Indicators"©, what happens in a gunfight, how to get inside his decision-making ("Applied Combative OODA Theory"©) and "Effective Combatives Problem-Solving"© as well.
From there we move into Combatives Drills, where you are afforded an opportunity to work the lessons you have just been presented. Once you demonstrate competence, it is time to move into the force-on-force exercises.
These force-on-force exercises are a chance to work against a live-opponent, keying off of his "MAPS Pre-Assault Indicators"© to initiate your objectively reasonable response. This is the objective of this class--providing you with the experience of being in dozens of "shootings" and allowing you to work out your solutions pre-event.