Live Safe Academy, LLC, in conjunction with the Great Lakes Self-Defense Association Corporate Sponsor Program, is proud to announce our first Annual Training Camp in June of 2007! Organized by Ian Kinder, this five-day Law Enforcement event will be held at the Livingston Conservation and Sports Association in Brighton Michigan ( Livingston County ) from 6-25-07 through 6-29-07 and is open to concealed pistol license holders. Instructors will include Former CHP Trooper and Marine Officer Louis M. Chiodo, Sergeant Joseph "Little Joe" Ferrera and Officer Mark Prince. The topics will include handgun, shotgun, rifle, unarmed combat and the use of Airsoft as a training tool. There will also be a detailed presentation on combat stress and training methods. The methods presented in this program support the objectives of the MCOLES Pilot Test of the Firearm Standard for Active Duty Law Enforcement Officers.

LIVE SAFE ACADEMY, LLC is an MCOLES approved Criminal Justice Training Provider and a proud member of the Better Business Bureau, National Rifle Association Business Alliance and the Great Lakes Self-Defense Association Instructor Alliance Program. Our experienced, dedicated staff consists of law enforcement officers, attorneys, military personnel, registered nurses, and professional educators and trainers. All of our instructors are certified through nationally recognized organizations. We specialize in the training of first aid, assault and crime prevention, unarmed force methods, and the use of sharp and impact weapons, chemical defense sprays, basic and advanced firearm training and Concealed Pistol License workshops. Our firearm programs focus on reality based, Force-on-Force training, target-focused shooting, skill integration, and concealed carry tactics.

LOUIS M. CHIODO is the founder of GUNFIGHTERS Ltd. (www.gunfightersltd.com), a private training company that provides instruction to law enforcement and military. Recently retired, Lou is also a twenty three year veteran of our country's largest state police agency. He served as a Captain, United States Marine Corps (Regular) before entering law enforcement. Lou is well known in the law enforcement training community for developing the current firearm-training program for his agency, a program which drastically increased the success of their officers. Lou's training system uses both target-focused methods of engagement and, when appropriate, sighted methods of engagement. He has worked directly with Lieutenant Colonel Rex Applegate and has trained hundreds of officers nationwide in the use of his system. Throughout his twenty three years of experience as a police firearm instructor, he has emphasized training methodologies that are relevant to real world encounters. Lou is also a member of the GLSDA Instructor Alliance Program.

SERGEANT JOSEPH "LITTLE JOE" FERRERA has been involved in local and federal law enforcement for over twenty nine years and is one of Michigan' s leading law enforcement trainers. Having experience in all facets of law enforcement and corrections, Joe has instructed all across the United States at such prestigious conferences as ASLET, IALEFI, PPCT and the Advanced Law Enforcement Training Camp (LETC) in Utah . He is currently employed by a 160-officer agency that borders Detroit , Michigan and has extensive experience as a patrol officer, F.T.O., S.E.R.T. member (team leader and Use-Of-Force instructor) and lead department Use-Of-Force instructor. He is a proud member of the GLSDA Instructor Alliance Program and a staff instructor for Live Safe Academy , LLC and was recently featured in "Warriors: On Living with Courage, Discipline, and Honor" edited by Loren W. Christensen and published by Paladin Press (ISBN 1581604548). Joe trained directly with Lieutenant Colonel Rex Applegate is an Instructor Trainer for the Combat Point Shooting Instructor program taught at Hocking Collage in Nelsonville, Ohio.

OFFICER MARK PRINCE is a former member of the U.S. Department of Energy's elite Special Response Teams tasked with the detection, apprehension, and neutralization of terrorist threats against the DOE's assets and personnel. Mark served as operator, element leader, and operations officer prior to leaving. Mark was recruited by Hocking College where he worked with the Police Science team in researching, developing and instructing force continuum and tactical programming, and teaching in basic police academies. Mark is one of three people certified by the late Lieutenant Colonel Rex Applegate as instructor trainers in the close quarters combat system of the WWII era profiled in the nationally recognized book, "Kill or Get Killed". Mark has also trained in

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with the late Peter Robins, the curator of the Fairbairn system known as "Defendu". A fully commissioned peace officer in the state of Ohio since 1992, he worked as a special deputy in Athens County , working with and training the Hocking County Sheriff's Office Special Response Team, working as a campus police officer providing close protection for visiting high profile dignitaries and celebrities, and serving as a training officer to a multi-jurisdiction drug unit. Since 2000, Mark has worked with the Put-In-Bay Police Department serving as officer and trainer where he trains and deploys with the department's Patrol Response Unit. Recruited by Central Ohio Technical College , Mark now works full time in the Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Technologies where he develops and teaches specialized programming, and teaches in the police academies.

Concealed Pistol License holder

NOTE: To participate, students must use modern equipment that can be quickly loaded and unloaded, students must be capable of normal physical activity and students must be able to accurately shoot, load and unload their firearms while standing and moving. Failure to meet any of these requirements will result in removal without refund.

WHAT:

Threat-Focused Shooting is a live fire course that was originally developed by Sergeant Joseph "Little Joe" Ferrera for the Advanced Law Enforcement Training Camp in Utah . Joe has been teaching this program at the LETC since 1998, the year following Lieutenant Colonel Applegate's now famous presentation. Topics will include Survival Stress and Combat Performance, The Fighting Platform, Threat-Focused Shooting Methods, Patterns of Movement and Third Party Defense Issues.

Interactive training with "human targets"

Close-Quarters Battle Rifle and Shotgun seminar is a single, one-day workshop divided into two sections. Taught by Lou Chiodo, the rifle section will explore the use of the rifle as a primary weapon system in either law enforcement or home defense. The focus of the seminar will be employing the rifle from point blank range to approximately 50 yards. The emphasis will be on developing close range skills that are directly applicable to the manner in which the rifle is used in real world encounters. Additional topics will include considerations in the selection of equipment and ammunition and the effects of combat stress as it applies to our use of the rifle in close-quarter engagements. The combat shotgun is a devastating close-quarters fighting tool. The primary objective of this section is to increase the participant's ability to employ the combat shotgun with increased proficiency and to instill greater confidence in his/her ability to employ the combat shotgun as a primary defensive weapon. In conjunction with shooting skill development, topics will include target engagement, shot patterns and how they affect target engagement and tactical considerations when employing the combat shotgun.

Offensive Unarmed Combat is the unarmed close quarters combat system taught by the late Lieutenant Colonel Rex Applegate to the instructor trainers of the Applegate Combat Point Shooting System. Taught by Officer Mark Prince, this course facilitates those philosophies, methods, and techniques of the unarmed portion of this system. In a behavioral laboratory type setting learners are taught unarmed techniques that fall within the deadly force area of a use of force continuum to be utilized "when weapons are not available, or when their use is not advisable". The system is to be utilized within the learner's official capacity, and within the policies and procedures of the learner's employing agency, as well as within the laws of the learner's jurisdiction.

Understanding Human Performance under Stress: This block of LECTURE-video-and demonstrations by Sergeant Joseph "Little Joe" Ferrera will look at some of the latest research and information on how humans perform under high levels of live or die stress. Students will look at the autonomic nervous system and its two branches as well as factors involved in pre and post incidents and stress reactions during the incident itself. Critical Incident Amnesia and memory recovery will also be covered, as well as changes to vision, cognitive processing, and motor skill performance.

HOW:

Pre-registration is mandatory; to pre-register, mail the requirements listed below to:

Live Safe Academy, LLC
Re: LSA ATC
P.O. Box 725038
Berkley, MI 48072

NOTE: The requirements listed below MUST be received together. Please do not fax or e-mail registrations or send registrations incomplete:

1.) Completed Pre-registration Form - LSA ATC, June 2007 w/full payment
2.) Signed Release and Hold Harmless Agreement - LSA ATC, June 2007

AND ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:
Copy Police or Correctional Officer Identification
Copy of Military Identification w/proof of handgun training

The LSA ATC, June 2007 is limited to the first fifty qualified persons that submit a complete registration.

STUDENT FEE (MAKE PAYABLE TO LIVE SAFE ACADEMY, LLC):

$550.oo

NOTE: All participants will receive a free first year membership to the Great Lakes Self-Defense Association. To accept your free membership you can send an application with your registration or complete an application when you sign in at the LSA ATC, June 2007. For more information about the GLSDA, please visit www.glsda.org or contact info@glsda.org. You can print a GLSDA Membership Application here: GLSDA Membership Application

CONFIRMATION: Once your registration is received and processed, you will receive an e-mail titled "Confirmation, LSA ATC". This e-mail will contain all necessary details for your participation, so you need to read the entire document carefully. You also need to confirm receipt of your confirmation via e-mail. Please do so within the first few days of receiving your confirmation.

NOTE: Please do not send registrations signature required. We may pick up registrations during times when we cannot sign for mail. If you wish to have postal confirmation of our receipt, you can obtain a tracking number from the Post Office.

Please contact Live Safe Academy, LLC at info@LiveSafeAcademy.com or 586.771.8487 for additional information.

If you represent a training facility or Gun Club and would like to host a future event, please contact Ian Kinder. We are also looking for individuals that own, operate or work with a food vender to make box lunches or other meals available to participants for purchase.