If you are at all familiar with William April or Paul Sharp, this is an amazing event opportunity right outside of NYC. I am planning on attending the Friday night lecture. Sadly I cannot do the Sat & Sun due to class commitments. Do some research on both instructors. They are both part of the Shivworks Collective with Craig Douglas, Larry Lindenman, Cecil Burch and Chris Fry.
William April
Aprill Risk Consulting – Acquiring an Armed Mindset
William Aprill
William April, Unthinkable – Safety Solutions Academy
Paul Sharp
Sharp Defense
Paul Sharp
Dr William Aprill & Paul Sharp: Unthinkable/MDOC - Berkeley Heights, NJ 8/25-8/27
Date: 8/25-8/27
Time: 7pm 8/25 and plan on 8 hour days on 8/26-27
Class Location: 99 Industrial Rd Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922
Cost for weekend: $450/person for the whole weekend.
Cost for lecture: $100/person for Friday (8/25) night or $120 for a couple or if you buddy up.
Class minimum for lecture or full weekend: 16
Contact: Darren DeMarco @ darren@whitetigerdojo.com
Payment method/Waivers: I accept MC/Visa or Check payable to: White Tiger Dojo LLC. Waivers will be mailed once payment is made and email address, name and phone number are received.
Unthinkable: Concepts and Techniques for the Gravest Extreme
How do violent criminals think of us, and how do they target us?
How are human monsters made, and born?
What do we do when faced with drawn gun?
All these questions bring to mind threats that any reasonable person would avoid at any cost. So why would anyone pay to spend a day immersed in exploration of those threats and more? Simply put, there is no way to develop an effective and adaptive defensive mindset without spending time in some fairly dark places.
This course will explore the above domains and skill sets, guiding students to the next step in developing their ability to protect themselves and those they love.
For participants in this course, a systematic approach to enhancing personal safety will be undertaken in an engaging and fast-paced format over a very full day of training.
Since defensive awareness is rooted in realization of risk, and since defensive preparation adds the commitment to mitigation of threats, unifying those elements in defensive decision-making will be the emphasis of this course.
It is the goal of the instructor to drag awareness of risk from the back of the mind to its very forefront, ensuring that an actual life-threatening scenario will not be the first time participants have honestly faced what will be necessary.
Participants in this course will be presented with some challenging truths about the world as it is and asked to make serious, personal changes in how they pre-pare for that world.
Classroom components will include intensive, interactive lecture on:
Fatal Choices: Understanding VCAs and How They Identify Victims
In this fast-moving and interactive lecture participants will be led through contem-porary theories and current, curated data on the process by which violent criminals se-lect their targets for violent aggression. Particular attention will be paid to the internal mechanisms in play within the criminal psychology, the universe of signifiers around "good guy" behavior, demeanor, and attributes which may actually make selection for attack more likely, as well as considerations for responsible armed citizens to mitigate this risk. Previous iterations of this material have been presented to LE agencies and private citizen groups across the US as well as international LE educational events.
The 5 W’s of Risk: Constructing an Effective Pre-Need Defense Paradigm
Many instructors present material on surviving physical attack and some others address the aftermath of that defensive violence. However the preparation for being at-tacked, what Craig Douglas of ShivWorks has referred to as the pre-kinetic phase, is given limited, if any, attention by the vast majority of trainers and even fewer students. This presentation will review common mental and philosophical errors made by practi-tioners as they plan for what they hope will never happen: a determined attack by a vio-lent criminal intent on killing you and those you love. Attendees will be exposed to a practical method for undertaking the pre-need decision-making necessary to a sound self-defense and survival mindset, providing increased awareness and a clear path to maximize their capacity for self-protection.
Practical instruction will include:
Open-Source Retention/Disarming
A hands-on block of instruction in the art and science of maintaining positive con-trol of your own defensive handgun and of taking one away from an assailant when necessary.
No prior experience or training in defensive tactics is required, no special physi-cal gifts are necessary and the material is presented in a from-the-ground-up approach to allow conceptual understanding and physical grasp of an intuitive, robust skill-set in a relatively short time. Please bring an inert training version of your carry pistol, if possible (red gun, blue gun, SIRT, etc.) so that carry gear may be used if applicable.
Paul Sharps - Multi-Disciplinary Optimization Course (MDOC)
The Multi-Disciplinary Optimization course is a focused overview of skill sets used in the Extreme Close Quarters Environment. Some of the topics to be covered in the course include:
• Expanded principles of initiation and escape
• Attached striking
• Expanded in fight weapons access (IFWA)
Equipment Required: Comfortable clothes, wrap-around eye protection, mouthpiece and cup, training drones of preferred carry tools.
Suggested Equipment: Standard everyday carry gear. A "red" or "blue" dummy gun is acceptable
NO LIVE WEAPONS ARE PERMITTED IN THE TRAINING ENVIRONMENT. There will be a weapons-check before training commences.
This course is anaerobic in nature and the student should come with the understanding that they will be subjected to mild to greater than mild impact as part of the coursework.
Paul Sharp is a police officer with 19 years’ experience. His current and past assignments have included patrol, SWAT, and training as well as resident officer, undercover narcotics detective and neighborhood response officer.
Paul has been recognized as an instructor in the Filipino Martial Arts and Jeet Kune Do concepts as well as Mixed Martial Arts and holds a brown belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Having competed at a professional level in Mixed Martial Arts and Boxing, Paul is uniquely positioned to coach others from knowledge and experience. Paul has also been recognized as an instructor in DR Middlebrooks Fist-Fire shooting system as well as mid-west regional director for SBGI. Paul is an adjunct instructor at The Site Training Center.
Paul has graduated from numerous firearms and tactics courses and is an Illinois State firearms instructor, defensive knife instructor, defensive tactics instructor and was the lead pistol instructor for his agency.
Paul has been featured in several national and international magazines for his part in developing a systematic approach to integrating and instructing Mixed Martial Arts and combative sports for those working in a weapons based environment.
William April
Aprill Risk Consulting – Acquiring an Armed Mindset
William Aprill
William April, Unthinkable – Safety Solutions Academy
Paul Sharp
Sharp Defense
Paul Sharp
Dr William Aprill & Paul Sharp: Unthinkable/MDOC - Berkeley Heights, NJ 8/25-8/27
Date: 8/25-8/27
Time: 7pm 8/25 and plan on 8 hour days on 8/26-27
Class Location: 99 Industrial Rd Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922
Cost for weekend: $450/person for the whole weekend.
Cost for lecture: $100/person for Friday (8/25) night or $120 for a couple or if you buddy up.
Class minimum for lecture or full weekend: 16
Contact: Darren DeMarco @ darren@whitetigerdojo.com
Payment method/Waivers: I accept MC/Visa or Check payable to: White Tiger Dojo LLC. Waivers will be mailed once payment is made and email address, name and phone number are received.
Unthinkable: Concepts and Techniques for the Gravest Extreme
How do violent criminals think of us, and how do they target us?
How are human monsters made, and born?
What do we do when faced with drawn gun?
All these questions bring to mind threats that any reasonable person would avoid at any cost. So why would anyone pay to spend a day immersed in exploration of those threats and more? Simply put, there is no way to develop an effective and adaptive defensive mindset without spending time in some fairly dark places.
This course will explore the above domains and skill sets, guiding students to the next step in developing their ability to protect themselves and those they love.
For participants in this course, a systematic approach to enhancing personal safety will be undertaken in an engaging and fast-paced format over a very full day of training.
Since defensive awareness is rooted in realization of risk, and since defensive preparation adds the commitment to mitigation of threats, unifying those elements in defensive decision-making will be the emphasis of this course.
It is the goal of the instructor to drag awareness of risk from the back of the mind to its very forefront, ensuring that an actual life-threatening scenario will not be the first time participants have honestly faced what will be necessary.
Participants in this course will be presented with some challenging truths about the world as it is and asked to make serious, personal changes in how they pre-pare for that world.
Classroom components will include intensive, interactive lecture on:
Fatal Choices: Understanding VCAs and How They Identify Victims
In this fast-moving and interactive lecture participants will be led through contem-porary theories and current, curated data on the process by which violent criminals se-lect their targets for violent aggression. Particular attention will be paid to the internal mechanisms in play within the criminal psychology, the universe of signifiers around "good guy" behavior, demeanor, and attributes which may actually make selection for attack more likely, as well as considerations for responsible armed citizens to mitigate this risk. Previous iterations of this material have been presented to LE agencies and private citizen groups across the US as well as international LE educational events.
The 5 W’s of Risk: Constructing an Effective Pre-Need Defense Paradigm
Many instructors present material on surviving physical attack and some others address the aftermath of that defensive violence. However the preparation for being at-tacked, what Craig Douglas of ShivWorks has referred to as the pre-kinetic phase, is given limited, if any, attention by the vast majority of trainers and even fewer students. This presentation will review common mental and philosophical errors made by practi-tioners as they plan for what they hope will never happen: a determined attack by a vio-lent criminal intent on killing you and those you love. Attendees will be exposed to a practical method for undertaking the pre-need decision-making necessary to a sound self-defense and survival mindset, providing increased awareness and a clear path to maximize their capacity for self-protection.
Practical instruction will include:
Open-Source Retention/Disarming
A hands-on block of instruction in the art and science of maintaining positive con-trol of your own defensive handgun and of taking one away from an assailant when necessary.
No prior experience or training in defensive tactics is required, no special physi-cal gifts are necessary and the material is presented in a from-the-ground-up approach to allow conceptual understanding and physical grasp of an intuitive, robust skill-set in a relatively short time. Please bring an inert training version of your carry pistol, if possible (red gun, blue gun, SIRT, etc.) so that carry gear may be used if applicable.
Paul Sharps - Multi-Disciplinary Optimization Course (MDOC)
The Multi-Disciplinary Optimization course is a focused overview of skill sets used in the Extreme Close Quarters Environment. Some of the topics to be covered in the course include:
• Expanded principles of initiation and escape
• Attached striking
• Expanded in fight weapons access (IFWA)
Equipment Required: Comfortable clothes, wrap-around eye protection, mouthpiece and cup, training drones of preferred carry tools.
Suggested Equipment: Standard everyday carry gear. A "red" or "blue" dummy gun is acceptable
NO LIVE WEAPONS ARE PERMITTED IN THE TRAINING ENVIRONMENT. There will be a weapons-check before training commences.
This course is anaerobic in nature and the student should come with the understanding that they will be subjected to mild to greater than mild impact as part of the coursework.
Paul Sharp is a police officer with 19 years’ experience. His current and past assignments have included patrol, SWAT, and training as well as resident officer, undercover narcotics detective and neighborhood response officer.
Paul has been recognized as an instructor in the Filipino Martial Arts and Jeet Kune Do concepts as well as Mixed Martial Arts and holds a brown belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Having competed at a professional level in Mixed Martial Arts and Boxing, Paul is uniquely positioned to coach others from knowledge and experience. Paul has also been recognized as an instructor in DR Middlebrooks Fist-Fire shooting system as well as mid-west regional director for SBGI. Paul is an adjunct instructor at The Site Training Center.
Paul has graduated from numerous firearms and tactics courses and is an Illinois State firearms instructor, defensive knife instructor, defensive tactics instructor and was the lead pistol instructor for his agency.
Paul has been featured in several national and international magazines for his part in developing a systematic approach to integrating and instructing Mixed Martial Arts and combative sports for those working in a weapons based environment.