Here are takeaways from our training. These after action reports are references for the students who took a given course. They contain summaries of training conducted, explanations of concepts, feedback on performance, and suggestions for future practice of the skills we worked on. With rare exceptions, almost all are password protected.
The Friday before 2023’s annual AZ CSN Defending the Flock conference, we did four hour sessions to get deeper into subjects we could only touch upon during an hour and half breakout session. Two of those dealt with movement, and how it’s not always possible to get off the X. This annotated training outline covers aspects of hostage rescue and how proxemics affect use of force.
This was the second part of a free Firearms Safety class for one first-time gun owner, and a Defensive Handgun class for both students.
This in-home session was a free Firearms Safety course for a first-time gun owner and an intro to Defensive Pistol for both students.
This Intro to Shotgun course exposed the students to various aspects of the shotgun as a defensive tool.
Students took the didactic portions of this Pediatric First Aid with all-ages CPR and AED course via computer; this post explains what was taught in the classroom and why.
These 2 hour and a half breakout sessions at the annual Defending the Flock conference focused on practicing effective upward off-lines. We also did some stress inoculation while practicing movement off the railroad tracks (the Deadly Diamond) and movement to flank. To a lesser extent we practiced disarms and lateral off-lines to protect a third party.
This bended learning class for Jr high school students took place on Fridays over the course of the Fall 2022 semester. This resource for the students documents what was taught and why.
This class for new gun owners focused on how to maintain their recently acquired firearms. We also covered trouble shooting and function checks for both auto pistol & revolver. We practiced field stripping a Glock and demonstrated the proper way to remove a Smith & Wesson side plate without warping it.
This was the second of two classes for educators at a pre-K to 8th grade school. In this session we practiced movement in response to stimulus (blanks from an AK), communication, and response to thrown IEDs. This summary adds additional detail regarding IED searches and recognition. We finished by practicing evacuation, researching useful escape routes from that mostly glass-walled school.
This course included initial familiarization fire for new gun owners. However, we didn’t stop there. We practiced using speedloaders and topping off a partially extended cylinder, as well as slide locked and topping off a Glock. Students practiced shooting while moving laterally, as well as decision fire.
This class, the first of two that summer for educators at a pre-K through 8th grade school, covered preliminary defensive concepts. We practiced getting inside minimum effective range, metsubishi, vertically off lining an assailant’s pistol, and inducing long gun stoppages.
This was an opportunity for people considering purchasing a firearm, or another firearm, or just wanting to practice, to be able to shoot any of several different types of handguns, and some long guns.
Camp Fury is an opportunity for adolescent girls to learn more about public safety careers, by practicing skills they would pick up at a fire or law enforcement academy. This after action report documents CPR training they received during Tucson’s Camp Fury 2022.
Students from a Tucson Junior High school learned principles of patient movement, both hand-carried and via improvised and purpose-built litters. This series of outdoor exercises, conducted over two days, developed teamwork, communication, and personal responsibility. But the main lesson was that we don’t NEED to be helpless in an emergency; we can be part of the solution, rather than part of the problem.
Students in this live-fire course practiced moving safely with and around one another in teams. while engaging targets through 360 degrees, while avoiding line of fire issues with bystanders around and behind threats.
Students in this dynamic course practiced how to safely conduct force-on-force exercises, while learning various concepts of interpersonal confrontation.
The family who requested this course practiced how to save severely injured persons under less than ideal, extended care conditions.
One of the trainers for this in-home class was a World Taekwondo Federation 4th degree Black Belt, but the course was only half about edged weapons. We also covered the advantages and weaknesses of other interpersonal weapons, and numerous other defensive concepts.
This AAR documents two classes: an in-home introduction to defensive concepts in general and firearms in particular, as well as a live fire intro to firearms safety and handling.
Students in this pro bono course ranged in age from mid-teens to 80. We covered a wide range of interpersonal confrontation scenarios, and practiced various means of deterring, preventing, and responding to assaults.
In this practice session was a series of close quarters, live fire exercises, including pistol as an impact tool, movement off the X, different types of reloads, supine fire, and Detective John Hobbs drills.
In addition to the HSI Pediatric First Aid, CPR, and AED course, and the ACS Stop the Bleed 2.0 curriculum, this course included a still water rescue component taught in a pool by certified lifeguards.
This live-fire, day and night course covered a variety of defensive concepts, including close quarters battle drills, safe movement around one another with pistols out, bent elbow fire, shooting while moving, flashlight technique, and decision shooting. Half the students were instructors, learning how to teach these drills and concepts.
This pro bono class at a church young ladies retreat was taught in two age-appropriate sessions: one for young girls and one for adolescents. We practiced a wide range of defensive concepts, including avoidance, deterrence, escape, and use of force.
This class for a young coed en route to college for the first time covered lawful use of force (in the home state as well as at the out of state destination), empty hands control techniques, advantages and drawbacks of different types of OC dispensers, retention, moral and ethical considerations, decontamination, transport, and storage. In addition to various role playing exercises with role players and inert dispensers, our capstone involved shooting real pepper spray and indirect exposure.
This in-home session covered a wide array of defensive concepts and drills, culminating in marksmanship practice with Airsoft pellets vs a photographic bad guy target. These included one handed firing, Center Axis Relock, and supine.
This live fire session included close order battle drills with partners, as well as force-on-force demonstrations, holster work, challenging a suspect, Tom & Jerry drills, ricochet demos, shooting while moving, V to L, Center Axis Relock, close contact fire, and Wyatt protocols.
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.
On Saturday, 28 Nov 2020, Warlizard Tactical and Heloderm LLC hosted an “industry day” at our favorite firing range. We try to do that periodically, to give our wonderful volunteer range safety officers (RSOs), adjunct instructors, their friends, and family …
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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Annotated Training Outline Night (Pistol) Fighting (NF1) 19 Sep 2020 Update of 26 Sep 2020 Students: Thank you for your attentiveness, enthusiasm, and participation during our low-light pistol training on the evening of 19 Sep 2020. This is the …
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 …
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 …
Training Summary Day & Night Fighting, 22 Mar 2020 Update of 11 May 2020 Students: Martin C. Terence L. Patrick M. Aaron aka Taylor P. Emma S. Annie …
Training Summary Warlizard Dynamic Carbine, 15 Mar 2020 Update of 02 May 2022 Students: Martin C. Aaron P. Emma S. Hua-Yu “Jason” W. Instructors: Michael G. Joel G. Greg G. George H. Note: In this document, the term “dominant side” …
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Annotated Training Outline Defensive Pistol 1, Pinal Airpark, 15 Feb 2020 Update of 17 Mar 2020 DP1 students: This is the Training Outline (TO, or lesson plan) from your course, with stuff we didn’t get to deleted, and annotated …
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 …
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” …
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 …
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.