While I was a member of the NYPD Emergency Service Unit I had the opportunity to train with Mr. Ken Good on several occasions. His 5 day team tactics course had some serious value. Certain components of the training stuck with me thru my entire 9 years in our tactical unit. First and foremost was Ken’s keen ability to think outside the box. His lowlight training doctrine developed years ago while at Surefire is the basis for all low light combat engagements. In addition to being the Godfather of lowlight, Ken showed us how to operate with ballistic shields during search warrant applications. Ken showed how the shield could be used to defend ourselves from an unarmed attacker. Truth be told he turned us into Gladiators with the shield. Another technique Ken showed that I used on countless occasions was the head tip. Using this technique inside a confined hallway has proven to be very effective for putting a non compliant person down. The final technique which I took from Ken and applied to my own training was the use of cover and using angles while engaged in a lethal confrontation. All of these examples barely scratch the surface of the knowledge Ken has acquired over his years of training. I would recommend that given the opportunity, any person that wears a badge or puts on a uniform seek out Ken’s training. Final thought, even after the training ends Ken is always available to his students no matter where they may be. Richard Henderson NYPD Bomb Squad

I had been an officer on the street for nine years and was originally trained in more “traditional” police methods such as Pressure Point Control Technique. I also had a background in Filipino and Indonesian Martial Arts. There were some conflicts between the compartmentalized method of training officers and traditional martial arts. I found that Physical Combat Resolution was easily taught to people of all skill levels and the knowledge could be immediately applied. All of the principles taught were constructive guidelines to assist in self-learning or exploration. I have found that the most effective learning is from guided exploration because the student (of any skill level) starts to develop their own techniques versus trying to follow the directions of someone else’s techniques (creating your own solution is easier than remembering someone else’s solution, even if they are inevitably/essentially the same). Even though I had 10 years of quality martial arts training, police training, and experience in using force, I had natural doubts in handling larger and stronger people due my smaller stature. One week of PCR completely removed that doubt and filled in all of the areas I needed work in. Everything I learned complemented my prior knowledge or showed me a better way of doing things. This material is the most effect and most relevant training that can be provided for law enforcement. This material can also be applied to multiple areas of law enforcement training (firearms, driving, etc.). Quite simply, the principles are holistic and permeate beyond the time card. Frank Do Detective F. Do #2179 Professional Standards Wichita, Police Department

Ken, I’m not in the force-of-arms business, but I stumbled across your publication while researching the origins of the axiom, “In stressful situations we do not rise to the occasion, we fall to our level of training.” I found your writing really useful for my purpose. I make it a practice to reach out to anyone whose thinking stimulates me to look at things differently and usefully, or who causes me to remember a principal that I’d forgotten or gotten too sloppy to use consistently. Hence this note to you. For almost 20 years, I trained senior partners in the largest law firms how to sell to Corporate America. For that, I needed what some call a “command presence,” especially since they generally held the mistaken belief that rainmakers were somehow naturals vs. the product of the 10,000 hours of focused practice, coaching and feedback that the research shows is necessary to achieve expertise in any field. Bottom line, I had to prove to them that I was the professional salesperson and they were amateurs. Obviously, that’s not hard to do; amateurs don’t beat professionals at anything, ever. Now, I’ve invented a virtual world where they learn the same things via scenario-based simulations, which makes the training affordable, scalable, mobile, measurable, etc. The good news is I’ve done something that’s never been done before, and am creating a new category. The bad news is I’ve done something that’s never been done before, and am creating a new category. The problem I’m wrestling with now is lawyer complacency. Despite the law industry going through its most wrenching disruption in its history, and the previously unthinkable now showing up in the legal press and the Wall St. Journal, i.e., that law partners were being dumped by their firms for not bringing in enough business, lawyers persist in a form of complacency that’s hard to explain, lawyers are behaving as if sales skills were still optional, gold-star-on-the-forehead endeavors rather than the survival tools they are now. It’s a head-scratcher. I’ve stolen, I mean, borrowed, much from you, which I’ll attribute in the eye-opening white paper that I’m writing to try to stir up the mud at the bottom of the industry’s stagnant river. Just a note to let you know that somebody out there in the blogosphere appreciated what you expressed. Mike