Hi Image Based Decisional Drills  "The Class" alumni! This hidden page is just for you! Please do not share this with anyone. You have EARNED the right to this page and it's information through hard work during class, time away from family, the expense of training and even the travel! Thank you for training with us and we are here for you so ask questions! ​
SLIDE INFORMATION: I would like to add one more thing before we move on. I would like to thank my husband Brian Hill and my dear friend Claude Werner for helping me bring IBDD to life! They both played very important roles, and still do. Brian is the front man, the genius, and the best IBDDIC Coach EVER. Claude motivated me to think deeper, helped me make tough decisions and I proudly placed his name on our IBDDIC OPTION CARDS. I also want to thank Gary Klein, Force Science Institute, Steve Tarani, Psychology Today, Gavin de Becker, William Aprill, Chuck Haggard, Craig Douglas, John Murphy, John Correia, Greg Ellifritz, Andrew Branca, Massad Ayoob, Marty Hayes and SOOOOO many more outstanding people for putting out excellent information. You all have played a huge part in creating IBDD, have made a positive impact in the self defense community and are appreciated more than you know. 

We highly recommend that you seek out training, books, BLOGS, and articles for these outstanding mind listed above. You can find their links on our RECOMMENDATIONS page and of course, just GOOGLE their names and you will see options on what they offer. 
Shelley
 Here you will find important links and reminders.  
  • IF YOU WERE A STUDENT IN THE 7-8 HOUR "THE CLASS", THEN THIS SECTION PERTAINS TO YOU: You will receive a Certificate of Participation via email within 2 weeks of your class. SOMETIMES it will be handed out at the end of class. It will be a cool reminder of class PLUS it is part of your continuing education so please keep this as a certificate in a safe place. 
  • You are now The Complete Combatant alumni so discounts will apply in all classes that TCC offers an alumni discount in. This is valid "on the road" or in Dahlonega. 
  • You are invited back to IBDD "The Class" as many times as you like. It is an excellent way to review and "audit" your decisions. "The Class" alumni will receive 20% OFF! Look for this discount then you click on BUY TICKETS for a class. This 20% discount is for all "The Class" alumni that trained with us "on the road" or in Dahlonega.
  • Check out The Complete Combatant's 2 annual events called The Mingle and The Quest.
  • Buying  a SIRT Training Pistol from Next Level Training? Use our discount code TCCSIRT for 10% off: CLICK HERE
  • We encourage you to purchase an IBDD KIT or NO KIT to continue practicing at home. You could have purchased one BEFORE your class to familiarize yourselves with the learning system or AFTER your class to continue practicing. If purchasing after class, please use the discount code TheClass for a 10% discount. CLICK HERE
  • ​After you purchase an IBDD KIT or NO KIT you will have access to another HIDDEN PAGE called "Helpful Recourses".  This is full of videos, articles and BLOGS that will be helpful when practicing with your KIT or NO KIT.
  • ​Buy Expansion Packs: CLICK HERE
  • We support 2 (two) OC/Pepper Sprays companies. We like POM Industries and Sabre Red.​​
  1. Liked working with the POM Inert Training Units? BUY 3 and get 1 FREE! To take advantage of this SPECIAL, please order direct from POM's website and use the coupon code TCC1FREE. You will place 4 POMs in your "cart" and it will be automatically deducted when you "check out". Oh, can buy inert units or live units and your shipping is FREE as well! CLICK HERE
  2. We are Sabre Red dealers and sell Sabre Red OC SPRAY. We like STREAM MK6 live and the matching MK6 inert practice trainers! We have plenty in stock and will ship to you within a day or two of your order. CLICK HERE
  • Visit our DOWNLOADABLES page to download "The Dude's" face to laminate, shooting drills, Simple Steps to Apply a Tourniquet, and MORE! CLICK HERE​​
  • Andrew Branca's Law of Self Defense. CLICK HERE
  • Don't forget about Smart Choices Image Cards for ages 4-13. CLICK HERE
Want to host us? We offer several 2 day classes that are popular to host on the road.
Are you local? Want to host or 3 hour "mini" IBDD "The Class" or  our full 1 day "The Class"? We would LOVE to come to you! Email me and lets make it happen!
Please don't forget to write a review, an AAR or even a video review. We have a very small marketing budget. Who am I kidding, we have no marketing budget and your words matter.

Please consider posting your review on YOUR social media pages as well as on OUR GOOGLE and social media pages. THANK YOU!
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).
​MOST time to react: 25ft & BEYOND
  • No one can control this distance.
  • ROUGHLY 1.5 seconds or more to sprint that distance.
  • People have a right to be there, until they don’t.
  • Usually in no danger. No threat.
This distance GIVES YOU:
  • MOST time for early warning decisions.
  • MOST time to decide what to do like be prepared w flashlight or pepper spray IN HAND.
  • MOST time to gather more information. Can you see their hands? Weapons? Movement towards waist? Hidden hand position?
  • Make the distance come ALIVE by walking or running away from that person. Do they care? Follow? 
 
SOME time to react: 12ft - 25ft
  • Still hard to control this distance.
  • People still have a right to be there, until they don’t.
  • ROUGHLY 1 -1.5 seconds to sprint that distance.
  • They are right on the edge of what Hall calls Public and Social space.
This distance GIVES YOU:
  • SOME time to decide what to do like to have pepper spray IN HAND, avoid, etc.
  • SOME time to tool cycle.
  • SOME time to gather more information. Can you see their hands? Weapons? Movement towards waist? Hidden hand position?
  • Make the distance come ALIVE by walking or running away from that person. Do they care? Follow?  

LEAST time to react: 6ft - 12ft
  • Can you see their hands? YES
  • ROUGHLY .75 - 1 second to sprint that distance.
At this distance “A DECISION MUST BE MADE”:
  • LEAST time OR “just enough time” if you are READY for the fight.
  • Do you have…decisional training? Tool training? Pre-need decision in place?
  • Without training and practice, probably no space or time for “tool cycling”
  • At 6ft you can BOTH extend your arms and touch each other.
  • A stride length is roughly 3 feet so at 12 feet they are only 3 strides from you to reach out and grab you.
  • Not enough space to run BUT movement and barriers gives you distance.
  • Verbal commands.
  • Pepper Spray.
  • Force on Force.
  • Escalation of force.
 
NO time to react: 6ft and UNDER
  • NO sprinting. They are THERE!
  • This distance is “THE FIGHT”
  • FAILURE ZONE! We did not manage the space in the zones that were further from us OR we were attacked from behind/ambush.
  • This is FULL ACTION time. The fight is upon us.
  • You need to ACT first…not second.
  • Force on Force is a MUST.
  • Now, you have to EARN THE SPACE to get away so you can make other decisions to get to safety.

​​​​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!   

​​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!
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​SIRT Training Pistols with Next Level Training: Use promo code TCCSIRT and receive 10% off