Last minute trianing spot open this coming weekend!

[Erick]

All:

A spot has come open in this super interesting course.

This is a slice of the engagement envelope we have not had yet.
Some simunitons use involved. some live fire.
youtube vid here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkS9ZbQIsV8&t=37s

Its friday evening thru Sunday afternoon.
Carpooling for much of the trip coming from VA very possible.

Details here:
http://shivworks.com/extreme-close-quarter-concepts/

Course is currently listed as closed but they got one more spot open just today!

According to a previous attendee cup and mouth guard not strictly needed.. if u have them great bring them.. if not no need to buy.

Please let me know by tommorrow nite by PMING here. I will be there too!

[maarieg1]

it's in Austin, TX?

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[Erick]

PS: Its the Reevesville, South Carolina location this coming weekend.

The Texas Course is November 3 - November 5

[JohnyMac]

Looks like fun! Visiting my mom's this week though.

[CJS06]

Damn that looks like a great course.  I am already doing a RBT session this weekend with UTM guns here. I have been manufacturing lightweight, adaptable, portable shoothouses for use with UTM, Simunitions and other RBT munitions.  This weekend is in Maine and next weekend we are in RI.

It has kept my training calendar pretty full.  I still need to go out the Mississippi in mid November for a RBT/K9 class and then is early Dec I am heading out to Teasdale,UT for Buck Doyle Nightfighter Scope Carbine class.

Shivworks runs some great classes.

[Erick]

CJ, so you are a trainer utilizing UTM? Please PM me I would love to check your website. 

[CJS06]

Erick,  I do not run a training organization.  I have a manufacturing company that produces the ATS (Adaptive Training System).  I sell them to training companies, municipalities, etc.  One of the companies I work with is Weaponcraft Training from the Portland Maine area.  I have sold a few of these to smaller local municipalities and a couple of other training groups besides Weaponcraft. I personally really like the UTM products but we are very happy to work with companies that use Simunition gear as well.  Working with these companies gets me opportunities for training, and in addition we do some events like on Nov 4 which is a fundraiser for Operation Stand Down RI. Funding goes to benefiting vets. At that event we are doing a couple of hours of gunfights in the day then 2-3 hrs of low light. Participants pay $20 and get to duke it out against their friends.

[Erick]

Update:
Just came back
This thing is hard-as-nails.
2.5 day course in South Carolina, started friday nite.
All attendees were high testosterone types and the vast majority quite fit.

In its own way physically harder than say Max Velocity which in itself is more physical than most others.

Saturday nite for example after an 11 hour day of constant drills and frequent Thunderdome style fights, some of us just laid flat in our beds breahintg heavy w/o even the strenght to raise oneself against the cushion to watch TV.
I was worried that I might be getting too old for this but I got through w/o injuries. (not counting cuts/bruises/welts/black spots)

More detailed AAR later.

[JohnyMac]

Looking forward to the AAR later.

[CJS06]

Erick

Cant wait to hear more about it. Sorry about the pics, photo bucket hosed me.

Chris

[Rogue-Metalsmith]

i have to say i am jealous, you guys are able to have alot of training varieties, SA we do not have such a depth of knowledge being handed down.

enjoy guys

 

[Nemo]

Come visit.

Nemo

[Rogue-Metalsmith]

  Americurrr scares me. 

I have had a notion of doing so, but i would do a massive trip and would want to head over there in a unimog... sooo may take me a few years of saving up and then headed over on a boat... unimog in tow

there are so many tactical courses i would want to do and your weapons... damn. 
someone would need to take me to a shooting range... your weapons gear is just.... i get upset jealous when i think about it.

anyhow would be an awesome trip though.

 

[JohnyMac]

I am sure it would be an awesome visit and a learning experience for all the lives you touch while here.

Funny story:

About half my relatives live in Scotland. Occasionally they come, one by one, to visit. My Uncle and his boy came this summer and stayed with my brother. I spoke with him several times while he was here and each time he did 90% of the talking and it was all about America. Or as he refers to the country, "The Colonies".

The last time we chatted before he left he spoke about what an amazing country "The Colonies" are. From the hustle and bustle of everyday life to the quality, breath, and quantity of food. To the pleasant smile and good naturally humor that every American seems to have. He loved the baseball "matches" he attended at the local AAA Baseball team while here and would have loved to of gone to a football "match" but time of year did not allow that.

He commented on the the true freedom that the individual citizen has here which I found interesting coming from a democratic society and rather gentile country. He couln't believe that my brother wears a handgun each day. After a short stint to the local range with my uncle he commented on how expertly my brother handles his EDC.

So R-M, although we complain here in "The Colonies" about this and that, we truly are blessed when I look at all of the hardship around the world.

If you get a chance, come to the States. I and a host of folks will open our homes for you and your family during your  visit. 

   

[Nemo]

I am from Virginia.  Come over and I will let you carry one of my sidearms, In Public, loaded and exposed.    That should put the tinfoil hat on you big time. 

Of course that would only be after a visit to the range and time spent on a check out drill to make sure you know how it operates and which end the bullet comes out.

You could even fire a couple handguns of various caliber, both semi auto and revolver, a shotgun or 2, a hunting type rifle or couple and even about 500 rounds out of an AR.  YES you read right, one of those EBRs.  That means Evil Black Rifle. 

Be sure you get a medical check up before you come over so you don't stroke out on me or catch fire from getting all hot and sweaty.

Nemo 

[Rogue-Metalsmith]

I can honestly say JM that i have heard about this thing called freedom over the big waters in the land of the eagle, that bears her stars and stripes. i would say it is most certainly one of my bucket list items to come and visit the "colonies".
However never say that here in SA. google their opinions on colonialism and you'll see why

As for @Nemo. i have been shooting firearms since i was 8 years old. i may not look it but i love the smell of gunpowder.
I have shot with quite a few types of weapons, strangely though, i have not fired a shotgun and would not pass up an oppertunity to do so either. 

The last time i fired an AR we went through quite a few rounds, tons of fun.
Not a big fan of revolvers but do love me a vector 9mm SMG full auto. but my favourite would be a hunting rifle.
and then i have always wanted to fire a M110 Semi-Automatic Sniper rifle.
But.... 6800B AX50 black rifle... if i ever get the chance to fire one of those, i would be over the moon.

 
Anyhow
 Hot and sweaty we do every damn day here in Southern africa... it is very much hot here.
Salut Nemo

 

[Nemo]

As I understand it, SA is generally a low humidity area.  Around here, in the summer 30-35 C  or 85-low 90s F is not unusual.  But we also have humidity in the mid 50s%  to 80% range.  https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/Virginia/humidity-annual.php

That is more uncomfortable than the 100degreesF and 20% humidity I found in Arizona a few years back.

Either way, come on over.  But be forewarned.  You bring a Unimog it might get lost in the woods or parking lot or somewhere.  But understand I would keep looking until I found it and send it back as soon as could.  I will put a rope on it to try to prevent that from happening but you just never know.

Nemo

but then again, SA might be alot more humid than I thought.
https://weather-and-climate.com/average-monthly-Humidity-perc,johannesburg,South-Africa

Either way, come on over.  You might decide to have your friends come on too.