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The founders of Blauer Tactical Systems and I.C.E. Training Company will team up November 2-3, 2009, in Virginia Beach, VA to offer a tactical workshop that blends essential & fundamental skills from both Combat Focus Shooting & the S.P.E.A.R. System’s Personal Defense Program. This dynamic 2-day course addresses armed and unarmed confrontations.

The S.P.E.A.R. SYSTEM (Spontaneous Protection Enabling Accelerated Response) is a scientifically researched & medically reviewed personal defense measure that exploits the body’s natural responses to violence and danger. This survival mechanism, dubbed: Startle-Flinch Response has been scientifically integrated into a series of neuro-muscular drills that teaches individuals how to convert their instinctive reactions into protective and combative tactics.

The Combat Focus Shooting (CFS) Program is an intuitive shooting program that is designed to work efficiently with the body’s natural reactions during a dynamic critical incident. This approach makes CFS Skills easy to learn and maintain for students of all backgrounds, military, law enforcement or self-defense.

Unlike many traditional programs, CFS does not take a purely mechanical approach to shooting training in isolation from the context in which the skill must be used. CFS is not simply “point shooting,” it is a training methodology that leads to more efficient defensive shooting skill.

This two-day course will take place at the Blauer Training Facility and on a live-fire range.

The course is $450.00 and is open to military, security and law enforcement personnel, as well as those interested in personal defense. (Background checks will be conducted.) Students should bring a firearm, holster, three magazines and 600 rounds of ammunition.

For more information, please visit www.blauertacticalusa.com or www.icetraining.us.

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Photos of High Gear in action from Troy Young, Senior Officer with Community Services, Crime Prevention at the Garner Police Department in North Carolina. Officer Young has been certified as both a S.P.E.A.R. Coach and BMF Instructor, conducting almost 30 classes, including: Women (Rape Defense), Youth (Bully & Abduction Prevention), and BMF classes (In-Service). Young is preparing to teach a Instructor Update this fall NC Subject Control Trainers on close quarter control and using S.P.E.A.R. drills, as well as how to incorporate High Gear into training (since a lot of them have the suit, but not the training). Over time, Officer Young has received a lot of feedback about the System, most notably how there is “realism in the drills mimicking real confrontations, even though they are not ‘techniques’.”

These images are from a recent Special Response Team training and a Reality-Based Force-on-Force / BMF Training held in April 2009. Email Troy for questions.

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BTS spent two weeks in El Paso for a special military project, teaching a custom course for 25 Tier One operators of Naval Special Warfare, Army Special Forces, Ranger Battalion, Air Force Special Operations, and Marine Special Operations Commands. The course covered S.P.E.A.R. System Fundamentals, No-Room/No-Time-to-Shoot Combatives, Ground Fighting Fundamentals, solo and tandem handcuffing, prisoner handling and vehicle extractions. Trainees participated in intense scenarios that included linear assaults, room clearing, and prisoner handling. Pictured are members of NSW.

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