The ShivWorks Extreme Close Quarter Concepts (ECQC) course is a two-and-a-half-day (20-hour) block of instruction that offers a multi-disciplinary approach to building functional, combative handgun skills at zero to five feet. The course is designed to instill core concepts of seamless integration and provide the platform for aggressive problem solving during a life or death struggle at arm’s length or closer.

In this two day class we will start you on your journey of developing attributes and gaining skills for the sometimes complex situations requiring efficient solutions.

By immersing in very personal journey for the duration of the class, you’ll perform and fail in numerous realms, finding your points of giving up and those of actual failure. That will take you deep into examining the objective reasons of the “why” you do fear. The answers will be very surprising and will lead to transformational self-reflection to restructure one’s learning and training priorities.

In this class we will use the progression of drills designed to impart fundamental understanding AND practical skills of WHY we do WHAT we do. The WHY will transform and fine tune the HOW of the process.

In this two day class we will start you on your journey of developing attributes and gaining skills for the sometimes complex situations requiring efficient solutions.

This course takes the path of first defining where each student stands as a shooter and as a fighter with the gun. Through thoughtfully designed drills, each student will be able to diagnose individual issues and problem areas. Drills gradually and progressively will take students from the square one way range shooting realm into a much more complex and chaotic realm of a gunfight.