Steve Tarani will be in Pittsburgh in March for a Universal Disarm course.
Course info:
None of us like to think about someone "having the drop" on us, or on someone we need to protect, so many of us just don't think about it. We reserve our thoughts for when we have the advantage. Denial, obviously, does not make us any more capable. Should the worst occur, however, all is not necessarily lost. There are techniques by which one may be able to take a weapon from an attacker, and still come away with a whole hide.
Operational Skills Group, LLC ("OSG") will be conducting a two day course, in Pittsburgh, on how to disarm an adversary. The course will cover stripping an attacker of a variety of weapons, including firearms, edged weapons and impact weapons. OSG describes the course as follows:
"In the last line of defense, where you have exhausted every attempt at running away, using defensive tactics or de-escalating, there is one last ditch effort - one final option: attempt to disarm the weapon being used against you. Scope of study includes disarming impact and edged weapons and firearms held to your head, throat, back and abdomen. Material includes personal defense against life-threatening and violent attacks on your person as well as escapes from the most common hostage scenarios involving edged and impact weapons as well as firearms."
The FIRE Institute has sponsored other courses designed by OSG and run by either Steve Tarani or Ben Salas, including courses on edged weapons, CQB tactics for carbine and for pistol. These are full-time, professional instructors, and we give them our highest recommendation for the design and utility of their program, as well as their personal skill, care and teaching ability.
Despite the martial arts backgrounds of the instructors, the FIRE Institute wishes to be clear this is not a course in martial arts. This course introduces students to specific defensive tactics which may be employed to disarm an attacker in order to save a life. The course is intended to give participants an understanding of the mechanics of taking a weapon from another person, and introduce them to a system through which they may realistically expect to develop the skill necessary to accomplish this challenging task while minimizing the risk of serious injury to self.
Please go to www.fireinstitute.org/fire_universal_disarms.htm for complete course details.
Thanks.
Course info:
None of us like to think about someone "having the drop" on us, or on someone we need to protect, so many of us just don't think about it. We reserve our thoughts for when we have the advantage. Denial, obviously, does not make us any more capable. Should the worst occur, however, all is not necessarily lost. There are techniques by which one may be able to take a weapon from an attacker, and still come away with a whole hide.
Operational Skills Group, LLC ("OSG") will be conducting a two day course, in Pittsburgh, on how to disarm an adversary. The course will cover stripping an attacker of a variety of weapons, including firearms, edged weapons and impact weapons. OSG describes the course as follows:
"In the last line of defense, where you have exhausted every attempt at running away, using defensive tactics or de-escalating, there is one last ditch effort - one final option: attempt to disarm the weapon being used against you. Scope of study includes disarming impact and edged weapons and firearms held to your head, throat, back and abdomen. Material includes personal defense against life-threatening and violent attacks on your person as well as escapes from the most common hostage scenarios involving edged and impact weapons as well as firearms."
The FIRE Institute has sponsored other courses designed by OSG and run by either Steve Tarani or Ben Salas, including courses on edged weapons, CQB tactics for carbine and for pistol. These are full-time, professional instructors, and we give them our highest recommendation for the design and utility of their program, as well as their personal skill, care and teaching ability.
Despite the martial arts backgrounds of the instructors, the FIRE Institute wishes to be clear this is not a course in martial arts. This course introduces students to specific defensive tactics which may be employed to disarm an attacker in order to save a life. The course is intended to give participants an understanding of the mechanics of taking a weapon from another person, and introduce them to a system through which they may realistically expect to develop the skill necessary to accomplish this challenging task while minimizing the risk of serious injury to self.
Please go to www.fireinstitute.org/fire_universal_disarms.htm for complete course details.
Thanks.