Evolution Security Podcast

Lee Weems is the owner and operator of First Person Safety and is also staffed with Rangemaster LLC where he assist Tom Givens with their storied Instructor Development program. He has been a Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council (POST) certified peace officer since 1999 having been sworn at the local, state, and federal levels and has served as a patrolman, field training officer, detective, supervisor, three terms as Chief Deputy, and currently as an agency training coordinator.  He served two terms as a member of the Board of Directors of the Georgia Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors (GALEFI), and he teaches college classes in political science and criminal justice. He received the Distinguished Weapons Expert rating based on his scores in the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers' Firearms Instructor Training Program.  He is a Georgia POST certified general and firearms instructor and is a graduate of the FBI Police Firearms Instructor program and the FBI Law Enforcement Instructor School and has completed the Force Science Institute certification program as well as the FLETC Use of Force Instructor Training Program, Active Shooter Instructor Training Program, and the Basic Tactical Medical Instructor Training Program.  He also holds the Georgia POST Managerial, Supervisory, Field Training Officer, Advanced, and Senior Deputy certifications, and he has been recognized by GALEFI as a Master Firearms Instructor.

For more information on Lee and his training schedule go to

www.firstpersonsafety.com/

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Also per the discussion on the show the Youtube podcast regarding Comparing Instructor Programs with Lee and Karen Whitlock. 

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Tenicor – www.tenicor.com they are educators, and innovators in the holster market.  They are firearms instructors themselves, pressure testing their gear in multiple force on force events every year.  We support those who do the work.  Use the code EVOSEC at checkout for 10% off.  Again patronizing our sponsors helps us greatly. 

Evolution Security is Eric Davis, Aaron Davis and Brian Schilt; specializing in self-protection education, defensive pistol and carbine, consulting, and weapons based grappling.  Their mission is to help those serious about protecting themselves and their loved ones, become more capable though filtered information, recommended study, and highlighting their mentors who are the best in the field.   In addition, Eric and Aaron (twins) are musicians keeping with Musashi's adage that martial artist should focus on art outside of the martial (bumper music recorded by the brothers).

Please subscribe and share our podcast with friends and family.  Visit our website for bios, future events and info at www.evosec.org  Like, follow and share us on Facebook and Instagram @evosecusa

This show Eric and Aaron Davis start a new series of bonus shows where they talk Gear and Mindset.  We all love gear, in other words "Hardware," yet we know it's low on the priority list when we look at the hierarchy of surviving violent encounters.  That said we still love gear and know our audience loves gear as well.  We will primarily talk about gear that supports us on The Path but will reserve the right to simply talk about cool guns and knives as well.  Furthermore we will equally talk about ways to support building your mindset and gear that aids in this as well.  Ultimately it is mindset that is the most important "software."

Defensive use of firearms in the US: 

Most people would be flabbergasted at how many times a year individuals use firearms to save their lives or the lives of others.  Miraculously, the majority of the time the trigger doesn't have to be pulled.  In the show the crew discuss an astounding article

by John Lott

There Are Far more defensive gun uses than murders.  Here is why you rarely hear of them. 

Ben Shapiro Podcast mentioned by Aaron on the show:

Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying 

Slings:

The sling is to the rifle as the holster is to the pistol.

Some of our favorites as discussed on the show.  

The Proctor Sling

The Vickers -sling 

Shot timers: 

Pact Club Shot Timer 3

Competition Electronics Pocket Pro II

We really want one of these timers if they every have any in stock…..ugh!  

AMG Lab Commander

Phone apps for dry fire/Not good for live fire 

Make ready app

A dry fire must book for your shooting improvement!!  

Dry Fire Primer by Annette Evans

Evolution Security is Eric Davis, Aaron Davis and Brian Schilt; specializing in self-protection education, defensive pistol and carbine, consulting, and weapons based grappling.  Their mission is to help those serious about protecting themselves and their loved ones, become more capable though filtered information, recommended study, and highlighting their mentors who are the best in the field.   In addition, Eric and Aaron (twins) are musicians keeping with Musashi's adage that martial artist should focus on art outside of the martial (bumper music recorded by the brothers). 

Please subscribe and share our podcast with friends and family.  Visit our website for bios, future events and info at www.evosec.org  Like, follow and share us on Facebook and Instagram @evosecusa

Check out our awesome sponsors:

Origin/Jocko Fuel – Bringing back American manufacturing, producing the best Jiu-Jitsu Gis on the market, Jeans, rash guards, and world class supplements to help you on the path.  Use EvoSec10 at checkout for 10% off, this helps us greatly.  Origin USA - Handcrafted in America, Without Compromise. (originmaine.com)

Erick Gelhaus is s 29 year Law Enforcement veteran, former US Army infantry squad leader and Iraq veteran. He has decades of firearms instructor experience teaching both at his Sherriff's Department and the legendary Gunsite founded by Jeff Cooper the father of the modern technique. He recently founded Cougar Mountain Solutions, CMS is a training & consulting firm that focuses on Developing practitioners and programs, Educating those who discuss, explain, or review uses of force; Evaluating equipment, events, and performance.  Erick is a subject matter expert in Red Dot optics on pistols, developing and leading the Gunsite's RDO program.  He is also heavily focused on low light solutions, defensive shotgun, carbine and much more.  

This episode EvoSec dives into the recent Rangemaster Instructor Development class that Erick and Eric Davis attended together where Erick received the Top Gun award.  Erick then provides some master class philosophy and recommendations on RDOs, Low light techniques and much more....

Erick's 2X3 Red Dot Development drill - as discussed on the show:

7 yards - IDPA/IPSC A zone or a B8 Bull repair center - shot timer.

On buzzer, draw strong hand only, fire 2 rounds center mass - in battery speed reload, change to two handed grip, fire 2 more rounds - speed reload 2 more rounds from support hand only.

Erick shooting and explaining the drill

Newer shooters aim for under 12 seconds, advanced shooters under 10 sec.  Give it a try!

Find Erick on Facebook 

Cougar Mountain Solutions 

Instagram @cougar_mountain_solutions

Evolution Security is Eric Davis, Aaron Davis and Brian Schilt; specializing in self-protection education, defensive pistol and carbine, consulting, and weapons based grappling.  Their mission is to help those serious about protecting themselves and their loved ones, become more capable though filtered information, recommended study, and highlighting their mentors who are the best in the field.   In addition, Eric and Aaron (twins) are musicians keeping with Musashi's adage that martial artist should focus on art outside of the martial (bumper music recorded by the brothers).

Please subscribe and share our podcast with friends and family.  Visit our website for bios, future events and info at www.evosec.org  Like, follow and share us on Facebook and Instagram @evosecusa

Check out our awesome sponsors:

Origin/Jocko Fuel – Bringing back American manufacturing, producing the best Jiu-Jitsu Gis on the market, Jeans, rash guards, and world class supplements to help you on the path.  Use EvoSec10 at checkout for 10% off, this helps us greatly.  Origin USA - Handcrafted in America, Without Compromise. (originmaine.com)

Tenicor – www.tenicor.com they are educators, and innovators in the holster market.  They are firearms instructors themselves, pressure testing their gear in multiple force on force events every year.  We support those who do the work.  Use the code EVOSEC at checkout for 10% off.  Again patronizing our sponsors helps us greatly. 

This episode we have Spencer Keepers of Keepers Concealment back onto the show.  Spencer discusses the Sub-Second draw, its efficacy and provides some real world examples of why it may be in your interest to achieve it.  We also discuss his extensive Force on Force training experience and why he and the EvoSec crew believe it is essential in being prepared for a violent encounter.  

Eric and Aaron close the show with their accountability of the week and hit on the recent Defensive Pistol 1 course Eric and his son Nick taught in NC.  

To learn more about Spencer, get signed up for a class or to purchase one of his world class AIWB holsters go to http://keepersconcealment.com/

Per the discussion on the show please pick up the book Safe Force on Force Firearms Simulations By Ralf Mroz

Evolution Security is Eric Davis, Aaron Davis and Brian Schilt; specializing in self-protection education, defensive pistol and carbine, consulting, and weapons based grappling.  Their mission is to help those serious about protecting themselves and their loved ones, become more capable though filtered information, recommended study, and highlighting their mentors who are the best in the field.   In addition, Eric and Aaron (twins) are musicians keeping with Musashi's adage that martial artist should focus on art outside of the martial (bumper music recorded by the brothers). 

Please subscribe and share our podcast with friends and family.  Visit our website for bios, future events and info at www.evosec.org  Like, follow and share us on Facebook and Instagram @evosecusa

Check out our awesome sponsors:

Origin/Jocko Fuel – Bringing back American manufacturing, producing the best Jiu-Jitsu Gis on the market, Jeans, rash guards, and world class supplements to help you on the path.  Use EvoSec10 at checkout for 10% off, this helps us greatly.  Origin USA - Handcrafted in America, Without Compromise. (originmaine.com)

This episode we welcome back Cecil Burch of Immediate Action Combatives for a third time!  Cecil holds the record for most appearances and said on the air that he would have to ensure that no one took his lead....hehe! -  We do an After Action Review of the Immediate Action Jiu-Jitsu and Pugilism seminar we hosted in Tulsa OK 16-18 July 2021.  The course was very transformative for all the students, frankly it had some of the same impactful learning experiences as Shivworks ECQC.  Eric and Aaron speak on some hard learned lessons they experienced during the weekend, lessons that audience members may learn from as well.  

Also a very important discussion was on the value of simulation and force on force training with simple blue guns.  We all loose sight of the fact that we do not have to use simunitions or UTM all the time to get value.  Blue gun work has 80-90 percent of the value and is way easier and cheeper to implement.   

Per the discussion on the show please pick up the book Safe Force on Force Firearms Simulations By Ralf Mroz

Cecil Burch is a like long martial artist training in a multitude of systems for over 40 years.  Some of the systems have been Jeet Kune Do and Filipino Martial Arts under Dan Inosanto and Paul Vunak, he has trained in Thaiboxing, western boxing, Sevate and Pentjak Silat and many more.  Currently Cecil's primary focus is Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in which he has a Black Belt under the legendary Megaton Diaz.  Furthermore Cecil is an avid shooter and is a part of the Shivworks Collective which is a scholarship of the finest minds in integrated martial arts, combining combative sports modalities with force on force stress inoculation using sims guns and training blades to pressure test those modalities.

https://www.iacombatives.com/just-like-you/

Evolution Security is Eric Davis, Aaron Davis and Brian Schilt; specializing in self-protection education, defensive pistol and carbine, consulting, and weapons based grappling.  Their mission is to help those serious about protecting themselves and their loved ones, become more capable though filtered information, recommended study, and highlighting their mentors who are the best in the field.   In addition, Eric and Aaron (twins) are musicians keeping with Musashi's adage that martial artist should focus on art outside of the martial (bumper music recorded by the brothers). 

Please subscribe and share our podcast with friends and family.  Visit our website for bios, future events and info at www.evosec.org  Like, follow and share us on Facebook and Instagram @evosecusa

Check out our awesome sponsors:

Origin/Jocko Fuel – Bringing back American manufacturing, producing the best Jiu-Jitsu Gis on the market, Jeans, rash guards, and world class supplements to help you on the path.  Use EvoSec10 at checkout for 10% off, this helps us greatly.  Origin USA - Handcrafted in America, Without Compromise. (originmaine.com)

Tenicor – www.tenicor.com  they are educators, and innovators in the holster market.  They are firearms instructors themselves, pressure testing their gear in multiple force on force events every year.  We support those who do the work.  Use the code EVOSEC at checkout for 10% off.  Again patronizing our sponsors helps us greatly.  

Todd Fox is a Protective Service professional, Marine, MMA fighter, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt under Rickson Gracie and a Weapons based environment/Tactical trainer. His Tour Training provides tactical and self protection, full spectrum security training, and stress inoculation simulation to military, Law Enforcement and Civilians. His Tour Protection Co. provides security for some of the biggest bands in the music industry. To name a few, Tool, Madonna, Coldplay, Eagles, Motley Crue, Nine Inch Nails, Gwen Steffani and more.  www.tourprotection.com

Todd is also an author, in this show the crew hits on his book: Protection for + from Humanity  The book is a very detailed field manual on protection services. The book can enable professionals in the field of protection or your average civilian interested in keep their family safe.  Please support Todd by picking up the book, from his website link above.  

Todd provides awesome insight and recommendations into protection, tactics, and techniques that will educate and enable all of us.  The EvoSec Crew then move into a much delayed segment of their accountability from the last two weeks.  

Evolution Security is Eric Davis, Aaron Davis and Brian Schilt; specializing in self-protection education, defensive pistol and carbine, consulting, and weapons based grappling.  Their mission is to help those serious about protecting themselves and their loved ones, become more capable though filtered information, recommended study, and highlighting their mentors who are the best in the field.   In addition, Eric and Aaron (twins) are musicians keeping with Musashi's adage that martial artist should focus on art outside of the martial (bumper music recorded by the brothers). 

Please subscribe and share our podcast with friends and family.  Visit our website for bios, future events and info at www.evosec.org  Like, follow and share us on Facebook and Instagram @evosecusa

Check out our awesome sponsors:

Origin/Jocko Fuel – Bringing back American manufacturing, producing the best Jiu-Jitsu Gis on the market, Jeans, rash guards, and world class supplements to help you on the path.  Use EvoSec10 at checkout for 10% off, this helps us greatly.  Origin USA - Handcrafted in America, Without Compromise. (originmaine.com)

Tenicor – www.tenicor.com  they are educators, and innovators in the holster market.  They are firearms instructors themselves, pressure testing their gear in multiple force on force events every year.  We support those who do the work.  Use the code EVOSEC at checkout for 10% off.  Again patronizing our sponsors helps us greatly.  

This week we are extremely excited to have Craig Douglas of Shivworks back on the show. Craig is the father of the real life "Fight Club" with a gun or knife. His course work Extreme Close Quarters Concepts (ECQC) has changed the lives of countless people throughout the US and around the world.

This show we change gears a bit and talk about Craig's newer Beta class Entangled Rifle Options (ERO), viability of the Carbine in Civilian defense, and the Rittenhouse shooting.  We also hit on Craig's love of clothes again and even get into some personal subjects as well.  .

For more details on Craig's course work and his class schedule please visit his website at www.shivworks.com/

Evolution Security is Eric Davis, Aaron Davis and Brian Schilt; specializing in self-protection education, defensive pistol and carbine, consulting, and weapons based grappling.  Their mission is to help those serious about protecting themselves and their loved ones, become more capable though filtered information, recommended study, and highlighting their mentors who are the best in the field.   In addition, Eric and Aaron (twins) are musicians keeping with Musashi's adage that martial artist should focus on art outside of the martial (bumper music recorded by the brothers).

Please subscribe and share our podcast with friends and family.  Visit our website for bios, future events and info at www.evosec.org  Like, follow and share us on Facebook and Instagram @evosecusa

Check out our awesome sponsors:

Origin/Jocko Fuel – Bringing back American manufacturing, producing the best Jiu-Jitsu Gis on the market, Jeans, rash guards, and world class supplements to help you on the path.  Use EvoSec10 at checkout for 10% off, this helps us greatly.  Origin USA - Handcrafted in America, Without Compromise. (originmaine.com)

Tenicor – www.tenicor.com  they are educators, and innovators in the holster market.  They are firearms instructors themselves, pressure testing their gear in multiple force on force events every year.  We support those who do the work.  Use the code EVOSEC at checkout for 10% off.  Again patronizing our sponsors helps us greatly. 

Larry Lindenman is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt and is a member of the Shivworks Collective.  The collective is a consortium of experts in multidisciplinary defensive training under the guidance of Craig Douglas, focusing on pressure testing personal tactics.  He is a former police officer, former SWAT officer, and defensive tactics expert with an education background in exercise physiology. He now focuses on teaching Jiu-Jitsu and Executive Protection as a profession.  In this episode we talk about Larry's involvement in the Total Protection Interactive Form (TPI), which was a impetus to the Collective, along with his expertise in physical fitness as it relates to the defensive paradigm.  

For more info on Larry and his company:

Point Driven Training

Instagram @pointdriventraining

Evolution Security is Eric Davis, Aaron Davis and Brian Schilt; specializing in self-protection education, defensive pistol and carbine, consulting, and weapons based grappling.  Their mission is to help those serious about protecting themselves and their loved ones, become more capable though filtered information, recommended study, and highlighting their mentors who are the best in the field.   In addition, Eric and Aaron (twins) are musicians keeping with Musashi's adage that martial artist should focus on art outside of the martial (bumper music recorded by the brothers).

Please subscribe and share our podcast with friends and family.  Visit our website for bios, future events and info at www.evosec.org  Like, follow and share us on Facebook and Instagram @evosecusa

Check out our awesome sponsors:

Origin/Jocko Fuel – Bringing back American manufacturing, producing the best Jiu-Jitsu Gis on the market, Jeans, rash guards, and world class supplements to help you on the path.  Use EvoSec10 at checkout for 10% off, this helps us greatly.  Origin USA - Handcrafted in America, Without Compromise. (originmaine.com)

Tenicor – www.tenicor.com  they are educators, and innovators in the holster market.  They are firearms instructors themselves, pressure testing their gear in multiple force on force events every year.  We support those who do the work.  Use the code EVOSEC at checkout for 10% off.  Again patronizing our sponsors helps us greatly. 

Scott "Jedi" Jedlinski of the Modern Samurai Project is a life long martial artist in TKD, Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and shooting. He is a Master class shooter in USPSA and is one of the industry leaders in the use of red dot optics (RDOs) on pistols. He is one of the most sought after instructors in this quickly evolving technology in firearms.  This episode Aaron interviews Scott in a deep dive into the Red Dot Optics and their execution on pistols.  Scott provides master class tips on how to run them effectively and provides a contrast between RDOs and iron sights putting to bed so many of the often sighted issues with the technology.  Listen and get your learn on.  

Scott has taught members of the Pentagon ERT, US Marshal's Service, NYPD Instructor Cadre, Chicago SWAT, Ohio Tactical Officers Association, and FBI National Tactical Training Unit and multiple other SWAT teams around the US and much more.   

For more information on Scott and to get into one of his sold out classes:  www.mordernsamuraiproject.com/ 

Evolution Security is Eric Davis, Aaron Davis and Brian Schilt; specializing in self-protection education, defensive pistol and carbine, consulting, and weapons based grappling.  Their mission is to help those serious about protecting themselves and their loved ones, become more capable though filtered information, recommended study, and highlighting their mentors who are the best in the field.   In addition, Eric and Aaron (twins) are musicians keeping with Musashi's adage that martial artist should focus on art outside of the martial (bumper music recorded by the brothers).

Please subscribe and share our podcast with friends and family.  Visit our website for bios, future events and info at www.evosec.org  Like, follow and share us on Facebook and Instagram @evosecusa

Check out our awesome sponsors:

Origin/Jocko Fuel – Bringing back American manufacturing, producing the best Jiu-Jitsu Gis on the market, Jeans, rash guards, and world class supplements to help you on the path.  Use EvoSec10 at checkout for 10% off, this helps us greatly.  Origin USA - Handcrafted in America, Without Compromise. (originmaine.com)

Tenicor – www.tenicor.com  they are educators, and innovators in the holster market.  They are firearms instructors themselves, pressure testing their gear in multiple force on force events every year.  We support those who do the work.  Use the code EVOSEC at checkout for 10% off.  Again patronizing our sponsors helps us greatly. 

This episode we welcome back Cecil Burch of Immediate Action Combatives -  If you want to know the secret to Jiu-Jitsu, tune into this show.  The answer is likely something you may know but it is certainly something that those serious about Jiu-Jitsu or self defense need to hear; and likely need to here often.  

In addition the crew speak with Cecil about the upcoming seminar that EvoSec is hosting in Tulsa OK.  16-18 July 2021.

Cecil Burch is a like long martial artist training in a multitude of systems for over 40 years.  Some of the systems have been Jeet Kune Do and Filipino Martial Arts under Dan Inosanto and Paul Vunak, he has trained in Thaiboxing, western boxing, Sevate and Pentjak Silat and many more.  Currently Cecil's primary focus is Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in which he has a Black Belt under the legendary Megaton Diaz.  Furthermore Cecil is an avid shooter and is a part of the Shivworks Collective which is a scholarship of the finest minds in integrated martial arts, combining combative sports modalities with force on force stress inoculation using sims guns and training blades to pressure test those modalities.

For more about Cecil and to sign up for any of his classes to include the EvoSec class in Tulsa on 16-18 July visit:

https://www.iacombatives.com/just-like-you/

Evolution Security is Eric Davis, Aaron Davis and Brian Schilt; specializing in self-protection education, defensive pistol and carbine, consulting, and weapons based grappling.  Their mission is to help those serious about protecting themselves and their loved ones, become more capable though filtered information, recommended study, and highlighting their mentors who are the best in the field.   In addition, Eric and Aaron (twins) are musicians keeping with Musashi's adage that martial artist should focus on art outside of the martial (bumper music recorded by the brothers).

Please subscribe and share our podcast with friends and family.  Visit our website for bios, future events and info at www.evosec.org  Like, follow and share us on Facebook and Instagram @evosecusa

Check out our awesome sponsors:

Origin/Jocko Fuel – Bringing back American manufacturing, producing the best Jiu-Jitsu Gis on the market, Jeans, rash guards, and world class supplements to help you on the path.  Use EvoSec10 at checkout for 10% off, this helps us greatly.  Origin USA - Handcrafted in America, Without Compromise. (originmaine.com)

Tenicor – www.tenicor.com  they are educators, and innovators in the holster market.  They are firearms instructors themselves, pressure testing their gear in multiple force on force events every year.  We support those who do the work.  Use the code EVOSEC at checkout for 10% off.  Again patronizing our sponsors helps us greatly.