 This is an intensive four-day course, with a lot of classroom work and a lot of shooting. Candidates must pass an extensive written examination, pass a shooting qualification, and deliver a brief classroom presentation. Students receive a 170 page instructor manual, which is a valuable reference source. Students will shoot their own sidearms during this class, and will also shoot a variety of other handguns for familiarization.
This course is geared toward teaching you how to teach others. You will gain a good bit of experience in coaching others; spotting, identifying, and correcting common shooting errors; course design and documentation; and other topics. You will also increase your own shooting skills. Students should already have basic shooting/gunhandling skills and be above average shots prior to this course. Equipment list below the Read More link.
TUITION: $575
About the instructor--
Tom Givens is the owner/operator of Rangemaster, a premier training and shooting facility in Memphis, TN, to which he has dedicated his full time efforts since 1996. Before that, Givens completed a 25 year career in law enforcement and specialized security work. At Rangemaster, his duties have included firearms instruction, and he has trained law enforcement officers at the local, state, and federal level; foreign government agents; and military personnel including members of the 20th Special Forces Group.
Combat Focus is an intuitive shooting program that is based on the study of empirical evidence from real violent encounters and builds on the body's natural reaction to an attack. At the ranges that gun fights typically occur, Combat Focus is the most effective way to engage your threat with a handgun.
This two day course empowers students by encouraging them to embrace the body's natural reaction to a lethal threat and work with it to neutralize that threat as efficiently and effectively as possible. The Combat Focus Technique is not hip-shooting, in fact, the only significant difference between using this technique and sighted fire is the focus of your attention at the moment the trigger breaks.
 This course is features a significant amount time discussing what happens during dynamic encounters and dissecting each shooter's performance. Students should plan on firing between 1000 and 1200 rounds during the course.
Prerequisite: Defensive Handgun or equivalent. Equipment list under the Read More link below.
TUITION: $400
About the instructor-- Rob Pincus is a professional trainer, author and consultant, best known for the development of the Combat Focus® Shooting Program, taught to military, law enforcement, private security and students interested in self-defense. Rob provides efficient training methodologies to those interested in developing firearms, tactical operations and defensive skills. These methods stress gaining maximum value from limited training resources and working well with what the body does naturally under real world conditions.
The Combat Focus® Carbine Course is designed to expose students to an efficient method of defending themselves with a semi-automatic rifle during a dynamic critical incident. All of the principles and fundamentals of the Combat Focus® Shooting program are applied to the carbine and the following topics are covered:
- Four points of contact with a rifle and intuitive shooting fundamentals
- The balance of speed and precision with a carbine
- Primary, secondary and tertiary aiming methods
- Combat accuracy
- Volume of fire
- Critical incident reloads and efficient carbine handling
- Transitioning to a pistol
- Counter ambush response with a slung rifle
- Shooting while standing, squatting, kneeling and seated
- Shooting around cover and in unorthodox shooting positions
- Fundamental carbine malfunction clearing
The Combat Focus Carbine class is physically challenging with a lot of activity and a high round count. See equipment list here. For instructor bio, see Combat Focus Shooting course description.
TUITION: $400
 Combat Focus is an intuitive shooting program that is based on the study of empirical evidence from real violent encounters and builds on the body's natural reaction to an attack. At the ranges that gun fights typically occur, Combat Focus is the most effective way to engage your threat with a handgun.
Taught by Rob Pincus, this physically-demanding course offers two intense days in which to focus on the student's ability to use their pistol as efficiently and consistently as possible under realistic conditions. A variety of drills and scenarios will be used to force the student to confront problems that come from administrative weapons handling and to reinforce good habits.
In addition to ample range time practicing two handed shooting and weapons handling, expect to work on one handed shooting, one handed weapons manipulation, unorthodox shooting positions, weak handed shooting and much more. Course of fire requires between 800-1200 rounds plus other equipment listed under the Read More link below. Prerequisite: Combat Focus Shooting. For instructor bio, see Combat Focus Shooting course description.
TUITION: $400.00
 Taught in person by Massad AyoobA two-day, 20-hour immersion course in rules of engagement for armed law-abiding private citizens, emphasizing legal issues, tactical issues, and aftermath management. Topics will include interacting with suspects, witnesses, responding police officers, threat recognition and mind-set, management of social and psychological aftermath after having had to use lethal force in defense of self or others and preparing beforehand for legal repercussions and minimizing exposure to them. Situations in the home, at the place of business, or "on the street" will all be covered. No prerequisite; background check must be presented first morning of class. This is a classroom program; no live fire. See equipment list under Read More link below. TUITION: $400
About the instructor: For nearly two decades, the Firearms Academy of Seattle, Inc. has hosted Massad Ayoob in the Pacific Northwest, making his exceptional training courses accessible to area residents.
 Guest-instructed by Massad Ayoob.
The MAG-20 Range Course is formally the StressFire Course of Massad Ayoob’s Lethal Force Institute. After interviewing hundreds of officers who had survived gunfights, Ayoob drew on their experiences, combined with his own extensive research to create a powerful combat handgun system, initially known as the StressFire shooting method. Ayoob's research showed that in life threatening situations, human beings experience profound physical and psychological pressures causing deterioration of fine motor skills, and altering perceptions of time and other sensory inputs. Combining proven shooting techniques with principles from various martial arts styles, StressFire is a system that not only works under the enormous stress of violent encounters but actually feeds off it.
These techniques are taught in Ayoob's MAG-20 Range Course a dynamic, two day course, a program that is designed to bring out the student's maximum potential for shooting a handgun under stress and to achieve the optimum blend of speed and accuracy. Students will learn drawing from concealment, two-handed shooting stances, one-handed shooting with either hand, shooting from positions that work from behind cover, speed reloading and more with overall emphasis on fast, accurate shot placement. Training includes completion of a police-style qualification. The MAG-20 Range Course is ideal for the shooter who wishes to hone and fine-tune their techniques. This is not a program for beginners or those new to the handgun; we recommend completion of our Defensive Handgun class or equivalent from another reputable firearms training school prior to attending.
Course Curriculum:
- Core Pistol and/or Revolver techniques
- Emergency reload techniques
- Several Stances and different grip techniques
- Shooting with strength and speed
- Cover positions
- Shooting at distances from 4 yard to accuracy out to 15 yards
- Strong hand only as well as weak hand only techniques
- Alternate sighting techniques for speed and accuracy
Background check must be presented first morning of class.
Prerequisites: Not suitable for beginning shooters; we recommend completion of our Defensive Handgun class or equivalent from reputable instructional resource.
See equipment list under Read More link below.
TUITION: $400
About the instructor: See biographical information on Armed Citizens' Rules of Engagement class description.
 To meet the needs of our advanced-level shooters, The Firearms Academy of Seattle is pleased to offer the unconventional training methods of Ken Hackathorn. This instructor believes it is crucial to be able to use the defensive handgun accurately while moving, from behind cover, twisting to the right or left and in other disadvantageous conditions.
In this class, students learn to perform good marksmanship while faced with a variety of challenges, the likes of which are rarely seen in formal training courses for either law enforcement or private citizens. Beyond moving and shooting, other topics include defenses for couples in which only one is armed, defense against a threat from behind, close-quarter defense and withdrawal while shooting, Hackathorn’s own take on “point-shooting,” low light handgun skills, one-handed operation of the pistol, and numerous pointers for self-coaching in practice after the class.
Prerequisite: Defensive Handgun or equivalent 40 hours training from a reputable firearms training facility. Equipment list below under Read More link.
TUITION: $400.00
About the instructor--
Hackathorn’s credentials to teach tactical courses are unparalleled. He served as US Army Special Forces Small Arms Instructor, is credentialed as an FBI firearms instructor and serves as a deputy sheriff in Ohio. The outfits he has trained include Special Operations forces, Marine FAST and SOTG units and FBI SWAT and HRT teams, just to name a few. He is contracted to teach overseas forces, and continues to generate controversy with his cutting-edge training drills when he teaches small arms skills to classes of police and private citizens across the U.S.
|
|
