This is not a shooting class. It’s a decision-making class that happens to involve a firearm.

Over three hours, you’ll run through realistic close-quarters scenarios — road rage confrontations, defensive shooting drills, and live-fire use of force exercises — with a single throughline: how to de-escalate, control, and disengage without crossing into deadly force.

What “force on force” really means here:

You’ll be shooting your real firearm, fitted with a UTM conversion (a swap out bolt that makes it fire a soft wax pellet instead of a bullet). When the pellet hits another student, it leaves a colored mark — think of it as a paintball that comes out of your actual gun. You feel it. You see where you hit. And if you make a bad decision, it’s visibly on you; not in your head. Your heart rate is going to spike. Your hands are going to feel wrong. That’s not a failure, — that’s your body working. We train you to function inside it.

What you'll work on:

• Road rage / vehicle based confrontations

• Charging attacker response — when to shoot, when to move, when to deescalate

• Threat assessment

• Non-deadly alternatives: control, reposition, disengage

Who it’s for:

Everyone.

Prerequisites:

Comfortable with a firearm. No prior CQB or FOF experience needed.

Format:

3 hours. Live force-on-force and dry fire. Small group. Every scenario ends with a breakdown — what you saw, what you did, and what the alternative was.