2019 COURSES OFFERED
WEEKEND SEMINARS:
Introduction to Violence (Ambushes and Thugs)
1- or 2-day seminar. Lecture, physical and video. Requires AV equipment, kicking shields, white board. For second day requires non-dojo areas, such as parking lots, stairways and restrooms. 30 people maximum.
Student profile: Appropriate for everyone. Mentally, this is an introduction to the way violent criminals work. Physically, it is a series of exercises to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of a person’s natural motion. If you’re a martial artists, the class will show you where your skills fit. If you are not a martial artist, the class will help activate your instinctive survival knowledge.
Covers:
Context of Violence, Self-Defense Articulation (US only), Violence Dynamics (Lectures)
Power Generation
Counter Ambush
Fighting to the Goal
Second Day Covers:
Ground and Wall Movement
Dynamic fighting
Ethics and Application of Pain
Environmental Fighting
Plastic Mind Exercises (if time allows)
Logic of Violence (Design-a-Crime) (2 Levels)
2-4 hour or 1-day seminar. Interactive lecture. Requires White board.
Covers:
Students will get a brief overview of Violence Dynamics and will then collaborate on solving the problems a criminal must solve in order to successfully execute a crime. They will then back-engineer the process to both derive and understand the elements of self-protection.
LoV is a student-driven course and as such, the times can vary widely. The basic course can be done as quickly as two hours, if the instructor is directive.
I have run a 2-day version of the course which involves brainstorming potential solutions to the crimes the students design, and then using these low-percentage, worst-case options to derive the principles that underlie all effective physical self-defense.
Running Scenarios
2-day seminar. Lecture, physical. Requires armor, safety equipment, props and a non-dojo area. 20 people maximum.
Scenario training is an invaluable tool for force professionals or civilian self-defense students. It is a rare opportunity to work skills in tandem with judgment and to deal with a level of strategic and tactical complexity often missing from other training.
That said, an improperly run scenario can be disastrous, both in the sense of physical safety and the possibility of ingraining bad habits very deeply. First day covers the safety issues with running scenarios; personnel selection and skills; necessary equipment; scenario design; briefing and de-briefing; and troubleshooting. The second day will be a series of scenarios designed by the attendees and each attendee will act as Student, Safety Officer, Role Player and Facilitator in different scenarios.
This is not intended solely for government agencies or large commercial training groups with comfortable equipment budgets. We will carefully go over what you can and can’t do with the equipment that you have or can afford.
Covers:
Safety, Safety, Safety
Purposes of Scenarios
Scenario Design
Selection and Training of Scenario Designers, Facilitators, Safety Officers, and Role-Players
Targeting Scenarios
Briefing and Debriefing
Conducting Scenarios
Trouble Shooting
Chiron Defensive Tactics (MN POST number: 6205-0018) (14 credits)
2-Day course. Lecture and Hands-on. Requires kicking shields, white board, duty equipment, safe training versions of duty weapons. 30 people maximum.
Covers the elements of police defensive tactics from restraint to empty-handed lethal force. The course is fully integrated with the hosting agency’s Policy and Procedure (copy of P&P required when requesting course).
Covers:
Force Law, Policy and Articulation
Elements of Applied Power
Improvisation of Techniques Under Stress
Pain Compliance
Physical Control
Counter-Assault
Extremes of Force
InFighting
Available as a four-hour intro and eight-hour or sixteen-hour full courses. Matted space suggested but not necessary, kicking shields and/or large phone books required.
InFighting is what I do as a martial art. The skills translate very well to the self-defense environment, but the mindset does not. InFighting is done for fun. It is extreme close range, chest to chest or chest to back, brawling. Because of the range of techniques possible and the speed, I find it to be the best way to integrate your fighting skills, no matter what they are.
Skills covered include close range power generation, targeting, specialized strikes, use of structure and void in both offense and defense, takedowns, locks, gouging and biting.
Sixteen hour course includes groundwork and, optionally, including weapons in the game.
Principles
Requires kicking shields and dry erase board, mats highly recommended.
Principles is an introduction to the physics that underly all effective technique. There will be lecture and demonstration, but this is an experiential class. Seemingly esoteric subjects are experimented with in live play to create a deeper understanding.
Chiron Training Instructor Development Course
2- or 3-day class.
IDC is designed to address the specific challenges facing self-defense instructors: That they are teaching a skill where training and application must, for safety reasons be different; teaching adaptable solutions to chaotic problems adapting to a very diverse range of student needs and abilities; teaching skills that must be applied under stress and at high stakes, often with limited time, information, and margins of error. The course will address teaching adults, not children and serve as an introduction to both principles-based training and awareness-based training. Three day class includes marketing, business, and working with force professionals.
LONGER CLASSES:
Conflict Communications Instructor Course
Course is conducted as a one-on-one apprenticeship. Available by invitation only. Training is $2000 dollars for the course itself and a $200 annual licensing fee. IP contract required. Course format will cover:
ï Watching the Basic ConCom class as presented by two different instructors
ï Analysis of the ConCom presentation with regard to the triune brain model
ï Customized development of a personal PowerPoint for each instructor candidate
ï Demonstration of teaching ability
Most of class is held via Skype.
Chiron Training Instructor Development Course
5-day class
This will be the three-day IDC class combined with an overview of the drills I do and detailed instructions on how to coach them.
Core Dump
Forty-hour course covering everything that I think is important (and works) for self-defense. Course material will include an amalgam of physical skills and knowledge from the Introduction to Violence, Logic of Violence, People Watching, and Conflict Communications courses.
Students will get a solid grounding in criminal behavior, threat assessment, reading terrain and people, avoidance, evasion and de-escalation, goal setting, strategy, counter assault techniques and training methods, principles of personal combat and the most effective specific techniques I know and trust.
A sixth day of scenario training is available, and the APW walkabout requires extra time and/or instructors,
Maximum of twenty people for the scenario section of the course. 4 people at a time per instructor +4 for the advanced people watching course. 30 people max for the rest of the course except for the lectures. No limit for the lectures.
Requires: Kicking shields; available heavy bags; PowerPoint projector; dry erase board; HighGear suits; safe training weapons; access to a mall, outdoor market, fair or similar space/event; non-dojo space for the scenarios, preferably a bar or nightclub with a parking lot; and some groceries will be required. Matted space for the advanced drop-step and takedowns sections. Course content will adapt to the students, but skill at falling will modify the class more than anything else.
Notes: Inform everyone that for the last two sections (Messy Drill and Scenarios) they should wear clothes that they don’t mind getting ruined.
Five Day Women’s Self-Defense
Description of the class is here:
http://chirontraining.blogspot.com/2012/02/five-days.html
This would be a beta test, fees intended to cover expenses only, with feedback from the students to improve the course. Would require training areas, AV equipment, white board, kicking shield, and an urban environment.
5DWSD is not intended as a program. It is aimed at WSD instructors to give them a core dump of everything I know about criminals, violence dynamics, and training methodology so that they can adapt the information and use it in their own training and teaching.
NOTE: There has been a proposal for a 5-9 day WSD course taught by Kathy Jackson (http://www.corneredcat.com/) and myself. The first weekend would be the 2-day Instructor Development Course; M-F would be the 40 hr WSD and the second weekend would be the CC handgun course. Students would be able to register for five, seven (either weekend) or all nine days. If someone would be interested to host this and can provide the right facilities, it would be high priority.
SHORTER CLASSES:
Conflict Communications
Three hour introductory lecture or eight hour class for professionals. Eight hour course (MN POST number: 6205-0016) (7 credits). Requires PowerPoint projector. No limit on class size.
Covers:
Underlying Elements of Conflict
Types of Conflict
De-escalating Yourself
Manipulating Conflict Script
Optional Sections (eight-hour course) Cover:
Crisis Communication with Emotionally Disturbed Persons
Conflict Communication Applied to Overt Violence
Violence Dynamics
Five hour PowerPoint lecture developed with Tammy Yard-McCracken (PsyD, Director of Krav Maga Global’s Women’s Division) as an overview and introduction to the non-physical aspects of self-defense. Requires PowerPoint projector. No limit on class size.
Covers:
Applying Maslow and Triune Brain models to violence and conflict
Seven elements of Self-Defense
Violence Dynamics
ïypes of Violence
Specific De-escalation strategies
Tips on physical response
Threat Displays
Pre-Assault Indicators
Process of violent crime
Victim Selection
Victim Isolation
Psychological Control of Victim
Threat Assessment
Threat Assessment
Two hour introductory lecture. Requires Whiteboard, AV equipment. No limit on class size.
Covers:
Basic Violence Dynamics
Threat Displays
Pre-Assault Indicators
Signs of Adrenaline
Building Blocks
1-3 hour short courses on elements of physical defense. Equipment requirements vary by subject. 30 people maximum. Some classes require students to have basic safety skills, such as falling (ukemi).
Examples:
Power Generation
Infighting Strikes
Infighting Kicks
Takedowns
Locks
Counter-Assault
Ground Movement
Environmental Fighting
People Watching
Time and resources vary. Maximum of four students per instructor, plus four. Class structure: Students are briefed on safety and security concerns and divided into teams of four. One team of four goes out with each instructor. That instructor gives a specialized class on how he or she looks at the world (the bullet list below includes the things I cover). The group without an instructor has a list of tasks to complete. At the end of the hour, teams return to the rally point and debrief, then rotate instructors and go out again.
Covers:
Increasing Peripheral Vision
Use of Shadows and Reflections
Terrain Priorities (Mobility, vision, cover, concealment)
Reading Dangerous Terrain
Threat Profiles for Locations
Active Shooter Protocols
Intelligence Gathering
Working as a Team
Urban Stalking
Cold Reading
IN DEVELOPMENT
Master De-escalation Course ConCom, specific de-escalations by type of violence, intro to strategy, de-escalating the emotionally disturbed and mentally ill.
Introductory Conflict Communications On-Line Course
Chiron Soft Skills Package
Introduction to Strategy
On-lineversions of non-physical classes. Four tracks are in development: Self-Defense; Strategy; Principles; Building Blocks (Physical skills) and; Instructor Development.