PDN LIVE: Security & Defense in Remote Areas

I'm here today with one of the leaders in the training industry, Ken Murray. Ken Murray is the author of Training at the Speed of Life and truly one of the founders of the reality-based training movement in the training industry both private sector and military law enforcement. Now he may not be a common name in the personal defense sector, but he's known around the world as an expert to military and law enforcement professionals that endeavor to try to make their training as good as it can be. Force on force has several levels to it. The end state, if you will, is where you're putting on gear and creating situations that are highly realistic, extremely emotionally involving.

And if you've got the realistic situation set up, the realistic settings and you've got high quality role-players, it's almost indiscernible from an actual experience. Certainly, we've seen people emotionally and physically engaged as though it were real. We're working with the mind. We're filling out Rolodex cards in your experiential brain for lack of a better word, something that you're going to go to as you're flipping through that Rolodex in a critical incident trying to find something that you've done in the past. Psychologists have figured out that that phenomenon of having your life flash before your eyes is actually your brain and high-speed retrieval mode trying to find an experience that you can connect on to.

And you'll find people that have gone through that experience will relay it to, well my life flash before my eyes, and then they did something and it went click and did something effective. What we're gonna go over here today, I think are some of the things that you've collected that not only will work for people who are involved in instructing and sharing this information for others but also the kinds of things that you need to look for if you're evaluating whether or not a trainer who's offering scenario training, reality-based training or force-on-force training is the right one for you and for you to understand what you're supposed to be getting out of it and what they should be putting into.