DEFINITION OF SUCCESS:
To quickly make ONE good FIRST decision based on visual stimuli & instantly act on it. Be confident, decisive, efficient, & explosive.

Image Based Decisional Drills is a well thought out dry practice or live fire exercise with a deck of 21 Image Cards (with and without additional "tools") that provide IMAGES that will help you to recognize danger and to make smart decisions ahead of time. Our image based learning system is another beneficial step on your way to making good decisions quickly.

There are very few dry practice or range exercises for the private citizen that focus on making lethal, less than lethal and non lethal decisions quickly. Our Image Based Decisional Drills are intended to fill in the gap in learning how to make decisions using images to provoke a response, decide which TOOL to use, and then ACT on that decision. From the time that a bad guy chooses you, you will have a very limited amount of time to make a decision. THEY choose how and when. Your actions need to be confident, quick and decisive.

In all scenarios the image is happening to YOU, in front of YOU, beside YOU or behind YOU. YOU are your first responder and decisions need to be made quickly.

People carry a lot of gear but gear does not solve the problem….YOU do.
Decisions are more important than techniques. Our goal in IBDD is to supply an avenue to learn good decision and provide some simple, yet very effective techniques. Please consider attending additional classes that can help strengthen your non lethal, less than lethal and lethal skills. IBDD focuses on good decisions and will give you an excellent place to practice new skills or sharpen new ones.

We currently have 2 (two) "stores". Not the most convenient way to sell/purchase but they are both FULL of awesome The Complete Combatant, Image Based Decisional Drills, and Smart Choices items so please visit BOTH!   
IMAGE BASED DECISIONAL DRILL OPTIONS: Start with ONE decision that you are confident and efficient in and work your way up to quick multi-layered decisions that all lead to effective person protection with ONE GOAL....your safety.
  1. Walk Away
  2. Verbal Commands
  3. Flashlight
  4. RUN
  5. OC/Pepper Spray
  6. Tourniquet
  7. Shoot = "Failure to Neutralize"
  8. 911
  9. (​Rare 9th option is Force on Force Training. RULES APPLY)

BENEFITS:
  • Visual cueing, pre-need decision making, tool cycling, distance management, and strategy changes that can be practiced on the range.
  • Pressure testing under realistic time constraints with feedback for improvement.
  • IBDD can be beneficial ON or OFF the range. The actual mechanics of shooting can be practiced separately while the IBDD drills will help with tool handling and selection, therefore a BLUEGUN, plastic trainer, or SIRT Training Pistol is a suitable substitute.
  • You can work with IBDD solo or with a group.  
  • IBDD comes packed up in a bag and ready to travel.
  • IBDD is very easy to set up and very easy to take down.
  • Using a BLUEGUN, plastic trainer, or SIRT Training Pistol? You can also designate a small section in your house, garage, basement, etc. and leave it up.  
  • All ages are welcome to take part in IBDD (within reason). Age will change the availability of suitable tools, but will still help with the decisions concerning available strategies. Image cards that would provoke a “shoot” decision would turn into escape or run decisions. If your child would have to make personal protection decisions alone, then choose suitable cards for their environment or possible scenarios.
  • All levels of experience are welcome. The benefits are the same for everybody. The more experience you have, the more "tools" can be introduced. If you have training in additional areas of self protection like jacks, saps, movement, edged weapons, etc. then add these to your scenario. Also, your cognitive stacking may be quicker and easier so challenge yourself! Please make note that "movement" is an advanced skill and we do not recommenced you turn, "step off the line", "J" step, run, leave the "X", walk away, etc. when training with a live firearm.
  • Anthropologist Edward T. Hall defines four distance zones maintained by healthy, adult, middle-class Americans in his book, The Hidden Dimension. This is an intriguing book explains “proxemics” and the difference in “distance awareness” among many cultural groups. There are several “aspects” of proxemics. The one that Hall writes about is the distance maintained between people when they are communicating. He named these distances or zones Public, Social, Personal & Intimate. Because of Halls framework, we KNOW people can FEEL the pressure of whether the person belongs in that ZONE/SPACE. People have a hard time managing distances so in IBDD we will touch on pairing the decisional process with the lack of time and managing space. We need to think about how fast violence happens, limited choices and making the BEST decision based on the space and time available. Standing still is a bad idea but we are presenting this way to help you understand how TIME and SPACE effects your ability to respond. In self protection distance management, we can use Hall's research to our purpose by measuring the violence options available to THE BAD PERSON and measure the options available to US to react + act = respond. We have named these spaces  "Reactionary Zones", MOST time (25 feet and beyond), SOME time (12 feet to 25 feet), LEAST time (6 feet to 12 feet) and NO time (under 6 feet).
  • We encourage you to join the Image Based Decisional Drills Facebook Page. This is a friendly page to ask questions, get feedback and open up discussions.
$99 IMAGE BASED DECISIONAL DRILL KIT CONTENTS:
  • 1 Water resistant carry bag
  • 5 IBDD business cards to pass out
  • 1 IBDD Instruction booklet
  • URL link to our hidden ONLINE IBDD Instruction booklet
  • 1 "Options" cheat sheet
  • NEW: The rare 9th option: FORCE ON FORCE option card (skills and training requirements MUST be met in order to "use" this card)
  • 21 Image Based Decisional Drill IMAGE cards
  • 2 IBDD Challenge Cards featuring the 5X5 Drill 
  • 1 STREAMLIGHT Microstream flashlight from HK USA (battery included)
  • 1 Stream INERT TRAINING OC/Pepper Spray canister from POM Industries
  • 1 Laminated "Simple Steps to Apply a Tourniquet" from Dr. Sherman House of Civilian Defender and The Complete Combatant
  • 1 Push button phone (prop only)​
$59 IMAGE BASED DECISIONAL DRILL NO KIT CONTENTS:
  • 5 IBDD business cards to pass out
  • 1 Instruction booklet
  • URL link to our hidden ONLINE IBDD Instruction booklet
  • 1 "Options" cheat sheet
  • NEW: The rare 9th option: FORCE ON FORCE option card (skills and training requirements MUST be met in order to "use" this card)
  • 21 Image Based Decisional Drill IMAGE cards
  • 1 Laminated "Simple Steps to Apply a Tourniquet" from Dr. Sherman House of Civilian Defender and The Complete Combatant
Don't forget to check out SMART CHOICES: Smart Choices is a well thought out deck of 84 Image Cards that focuses on IMAGES that will help parents/teachers/educators teach children to recognize danger and to make smart choices ahead of time. Smart Choices will aid in having a plan for the whole family so you AND your child will know what to do when presented with some difficult decisions.

There’s a reason your child’s storybooks are filled with colorful pictures and images.  Visuals are proven to help increase learning retention for kids, adds context and makes it easier for kids to follow along and interpret the context of your conversations.

HUMMMMMMM, is that an awesome STREAMLIGHT Microstream Flashlight from HK??? Well, yes....YES IT IS! This Microstream flashlight has a super bright LED, run-time of 2.5 hours with momentary "blink" or constant "on" switching! This is a part of Image Based Decisionsal Drills.  Thank you HK for supplying these "WHO GOES THERE"  lights!

What is this you ask?? Oh baby, this is just one of the BEST OC/Pepper Spray products on the market!  POM POM POM! We are happy to announce that POM Industries is our Image Based Decisional Drill INERT (practice) canister supplier.  Each IBDD will include one INERT canister (with H2O) and here is a discount code that will give you one FREE INERT unit when you purchase 3.  To take advantage of this SPECIAL, please order direct from POM's website and use the coupon code TCC1INERTFREE. You will place 4 INERT POMs in your "cart" and it will be automatically deducted when you "check out". Oh, and your shipping is FREE as well!
BIG thank you to Dr. Sherman House for partnering with The Complete Combatant on SIMPLE STEPS TO APPLY A TOURNIQUET. This laminated handout has been in circulation for a while now and will be included in our Image Based Decisional Drill (tourniquets NOT included or needed for IBDD). We see great value in helping as many people as possible familiarize themselves with SIMPLE STEPS TO APPLY A TOURNIQUET. This IN NO WAY takes the place of professional Medical Training. This is just a simple guide to introduce you to a life saving skill.

WE HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS WITH DR. SHERMAN HOUSE OF CIVILIAN DEFENDER.  Here is a BLOG that Brian wrote after we hosted Sherm's class in 2019.....we WILL be hosting him again and again!

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SIRT NOT INCLUDED, but you can order one at a discount!
​SIRT Training Pistols with Next Level Training: Use promo code TCCSIRT and receive 10% off
Cited Sources: The people, books, groups, articles, companies, facilities, etc. below are just a drop in the bucket of research to be found on image based learning, long term memory, and  good decision making that make up our Image Based Decisional Drills learning system.
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