I can’t tell you how much Tim & I are looking forward to the Weapons Course in November.
We do a pretty thorough rundown of knife, stick and gun in the basic course–what the tools for violence do and don’t do, how to use them to your advantage, and how to take out the armed man. The only issue there is how much time we have to spend on getting people up to speed with violence–defining it, getting you to go where a sociopath would go, training you to destroy targets… much of the basic course gets spent disabusing people of the social niceties and into tearing apart another man.
The topics covered in a typical 2-Day course include:
- Intro to Violence
- Target Assembly (identifying and destroying targets)
- Free Practice (how to take it to nonfunctional)
- Striking Assembly (how to break things with your mass)
- Grabs, Holds & Chokes
- Social-Antisocial-Asocial (when violence is, and is not, appropriate)
- Knife
- Stick
- Gun
- Multiple Attackers
Across two days, I figure we get to spend maybe four hours, or 1/4 of the total course on weapons.
At the upcoming Advanced Weapons Course, we’re going to spend the entire 16 hours on that topic.
That’s four times as much as the basic course!
And because we don’t have to spend any time on the how or why of base violence, we can literally hit the ground running and explore as many aspects of the use of tools as we can cram into those two days. And we’re planning on cramming in a lot.
We’ve got tons of information that we usually don’t have time to get into in the basic course… and even then, it’s only really useful to someone who has the basic knowledge and hands-on skill that comes from completing either the 2-Day or even the $99 Half-Day training. Either qualifies you to attend this one.
It’s going to be an absolute pleasure working with people who know what’s going on, how to get it done, and want to know more.
Did I mention I’m looking forward to this? Tim got into town last night & it’s all we talked about, so, yeah, I can’t wait.
See you in Vegas,
Chris Ranck-Buhr
Master Instructor
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Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.
-Unknown
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Internet chat rooms are interesting arenas.
I received an email the other day from a client who forwarded some comments made about the TFT Mastery Program from one of these “chat” forums. TFT Mastery is a program designed to educate and train clients who desire to become TFT trainers.
The program has rigorous physical and academic standards. It is designed as such to produce trainers who can instruct the system physically and explain the physical trauma accurately. The physical part of the training occurs at the live seminars held throughout the year. Training time is logged and candidates are tested at every juncture to gauge their progress.
The academic portion is done online in between the seminars and, again, lessons are given and knowledge is tested. One of the tools I use is the “Anatomy Coloring Book” which is a standard text most medical schools use to quickly train students on the human body and its components.
The method of color-coding different bones, joints, and nerves has proved to be a time-tested method for rapid assimilation of this information as well as providing long-term ability to recall the information.
A TFT trainer is not just physically able to show you how to fight but must be able to accurately explain the trauma inflicted to the other guy as you strike these specific targets on the human body.
A certain “chat room black belt” was deriding any program that used coloring books and wondered if Crayola crayons were issued to TFT Mastery candidates. Which just goes to show how one-dimensional most combat sport and martial arts practitioners are when it comes to trauma.
They just want to see a new “technique” rather than understand how to systematically shut down the other guy(s) by understanding how to effectively deliver trauma to vulnerable areas of the human body.
To be able to deliver a strike is only one half of the equation — to know where to deliver the strike for maximum effect — EVERY TIME — is truly the acme of skill in hand-to-hand combat.
So I’ll let the “internet warriors” have fun with my coloring book requirements but they may be surprised what you can learn with a box of crayons…
Until next time,
Tim Larkin
Creator of Target Focus(TM) Training
http://targetfocustraining.com/
PS. To see how to systematically shut down some thug even if he’s threatening you with a knife, a gun or a club, you must check out the TFT ‘Nuclear’ Weapons DVD series. You can see what it’s about
here: http://www.targetfocusweapons.com/
I can’t tell you how much Tim & I are looking forward to the Weapons Course in November.
