Several weekends ago, I took the Shivworks ECQC course hosted by Rob Schoening over in Council Bluffs, IA. Craig Douglas ("SouthNarc") is widely acknowledged as being one of the top-ranked experts with respect to close-quarters self-defense work, and in addition to just taking the class for my own personal practice, I wanted to reassure myself that what
I was teaching people in my CQT course wasn't going to get people killed--instead, it was going to help them stay alive.
I'd done a lot of research and practice putting together the curriculum for my CQT course, and quite a bit of it was actually based on research and discussion by Craig. Nonetheless, taking his class had been on my list of things-to-do for quite some time.
Craig taught a great class. Solid material, good drills and practice, well-thought-out explanations and requirements, clear directives and inventive force-on-force evolutions made for a VERY interesting, informative, and exhausting class.
If you want to know about ECQC, just google "AAR" and "ECQC" and you'll read all the glowing recommendations you'll need.
I wrote a blog post about something that occurred to me after the class, that had an impact on my actions
during the class--and pretty much is a perennial problem with any sort of self-defense course that attempts to realistically prepared its students.
How do you keep a class realistic without hurting your students in actual force-on-force situations?
http://precisionresponse.wordpress.com/2014/07/29/southnarc-ecqc-realism-and-effective-practice/Thoughts?
