training scholarships

There are funds available for LEOs to access for tuition for LE training courses. The process is pretty simple: Fill out the form and submit it to your Region. Once approved, you will be reimbursed for tuition and in some instances mileage and meals. Good info to spread around...:)

Here is a link to the Regional Grant Contact List

http://www.coloradoattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/uploads/post/Grant%20Contact%20List%20for%20Web%20FY%2013.pdf

I have also attached the Colorado POST Training Project Scholarship Application form if you have anyone who is interested in seeking a Scholarship for tuition.

Recent News stories with Officers being stabbed

Here are four recent News stories involving Officers being stabbed.
Note: All of the Officers survived! And in all cases the stabber/bad-guy was taken into custody.  The mind navigates the body:

Things to think about: Re-action time and distances.... In all four instances deadly force by the officers would have been justified. But things erupt very quickly...

Off-duty police officer stabbed during Whittier home invasion
http://www.sgvtribune.com/breakingnews/ci_22442999/man-stabbed-during-possible-home-burglary-whittier

Waukon Police Officer Stabbed

http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/Waukon-Police-Officer-Stabbed-185816321.html

Police: Officer stabbed with screwdriver

http://www.kcci.com/news/central-iowa/Police-Officer-stabbed-with-screwdriver/-/9357080/18033442/-/3c9wd0/-/index.html

Four Officers Stabbed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHdBxTVFibg

Fight Leads To Stabbing

In the Springs:

To read the enws article, follow the link:
http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/Fight-Leads-To-Stabbing-188649041.html

Stopping Power: Myths, Legends, and Realities

Stopping Power: Myths, Legends, and Realities.
"When it comes to claims about the effectiveness of handgun ammo, don’t believe the hype."

To read the entire article, follow the link:
http://www.policemag.com/channel/weapons/articles/2013/01/stopping-power-myths-legends-and-realities.aspx

Great class - Thanks

Enjoyed a great class yesterday hosted by Broomfield PD.
Taught a great group of folks a Tactical Knife Options / Duty-Knife offensive tactics course.  We had Boulder CSO, Boulder PD, Arapahoe CSO, Broomfield PD, and CSP represented. Thanks again.

Force Science Institute video on Officer Involved Shootings

Force Science Institute video on Officer Involved Shootings
Hollywood Vs. Real life

To see the full video, follow the link:
http://www.forcescience.org/hollywoodvsreality.html?goback=%2Egde_94020_member_208105322

Combat Conditioning gem

 On the Combat Fitness note: Dug up this little 30-35 minute beaut…….

No rest between exercises.  Repeat cycle three times.

Eliptical:  4 minutes with increased resistance every minute

Treadmill:  3 minutes / 2% grade / .4 -.5 mile  distance

Bag work: ten elbows each arm / ten side-kicks each leg / six 4 punch bursts

Kettle Swing: 10 reps / 45lb

Squat/Press: 10 reps / 35 lb plate (squat down and at the top, press the plate military style

Sit-ups: 15 reps

Push-ups:  using push-up bars / 15 reps close grip

Leg-lifts: 15 reps

Push-ups:  using push-up bars / 15 reps wide grip

Bench-Bridges: 15 reps with 25 lb plate

Burpees: 5 reps with jumps

TKO at the 2013 CLEFIA summer conference

Just confirmed that I will be back presenting at the 2013 Colorado Law Enforcement Firearms Instructor Association (CLEFIA) summer conference. Had a blast last year!

C.L.E.F.I.A. 2013 summer conference

July 24: 13:00-17:00

July 28: 08:00-12:00

http://www.clefia.org/home.htm

new training date - TKO

Another date set for the Tactical Knife Options- Basic User course.

June 14, 2013 at the CSU PD facility

CSU Police Department

Green Hall

750 S. Meridian Ave

Fort Collins, CO 80523

 

To register, contact me at 303-627-2737 or cqctactics@msn.com

 

Interesting and trivial knife stats

Found this web-site and the following interesting knife stats and thought I would share:

http://www.kniferights.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=80&Itemid=29

35.6 Million Households Own Pocket Knives; 24.8 Million Own Hunting Knives

35,595,000 Million U.S. Households own an outdoor or pocket knife

• Of all outdoor and pocket knife owners - 68.8% are men, 31.2% are women
• Of total U.S. population - 22.97% of pocket knife owners are men, 9.72% are women
• 24,775,000 Million U.S. Households own a hunting knife
• Hunting knife owners are 60.46% men, 39.54% women
• Of all hunting knife owners - 13.84% are men, 8.77% are women
  Source: 2008 Doublebase Mediamark Research & Intelligence

Assisted-opening and One-hand-opening Knives are 80% of All Knives Sold

• Courts in California, Texas, Illinois and Michigan have expressly ruled that assisted-openers are not switchblades
• 90% of all hunters and fishermen use knives, often the same knives they carry every day
• 80% of new knife sales in past five years were one-hand openers and assisted-openers
• Multi-tools with one or more knife blades are considered one-hand-openers for purposes of this study. They are generally banned as carry-ons by airlines and school districts with zero-tolerance policies.
  Source: 2007 Report – The AKTI State of the Sporting Knife Industry (unpublished data)

30-40 Million Public Safety, Non-Issue Military, Construction, Recreational Users

• 900,000 active law enforcement officers employed (2006) - 90% own at least three knives
• 2.1 Million EMTs, firefighters, security guards (2006) - 90% own knives or multi-tools
• 2.2 Million active and reserve military servicemen/women - 90% own at least two knives
• 7.7 Million construction employees (2008) - 60% own at least two knives, 35% own multi-tools
• 17.7 Million campers (2005) - 70% own knives, 20% own multi-tools1
• 6.9 Million boaters/sailors (2007) - 40% own knives, 30% own multi-tools
• 4 Million Boy Scouts and volunteer/leaders (2007) - 75% own knives
• 140 Million hikers, bikers, landscapers, gardeners (2008) - 20% own knives

Association of Arrest Control Trainers - meeting

If you are a DT instructor or Combatives INst., you should come to the meeting.....:)

 

The next Association of Arrest Control Trainers (AACT) meeting is scheduled for Thursday, January 31 at 13:00 hours at the Northglenn Police Department. The address is:

11701 Community Center Dr Northglenn, CO 80233

One topics for discussion will be:

-- Duty-to-Train and how it can impact you as a agency

-- The 2013 Cop-Fit challenge

-- Stress training, introducing stress into training safely

Snacks provided

 

www.co-aact.com

co.aact@gmail.com

 

S.C. man gets 5 years for stabbing K-9

Suspect was found guilty on charges of cruelty to a police dog and resisting arrest, receiving maximum sentence. Read the entire article at the link:

http://www.policeone.com/corrections/articles/6092294-S-C-man-gets-5-years-for-stabbing-K-9/

Use Of Force Investigations - A Book Review

Great book/resource for anyone who trains officers in Combatives / UOF, reviews UOF cases, or represents Officers in UOF civil and criminal cases:

To read more, follow the link:
http://www.officer.com/article/10828762/use-of-force-investigations-a-book-review

Stress Reactions: Lethal Force

Here is another article I found while going through my archives. It talks about the physiological and psychological impacts fo Combat Stress on Officers. 

Stress Reactions: Related to Lethal Force Encounters. By Bill Lewinski, Ph.D. (Force Science).
to read the entire article, follow the link:
http://www.forcescience.org/articles/stressreactions.pdf

Carrying a Duty-Knife and Liability...

Pretty good article from POLICE Magazine.... Thought I would share...

"Officers carry knives with a nod from their agencies, no training, and no policy coverting their use. Is there a problem here?"

to read the entire article, follow the link:
http://www.policemag.com/channel/weapons/articles/2002/10/on-the-cutting-edge.aspx

Advanced TKO date set

I will be holding an Advanced -Tactical Knife Options course.

When: March 16-17, 2013

Where: TBD (will be on the south end of town; between Colorado Springs and Highlands Rnch)

Class will run from 09:00-17:00 both days.

Completion of the Basic TKO course is a pre-requisite.

Contact me at 303-627-2737 or cqctactics@msn.com to register.

Class size is limited to 20.

There 9 slots open at the time of this posting.

Enough said...

Fight Conditioning

In class we talk about "Combat Conditioning" and "Combat Fitness"

Combat fitness is “the ability to perform in a combatively effective manner under conditions of extreme physical and mental stress”.

Combat Conditioning, which is “training that prepares the body/mind to perform at optimal levels of combative efficiency under less than optimal conditions”.

Here is Tony Blauer talking about fitness and training....

"A fight that lasts three to five minutes isn’t a fight; that’s more like a round in a UFC match. Real street confrontations are over in ten or fifteen seconds, and that’s important to know because if you don’t really understand how to analyze the confrontation, you can’t prepare for it as effectively. Someone who thinks the fight is going to last for five minutes will train using some sort of sport training where they pace themselves for five minutes, clinch, rest, and so on. Real confrontations are sudden and violent. A person training with a sport mindset can be overwhelmed by that sudden extremely violent close-quarter fight. Understanding exactly what goes on, from timeline to psychodynamics, from the pre-contact phase to the moment of collision helps you define and design a training program."

To read the entire interview, follow the link:

http://www.tonyblauer.com/FilesUpload/blauer_crossfit_journal_interview.pdf

FBI focuses firearms training on CQC

Dramatic shift in emphasis follows a review that found that 75% of shootings over 17 years involved suspects who were within 3 yards of agents.

Read more at the link:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2013/01/05/fbi-firearms-training/1811053/?goback=%2Egde_3334712_member_202034426

Training Dates:

Upcoming courses.  WIll post Feb dates (for LE) as soon as a location is secured. Contact me directly at cqctactics@msn.com or 303-627-2737 for info or registration:

 

 

Law Enforcement and Military:

Offensive Duty Knife-LE @ Broomfield PD Jan 25, 2013

12:00 - 17:00

TKO basic user @ Colorado Springs PD
March 08, 2013

08:00 - 17:00

 

Civilian
TKO basic - civilian @ BluCore Feb 13, 2013
17:00-21:00
TKO basic - civilian @ BluCore. March 19,
17:00-21:00

Training knives

Training knives:

 

Cold Steel rubber training knives, full-size, fixed blade:

http://www.888knivesrus.com/c=L5WmQh9Unn3BdGsGTokoY1mWA/product/CS92R13RT/Cold-Steel-Recon-Tanto-Rubber-Training-Knife-12-14-Ov.html

 

 

Ronin training knives, metal blade, folding:

http://www.buy.com/prod/ronin-gear-practice-folding-training-knife/245387607.html

 If you have found a better training knife or more affordable resource, feel free to share.

re-post??? It was just a knife...

Not sure if I already posted this here...:)

Excerpt from article:  FORCE SCIENCE NEWS: Transmission #194

"It was just a knife and the officer had a gun. Why didn't the officer just disarm the subject?""Some people think an individual armed with a knife is not a dangerous threat to an officer," Lewinski says. "From our research and the research of others, we know that not to be true. Knives can actually be more dangerous than a gun....Force Science studies show that "a young person in reasonably good shape can cover as much as 31 feet in the time it takes an officer to draw his gun, point, and fire 1 round. If a person is 7 feet away, the officer could even have his gun in the low-ready position, and by the time he raises the gun and fires even once, he could be stabbed. "A stab from a knife or a stab and upward cut can be extremely quick. Each cut or slash can occur at less than one-quarter second, and any one could be lethal for the officer....""Why not shoot the gun or knife out of their hand? Why not shoot to wound the subject? "Lewinski recalls TV and movie westerns in which the hero defeats an attacker with this kind of precision shooting. "It's one of those Hollywood myths," he says. "It looks good on film but doesn't work in the real world. Officers do not have the ability to fire and hit that accurately in a dynamic encounter." Even if officers aim for center mass, they "tend not to be as accurate as they might be on the range because the dynamics by which people move in a real-world encounter are such that center mass is a constantly changing target...."To stop the threat, the goal of police deadly force, "the best place an officer can aim for is center mass," Lewinski explains. "Even then it's not a guarantee," but it's more realistic than the extraordinary challenge of intentionally hitting only an arm or a leg

Good Resource for the responsible gun owner, knife owner

This is a great quick reference for the responsible gun-owner, knife-owner, CCW carrier, or person who wants to protect him/her self rather than be a victim:

Colorado Firearm, Knife, and Weapon Law Compendium

by Robert Todd Bergin, esq

Brain-wired for Fear

Pretty good educational video on how the body is hard-wired for fear; and the process that takes place with an immediate threat stimulas:

http://www.fearexhibit.org/brain/wired

LE Ground Fighting Inst Course

24 hour POST approved Ground Fighting Instructor course:
February 16-18, 08:00-17:00 hours.
9150 Federal Blvd.
Cost: $125.00 (well worth it!)
Contact Joaquin at:
303-619-4105 or joaquin@paragonfma.vpweb.com

http://paragonfma.vpweb.com/?prefix=www

more on "Looming"; Force Science

Looming question : [In FSN #218 (12/7/12), Dr. Bill Lewinski, executive director of the Force Science Institute, and Force Science instructor Chris Lawrence discussed the perceptual phenomenon called "Looming," which makes vehicles driving directly toward you appear to be larger and moving faster than is actually the case. In response, a psychologist asks:]

Does the same perceptual phenomenon occur in a rapidly approaching human? 

Dr. H. Anthony

Wyndmoor, PA

Chris Lawrence replies:

I have talked about this with Dr. Alexis Artwohl, also a Force Science instructor. Our discussion fit the research on Looming in that it is believed to be part of our evolutionary survival mechanisms, designed to get us moving quickly from the path of approaching danger, such as a large animal bearing down to attack.

The size of the approaching object is a factor. The larger the object, the greater the impact on your visual field. A 250 lb. man can be two feet wide at the shoulders, where an approaching car can be six feet across. While the visual image of an approaching person will expand in a manner similar to the approaching car, the size of the image of a person will not cover as much of the viewer's retina as a vehicle, given the same distance away from the viewer.

Also, we become habituated to other people approaching us head-on, as on a crowded sidewalk or while walking through an airport terminal. However, change the context of the approaching person from mundane to menacing and the experience of the viewer may be very different than that of a witness viewing the event from a different perspective. Looming may also contribute to the startle response as you suddenly realize a large object is in front of you as you round a blind corner, for example. Unexpectedly your visual field is filled with an object you didn't expect.?

Researchers in London have documented that the Looming phenomenon is directly affected by the perception of threat. Viewers watching threatening objects coming toward them interpret the objects as being closer and moving faster than nonthreatening stimuli.

As the scientists report in the journal Current Biology, "[E]motion modulates some basic aspects of perception." For instance, people who fear heights tend to experience a "distorted perception of vertical distance," while those who are claustrophobic tend to misjudge the amount of space immediately surrounding them.

To access the full report of how Looming is affected by a perception of threat… (read more at the link):

http://www.psychology.emory.edu/cognition/lourenco/lab/Vagnoni%20Lourenco%20Longo%20%282012%29%20-%20Current%20Biology%20-%20SI%20included.pdf

Trooper fatally shoots man who attacked him with scissors

An example of an improvised edged weapon being used against the officer. Read more at the link:

http://www.wpxi.com/news/news/local/police-investigate-shooting-near-mount-pleasant-gr/nTmr5/?hpt=ju_bn4

Perspective

A friend of mine posted this on FB.  I thought I would share it...:)

A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles roll
ed into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.

... The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full.. The students responded with a unanimous ‘yes.’

The professor then produced two Beers from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar effectively filling the empty space between the sand.The students laughed..

‘Now,’ said the professor as the laughter subsided, ‘I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things—-your family, your children, your health, your friends and your favorite passions—-and if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house and your car.. The sand is everything else—-the small stuff.
‘If you put the sand into the jar first,’ he continued, ‘there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life.

If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff you will never have room for the things that are important to you.

Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness.

Spend time with your children. Spend time with your parents. Visit with grandparents. Take your spouse out to dinner. Play another 18. There will always be time to clean the house and mow the lawn.

Take care of the golf balls first—-the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.

One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the Beer represented. The professor smiled and said, ‘I’m glad you asked.’ The Beer just shows you that no matter how full your life may seem, there’s always room for a couple of Beers with a friend.

Reaction Time – Police Shooting Study

We talked about this study in class. Here is link to the article:

http://www.bluesheepdog.com/reaction-time-police-shooting-study/

Mag pouch - Sheath combo

Working with  my friends at 13Zulu (http://13zulu.com/) on some ideas.  Here is a recent rig that we came up with:
Spare GLOCK 23 mag and a full-size, fixed blade SOG knife:

Six stabbed at northeast Atlanta New Year's party

http://www.cbsatlanta.com/story/20478393/as-many-as-6-stabbed-at-northeast-atlanta-party


Posted: Jan 01, 2013 3:53 AM MSTUpdated: Jan 01, 2013 8:52 AM MST

By Melissa Roberts

 

ATLANTA (CBS ATLANTA) - A man kicked out of a New Year's Eve party early Tuesday has been arrested after going on a stabbing rampage.
Officers said Luke Odonodan, 19, and Andrew Mainor were involved in an altercation and Odonodan was asked to leave the home on Gibson Street.
Odonodan returned around 3:30 a.m. with what appeared to be a knife and stabbed Mainor.
Others tried to subdue Odonodan, at which time he began stabbing all of them.
A woman called 911 as she attempted to drive several victims of the stabbing to an area hospital.
Two people sustained stab wounds to the abdominal and leg areas which left both semi-conscious at the time.
During the scuffle, Odonodan was cut on his lower back.
All together, three victims were taken to Atlanta Medical Center, one of which was in critical but stable condition. A fourth was taken to Emory University Hospital Midtown. There were a total of six people injured.
Odonodan was charged with five counts of aggravated assault while at the hospital.