Day 1 - Friday

8:00 am - 10:00 am:

John Valentine: Welcome, Safety Brief, and Core Concepts of Entangled Fighting

(Location TBD)

Dynamics of Combative Scenarios

Baseline (body) language for the Combatives Association Summit.

 

10:15 am - 12:15 pm:

Chet Palumbo: Combatives and the Law

 

(Location TBD)

            Criminal law expert and combatives practitioner teaches you how to mitigate criminal charges from lawful self-defense.

 

Craig Douglas: Weaponized Language For Tactical End States

(Location TBD)

            Strategic manipulation of language to achieve desirable outcomes for potentially violent confrontations.

 

1:45 pm - 3:45 pm:

Guy Schnitzler: Small-Impact Weapons

(Location TBD)

            With nearly 30 years of working in confined spaces, Guy is a master of using small-impact tools for self-defense and tactical use.

 

Cole Miller: Walls and Weapons

(Location TBD)

            UFC veteran holding several combatives certifications details the physical controls to deny and achieve weapons access using walls.

 

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm:

Aaron Jannetti: Knife control concepts

(Location TBD)

            Excerpt from knife control concepts, a rapidly popular system for self-defense and tactical applications.

 

Sam Ferguson: Competition Technique for Tactical Circumstances

(Location TBD)

            Mitigating the risk of injury using precision and performance of the competition.

Day 2 - Saturday

8:00 am - 10:00 am:

Cecil Burch: Entangled Ground Fighting

(Location TBD)

            Methodology of the entangled fight while grounded and achieving weapon access while pinned.

 

Kerry "Kato" Murakami: Fighting Over the Gun

(Location TBD)

            Understanding the fight over the gun from a retired Chicagoland officer.

 

10:15 am - 12:15 pm:

Ben Aubin: Weapons-Based Grappling

(Location TBD)

            Learn directly from the innovative creator of the RBC helmet the tactics and strategies for survival during weapons-based grappling.

 

1:45 pm - 3:45 pm:

Kelly McCann: Concisely Combative

(Lecture Area)

            The truth about training for combatives, how to organize your training, myths, observations, and the state of the combatives community.

 

 

Nick Delgadillo: Strength, Performance, and Longevity for Combatives

(Location TBD)

            Using the starting strength method for ageless combatives training and measured improvement.

Stronger is better!

 

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm:

Matt Larsen: Evolutionary Combat Psychology (Lecture Area)

            Understanding the role of combat in human evolutionary psychology and its relationship with PTSD.

 

Fletch Fuller: Keep your "piece" (Location TBD)

            Weapon retention clinic with a nationally recognized law enforcement firearms, defensive tactics instructor, and speaker.

Day 3 - Sunday

8:00 am - 10:00 am:

Rob Magao: TBD

            Officer Survival Series Founder

 

Jerry Wetzel: Empty hands weapons defense (Main Mat)

            An excerpt from the internationally renowned material out of red zone weapons defense course.

 

10:15 am - 12:15 pm:

Cliff Byerly: Vehicle Combatives (Vehicle Lab)

            Lessons of survival from hundreds of felony arrests as a gang unit officer and from USMC HVT operations.

 

 

1:45 pm - 3:45 pm:

Matt Larsen: Psychomotor learning and the Combatives belt system

(Main Mat)

            Personal Excellence of the warrior's walk

3:45 pm - 5:45 pm:

AARs and Cadre Q&A Session (Main Mat)