Survival Operating Systems

Michael Janich’s “Street Skills” seminar is both a modular and an integrated approach to developing practical personal defense skills. Drawing from the skill sets highlighted in the popular “Best Defense” television show, it features instructional modules that focus on the defensive use of the knife (Janich’s acclaimed Martial Blade Concepts curriculum), practical unarmed skills (Damithurt Silat), empty-hand defenses against weapons (Counter-Blade Concepts), and the defensive use of impact weapons, including flashlights, sticks, and canes. These instructional modules will focus on these topics, while at the same time identifying and developing the body mechanics, leverages, patterns of motion, and reactive principles that serve as “common ground” to all of these skill sets. This approach enables students to develop practical, usable, and highly retainable skills in a very short time and allows them to easily adapt these skills to different weapons and circumstances.

This seminar will be conducted at Grove City Karate, 4068 Hoover Rd., Grove City, OH 43123. To register, contact Dave Holloway at (614) 539-5425. The schedule of instructional modules and training tuition is as follows:

Friday, 16 April: $55.00
6pm to 9pm – Introduction to the defensive use of the knife: A Crash Course in Martial Blade Concepts

Saturday, 17 April: $125.00
8am to Noon – Practical Unarmed Combatives: Fundamentals of empty-handed self-defense
1pm to 5pm – Empty-hand defenses against knife, stick and other weapon attacks: Critical skills of Counter-Blade Concepts (CBC)

Sunday, 18 April: $125.00
8am to Noon – Advanced MBC skills and tactics
1pm to 5pm – Improvised weapons, stick, and cane tactics

ALL Classes: $250.00
Saturday and Sunday only: $225.00

Topics covered will include:

Ground defense positions
Kicking and striking from the ground
Empty hand lethal force techniques
Escaping from the mount and guard positions
Choke defenses

Students will also learn how to deploy edged weapons from a grounded position and how to defend against both firearms and edged weapons on the ground.

4 hours

$20 per student
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This hands-on class will develop proficiency in basic battlefield medical techniques utilizing the military’s latest “Tactical Combat Casualty Care III” protocols.

Students will learn to stop traumatic bleeding from gunshot and knife wounds using the latest pressure bandages, tourniquets, and hemostatic agents. Self care and care under fire will also be addressed.

Students will also learn simple patient assessment techniques, how to treat a sucking chest wound and tension pneumothorax as well as field fracture immobilization and expedient c-spine immobilization.

In addition, students will learn how to treat themselves and families in the event of a long-term breakdown in our current medical system. Wound cleaning and disinfection under field conditions, injection of local anesthesia and would closure (including minor suturing) will be practiced in our “trauma lab”. If time permits, students will integrate all of these skills in several practical scenarios.

4 hours

$40 each student including all supplies

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