Seminars & Workshops

A seminar covers one thing properly rather than six things loosely. You work a single subject from every angle and leave with something you did not have when you arrived. For many people this is the most straightforward way to begin — a fixed date, and no commitment beyond it.

Length depends on the subject and on who is training. Some run half a day. Others run nine to five with a lunch break. The deeper ones run up to three days. We would rather tell you honestly how long something takes to teach properly than compress it to fit a morning.

These also travel. If you have a group — a church, a running club, a neighborhood, a company, a group of friends — any of these can be delivered at your location rather than waiting for a public date to align with your calendar.

Intro to Krav Maga is the entry point. Krav Maga is the foundation underneath everything we teach, but we are not trying to turn you into a Krav Maga practitioner. This is a morning spent on the principles the rest of the system is built on — simple, aggressive when it has to be, and repeatable under pressure.

Anti-carjacking covers what happens in and around a vehicle: approach patterns, conduct at a red light, seatbelts and confined space, when the vehicle is the weapon, and the fact that the correct answer is almost always to surrender the car and never the passengers.

Edged weapon defense is the most sobering block we teach, and we teach it honestly. Edged weapons are fast, quiet, and far more common than people assume. There is no clean disarm that works reliably, and anyone selling you one is selling you something. What exists: recognizing it early, creating distance, managing the arm, using barriers, and accepting damage in the right places rather than the wrong ones.

Firearm defense is taught as two separate problems, because a handgun and a long gun do not behave the same way at contact distance and pretending otherwise gets people hurt. Both cover the small number of situations where acting beats complying — contact distance, movement to a second location, and where compliance has already failed — and the far larger number of situations where compliance is correct, and how to tell the difference.

Active shooter awareness and preparedness is built for ordinary people in ordinary places, not for a response team. How to read a room before anything happens, how to navigate one when it does, how to assess what is actually occurring rather than what everyone assumes, and what to do in the minutes before help arrives — including the tac med that keeps someone alive until it does.

The threat may be over. The fight for life isn’t.

That session runs differently depending on who is in the room. Moving with a family is not the same problem as moving alone, and neither is the same as being out with friends who will look to you for a decision. All three get covered.