Here are all the open enrollment classes I am teaching between now and the end of May. My next class will be Tactical First Aid and System Collapse Medicine at Blackwing Shooting Center on March 12, 2023 in Delaware, Ohio. Registration details HERE. As of today, there is only one open slot. Register quickly […]
I’m working on finalizing my 2023 class schedule and will be teaching my first open enrollment class at the end of the month. Here’s what I have scheduled for February, March, and April. My first class is in the Los Angeles, California area on February 25-26, 2023. It will be my relatively rare Two-Day […]
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. Mass Attacks in Public Spaces: 2016-2020 A new Secret Service study analyzing 173 public mass attacks. It’s free and contains valuable information. Download it. Snubbies-The Four Formats Massad Ayoob provides a lot […]
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. ‘Aggressive drills’ in response to US school shootings can harm students, expert says Stupidly conducted active killer drills can harm student welfare. But not having such drills gets lots more kids killed in the […]
Last month, John Murphy of FPF Training invited me to Dallas to take his ‘Street Encounters Skills and Tactics” course. I’ve been friends with John for a long while and he has been hosting me at his Virginia facility for about seven years. I have taken several of his classes at conferences like Rangemaster Tac […]
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. Vehicle Tactics in a Carjacking — How To Play It Safe Most newer cars have chipped keys that make it much harder for criminals to hotwire vehicles to steal them. The easier option is […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz My friends Brian and Shelley Hill from The Complete Combatant have recently introduced a new product that I think many of you will find incredibly valuable. Image Based Decisional Drills comes as a kit which includes: 1 Water resistant carry bag 5 IBDD business cards to pass out 1 Instruction […]
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. Revisiting The 21-Foot Rule The “21-foot rule” has been widely misunderstood and misapplied in the years since it was first published. Here is a good discussion of the evolution of this “rule” with links […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz Last Saturday John Murphy from FPF Training hosted me for a one-day Extreme Close Quarters gunfighting class down in Culpeper Virginia. As expected, John’s students were great, the facilities were excellent, and the logistics were sorted properly. The 20 students and I had a good day of training. Here […]
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. Back-up Iron Sights Buyer’s Guide All of my red dot equipped fighting rifles have backup iron sights. Yours should too. Defensive Shooting Myths and Misconceptions: “I shoot that gun really well.” A […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz Last weekend I teamed up with Dr. William Aprill to teach an “Unthinkable” class in Manassas, Virginia. The class was all about dealing with worst case scenarios and was hosted by John Murphy of FPF Training. The 24 students we had in class seemed to really enjoy it. We […]
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. How to Avoid Getting Pickpocketed A comprehensive guide to pickpocketing tactics. Pay extra attention to all of the distractions listed in the article. Those are the ones that tend to be very successful against […]
