Author: HeloMaster

This live fire class focused on AK-specific handling and marksmanship skills, although there was one CZ Scorpion in attendance. We learned off-lines and disarms as a vehicle leading us to retention: how to keep your AK when someone close is trying to take it away. We practiced means, such as “junkyard prone” for clearing cover with the muzzle while exposing as little of the sight line as possible, as well as hold over to compensate for mechanical offset at close range.

On March 1 – 2, 2021, ICSAVE taught Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) to LEOs and military personnel. The majority of the students were BorSTAR and BorTAC. Most of the remainder were from the 162nd Fighter Wing of the Arizona …

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In this practice session we reviewed Safety, Basic Marksmanship, Impeded Slide Movement, Non-diagnostic Stoppage Reduction, Center Axis Relock, One Handed Pistol Firing, Stoppage Reduction, Projectile Launchers as Impact Tools, Movement off the Line of Attack, Holdover, the Two-Shot Rule for Distant Targets, Zones of Stoppage Reduction, and Transitions.

We used the foundational “Antelope Principle” and two-person teams as building blocks teaching the students how to conduct advanced live fire tactical training safely and productively. Topics included Safety, Antelope Drills (with increasing complexity, culminating in night evasion scenarios), the Ginger Rogers Principle, Negotiating Obstacles, Hasty Slings, How to Maximize Training Time, Role Transitions, Close Order Battle drills, and various aspects of Hostage Rescue.

This was private, in-home coaching on Walther PPQ Manipulations, Marksmanship, and Defensive Mindset for a family in Oracle, Arizona.

This course addressed various aspects of fighting in and around vehicles. Topics we practiced included safety, avoidance of roadblocks, how to back out of trouble (we practiced this on a former FLETC EVO track), carjacking, look down / shoot down for passenger safety, pushing around crowds without hurting pedestrians, and engaging through 360 degrees from inside a car,

This training was for intermediate skill level shooters at a Pistol Fundamentals clinic. Topics included Safety, Ricochet and Cover demos, limitations of Car Doors as Cover, Step Over drills, Urban Prone, Recovery, Whys and Hows of Ground Fighting, Stoppage Reduction, Hooded drills, and various aspects of Concealed Carry.

These two classes, which took place over two days, were Heloderm’s take on Active Violence avoidance and amelioration, although we did address Carjacking and Kidnapping on Day 2. We covered Dynamics of Confrontation, Forward Obliques with Changes of Direction, Movement of the Line of Assault, Flow of Doors, Leadership in Crisis Management (especially delegation), OpSec / ComSec, Timing, Weapons Theory, Off-lines, Disarms, Limb Pins, Fire Extinguishers as APers Tools, Beating the Killer to Secondaries, and Riding / Killing the Dragon.

  Here are some salient points from the Warlizard Pistol Fundamentals clinic’s “not beginner group” (NBGs) who split off and trained on the North Range.  This document also discusses training conducted before and after the split. Training Summary Pistol Fundamentals …

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  Students:  By now most of you know what the deal is with the summaries of your training.  If you don’t, but you’ve gotten this far, read on and our nefarious plot to help you learn from your class, even …

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Adam– Here are a few notes about the subjects we touched upon at the Warlizard Tactical / Heloderm fun shoot on 05 Sep 2020.   MAX EFFECTIVE and TACTICAL NICHE of the SCOPED TURNBOLT Your Savage turnbolt (“bolt action”) .308 …

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  Students:  Here’s a summary of our classroom (and break room, and outdoor) training during Phase I of Defensive Pistol.  This document mainly focuses on the hands-on exercises we did.  Remaining didactic material from the PowerPoint slides is also included …

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Pistol Fudnamentals students:  Here is a summary of the training you attended on 08 August 2020.  Thanks for braving the heat with us!   Training Summary Warlizard Pistol Fundamentals clinic, NBGs (Not-beginner Group) North range, Pinal Airpark, AZ, 08 Aug 2020 …

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Students:  This document summarizes the training we conducted in your level 1 Defensive Shotgun class.  It’s here for you to use as a reference for future training and practice, as well as to document what was done and how we …

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Nick & Sarah:  Thank you for all your attentiveness during our didactic Revolver and AR coaching session.  This is my lesson plan (“training outline”) for that day, annotated with additional notes you may find useful.  I’m already looking forward to …

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Training Summary, “Less experienced“ group Warlizard Pistol Fundamentals and AZ CCW clinic, 25 Jul 2020 South range, Pinal Airpark, Red Rock, AZ, about 0830 -1100 hrs local Update of 29 Jul 2020 CLEARED PISTOLS Arriving students had their weapons cleared …

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Training Summary Night Pistol (NP1), 07 Mar 2020 Update of 22 Apr 2020 This class took place the evening after a Managing Multiple Assailants (MMA) class.  All but one of the MMA students stayed for the night fire, and we …

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Annotated Training Outline Managing Multiple Assailants Noon – 1830, 07 Mar 2020 Revision of 12 Mar 2020   MMA students: This is the Training Outline (lesson plan) we used for you Multiple Assailants class, minus some stuff we didn’t get …

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Registered students: Kaiden M-J Christina V (primary student)   Read-Ahead Modules / Handouts      “Marjorie Casey’s Story” from Sanford Strong’s Strong on Defense(both to read)       Dealing with PESTS (Kaiden to read and summarize to his mom) …

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Training Summary Army Explorer Carbine and Pistol fam, Pearl Harbor day, 2019 Part IA:  Safety, about 0900 – 0930 hours All explorers (Groups I and II) attended Safety Brief Joel G reviewed, and explorers recited, NRA’s 3 rules: 1) ALWAYS keep …

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Annotated Training Outline Joseph, Baude, & AJ Defensive Pistol I (didactic), 14 Dec 2019 Joseph, Baude, AJ, and JT– This is the outline, or lesson plan, I used to stay on track in your class, updated to show what we …

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Training Summary Andrea F Defensive Pistol I 23 Dec 2019 STUDENTS Andrea F Jay F Didactic, Sneller Vista, @ 1200 – 1500 SAFETY Reviewed 4 Rules Sul Temple Indexed Wave drills Peels Step Over drills Intro to Haley “Urban Prone” …

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Annotated Training Outline Arizona Concealed Carry class of 15 Dec 2019 Students: Andrea F Jay F Mary F (did not attend entire class but listened from kitchen and later participated in some OC training) Kelsey N (parts I and II …

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Training Summary Shotgun and Pistol clinics at Josie range, 26 – 27 Oct 2019 Update of 30 Nov 2019 This is a summary of  pistol and shotgun training with Rob, Greg and George, after George taught a Stop the Bleed …

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This state licensed armed security guard was trained and qualified by his agency on a Glock auto pistol. Then they issued him a revolver. There is so much more to mastering a wheel gun than “point, pull and pray”–especially if, like this security professional, you might need to bet your life on it. Fortunately, there are still a few of us “Sgt Roger Murtaughs” around.