Close Quarter Tactics Review
I took the Close Quarters Tactics course taught by the Praesidium Group. For those of you who carry a gun and only practice at the shooting range you NEED to take this course. This course opened my eyes to the real world of self defense. I was so impressed with this training that I decided to write a review of the class so that some of you who are sitting on the fence will take this course.
This course started out with a four hour block on edged weapons. This showed the importance of an accessible small fixed blade knife. It also showed how to keep some distance between you and your would be assailant and what kind of clues baddies tend to give before they strike.
The next day we started working on hand to hand techniques, these are not the types of techniques that are designed to win contests. These techniques are something that is designed to keep you from getting knocked out or knocked down and allow you to get enough control of the conflict to go to weapons or give you enough room to get away from the situation.
We also learned to shoot at extremely close range. You would think that close range shooting would be easy but guess again. If you donât have your body aligned right and the weapon in the right position you could possibly miss and turn your weapon into our weapon (as in your adversary gets a hold on your weapon).
After several reps of these techniques we went on to using these techniques against a live adversary. The person you are going up against is in a full body suit so there is no need to go âhalf speedâ and you are given a simmuntion firing training weapon and are allowed to use training knives in the scenarios. This is as close as most anyone is going to get to the real thing without serious injury or death.
As night fell we switched gears and learned proper flashlight usage techniques. We also integrated the pistol into the flashlight usage. After a live fire drill using the flashlight we left the range for a little off site training. The scenario consisted of a dark alley, possible multiple adversaries and possible shoot/no shoot possibilities.
The final day of training focused on the usage of cover and movement as it relates to the real world. We also spent time on weapons retention techniques that were useful against both zombie and non zombie attackers alike. Overall this class was a real eye-opener for me. What I learned from this class was about 99% of the things that I thought I would do in a confrontation was not going to work well in the real world. If you are looking for a class that is going to make you the next IDPA/IPSC super shooter this is not for you. But if you are looking for a course that will help you successfully defend yourself in the real world this is definitely for you.
I took the Close Quarters Tactics course taught by the Praesidium Group. For those of you who carry a gun and only practice at the shooting range you NEED to take this course. This course opened my eyes to the real world of self defense. I was so impressed with this training that I decided to write a review of the class so that some of you who are sitting on the fence will take this course.
This course started out with a four hour block on edged weapons. This showed the importance of an accessible small fixed blade knife. It also showed how to keep some distance between you and your would be assailant and what kind of clues baddies tend to give before they strike.
The next day we started working on hand to hand techniques, these are not the types of techniques that are designed to win contests. These techniques are something that is designed to keep you from getting knocked out or knocked down and allow you to get enough control of the conflict to go to weapons or give you enough room to get away from the situation.
We also learned to shoot at extremely close range. You would think that close range shooting would be easy but guess again. If you donât have your body aligned right and the weapon in the right position you could possibly miss and turn your weapon into our weapon (as in your adversary gets a hold on your weapon).
After several reps of these techniques we went on to using these techniques against a live adversary. The person you are going up against is in a full body suit so there is no need to go âhalf speedâ and you are given a simmuntion firing training weapon and are allowed to use training knives in the scenarios. This is as close as most anyone is going to get to the real thing without serious injury or death.
As night fell we switched gears and learned proper flashlight usage techniques. We also integrated the pistol into the flashlight usage. After a live fire drill using the flashlight we left the range for a little off site training. The scenario consisted of a dark alley, possible multiple adversaries and possible shoot/no shoot possibilities.
The final day of training focused on the usage of cover and movement as it relates to the real world. We also spent time on weapons retention techniques that were useful against both zombie and non zombie attackers alike. Overall this class was a real eye-opener for me. What I learned from this class was about 99% of the things that I thought I would do in a confrontation was not going to work well in the real world. If you are looking for a class that is going to make you the next IDPA/IPSC super shooter this is not for you. But if you are looking for a course that will help you successfully defend yourself in the real world this is definitely for you.