CCW Courses
Every aspect of the class was educational and the instructor was
professional.
Enjoyed your sense of humor, made the class more enjoyable.
Well done, the class went very fast.
It was great! John is a great instructor and makes the class interesting
as well as informative. He is extremely knowlegeable and answered all
my questions.
Knife Classes
I had the 2 day defensive knife class this weekend with John McCreery.
It was worth every dime. I had a great time and learned alot. Prior to this
I had no idea of how to deal with someone at bad breath distance with a
drawn knife. Now I'm fairly comfortable I have the tools to deal with that
situation. I just need a lot more practice with these new skills. I haven't
had any luck getting friends that carry to try FOF but maybe I can get
one to work with for the knife drills. I'll be watching for more advanced
classes and take them as I can.
Thanks to John, Gabe, and Michael Janich for the opportunity for me to
get much needed training.
I was the other student at Defensive Knife in Mentor. What a great
class!! I left the class on Sunday feeling very confident with a knife (after
more practice of course) and was very pleased with the amount of new
material I learned. Another great SI experience!
Day 1: Start with some basic lecture about knife styles, target zones that
are the focus of MBC, carry positions, ways to open the folder, and then
we worked on our draw. We both had Spyderco folders. From there we
went to the five cuts that are the foundation of MBC. We worked these
cuts over and over until the drills became more instinctual. Worked the
"25" drill many times. At first I was unsure how useful all this drilling
was until.....
Day 2: Whoa!!! This was where all those drills came into play. It all
makes perfect sense. We worked on defending/counter attacking from
all five cuts using the 5 various cuts in various combinations. The
possibilities were virtually limitless and the "concepts" in Martial Blade
Concepts really became evident. After working through about 3 or so
defense combos from each of the five cuts we became pretty tired. This
took the bulk of the day. We finished with the Hubud-lubud drill and
worked on breaking contact and drawing the gun. This is the drill you
see Mr. Janich do on some of the TV shows. We also finished with the
Outside-Outside drill which is great for working some of the cuts/checks
and developing coordination with your partner.
Great class with a superb instructor. John welcomed all questions and
explained how everything worked until we got it. Some things we
understood quickly, while other techniques left us puzzled at first. As
said before, thanks to all who made this possible: John, Gabe, Mike.
If you don't have any knife training, sign up and get some!
Close Range Gunfighting
The two Johns did a great job taking us through CRG. This is my
second time for this course and I think there is tremendous benefit to
these courses when you take the lessons home and practice with dry
and live fire and airsoft, then come back a year or two later (I first took
CRG in 2007), and put your skills to the test. As always, there is much to
learn from the ongoing experiences of the instructors and the other
students, and a few new ideas have crept into the curriculum to make
CRG even better.
Thanks, John (and you too, John) for a great class. I feel much more
dangerous than I did on Friday.
I took the May CRG course, and really learned a lot. I've been shooting
just a hair over a year right now, and the two Johns, as well as the other
students, were very patient with me. I have the CRG DVD, but
discovered that what I had been practicing from the DVDs needed to be
improved. I wanted to do pretty much everything dry once or twice just
to get a feel for the 'right' way of doing things, and everyone was very
understanding. I will say that, though I hope and pray I never need to
use the skills I have started to learn, I feel much more confident that I
could give a good account of myself if I cannot avoid an issue.
I look forward to taking other courses with them in the future.