I have attended a class with Rob Pincus as part of his Personal Defense Network Tour every year since about 2015 except for the COVID debacle of 2020. I have taken Intuitive Defensive Shooting, Intuitive Defensive Carbine and Advanced Pistol Handling multiple times. I have also attended Armed Defense Around Vehicles, Extreme Close Quarters Tactics, and Armed Home Defense Tactics. I am a Defensive Firearms Couch and Intuitive Defensive Shooting Instructor with his I.C.E Training company. However I had never attended or even seen the entirety of his Two Person Armed Defense curriculum. When he told me he wanted to teach it during his tour stop, here in Iowa, I was looking forward to attending.
The context of TPAD was to not turn students into mini two person SWAT teams but to help them use the 3 C of team tactics to better communicate with other responsible gun owners during the aftermath of a potential self defense situation.
The 3 C's
Coordination ( The plan)
Communication ( What you see, What you need)
Cooperation ( Finding work and filling in the gaps)
This was not a shooting class per se. We did start out the day doing some standard IDS drills so Rob could ascertain the base level of shooting competence of the class. The focus was on the processing of information and the communication piece post shooting.
The advantage to having an additional person is obviously having someone else that is able to process information that you may not be able to do as an individual. We slowly ramped up the dynamic nature of the drills throughout the day. Slowly adding more and more complexity to the drills. The drills themselves were not complicated. Basic Move, Shoot and Communicate however the complexity went from individual engagement to team engagement, communication etc..
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