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Course Rate
$25.00 per person

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  • Choice Of Firearms

    • Pistol

    • Rifle

    • Shotgun

  • Firearm Access

  • Staging Firearms

    • Where To Stage Them

    • How To Do It Securely

  • Cover & Concealment

    • What Is Cover?

    • What Is Concealment?

    • How To Use It

  • Transitional Spaces In & Around Your Home

    • Sidewalks

    • Gates

  • Castle Law (Castle Doctrine) (What can you do?)

The range portion of this course will give you the option of looking at and trying different type of options for home defense. We have an H&K SP5 (1), MP5-22's (2) and 416D (2) (AR Pattern Rifle) that will allow us to use these at closer and further distances. If you want to experiment with your shotgun you are welcome to do that also. 

The range portion is NOT a requirement for completion of this class as we understand not everyone is interested in using a firearm to defend their home.

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Have you ever wondered what self defense actually looks like? What it looks like before, during and after? What about all the factors, physical, mental and legal? This all can leave you scratching your head and wondering what is myth and what is fact. The entertainment industry as created a bias amongst people that make them believe what is in the movies and on tv is what actually happens. Time to dispel the myths and educate on fact.

This course is our first ONLINE only course that will explore multiple facets of self defense for those are interested in understanding the deeper factors of the subject. This is a spin off of our In’s & Out’s Of Concealed Carry course that focused on understanding the legal aspects of self defense and what is considered when deciding whether a incident is justified or not. 

We will also look at:

  • Articulation and how important it is to be able to articulate what happened in a situation

  • When can you use force and is your state one that puts a obligation to retreat on your or not?

  • Totality Of The Circumstances

  • Reasonable Perception

  • Human Performance Factors

    • Vision

    • Memory

    • Reaction Time

    • Importance Of Regular Training (Concept Vs. Technique

    • And More

This course is designed to help the self defense enthusiast, martial artist or martial arts instructor to better understand the factors of self defense to make better decisions for self defense and to help better instruct students on self defense. 

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​This course will teach you how the following is looked at in court:

  • Non Lethal Vs. Lethal Force

  • Intent- Manifested Intent

  • Ability & Means

  • Opportunity

  • Reasonableness – Reasonable Person Standard

  • Proportionality