Just finished my second ECQC, and I am sunburnt, dehydrated, tired, sore, and mildly shot up with sim guns. What a great time.
There is already a ton of information out there on this course-which has evolved slowly and constantly over something like 16 years, so I won't add another verbose, birds-eye overview. Here's the deal, IMHO, on ECQC: this is the best open course–not funded by taxpayers–extant for Joe and Jane citizen looking for ideas and tools to mitigate up close, sudden, violent, human-on-human predation—including weapons–that I've personally seen.
Those that have taken ECQC already know this. Those that haven't should once again give the idea some thought, as they can and are able.
This class is to serious students of interpersonal self-defense what taking a line of coke off a dick is to an unrepentant junkie. No better way to spend a Saturday.
Plus, the people that show up for a course like this (hard work) are very high-quality humans, as a rule, from all walks of life. I'll be back for another round next year.
That is all.
Ps. Craig is a rock-solid guy, and instructor.
Pps. I ran the course with a J-frame: it really wasn't all that much more work, so long as you have a reloading block and a ton of speedloaders.
Ppps. I also learned that there is such a thing as Mil-Spec (Navy strength) gin. Move over Springfield Armory.
Pppps. If you're older like me, having a spouse that's willing to talk to you in soothing tones while she rubs Neosporin on charred, leaking .355 and .357 holes from sim rounds that broke the skin (.38 sims will burn your sweatshirt on contact, just so you know) at night is a definite bonus.
Ppppps. Jiu-Jitsu is a thing. Not the thing, but most def a thing.