Your Personal Self Defense Coach. Online or In-Person

The art and science of coaching and helping people do things they never thought they could do is my specialty. I’ve spent my life teaching normal people how to get strong, fight, use firearms, and get closer to feeling confident and self-reliant. The path to proficiency is a process and I am an expert in guiding you, no matter where you’re starting.

Firearms Coaching and Seminars

Self-defense focused pistol, rifle, and shotgun coaching. I will get you comfortable with operating your home defense and concealed carry firearms, while teaching you how to continue improving your skills on your own.

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Online Coaching – Firearms or Strength Training

Dry fire based firearms coaching designed to improve weapon handling skill and shooting performance.

Online strength and nutrition coaching. Barbell based with custom weekly programming and video review after every workout.

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Self Defense Coaching and Seminars

Full spectrum self defense from learning how to stay safe when dealing with unknown individuals, to dealing with an attack, and integrating concealed carry firearms, knives, pepper spray, or other weapons.

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  • The Deadlift in 5 Steps

    The Starting Strength Model assumes, as you should too, that gravity works in a direction that is perfectly vertical.  When you’re trying to pick up a heavy weight (probably the heaviest weight you are physically able to) in your hands and stand up with it, any effort that’s exerted in any direction other than directly opposite

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  • Annoying Krav Maga Class Thing #1 – An overly long and useless warmup.

    Your Krav Maga class warmup sucks.  As a new instructor, sometimes the warmup is a crutch.  You just passed your instructor training, but don’t REALLY know how to teach yet.  The warmup, since that’s what you’ve been doing as an apprentice instructor, is what you’re good at so it’s time to show off a bit

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  • Starting Strength – Common Misconceptions and Outright Lies | GOMAD

    There’s a whole bunch of silliness on the internet when it comes to Starting Strength.  I don’t know what it is, but people come up with some really bizarre shit anytime someone brings up Mark Rippetoe or Starting Strength.  Most of it is perpetuated by people who haven’t read any of the material or are

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  • How to Squat – Gripping the bar

    How to Squat – Gripping the bar

    There’s nothing that works better for getting strong than basic barbell training.  Full range of motion lifts that load the entire skeleton are both efficient and effective in producing an adaptation that is beneficial for all aspects of human performance.   Whatever it is you do, whether it’s Krav Maga, sports, martial arts, or just

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  • Tactical Spec Ops LEO Elite Krav Maga

    Anyone else tired of hearing the word tactical? Unfortunately, I have quite a few perfectly good t-shirts from days passed that have that cringe-worthy, non-sensical term all over them. In the 10 years I’ve been teaching Krav Maga, I’ve used it on tag lines, websites, t-shirts, etc, etc, etc.  It sounds neat, or at least

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