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Managing Unknown Contacts

A strategy to keep it from getting physical

Managing Unknown Contacts is the best strategy for maintaining slightly more distance than the social norm without being “weird.” 

You will learn three adaptations to how you speak, how you move, and what to do with your hands to keep it from turning into a horizontal entangled mess on the ground.

MUC represents a body of work and lessons learned during Craig’s 21-year law enforcement career and 23 years instructing under the brand Shivworks. In an undercover capacity, he was robbed 9 times. Some of those experiences turned out good, and some did not. But it gave him a unique view into the criminal world and how to navigate it successfully.

Course Curriculum

  • Introduction to the course and Shivworks

  • Craig Douglas

  • Do all Criminal Assaults look the same?

  • I am a big fan of things not getting Sh*tty!

  • Framing Distance and Time

  • How do you DO Awareness?

  • Criminal assault Summary

  • Managing Unknown Contacts: Treat everyone the same

  • Setting Boundaries

  • Maintain Distance

  • Fence

  • Training MUC

  • MUC DRILLS

  • Partner switch

  • Pre-assault Cues

  • MUC – Identifying Cues

  • Waiting to see what happens next

  • The Eye Jab

  • Eye Jab technical development

  • Eye Jab applied in MUC

  • Default position PDF

  • When someone launches on you.

  • The default position

  • Staying Standing

  • Staying Conscious

  • The Complete Default Position

  • Fixed Hand Position, Patterned, Rhythmic, Predictable

  • Changing the feed

  • The Sucker Punch Drill

  • Course Review

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Extreme Close Quarters Concepts: Retention Development

Learn the best practices for Live-Fire retention shooting in crowded, confined spaces, and, as importantly, how to train. Expand sections for free previews.

ECQC is 22 year body of work developed by Craig Douglas providing a cogent reductive, congruent, and binary system to prepare you for what could be the worst day of your life. The coursework is as much a period of instruction as it is an experience. Experience in the real world is expensive, one bad experience could cost your life or someone else.

This online block takes you through the live ECQC class as if you were there, plus adds some additional information not provided during the in-person course. You will receive the live fire component of ECQC: the why and, as importantly, how to do it and train it.

Course Curriculum

  • Shivworks Online, get beyond paper!

  • ECQC LIVE FIRE SUMMARY

  • Rule: 1

  • Rule: 2

  • Rule: 3

  • Rule: 4

  • Emergency plan

  • Controlling a range

  • Range success tips

  • Stay engaged, know your gear, know the basics

  • Warm-up

  • What is the adapted presentation and why would you need to change your draw?

  • Clearing garments, defeating retention devices

  • Position 1: Establish Grip

  • Position 2: Extremely high and extremely flat

  • Position 3: Collecting when you see the gun

  • Position 4: Appropriate extension

  • The complete adapted presentation

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  • Waiting to see what happens next

  • The Eye Jab

  • Eye Jab technical development

  • Eye Jab applied in MUC

  • The general theory of retention shooting

  • The thumb pectoral index position

  • TPI Live Fire Development 1

  • TPI Live Fire Development 2

  • TPI Live Fire Development 3

  • TPI Live Fire Development 4

  • What is position 3, why would we need it, what was the development

  • Position 3 Live Fire Development

  • Appropriate extension or compression

  • Guided Step back drill

  • Step Back Drill – Moving on your own

  • Fending position

  • Horizontal Elbow Shield

  • Vertical Elbow Shield

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