Dave Young - Specialized Training & Tactics

Specialized Training & Tactics
with Dave Young

Dave Young writes on a diverse topics dealing with crowd management, chemical and specialty impact munitions, protocol and selection of gear and munitions, ground defense tactics, and water-based defensive tactics.

Defensive tactics training that simulates real life - 02/02/2010 Comments

8 questions to ask before your next holster purchase - 07/02/2008 Comments

Survival checklist: Improvised and unconventional weapons - 05/27/2008

Five training targets every department can hit - 04/23/2008

Defending yourself from being choked - 11/01/2007

Fitness training for law enforcement - 08/26/2007

Checklist: Waterproofing your gear - 07/12/2007

Marking weapons for training - 06/12/2007

How well do your handcuffs really work? - 05/25/2005

Lessons Learned: Pepper-sprayed California protesters awarded $1 each by jury - 05/04/2005

Where have all the batons gone? - 04/01/2005 Comments

Holster safety! - 03/28/2005

The Atlanta Courtroom Murders: Who is to blame? - 03/14/2005

Waterborne Tactics: Do you have a plan? - 12/16/2004

Definition and explanation of less-lethal - 11/29/2004

The Boston Incident: Understanding non-lethal technology - 11/16/2004

Tip: Get the most out of your protective training gear - 02/22/2010

Tip: Mastering the shield - 05/12/2009

Tip: Does your gear protect you? - 04/21/2009

Tip: Mini-team entry strategies - 10/13/2008

Tip: Deployment tactics for batons on line - 08/04/2008

Tip: Edged weapons defense - 07/07/2008

Tip: Deployment tactics for 'DD' accuracy - 06/27/2008

Tip: Baton carries: A visual deterrent - 06/23/2008

Tip: Using ridged cuffs as a control device - 06/16/2008

Tip: Rear choke awareness - 06/09/2008

Tip: Front choke awareness - 06/02/2008

Tip: Edged weapons defense for close quarter attacks - 05/28/2008

Tip: Edged weapons defense for close quarter attacks - 05/13/2008

Tip: Blocking the mount - 04/28/2008

Tip: Specialty impact munitions training drills - 02/19/2008

Tip: Using the 'shoulder lock' - 02/08/2008

Tip: Establishing goals and testing during training - 10/04/2007

Tip: Training with protective masks — simulating visual impairments - 08/23/2007

Tip: The importance of using a protective mask - 07/23/2007

Tip: Chemical aerosol deployment - 06/21/2007

Tip: Preventing chokes - 06/17/2007

Tip: Saving your eyes from contaminants

- 06/05/2007

Tip: The "sit and step-through" technique - 05/05/2006

Tip: Accessing your weapons during a ground attack - 04/28/2006

Tip: Delivering powerful strikes from the ground - 04/07/2006

Tip: Fighting from the ground up - 03/24/2006

Tip: Escaping from a suspect's leg wrap - 03/10/2006

Dave Young is the Founder and Director of ARMA, now part of the PoliceOne Training Network. He is also the Chairman of PoliceOne.com Advisory Board, and a training advisor for CorrectionsOne.com. Dave graduated from his first law enforcement academy in 1985, and now has over 25 years of combined civilian and military law enforcement and training experience.

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