About This Course:
Active Shooter Situations can happen anywhere. Schools, Malls or Nightclubs.
Police will respond, but in the meantime how many deaths will occur? If your child, spouse, or loved one is in the path of gunfire, will you respond to stop the killing?
Having the will to confront the shooter is one thing, but doing so in a way that you prevent innocent deaths, including your own takes a specific skill set. Knowing what to do when law enforcement does arrive is vital. The 540 degree principal, threshold evaluation, movement toward threat, and friendly link-up are just some of the skills you will learn in this training.
We will start with an understanding of where these events might occur, how to respond, and end with force-on-force drills to let you practice each skill.
If you are a CCW holder and routinely carry your weapon, this course is a "must attend" for you.
If you are a first responder, this course will give you valuable insights in how to respond yourself if you are off-duty.
Fully applicable for Civilians, Fire Fighters, LEO, and EMS.
If you are someone who thinks it is as easy as just shooting the bad guy, you definitely need to come to this course.
If you think you will always get shot by the police in this situation, you definitely need to come to this course.
Equipment Required:
No live fire ammunition required. All force-on-force equipment will be provided
Prerequisites:
None
Notes:
This course will run from 10-5 on Saturday and 10-4 on Sunday. If you are interested in lodging at discounted rates, contact us for details.
This course is open to ages 14+ as long as a parent attends.
Price:
$295
In many areas, assailants prefer using bladed or pointed weapons. Additionally, there are places where carrying a firearm is not permitted, but you may be allowed to carry a knife for self-defense.
Most knife fighting or knife defense classes resemble a choreographed dance more than practical training for real encounters. Such encounters are often ambushes, typically brief but always brutal. Your training needs to focus on the actual techniques employed by most attackers.
This is not a martial arts training course. It is a hybrid-style, reality-based system with techniques you can apply immediately.
Topics Include:
This course is focused on practicality and is designed with methods to adapt to various situations, opponents, and personal fitness, skill, and size.
Special Note about Physical Condition:
You do NOT have to be in great shape, be strong or particularly fast. A 100 pound woman can drop a man twice her size using the principles taught. That's not hyperbole, and will be demonstrated in class.
$125
Course Description:
Have you taken our Defensive Handgun Level 1 and ready for a fast-paced day to take your skills to the next level?
Research and our own experience in our Force-on-Force classes show one of the most common injuries in a fight are injuries to the hands. If you take one of your hands out of the fight, can you still properly operate your weapon?
This course will take the skills you learned about drawing your weapon, reloading, and clearing malfunctions, and force you to do all these things with one hand out of play. In addition, we will work on drawing from compromised positions and introduce you to the concepts of reactionary shooting (shooting through the draw without a sight picture).
In addition, this course will combine Moving & Shooting skills, where you will learn how to effectively shoot while moving.
Standing still in a gunfight will get you killed. You are either pressing the attack, retreating, moving toward cover, or moving toward an objective. Being able to manipulate your weapon one handed, weak handed, and while moving are vital to your success. This course will make extensive use of footwork, weapon control, and shot placement while on the move.
Defensive Handgun Level 1.
If you have attended a defensive handgun course at another facility where you are familiar with drawing from a holster and clearing all malfunctions you will be accepted.
$150
How what we believe, expect, and assume about an experience can change what our brain, body, and behavior actually do in response.
Two people can experience the same event and walk away with remarkably different outcomes.
Even stranger, sometimes the difference isn't merely how they feel about the experience. Their bodies may actually respond differently.
Researchers have demonstrated that expectations and beliefs can influence pain, hunger hormones, physical performance, stress responses, perception, behavior, and even how other people respond to us. Identical foods can produce different physiological responses depending upon what people believe they are eating. Expectations surrounding medical treatment can reduce symptoms, or make them worse. The way we interpret physical arousal can influence whether pressure improves our performance or causes us to fall apart.
So where does perception end and reality begin?
The Reality Effect explores the fascinating science of mindset, expectation, perception, placebo and nocebo effects, self-fulfilling beliefs, identity, and the brain's constant attempt to predict what happens next.
This is not a positive-thinking seminar, and we won't be pretending that wishing for something makes it happen. Instead, we will examine peer-reviewed psychological, neurological, and physiological research to understand something far more interesting:
The brain doesn't simply receive reality. It interprets it, predicts it, and helps determine how we respond to it.
During this course we will explore questions such as:
By the end of the course, students will understand how expectation and interpretation interact with the brain and body, where the scientific evidence is strong, where popular claims go beyond the evidence, and how this knowledge can be practically applied to health, performance, relationships, stress, decision-making, and everyday life.
Reality exists. But your experience of it is far less objective than you probably think.
This course is part of the Rewiring the Brain series. They can be taken in any order.
Pen and Paper for notes. This is a classroom based course.
This course is open to ages 16+ with a parent in attendance. This course will cover topics that are very academic and medical based. Younger participants are welcome but the material may be advanced for their understanding.
Many people think they know how to operate a handgun or to shoot accurately. However, do you know how to rapidly deploy your handgun in a stressful situation, make a successful hit, reload your weapon, and perform them all within 3 seconds?
If you are considering carrying a handgun for personal defense, or just want to keep one in your nightstand, this is a vital course for you. Regardless of how many rounds you have fired at your local range, you will learn how to use your handgun in real world situation.
This course is designed for those who have a basic understanding of handguns, but want to learn how to utilize it in a defensive situation.
Course Topics:
Range Safety
Carry Positions and Holster Selection
Proper Grip and Stance for Defensive Situations
Drawing from the Holster
After Action Drills
Ammunition Management and Reloads
Safe Dry-Fire Practice Methods and Drills
Required Equipment:
Semi-automatic Handgun
Extra Magazine and method to carry that magazine
Holster (No SERPA Retention Holsters, No Belly Band Holsters)
Approximately 100 rounds of ammunition
It is strongly recommended you have your own handgun and holster for this class. If you do not, please contact us and we can arrange for you to rent a handgun and borrow a holster.
All participants should bring ear and eye protection and dress appropriately for the weather.
Required Prerequisites:
You must know how to properly load your weapon, operate the slide action (and any safeties), Understand sight alignment and trigger control. If you are brand new to handguns or feel you need more training in the basics, please sign up for the Basic Handgun course prior to attending this course.
Defensive Firearms Mindset is highly recommended but not required.
Special Notes:
This course is $75 Handgun rental is $25 + Market cost for ammunition - Please bring cash to course to pay instructor
Registration Notes:
If the class is full you can sign up for the waitlist. This does NOT mean you have a spot to attend. If someone cancels we go down the waitlist and give first chance to register to those on the waitlist. Only once you complete your full registration and payment are you guaranteed a spot in the course.
Many people think they know how to operate a rifle and shoot accurately. For most, this has included taking their rifle to a range and shooting at paper targets until they could consistently hit a bull’s-eye. However, this is NOT fighting with your rifle. Can you rapidly deploy your rifle in a stressful situation, clear any malfunctions, and make successful hits all within 3 seconds? If you are new to the AR platform, or have only used it for target practice, this is a vital course. This a basic level course, but even more experienced weapon operators will gain additional experience in using the weapon for defensive situations.
This course covers proper stance and grip, and covers topics such as point-of-aim versus point-of impact, various methods to sight your rifle, reloads, and weapon malfunctions. Discussion will include different optics, slings, and other rifle accessories.
Good quality magazine fed weapon (AR platform in 5.56/.223, 9mm, 6.8spc, etc.)
Approximately 100 rounds of rifle ammunition
Rifle Sling
2 extra rifle magazines and a method to carry those magazines
If there is something you do not have, inform us in advance and we can arrange for you to borrow.
We do have AR rifle’s available for rental including ammunition (Please Inquire for current prices).
$95
Castle Defender
Understanding Firearms, Angles, and the Realities of Home Defense
About This Course
Defending yourself with a firearm inside your own home presents challenges that are very different from shooting on a traditional range. Walls do not necessarily stop bullets. Doors may provide little protection. A shot that misses its intended target, or passes completely through it, may continue into another room, another part of the house, or even beyond the exterior of the home.
Castle Defender is an intensive two-day course designed to help armed citizens better understand those realities and develop a thoughtful, informed home-defense plan specific to where they actually live.
The course begins on the range with a live-fire demonstration examining how common handgun, rifle, and shotgun ammunition interacts with materials commonly found in residential construction. Students will see firsthand what happens when rounds encounter drywall, paneling, wood construction, siding, brick, concrete block, hollow-core doors, steel doors, and other common barriers. All live-fire demonstrations are conducted by the instructor.
From there, the course moves into the classroom to examine the geometry of home defense. Students will learn how angles, fields of fire, likely threat approaches, points of domination, fatal funnels, concealment, and the potential for overpenetration should influence where and how a firearm might responsibly be employed inside a residence.
Students will then create a detailed scale drawing of their own home and use the principles discussed in class to begin developing a home-specific defensive plan rather than relying on generic tactics.
On Day Two, those concepts move from paper to practice. Using movable walls in a large training facility, several student home layouts will be recreated and used for scenario-based exercises with Airsoft training weapons. These exercises allow students to see how seemingly small differences in position, angles, movement, and decision-making can dramatically change a situation.
This is not a traditional CQB or structure-clearing course. Castle Defender is about understanding your own home, recognizing the limitations of firearms and building materials, and making better decisions before an emergency ever occurs.
Topics Covered
Ammunition & Residential Barrier Penetration
Cover, Concealment & the Reality of Interior Structures
Defensive Angles, Fields of Fire & Points of Domination
Fatal Funnels, Threat Approaches & Positioning
Developing a Home-Specific Defensive Plan
Scenario-Based Home Defense Exercises
Notepad and paper
Pencil (NOT ink), eraser, straight ruler
Protective equipment for airsoft simulation training (mask, eye protection)
Course Notes
This is a two-day course combining live-fire demonstrations, classroom instruction, individual home-defense planning, and scenario-based Airsoft exercises.
Live-fire demonstrations are conducted by the instructor. Students will not fire live ammunition during the penetration-demonstration portion of the course.
Students should come prepared with enough information about their residence to create an accurate scale floor plan during the class.
Prerequisites
Instructor
Adam Smith Former U.S. Army Green Beret
Have you ever considered what you would do in the event of a medical emergency when there isn’t EMS available, or perhaps the hospitals are either full or not taking patients (we have seen this nearly happen with COVID). What would you do if you were in a remote area and medical support was severely delayed? What if your family member’s life was totally up to the skills you have and the equipment you possess? What should you do if all else fails and you now have a dead body to care for? This 2 day course will help you learn the skills, understand the equipment, and then practice those skills.
This is far different than a “Wilderness EMR” type course. This course will go deeply into the medical side of things not typically seen in a typical WFA type training.
Topics Covered:
Pre-requisites:
Cost:
$275
Instructor:
Doctor David M.
Strength, Responsibility, Purpose, and the Challenges Men Rarely Discuss
The Weight of Being a Man is a thought-provoking, research-based, full-day course exploring the psychological challenges associated with being a man, including strength, responsibility, emotional control, relationships, personal identity, and finding purpose as life changes.
This is not a motivational seminar, a therapy session, or a lecture about what a "real man" should be, and it certainly isn't a class about why traditional masculinity is bad.
There is nothing wrong with being strong, independent, protective, hardworking, or dependable. Those qualities can be tremendous strengths. But even our greatest strengths can become liabilities when we don't recognize their limitations.
Through psychological research, real-world examples, discussion, and practical exercises, we'll examine how men develop their expectations of themselves, why certain patterns of thinking and behavior become so deeply ingrained, and how those patterns can sometimes work against the very things we're trying to protect.
We'll explore why men sometimes struggle to ask for help, why loyalty and responsibility can lead us to remain in damaging situations, why losing our ability to contribute can threaten our sense of worth, and how to navigate disappointment, changing relationships, aging, and unrealized ambitions.
Most importantly, we'll develop practical ways to recognize these challenges, evaluate our own thinking, and make more deliberate choices about the kind of men we want to be.
The goal isn't to make men less strong, less responsible, or less committed to the people they love.
It's to help us understand when those qualities serve us, when they begin costing us, and how to carry the weight of being a man without allowing that weight to define our entire worth.
How expectations of masculinity develop, and how responsibility, achievement, independence, and being needed can become central to a man's identity and sense of self-worth.
The psychology of emotional armor: why some men conceal exhaustion, fear, disappointment, or personal struggles, and how to recognize when emotional control has become emotional suppression.
Male friendships, marriage, and relationships: why men can have people all around them yet still feel alone, and how to build stronger relationships without sacrificing independence or dignity.
When strength becomes a liability: how loyalty, perseverance, protectiveness, and responsibility can sometimes keep men trapped in harmful or unsustainable situations.
When life changes the man you used to be: navigating injury, illness, aging, retirement, changing family roles, and the loss of abilities or responsibilities that once defined your identity.
The weight of unrealized potential: dealing with regret, disappointment, perceived failure, and the distance between the life you expected to live and the life you actually lived.
Practical tools for evaluating personal responsibilities, recognizing unhealthy patterns, maintaining self-respect, strengthening relationships, and developing a sense of purpose that can endure life's changes.
Equipment Required
An open and curious mind
Pen and paper
A willingness to occasionally challenge some long-held assumptions about yourself and the responsibilities you carry
None.
This is a classroom-based course designed specifically for adult men, regardless of age, occupation, background, or life experience.
No previous study of psychology is required.
The course is grounded in psychological research and is intended to be educational, practical, and thought-provoking. It is not group therapy, and students will never be required to discuss personal struggles, relationships, or private experiences.
Some subjects may be deeply personal, but participation in discussions is always voluntary.
Special Note:
This course is for adult men only.
The men-only format is intentional. Many of the subjects we'll explore involve deeply personal experiences, expectations, and pressures associated with being a man. We want to provide an environment where men can examine these topics openly and comfortably alongside others who may share similar experiences.
Price
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