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Carry Safer Courses

These courses support your live-fire firearms training but utilize blue guns and Nok Knife Trainers that permit real-time activities and promote realistic non-compliant training.  When forced to engage an attacker(s) Carry Safer trains people to be tactically sound, legally defensible to prevail in the situation and achieve the best possible outcome in its aftermath.

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Proactive Awareness

Proactive Awareness teaches avoidance tactics through early recognition of pre-attack cues by unarmed and armed attackers, their methods of concealment and approach, various readying positions, and attempts to access a concealed weapon. 

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De-escalating Threats

How to deny criminals and challengers the proximity they need to engage you, how best to respond to their approach, how to deny their attempts to gain advantageous positioning, recognize the cues of impending attack, and effect an escape by interrupting their attempt to attack before it occurs.

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Firearm Retention

How to mitigate the risk of carrying a firearm in populated spaces, with techniques to counter attempts to grab you and take your gun away, as well as how to retain your drawn pistol if it is grabbed. How to use your EDC knife to mitigate the risk of being disarmed by one or more attackers.

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Vs Unarmed Attacks

How to safely access your pistol and neutralize your attacker, or attackers, during various unarmed attacks that could potentially lead to being disarmed and shot with your own weapon.

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Vs Knife Attacks

How to create a moment of opportunity to safely access your pistol and neutralize your attacker so as not to exchange shots for stabs during chaotic knife attacks delivered in either forward or reverse hold.

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Vs Grab-N-Stab Attacks

How to safely access your pistol and neutralize your attacker during fully committed grab-n-stab tactics if you are grabbed by the wrist, elbow, or throat, including solutions to street and prison types of attacks.

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CQ Pistol Vs Knife

How to neutralize knife attackers with a drawn pistol in ECQ engagement includes counterstriking with the pistol so you don't exchange shots for stabs, disruptive firing, controlling the angle of discharge to protect bystanders, and trigger-guard disarming, and more.

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Footwork for Shooters

This course breaks down essential movement that supports defensive shooting. How to efficiently Pivot, and/or move along linear, lateral, angular, and circular lines as well as the most effective way of “getting off the X”. 

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Edged Weapon Handling Skills

This course covers types of knives, and various means of concealment, drawing a pocket folder to forward or reverse hold, deploying the blade, the pros and cons of various grips, changing hands, and striking exercises in both forward and reverse hold.

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Edged Weapon Tactics

This course offers well-rounded self-protection of tactically sound and legally defensible solutions to threatening or violent encounters using just a couple of moves. Our S.A.V.E. approach utilizes just a couple of Simple, Adaptable, Versatile, and Effective moves that are easy to remember under stress and permit you to substitute other hand-held objects.

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Pointed Objects Tactics

This course presents how to use a tactical pen or pointed object to keep an attacker from striking or grabbing you to create a point of escape. You will learn about different objects, how to access a pointed instrument, how to hold pointed instruments, jabbing actions, striking actions, targeting an attacker, preventing grabs, and protecting yourself from incoming strikes.

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Flashlight Tactics

Ultra-powerful lights make you safer anywhere that robberies, rapes, and assaults occur, whether on the street, in subways, parking garages, buildings, bathrooms, when traveling, etc. Very practical and easy to carry or conceal, flashlights are non-threatening, not classified as weapons, and permitted through virtually all security checkpoints.

Firearms Training

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Basic Pistol Instruction
Basic Rifle Instruction
Range Safety Officer

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Concealed Carry
Home Defense
Mass Shooters

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A non-profit association comprised of law enforcement, military,
and security firearms instructors.