For those that don't know yet, there is an Urban Escape and Evasion course coming to town next week Mar 26-28, 2015.

The class will involve both class work and field work.  The class work will be at the facility, and the field work will be in various locations around downtown.  The field exercise will be conducted in downtown Dallas on Saturday, and we will finish there around 5:00 pm.

Equipment needed is minimal.  You should bring casual clothing that will not draw undue attention in the city. Rain gear is a good idea.  Bring a notebook and paper.  We will provide all other equipment as needed.

Please be advised that upon entering the training facility, you will be entering a "safe-house in a foreign country", and the enemy will have surveillance in effect at all times.  

Meet  Thursday morning in the lobbby, beginning at 7:30 am. We will run until 5:00 pm that evening.  You will be assigned tasks which will require additional time (usually a couple of hours) into the evening after class to hone your new skills.

Friday's schedule will be the same:  7:30 am to 5:00 pm, with additional exercises out in the city well into the evening hours. Keeping an attitude that you are in dangerous, hostile, or permissive territory all the time you're in the training city will make the training that much more effective.

Saturday's exercise will begin at 8:30 am and involve putting your new skills and mindsets to the test in a real-life scenario lasting most of the day until around 5:00 pm.  You will be "kidnapped":  hooded, cuffed and taken somewhere dark and uncomfortable to start your day. You will be expected to escape, find your own transportation legally using your social engineering skills, and make your way to the first cache location, where directions for a series of tasks using all your new skills await.

Meanwhile, expert trackers will be hunting you down, and if they catch you, you will have to start again from a more distant location.

Discussion and debriefing will be held after the formal exercise, so any flights out Saturday night should be scheduled no earlier than 8:00 pm.

Be advised, therefore, that this training is demanding physically, emotionally and intellectually.  You can plan on walking around the city at least six miles by the end of the course. You may also experience a high degree of stress that you will be expected to manage successfully. In addition to hands-on skills learned in class, there will be long hours of absorbing as much lectured subject matter as possible, some of which may be disturbing in content, as self defense and self preservation are the core topics covered in this course.

In essence, you will be learning how to save your own life and others' lives in an urban environment.  We hope you become an expert in, but will never have to implement these skills!

We will also have some items used in the class available for sale.

Original Thread

They're giving away a free seat in the class- go to e other thread.

That would absolutely be my luck.

 

I will say this is pretty interesting concept popping up in training communities for general consumption. I want to take another high threat driving course.

Chas- this is a training class. For two days they teach you various techniques to escape from restraints and evade detection and capture, with emphasis on urban environments (versus other courses that deal with survival in deserts or jungles).

On the third day they have an exercise where you put everything you learned to the test. You start off "kidnapped" (handcuffed, hooded, etc) so no there is no resistance, this is merely the starting point for the exercise. Your goal is to escape and then reach various locations without detection. I would suspect you are stripped of personal belongings such as wallets, money, phones, etc. The goal is to be able to improvise communications, transportation, etc while being careful to remain out of sight and not draw any undue attention to yourself.

Imagine yourself being in a foreign country when you are illegally detained by terrorists, a corrupt government, drug lords, etc. your job is going to be to be able to get to a U.S. embassy or cross a border without being caught. You may not speak the language or know anyone, you have no money, phone, credit cards or ID. You may not know who the bad guys are.  

The whole class is meant to be educational with practical exercises.

Missing out on a great course, and the best is yet to come.
Posted an update on the original thread, but tomorrow is the final exercise: SPOT THE ARFCOMMERS!

Finally posted my summary of the course in original thread.
For anyone that missed it, I definitely recommend it.