“Finally!” you say to yourself, easing into your favorite chair.
It’s 9:30PM. And after 3 Dr. Seuss stories and a mini Wrestle mania, the kids are in bed. Man, are you beat!
Your wife is finishing the dishes as you grab the remote and start searching the DVR for something mindless to watch.
She’s not quite done when the doorbell rings. And your annoyed glance from the couch prompts a quick “I’ve got it” from her.
But your eyes barely settle back on the TV as her bloodcurdling scream and the sound of breaking glass from your front door shatter the night.
Dropping the remote you turn and stare at the scene from hell… your wife on the floor by the stairs, bleeding from her head, with 3 armed, ski-mask-clad thugs hovering above…
…That’s about par for the home invasion stories I’m hearing more and more from clients.
There’s variation on how it begins but eventually there’s a point where someone’s facing multiple attackers — and you’re NOT READY!
If you own a gun, naturally it’s not handy.
You could close distance but you’re not sure how to respond since this IS NOT the way you ‘expected’ it would happen.
So instead… you freeze.
It Doesn’t Need To Happen
Here’s the thing: trained properly, it never needs to go down like this.
If you’re a gun owner, you may say, “Damn straight, that’s why I always carry!”
And in a perfect world… maybe.
But I’ve got a lot of gun-owning clients that will tell you differently.
Don’t get me wrong. I advocate for any of my clients who get trained to properly use firearms, to do just that — because it makes good sense.
But in all training you MUST plan for the worst-case scenario.
And that means there’s NO gun available (for whatever reason)… and, of course, multiple assailants!
Not surprisingly, it’s exactly how we trained the military.
We felt if these operators were able to train in an environment that assumed it would just be him/her in their underwear, facing multiple armed threats, then they’d be just that much more effective when employing ALL the tools they carry (rifle, SMG, pistol or knife) and facing a single threat.
And from the ground up, that’s how we designed the TFT system: assuming you’d always face more than one armed assailant, and need to take a life because it means saving yours.
It’s the very reason why you walk away from our 2-day training session able to completely destroy some scumbag and his friends preying on you or a loved one.
And if there’s only one of them or the situation doesn’t end up lethal… consider it your lucky day.
A Serious Escalation of Violence
But lately we’re seeing a dramatically increasing demand from clients to address home invasions and multiple attackers.
And because of this I’ve instituted a series of changes to the TFT seminar training modules.
Effective immediately, we’ll have people in each class begin working against multiple threats right from the get-go.
Let me explain.
Usually I finish the course with a ‘multiple-attacker’ module.
But starting with this weekend’s class in Dallas we’ll begin integrating parameters from my military courses for the first time.
Again, responding to your requests for more info on this type of threat, I’ll be working with the entire TFT Instructor cadre to integrate these methods and principles from the beginning of each seminar.
Each free-fighting session won’t involve just a single reaction partner… now there will be 2 or more.
And you’ll want to watch for a new DVD product a bit later that highlights this training method for everyone who uses the home study version of the training as well.
Ramping It Up A Notch
A few years ago an editor from Black Belt Magazine participated in a class to observe our multi-attacker training module.
He told me he had just worked with an Aikido master who stated the very principles we show new clients right out of the gate are something he reserves for his most senior black belts.
The Black Belt editor was shocked we not only taught this to new clients but that we did it in such a way the client immediately ‘owned’ the concept and could apply it in his training!
Now we’re about to ramp this even higher, giving you more work against the very threat that’s concerned you most.
If you’re one who was lucky enough to get into the Dallas session, get ready for a completely new experience.
If not, we’ll get the new information to you in the very near future via DVD.
And if you can’t wait, be sure to sign up for one of our upcoming live seminars while seats are still left.
And keep your eyes peeled for an announcement later this week about a couple NEW CLASS DATES for our most popular locations.
Train well,
Tim Larkin
