Since you asked specifically about Louis Awerbuck, his schedule is here:
http://www.yfainc.com/schedule.html
It looks like he's not teaching the 1 or 2 man tactics course. Anyone in the area teaching that sort of stuff?
Seriously, I'd be happy just knowing how to go up and down the stairs, round the corners, through doors, etc., by myself. A course idea for firearms instructors on INGO!!!!
It looks like he's not teaching the 1 or 2 man tactics course. Anyone in the area teaching that sort of stuff?
There is always the Shivworks Armed Movement in Structures course, if you can find it close to home. I haven't taken this, but I understand Shivworks courses to be excellent.
It got cancelled last summer (probably due to low enrollment). I've done it three times. In my opinion, it's the best class he teaches, which is saying something since everything else he does is at the top of the industry.
I understand the sarcasm/joke intentions, but this is just a slight pet peeve of mine with what the "professional" instructors tout as the mantra in the industry. It's premised on the assumption that you're more likely to be a bystander to a violent crime than the intended target. I doubt this to be accurate from both personal experience and from not having seen any sufficient data to prove it otherwise.I mean, if I am a customer caught up in a bank robbery, what will happen? First, from the OC/CC debates, I know that all the OC guys from INGO would be shot (but apparently they get gunned down regularly, so it doesn't bother them).
Jackson's recommendations are always solid, so don't hesitate to take his advice.
A lot of the suggestions made here so far have been relatively top notch IMO. Jackson is rarely (if ever) off on this sort of thing.
TDI is the one out of Ohio right? There's another school with a similar acronym and I get the names mixed up.Thanks for the kind words guys. Just for clarity, the big list at the beginning wasn't necessarily a list of recommendations. I was just tossing out all of the trainers I could come up with in and around Indy without doing any searches. I've trained with several and would recommend them, and the others have great reputations either locally or on a wider scale. So, while I would probably recommend all of them, I like to have a better idea what the student needs and wants before I throw out recommendations.
On TDI: I do recommend their Partner Tactics class, and as a good take on building search and movement in structures. Especially if you can get paired up with John Benner or David Bowie when you go through the shoot houses. However, I would encourage first-time TDI students to read up on some of the AARs out there on the web. They have some controvercial practices that might keep people from attending. I think they've stopped doing some of them because of the negative attention. At least they don't do it exactly the same way. I wont go in to it here as it isn't completely relevant to the conversation (and I don't care for the kind of bickering it usually brings). The information is out there on the web if you want to look it up. Paul Gomez mentioned it in a course review he wrote of TDI.
I wont go in to it here as it isn't completely relevant to the conversation (and I don't care for the kind of bickering it usually brings).
Say it ain't so...A training outfit with a controversial practice? This new concept intrigues me.
Sort of. For the average soldier, yes. For grunts (combat arms military occupations/infantry) pretty much the same. Even at the most basic level of training Marines (and I would assume Army grunts too) learn building and room clearing and movement. They do this in single man, two man, three, and four or more man teams. Obviously, single man is not preferred, but situation dictates tactics and sometimes it may become necessary. A significant portion of the recent war consisted of mostly/nothing but close building work for a lot of those deployed.A lot of that goes for movement in structures, building search skills, and related topics. Not being super familiar with standard military training, I would wager an experienced SWAT cop who does this weekly or monthly in training and on periodic raids probably has more experience than a regular .mil guy (as in, not a seal delta recon ranger, or whatever), and way more than your typical firearms instructor.