Two-Day Extreme Close Quarters Gunfighting

The skills you learned in the police academy or your CCW class may not work for you when the fight happens within arms’ reach. Extreme close range gunfighting is a completely different skill set, one that relies far more on FIGHTING than on mere shooting.

With up to 50% of law enforcement gunfight fatalities occurring at ranges closer than five feet, you need this skill set. Join Greg Ellifritz as he teaches a rare two-day version of his dynamic close quarters gunfighting class that will cover the following topics:

- Retention Shooting Positions

- Body positioning and shooting stances for the close quarters fight

- In-fight weapons access and drawing skills

- Stopping and opponent’s draw

- Making contact shots without creating malfunctions

- Close quarters gun disarms

- One handed close quarters malfunction drills

- Using the firearm as an impact weapon

- Drawing and shooting from unconventional positions

- Weapons access and gunfighting from the ground

- Weapons retention, (in holster and in hand)

- Shooting from unconventional positions

-Dealing with charging attackers armed with contact weapons

This is not the class for a beginning shooter. Proper gunhandling skills and evidence of prior training is a prerequisite for the course. Prior training in a combative martial art or police defensive tactics class will be useful, but not required.

In order to be accepted into the course, you must be a currently serving or retired law enforcement officer. If you do not have law enforcement experience, evidence of competent gun handling (drawing safely from holster, one handed shooting, malfunction clearance under stress, and alternate position shooting) must be presented.

If you are not a law enforcement officer, before registering please send a short email list of previous formal firearms training to [email protected] for approval. If students do not possess these basic skills at the start of the course, they will be barred from further live fire participation.

Required Equipment:

- Handgun (no ported weapons)

- Sturdy belt- mounted holster (OWB or IWB, appendix OK, no Serpa unless you are issued the holster) that will allow reholstering with one hand.

- Spare reloading devices and holder (you will need to be able to carry at least 15 rounds on your person)

- Eye and Ear protection

- 300 Rounds of ammunition

- A pair of gloves is useful, but not necessary for the weapon retention portion of the class

10 paid students required by November 1, 2022 in order for the class to proceed. If fewer than 10 students register, I will cancel the class and refund tuition fees to all registered participants.

Instructor Bio:

Greg Ellifritz is Active Response Training's President and Primary Instructor.

Greg recently retired after serving 25 years as a police officer. During his tenure, Greg spent 13 years as the full-time tactical training officer for a central Ohio police department. In that training position, he was responsible for developing and instructing all of the in-service training for his 55-officer agency. In addition to the training position, he also served as patrol officer, rangemaster, weapons armorer, bike patrol officer, bike patrol coordinator, sniper, and field training officer during the course of his career.

He instructed classes at the Tactical Defense Institute for 17 years and served as a lead instructor for TDI’s ground fighting, knife fighting, active shooter, impact weapons, and extreme close quarters shooting classes.

Greg holds instructor, master instructor, or armorer certifications in more than 80 different weapons systems, defensive tactics programs, and law enforcement specialty topics. In addition to these instructor certifications, Greg has successfully completed more than 4,000 hours of documented formal training with the leading firearms, empty hand fighting, and edged weapons instructors in the country.

Greg additionally served as an adjunct instructor for the Ohio Peace Officer’s Training Academy, teaching firearms, defensive tactics, bike patrol, knife defense, and physical fitness topics. He has taught firearms and self defense classes at the national and international level through The American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers, The International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors, Rangemaster Tactical Conference, and Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police.

He has a master’s degree in Public Policy and Management with a focus on criminal justice policy issues and has written for several publications and websites including: ‘The Firearms Instructor,” “Ohio Police Chief,” “Combat Handguns,” Survivalblog.com, “Concealed Carry Magazine,” Primedia's "Personal & Home Defense Annual," "Recoil Magazine," and “American Handgunner.”

Greg can be reached through his website at www.activeresponsetraining.net

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