Hello...again :-) I took a break, sabbatical from the Self Defense training while I put energy into family and CrossFit West Chester. The box, as they call CrossFit Affiliates, is in it's 3rd year and my partners and I just sealed the deal for our 3rd move. The new space is awesome! Look for pics and info on the open house. While taking time away I've continued my own road to improving my self defense options, learned lots as a coach and trainer and am looking to bring this new vigor and experiennce to seminar offerings. My next training opportunity will be in Wilmington Deleware at CrossFit Riverfront. GO HERE TO REGISTER as spots are limited and will fill up fast! Along with still offering the Personal Defense Readiness program seminars, I'll be doing Bully Prevention worskshops, Child abduction/prevention education, basic and Advanced Firearms courses and more!

PDR Seminar

November 14th 11:15 to 3:15 at Crossfit West Chester. 306 Westtown Rd. in West Chester.

This will launch an ongoing combatives program at the CrossFit West Chester location. Classes will begin next week Saturday November 21st 9-10am every Saturday. The schedule will grow with attendence.

CrossFit King of Prussia Hosts
Tony Blauer’s PERSONAL DEFENSE READINESS & S.P.E.A.R. SYSTEM
Saturday, August 1st, 2009
Bridgeport, PA 10-3PM

Personal Defense Readiness™ Seminar: …Is based on the S.P.E.A.R. SYSTEM™, which is the first genetically, and behaviorally inspired self-defense course. It is the only self-defense method that fully integrates the body's reflexive responses and instinctive survival mechanisms making S.P.E.A.R. the easiest, most natural way to protect yourself. This 1-day seminar is open to the public and will challenge, and enlighten everyone who attends.

PDR seminars are dual track (learn at your own pace) classes for both experienced and new attendees. New participants will receive an introduction into Tony Blauer’s renowned mind-set & fear management strategies that include important components from the Cerebral Self-Defense™, Cycle of Behavior™ and Be Your Own Bodyguard™ programs. Understanding F.E.A.R. is the key to overcoming any obstacles in life.

Time permitting the training will also feature High Gear™ training related to the seminars theme. This course will not interfere with any prior training and can be used to augment any personal toolbox. No prior experience is necessary.

Details:
Date: August 1st, 2009
Place: CrossFit King of Prussia, 1010 DeKalb Street, Bridgeport, PA 19405
Times: Saturday 10:00-3:00pm
Tuition: $55 for Advanced Registration, $65 at the door.
Contact: 484-955-9879 or (973)885.8728
Dress: Comfortable clothes & clean sneakers
Who can attend: Ages (13 yrs & up), and all public safety officers/officials.

Ed Freeman...A Hero's Passing

You're a 19 year old kid. You're critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley , 11-14-1965, LZ X-ray, Vietnam . Your infantry unit is out numbered 8-1, and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 or 200 yards away, that your own Infantry Commander has ordered the MediVac helicopters to stop coming in.

You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns, and you know you're not getting out. Your family is half way around the world, and you'll never see them again. As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.

Then, over the machine gun noise, you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter, and you look up to see an unarmed Huey, but it doesn't seem real, because no Medi-Vac markings are on it.

Ed Freeman is coming for you. He's not Medi-Vac, so it's not his job, but he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire, after the Medi-Vacs were ordered not to come in.

But he's coming anyway.

And he drops it in, and sits there in a hail of machine gun fire, as they load 2 or 3 of you on board.

Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire, to the doctors and nurses.

And he kept coming back again and again, 13 more times and took about 30 of you and your buddies out, who would never have gotten out.

Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman, died on Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 at the age of 80 in Boise, ID. May God rest his soul.

I'll bet you didn't hear anything at all from the media about this hero's passing, but we sure were told a lot about some entertainer who died of a drug overdose

THE CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR WINNER ED FREEMAN!

What Are You Waiting For?

How many times have you ever seen something that invoked an emotional response that I don't want that to happen to me, or I should really do that, or I don't want that to happen to me. It happens to all of us, about getting "in shape", losing weight, learning to use a firearm, shopping for better car insurance. We experience a stimulus and respond. We dig through our summer wardrobe to find that last years shorts are too tight. We get that monthly bill and think I can do better. We watch a video, read a new clipping, or worse have someone we care about fall victim to violence. I should really take some 'self defense lessons' or get a gun, etc...Unlike taking some time to loose some weight, or research how to save a buck violence is something none of us can afford. You can bury your head in the sand, you can put it off but that doesn't make you safer.

Look deeper and how many times have we walked through an area where are senses were heightened, we see an unfamiliar face coming towards us, the uncomfortable feeling starts, we're not sure what to do, the heart starts beating faster, our body 'perceives' some type of threat, it picks up and we feel 'anxious'. This approaching figure 'looks shady' what else are you thinking? We hope nothing happens to us, we pray, or we tell ourselves we'll be fine. It happens to all of us it's called fear. Do you understand fear, the power of it and that it can be your friend if you have the tools to manage it. Come and learn more about fear, fear management, and have some fun doing it. What are you waiting for?

View Gavin Debecker world famous author on fear.

Is money an issue? For about the price of a nice meal out, two oil changes, or a pair of pants you can learn to be safer. It is time? I can teach you to be safer in an afternoon. Too old? Injuries? I'm too this too that. I've heard it all. I've had people attend a seminar with back injuries just wanting to 'observe' and had them participate the whole event without an issue and thank me. I've taught a person who lost their leg in a climbing accident. What's your excuse?
Let me show you what you can do with a little time an effort Saturday, July 18th, 10am - 2pm at CrossFit South Philly.

On The Air...

Tune in to WCHE 1520AM on Tuesday June 16th at 1pm to hear my interview on the radio talk-show Pulse with host Michele Paiva. I will be live on the air discussing the personal protection training I offer, Tony Blauer's Personal Defense Readiness Program and S.P.E.A.R. system.

I will also chat a little about Providence Combatives' realtionship with the new and fabulous CrossFit location in West Chester. Please Join me!

Please Call in with questions or comments @ NEW CALL-IN NUMBER: 610-701-WCHE (9243)

Finally! Found a home...

306 Westtown Road in West Chester, PA will be the home to Providence Combatives. For those keeping up with me know I have been searching for the right place to offer training on a regular basis. I found it in partnering with CrossFit West Chester.

It looks like a July 1st opening date and I am so excited! I am working with some really cool people that share my passion about training. Being involved with Blauer Tactical and being there when Coach Blauer opened his new training center in Virginia Beach, VA I knew that is what I wanted to bring to the people I trained, on a much much smaller scale of course:) But what a cool model, the best of both worlds under one roof! If yov've never been there or at least seen pictures its a great place with a cool eletric energy there that just makes you feel like you are a part of something great. I hope to bring some of that energy into this location.

I will continue to bring the Personal Defense Readiness Program around the state by doing seminars but now will be able to offer the oppurtunity to those interested in contiuous training including Ground Fighting, Weapons Protection, and more!

I have also added another High Gear suit to my equipment list which will allow people to really experience the next level in realistic training. Interested in putting your skills to the test? Give me a call 484-955-9879.