Talk-Fight-Shoot Courses

This course empowers individuals to enhance their safety by developing situational awareness and recognizing pre-attack behaviors across various settings. Whether navigating crowded public spaces, working in confined environments, or traveling alone, participants will learn how to identify potential threats, make informed decisions, and respond effectively to ensure their safety and the safety of others.

This course empowers individuals to enhance their safety by developing the ability to avoid, escape, and evade potentially violent situations. Participants will learn how to assess controlled and uncontrolled environments to determine the best options for avoiding, escaping, and evading threats of violence, whether in public or private spaces.

This course provides practical techniques, tactics, and strategies for de-escalating conflicts and defusing potentially violent situations. Participants will learn to recognize early signs of aggression, use effective communication to reduce tensions, and maintain personal safety while managing challenging interactions.

This course is designed to provide participants with the foundational theory and principles of armed and unarmed combatives, focusing on understanding practical applications for personal defense against violence. Participants will learn concepts of predatory violence, pre-attack behaviors, situational awareness, and how the body responds to threats as the basis for understanding effective tactics and techniques. This course is ideal for anyone looking to enhance their fighting skills.

This intensive course in unarmed combatives provides participants with a comprehensive foundation in practical, real-world hand-to-hand combat skills. The curriculum blends fundamental theory with dynamic application across all combat ranges. Students will develop awareness, adaptability, and the ability to transition seamlessly between fighting distances and tactics. Covering everything from striking to clinching to ground control, the course emphasizes principles such as timing, angles, and distance management—critical components for surviving and dominating in close-quarters encounters. Through technical instruction, partner drills, and scenario-based training, participants will gain the tools and mindset needed to fight effectively under pressure.

This comprehensive course offers a modern, combat-effective system of edged and impact weapon methods seamlessly integrating with empty-hand combatives. Drawing from Filipino martial arts (FMA), military combatives, and law enforcement defensive tactics, the course trains participants in the essential skills to fight with and against sticks and knives in real-world engagements. Through structured progression, students will learn to read, measure, manipulate timing, control distance, and attack from multiple angles across all fighting ranges—including striking, trapping, clinching, and ground engagement. The course strongly emphasizes weapon-to-weapon, weapon-versus-empty-hand, and transition drills to ensure readiness in chaotic, high-stress encounters.

is a combative course based on Contemporary Jeet Kune Do principles, which Paul Vunak developed and taught for special operations and law enforcement units. This battle-proven system is designed to end a violent encounter in seconds through a sequence of overwhelming aggression using the core tactical triad of Entry, Pressure, and Termination. This course focuses on weaponizing the human body with gross-motor, high-percentage techniques that are pressure-tested and tactically sound under extreme duress. RAT is not about sport fighting or prolonged engagements but about rapid incapacitation of the threat, whether standing, clinched, or on the ground. Students are trained to take initiative, dominate the engagement zone, and neutralize the threat decisively.

This dynamic and reality-based course is tailored specifically for female participants seeking effective, no-nonsense protection strategies. The course emphasizes "Escape to Gain Safety"—a tactical mindset that trains women to disable an attacker using quick, aggressive strikes to the most vulnerable areas of the human body: the eyes, throat, groin, and shin. Participants will learn to apply devastating combative techniques across all engagement ranges—from long-range kicks to close-range clinching and ground scenarios. Weapon-based concepts from stick and knife fighting will enhance awareness, timing, and coordination, even when unarmed. The focus is not on fighting to win, but on fighting to escape, using maximum efficiency and ferocity to neutralize threats and create opportunities to flee.

This course provides participants with basic firearms safety, handling, marksmanship, and gunfighting theory and principles. It focuses on understanding practical applications for gun defense against lethal threats of violence. Participants will learn concepts of predatory violence, pre-attack behaviors, situational awareness, compliance, use of force, and how the body responds to threats as the basis for understanding effective tactics and techniques. This course is ideal for anyone looking to enhance their understanding and use of firearms.

The Pistol Marksmanship course is designed for individuals new to pistols or wanting to refresh their fundamental pistol skills. The course covers safety essentials, gun handling, basic shooting techniques, marksmanship, maintenance, storage, and building confidence in firearm use. This course qualifies for Missouri or Kansas concealed carry permits.

The Pistol Gunfighting course is designed to introduce participants to proactive and reactive gunfighting techniques and tactics. This course goes beyond basic pistol handling and marksmanship and is designed for experienced shooters. Students will learn how to engage threats based on distance, angle, and timing considerations in close, medium, and distance encounters, based on who has the initiative.