NRA Personal Protection
Outside The Home
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 Basic Level: 8 hours (one day)
Advanced Level: 6 hours (one
day)
Class Description
Class Schedule
How to Apply
Personal
Protection Outside The Home (PPOH) is the course you
take after
Personal Protection In The Home.
Because the real world is infinitely more complex outside your
home than inside it, this course is divided into two classes:
Basic Level and Advanced Level. It's not that one class is
"harder" than the other. In practice the two classes flow
together naturally, one into the other. After you've completed
the Basic Level class you're ready for the Advanced Class. Just as you would expect, the Advanced Level class builds on and develops
techniques we teach you in the Basic Level. So the ideal is for you
to start with the Basic Level
of Personal Protection Outside The Home and go forward to the Advanced
Level.
 Like Personal Protection In The Home,
Personal Protection Outside The Home is designed and intended for
ordinary, decent, people who want to go about their normal lives
and live peacefully without
becoming warriors. Our
students do not look for trouble and they try to avoid or evade it
but if trouble happens they are well prepared to prevail.
 We don't
want you to
become a fantasy warrior or an aggressive person and that's not
what we teach you in class. You won't grapple, strike, or be struck by other
people in our classes.
We don't involve our students in hand-to-hand combat. We make effective
personal protection available to people who are unable
or unwilling to use physical strength, agility, and might to
defend their lives—including women, the elderly or mature,
businesspeople, teachers, doctors and nurses, lawyers, and other
professionals.
We help you learn how to protect yourself in the real world just
as you are.
E-mail us now to attend a Personal Protection
class.
Please include your telephone number so we can call to
prequalify you for the class, determine your needs, and answer
your questions.
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Class Description
 Our main focus
in Personal Protection Outside The Home is on how you can make effective use of a concealed handgun to protect
yourself and your family on the street, on the road, in malls
and stores, in parking lots, and elsewhere other than in your
own home.
In South Carolina and many other states the laws that apply to
self defense are different on the streets than in the home. We
explain and teach you to apply the concepts of opportunity,
ability, jeopardy, and preclusion that you must
understand and articulate if you are to know whether a
potentially deadly situation on the streets justifies your use
of a firearm to defend your life. We teach you how to use
your mind first.
 In anticipation of a life-threatening event we teach you a variety of concealment techniques and devices
(some of which may surprise you and catch assailants unprepared), how to draw your handgun into
action for immediately effective self defense, and how to seek cover and concealment outdoors.
We build on the techniques we taught you in
Personal Protection
In The Home and add many other useful techniques and skills.
Nothing is lost, nothing is discarded, nothing is wasted. What
we teach is essential for civilians—for ordinary people
regardless of sex, age, or physical abilities. We teach you as
you are.
 We
teach that your gun is
your last resort and your last best chance to stay alive, not the first
or only
tool in your toolbox. We'll give you multiple tools and teach
you the skills to use them. We'll teach you to how to identify
potential trouble how to avoid or evade it. We'll show you
common pre-attack indicators: what to look for and how to look
for it. We'll demonstrate what to do if you see those
pre-attack indicators. We'll involve you in "shoot/no shoot"
scenarios that include police training videos.
 We'll teach you how to stop an attack you couldn't avoid or evade. Our innovative
version of the NRA's basic Personal Protection Outside The Home course includes presentation and movement, point shooting, instinctive shooting, low-light shooting, engaging multiple targets, and one-hand shooting.
These skills and others we'll teach you in Personal Protection Outside The Home form the core
shooting skills
you need to counter a life-threatening attack outside your home.
We greatly enhance the NRA course. In our enhanced Personal
Protection Outside The Home classes you'll learn to "get off the
X" and how to do it. We'll teach you how to interfere with your attacker's
decision
loop, take the initiative, and win. You'll shoot at multi
dimensional targets while you're moving and learn to hit those
targets effectively. We prepare you for the reality you might
actually encounter outside your home.
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Personal Protection Outside The Home:
Basic Level
 Our Personal Protection Outside The Home (Basic Level) class covers presentation from a concealed holster or purse,
how to find and take cover and concealment in the streets, how
to shoot from various kinds of cover and concealment (such as
behind vehicles, doorways, trees, curbs, hydrants, and other
street features), how to shoot one-handed and weak handed, and
how to point shoot effectively.
Personal Protection Outside The Home:
Advanced Level
/ Defensive Handgun
 Our Personal Protection Outside The Home (Advanced Level)
course is also available as Defensive Handgun when
taken outside the NRA's Personal Protection sequence. It's available
to qualified students whose experience allows them to benefit
from an intensive fast track class without the previous NRA
Personal Protection instruction.
Defensive Handgun / Personal Protection Outside The Home
(Advanced Level) includes shooting while moving, shooting from low cover, shooting from sitting, turning,
and prone positions such as from behind a curb or a car,
shooting in low light, and so-called "hip-shooting" or shooting
when the bad guy is within bad breath distance and close enough to touch you.
This class is one to take more than once.
 When you take this advanced class in the NRA Personal Protection
sequence we award you the NRA certificate. When you
take the class as Defensive Handgun you earn our certificate.
Together, the two parts of our
Personal Protection Outside The Home course focus on major
topics you'll really use if the need to defend yourself on
the street arises. We explain and
demonstrate them in the classroom before you experience
them on the range. Among the major classroom topics include:
-
 Strategies for Personal Safety Outside the Home
- Carrying a Concealed Handgun and Presenting from Concealment
- Developing Basic Defensive Shooting Skills
- Developing Concealed Carry Skills
- Self-Defense and the Law
The entire course (both classes) totals about fourteen hours of classroom and range instruction
on two separate days.
The Advanced Level takes place in one afternoon entirely on the shooting range
with no classroom component. You learn as you shoot.
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Class Schedule
We schedule Personal Protection Outside The Home classes in the
Columbia, SC, area as there is demand. E-mail us if you want
to take a Personal Protection Outside The Home class even if you
prefer a date not yet on our schedule. We add classes from time
to time as circumstances permit.
Here are the currently scheduled Personal Protection Outside The Home
/ Defensive Handgun
classes.
How to Apply
E-mail us now to attend a Personal Protection
/ Defensive Handgun
class.
Please include your telephone number so we can call to
prequalify you for the class, determine your needs, and answer
your questions.
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