+ Developing the "Combative Mind."
+ How to program your mind for immediate action without conscious thought, hesitation, or indecision.
+ Facing the enemy: an overview of modern day predators.
+ Understanding Body Alarm Reactions and Adrenaline Overloads. Learn to minimize their negative effects and fight through natural stress responses.
+ Street and battlefield proven methods for minimizing and controlling fear.
+ The military’s OODA Loop in combat. How it can enhance your tactical advantage in any armed or unarmed confrontational training system.
+ The SIG principle, the three "S" test, NUM, and Hick’s Law. Four concepts that you will use for the rest of your life to select armed and unarmed combative techniques and tactics, for your personal tactical tool-chest.
+ Why “survival” is not a high enough standard as a primary goal during a violent encounter, and what you must replace it with!
+ Gross, Fine, and Complex Motor Skills. How understanding their abilities and limitations can save your life.
+ The most important thing you can do to minimize your chances of becoming a victim of violent crime.
+ The seven secret keys to minimizing your combat reaction time.
+ Weaver vs. Isosceles stance? The final answer for real combat.
+ Understanding armed response from the police perspective; and how to avoid potential deadly mistakes when law enforcement arrives.
+ The Combatives Proficiency Pyramid: How to build competencies in a synergistic order to maximize your abilities.
+ The Optimum Skill Development Pyramid: How to forge basic abilities into finely honed fundamentals.
+ The Combative Skills Training Pyramid: How to turn those fundamental proficiencies into fighting skills.
+ What do we really need to know to prevail in a gunfight? Four street-proven concepts that simplify the process.
+ Instilling a relentless, undying commitment to keep fighting, even when injured and in incredible pain.
+ Multiple Target Engagement: the secret that’s so obvious, it’s usually overlooked and rarely taught.
+ Firepower vs. Control: the truth about momentary recoil force, and what the US Secret Service discovered about it.
+ Patterns of Encounters: What were the circumstances where officers were killed, and what were the circumstances when they prevailed?
+ Why ballistic gelatin is not an absolute indicator of bullet performance in combat.
+ AEC: the three rules of engagement that apply to all potential violent encounters.
+ IAO: a simple combative concept that can spell the difference between life and death.
+ The truth about fatigue and the effects on your cognitive and motor performance in handing firearms.
+ Dry Fire Training Drills: how to practice many of your critical skills without ever firing a shot.
+ Live Fire Training Drills: how to get the most training benefit from every box of ammo.
+ The Flawless Four and more. Gun safety rules presented like never before.
+ The reality of Situational Dependence v. Dogma Ready Positions, is there really an ultimate “ready position?”
+ Tactical v. Tacti-cool training, and how to tell the difference.
+ Speed Reloading for combat in the real world.
+ How to instantly and immediately eradicate a common human trait that causes extended (and potentially deadly) lag time.
+ Concepts and principles of personal protection.
+ Street proven effective handgun ammunition formulas, and how to choose a pistol/ammunition combination that's right for you.
+ The Primary Neutralization Zone: a three dimensional look at your adversary, and why training to shoot “center mass” is just not good enough.
+ The absolute truth about handgun knockdown power.
+ Developing life-saving holster skills. Concealed carry methods that work in the real world!
+ Sighted fire vs. point shooting, developing a seamless transition under extreme conditions.
+ Enhancing the essential combat fundamentals of stance, grip, and trigger control.
+ Concepts for Empty Hand Combat. Including sources for realistic, street-proven-effective self-defense for the non-martial artist, requiring minimal training time.
+ VMBR, and how it will greatly enhance your armed and unarmed performance while engaged in personal combat.
+ And more!
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