Great training week

Finished up a great week of training in AZ and NM. Force Protection and Self-Defense in Shanto, AZ (Navajo Nation) and Tactical Knife Options in Santa Fe, NM.

CCW and travel

CCW and Travel:
If you have a ccw and trael, this is a must app! Created by my friend Joe at Tac*One consulting, it is a great app for your smart-phone. Check it out:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appypie.appypied87ca85faae7&hl=en

great training opp

I wanted to share an excellent training opportunity. On 21 Feb 2015 from 10:00-16:00 hours, we will be putting on an "Advanced CCW" course that will combine hand-2-hand, Knife tactics, and firearms training. We will be utilizing role-players, padded hit suits and Simunition marking rounds in various scenarios to tie all of it together.

I am excited to have been able to partner with Tac-One Consulting on this joint-project. I dont believe there is any other civilian training out there that will tie all three areas of close-quarter combatives together.

If you have questions you can contact me or Joe Deedon. To register please go through Joe at 720-425-5687 or joedeedon@taconeconsulting.com.

I look forward to training with you again.

Great training opp.

Year end re-cap video

It has been a phenomenal year of training! We got to travel to some new places, form some new partnerships, and train with great folks.

Thanks to Tac*One consulting for being so awesome to work with. We are looking forward to 2015 big time!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a40XSZnN8UQ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a40XSZnN8UQ

Cody training

Spent the last several day in Cody, WY with Tac*One Consulting putting on a comprehensive Officer Survival class for the Park CSO detentions and courts deputies. We covered combat shooting, edged weapons, ground fighting, and scenarios!  Great group of professionals to train with.

ForceScience Newsletter #270:

Emergency Survival Responses (ESR)

1 hr · 

From ForceScience Newsletter #270:

Controversy sparks anew over alleged risks of prone positioning

A Canadian anesthesiologist has attempted to revive the controversy about alleged risks associated with the prone positioning of arrestees, only to draw an emphatic rebuke from a team of experts on the subject.

The physician is Alain Michaud, affiliated with a hospital in Roberval, Quebec. In published correspondence to the Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, he presents an argument sometimes advanced by plaintiffs' attorneys in lawsuits against police involving arrest-related deaths. Namely, that applying pressure to the back of a proned-out, struggling suspect can compress the inferior vena cava blood vessel to the extent that blood from the legs and abdomen cannot get back to the heart, thus provoking a fatal cardiac disruption. He links the problem especially to individuals experiencing the excited delirium syndrome (ExDS).

INSISTENT CHALLENGE. The anesthesiologist challenges a study published earlier in the Journal which disputed the hypothesis that "weight force" applied to "the center of [a suspect's] back" could cause a "sudden cardiovascular collapse" from significantly diminished blood return to the heart.

That study was too limited, Michaud argues, because, among other things, it did not adequately factor in the impact of physical exertion and psychological stress that invariably accompany ExDS encounters on the street.

Restraining a "hyperactive individual" in the prone position on a hard surface, he insists, "will impede free expansion of the chest and the abdomen" during inhalation and "may interfere with cardiopulmonary" function. Indeed, he says, even the weight of one knee applied to the back of a subject in the throes of ExDS "should alter the venus [blood] return significantly."

Moreover, he writes, a "tight hogtie position could also reduce the venous return directly and indirectly by different mechanisms."

Citing several papers written by others, Michaud concludes that the prone position should not be ruled out "as a contributing or precipitating factor in fatal ExDS." Police, he says, should consider "developing restraint techniques that would not impede abdominal and chest expansion...in the lateral position."

Michaud's letter can be read in full, for a fee, by clicking here

SHARP REBUTTAL. Four researchers involved in the study Michaud criticizes have fired back with a lengthy letter of their own. This team--Drs. Gary Vilke, Theodore Chan, Davut Savaser, and Tom Neuman--are physicians with the Dept. of Emergency Medicine at the University of California-San Diego.

"It is highly doubtful that Dr. Michaud's letter would ever survive peer review," they write, because he "relies on speculative theories" supported mainly by "reports of questionable applicability and no true experimental literature" and also "mischaracterizes many of his cited references,...often leaving out key details" to support his assertions.

The team points out that Michaud presents "no data" to support his claim that a single knee to the back of an excited delirium subject can significantly hamper blood flow. Although this is presented as fact, it appears in reality to be merely his "conjecture" and "speculation," they write.

"Dr. Michaud completely fails to mention five other experimental papers," in addition to their own study, "that directly contradict his thesis," the researchers continue. These studies dealt with back weight up to 225 pounds, "with no reports of any adverse effects such as blood pressure drops" or heart distress symptoms "that would be consistent with marked reductions in cardiac output....

"To be blunt, Dr. Michaud ignores common sense. Were as little as one knee in the back sufficient to cause such a dangerous reduction in cardiac output, there would be significant death rates among rugby or football players."

In contrast, the team notes, "there is now abundant evidence that even relatively minor degrees [of structural heart disease] is associated with an increased incidence of sudden death." This risk factor, they conclude, is far more worthy of focus and exploration than the "unfounded and unsupported theory" of prone positioning adversely affecting blood flow.

The rebuttal can be accessed in full, for a fee, by clicking here.

An abstract of the study at the core of the Journal's letter exchange can be viewed free of charge by clicking here. The title is "The effect of the prone maximal restraint position with and without weight force on cardiac output and other hemodynamic measures."

ANOTHER VOICE. Another observer weighing in recently on the alleged risks of prone positioning is Dr. Michael Graham, a professor of pathology at St. Louis University and chief medical examiner for the city of St. Louis. Graham includes the subject in a broad, 24-page review of factors often associated with arrest-related deaths published in Academic Forensic Pathology, the official journal of the National Assn. of Medical Examiners.

In light of existing research on the subject, Graham concludes that "in the vast majority of cases, it is unlikely" that the extent and duration of compression of an arrestee's chest, back, or abdomen during prone positioning "are sufficient to cause or contribute to death."

Sophisticated studies, he notes, have failed to confirm a risk of fatal breathing or cardiac problems induced by prone positioning with either hogtying or weight force.

In another section of his report, Graham explores research findings regarding the role of CEWs in arrest-related deaths, again concluding that no causal relationship has been established. He also describes relevant factors in deaths associated with neck restraint, excited delirium, and short-term physical exertion by suspects with the sickle cell trait.

spread the word

TRAINING OPPS
We have a variety of classes coming up; both Law Enforcement and Civilian. If you know LEOs who might be interested, please share the info below. If you are interested in civilian self-protection courses, please share the relevant info below. 

You can message me here for ore info or forward inquiries to my email at CQCtactics@msn.com. Thanks and GHOGH

Classes: _______
Officer Survival & Duty Knife @ Tac*One in Cody, WY
December 04-06, 2014

Tactical Knife Options - Civilian @ Tac*One (Denver)
December 12, 2014 (17:30-21:30)

Tactical Knife Options LE @ Douglas, WY
December 17, 2014

Tactical Knife Options Level II - civ @ Centennial Gun Club
December 19, 2014 (17:00-21:00)

Tactical Knife Options - Duty Knife @ Broomfield PD
January 09, 2015

Tactical Knife Options - civ @ BluCore Shooting Center
January 10, 2014 (09:30-13:30)

Tactical Knife Options - civ @ Centennial Gun Club
January 16, 2015 (17:00-21:00)

Patrol In-Service @ Camp George West
January 26-30, 2014

Tactical Knife Options - LE @ Santa Fe, NM
February 05, 20

Class-new location

All:

I hope this email finds you doing well and enjoying the Fall weather...:) 

I have a Tactical Knife Options-civilian class on November 15 at a new location. If you know anyone who could benefit from the training please let them know.

The class will be held at : 5770 Clarkson St. Denver, CO 80216 at the Tac*One training center. To register call 720-425-5687.

If you happen to be in the area, come check out this facility. It is where we will be conducting the advanced training course in Feb which will cover hand-to-hand, knife, and SIMs force on force training where we work on transition from one weapon system to another..

Oldie, but goodie

Archive Video:
Here is an old vid from the vaults circa early 1990s. Outside of the “disarms” and that it is completely geared towards SPECOPs profs, pretty solid stuff from a fundamental standpoint. What do you think?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4aZ2x8P-rI&feature=youtu.be

LEO Poem

In lieu of the horrific week that LE has seen, I wanted to re-post this:

 

"I’ve driven these City streets ten thousand times. I know every street, alley, nook and cranny. The hot-spots, low-spots, the upside and the underside.

I roam the streets and prowl the shadows. Upholder of the peace; protector of the sheep. Highly tuned to sense danger; yet fearless in the face of my enemies.

I am a hard charging, hairy chested, scootin-shootin, flashbang tossin, double-tappin sheepdog warrior. When I vow to do a thing, there is not a thing in the world I cannot do.

No door too tough for kick’n, no car too fast for pit’n.

I’ve learned many lessons in my journey towards impeccability, some the hard-way:

Luck favors the prepared; so prepare for the worst.

Keep one in the chamber and there is no such thing as too much ammo.

Its not the size of the bullet, but its placement that counts.

Life is for the bold, pain fades, and glory lives forever.

Courage-Honor-and Compassion usually travel together and the "Right" thing is never the easy thing.

While others run from danger, I hunt it down and stand on its throat. I am a Man, a husband, a father, a lover and a fighter. I fight for life, what is good, family and tribe. Anything worth doing is worth doing 110%. Procrastination and moderation are for the weak."

Pain? Which type do you choose?

Pain:

 

 



Why take a knife to a gun fight?

I am a veteran firearms instructor and HUGE proponent of firearms and CCWs.  I get asked the above question a lot when people find out I teach the Tactical Knife Options course. If you know me, then you know I am all about being prepared and that the correct mindset drives preparation.  You also know that I am all about stacking the deck in your favor. So with that said, here is a short video about training with knives… 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7RNQ2SkJE4

 

 

2 park rangers stabbed

 

2 park rangers stabbed on Boston Common:

A homeless man was arrested Tuesday in what police say was the unprovoked stabbing of two park rangers on Boston Common

“…a 46-year-old sergeant, suffered life-threatening injuries and was in surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital.”

Read full story here:

http://www.policeone.com/edged-weapons/articles/7674496-Police-2-park-rangers-stabbed-on-Boston-Common/

New North location

New north location!!

I am very excited to announce that the Tactical Knife Options –civilian course has a new North-of-Denver location: 

Tac*One Consulting (http://www.taconeconsulting.com), located at 5770 Clarkson St. #E

 Denver, CO 80216; just east of the I-25 / 58^th Ave. exit, will host the civilian TKO class on :

·         November 15^th (15:00-19:00)

·         December 12^th (17:30-21:30) AND

·         A level II class on January 10 (10:00-14:00)

 Come check out this centrally located, state of the art training facility. To register or for more information, message me here or call 720-364-4278. And remember “Luck favors the prepared…”

Comfort Zone - Growth Zone - Panic Zone

The Comfort Zone: 

Prior to the Panic-Zone and the Growth-Zone is the “Comfort-Zone”. This is where most people choose to exist. 

The Comfort-Zone is for safe-feelings, planning, re-groping and complacency.  What the Comfort-Zone is NOT for is: Growth; being a BadAss, Winning, Being a champ or exhibiting  courage, overcoming adversity…

The above only takes place when you step/jump out of your Comfort-Zone; when you embrace fear; hit the pain barrier full-tilt-boogie. This is where greatness takes form; where courage is demonstrated; where winning happens….

 

 

Tactical Knife Options civilian class

There are still slots open for the Level II class (TKO-civilian) class on 17 October from 17:00-21:00 hours. Hosted by the Centennial Gun Club. Visit the link below to register:

http://centennialgunclub.com/training/edgedweapons/tactical-knife-options-civilian-concepts-level-ii/

Goals...

Saw this earlier and wanted to re-post.

There is nothing in Nature that is static. Everything is either growing or dissolving. The same is true for us. If we are not getting better – developing, then we are slowly eroding. Our brains and bodies were intended to be used, pushed, to grow. We have to make a conscious effort daily to grow and get better. The alternative is that we slowly crumble. Complacency and procrastination are the natural assassin of progress and success. That is why it is so critical to have goals….

Slots still open for the Greeley class

Weapon Retention in close quarters....

Weapon Retention and Secondary Deadly Force Options:

 

In class we discuss that a weapon-retention situation is the most likely scenario that warrants deadly force as the appropriate level of response to a deadly-threat. This story exemplifies several things:

1.    The victim-officer faced an sudden immanent deadly threat and in fact suffered serious bodily injuries.

2.    The victim-officer did not have (or was not trained in) a secondary deadly-force option(s) to neutralize the threat/attack. (Had another LEO not been present and armed; how many people might have been injured and or died?)

3.    Re-action time: This attack occurred in a confined/close-quarter area with other LEOs present. Yet a restrained suspect was able to attack – disarm – and shoot the victim-officer before anyone else could process and respond to the dynamic and evolving threat. (I would be interested in knowing how much time elapsed between initial active aggression and neutralization of the threat).

 

Inmate killed, officer wounded in Ga. court shooting

The cuffed inmate managed to grab the detective's gun and open fire, and a second officer returned fire

“…suspect managed to get a DeKalb County police detective's gun and shoot him before another officer (shot and) killed the prisoner/suspect..”

http://www.policeone.com/Officer-Safety/articles/7631123-Inmate-killed-officer-wounded-in-Ga-court-shooting/