Extreme Close Quarters Concepts (ECQC) - Salt Lake City, UT

New for 2025.
Your training scenarios will be recorded, and the video will be provided for your future review to help develop your training.
You will also be granted 3 months of access to our online community, where we post lost additional content.
All times are local for the training location.
Location: https://maps.app.goo.gl/dfTc8rjydDf9WGCF7
There will be a $50 dollar range fee for using the facility to be paid in Cash on the day of the training.
What is ECQC?
Extreme Close Quarter Concepts (ECQC) course is the flagship Shivworks Course and takes place over 2.5 days with a total of 24 training hours. Instruction is given on functional handgun skills from zero to five feet, a unique problem requiring an interdisciplinary approach. Provided is a template for what we feel are the best practices between verbal and physical skills to avoid, stabilize, and resolve a life-threatening situation within the context of the criminal assault paradigm while armed. After developing new skills, everyone validates the skills through an unscripted evolution. Evolutions are competitive, non-consensual force-on-force experiences using marking cartridges and protective equipment.
**The first four hours of day two and three are live fire training. You can train from concealment or overtly outside the waistband; neither choice will impact the quality of your training experience. You must be able to safely and competently deploy/shoot/manipulate your firearm. This is not a pistol 101 course, and a lack of basic weapons handling skills will result in you being asked to step off the firing line. **
Topics
Criminal Assault Paradigm: the reality of violent crimes against people and the trends commonly observed
Managing Unknown Contacts: a template to improving social literacy and navigate public space
Adapted presentation: functionalizing the pistol draw stroke for real-world space
Thumb Pectoral Index: Proper pistol retention shooting and diminishment
Appropriate Extension: Avoiding an unnecessary weapon retention problem
Grounded Weapon Fights: An efficient template to get to your feet, a weapon, or something between the two
Weapon Retention, Recovery, Disarm: Splitting attention and the impact of conversation on motor-skill, in-holster/out holster gun problems
Full Spectrum Evolution: realistic problem solving with the possibility of multiple threats
Please bring the following items with you to class:
- Quality holster
- Handgun, 220 rounds of ammunition
- Safety glass, ear protection
- Comfortable clothes
- Mouthpiece and cup
- Preferred carry knives
- Trainer knives (if you have them)
A Shivworks course is a significant investment of time and money – not only for the participant but also for the hosts and the instructors. Courses fill fast, and unexpected cancellations significantly strain our niche bespoke program. Therefore, we have a strict refund policy for every course. If you have enrolled in a class and later cannot make it, please contact us immediately.
*Payment installment option - you may provide a deposit to secure your spot and split the cost into two payments; however, the deposit is not refundable. The final payment will be due one day before the start of the course. **
More than 30 Days Before Class
If a student cancels more than 30 days before a class, that student’s tuition will be refunded in full.
30 Days Before Class
If a student cancels anywhere between 10 and thirty days before class, that student’s tuition is not refundable. However, the tuition can be applied to another Shivworks class. This tuition credit must be used within 18 months of the original class date, or it is forfeited.
10 days Before Class
If a student cancels ten days (or less) before a class, that student’s tuition is forfeited and cannot be applied to any other class.
Shivworks Cancellations
If Craig Douglas has to cancel a class for any reason, all students enrolled in that class will receive full refunds.
Relevant Feedback
The course material was eye opening, and is something that no other instructor can teach as well and thoroughly as Mr. Douglas and Mr. Frias. Very detailed, very thorough and safe material, and all of it coalesced together into a system and framework that I will be using for the rest of my life. I will most definitely take this course again the next time Mr. Douglas is teaching in Florida. Very grateful for this to have been my first formal training course
Instructors
Brian Frias
Craig Douglas
Contact us
- Brian Frias
- br••••s@gma••••l.com
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Classifications
Categories
- Extreme Close Quarters Concepts ECQC
Age Groups
- All