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MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT FROM CONCEALED CARRY UNIVERSITY

Volume 3 is Ready.
Your Induction into the Alumni of the calm, smooth, and effective CONTINUES...

Guardian! CCU Founder Pat Kilchermann here...

As you can see I'm pretty busy at the moment,

but I've got a very important question for you and that is this:

DID YOU KNOW....

In this BRAND NEW Release, you will master:

How to ‘read’ violent people.
How to control violent people’s attention.
How to avoid arousing suspicion.
How to draw “red lines."
How to know exactly when to deploy.
How to SPOT and CREATE ‘windows.’
How to gain further combat wisdom.
How to think dynamically and act decisively.

"...Shines a light into possibly the DARKEST and MOST PAINFUL REALITY of Armed-Defense."

Guardian,

The education in 3 SECONDS FROM NOW Volume 3: WINNING THE 1-SECOND ADVANTAGE shines a bright light into possibly the darkest and most painful realities of armed self-defense:

...that in nearly 50% of all surveyed use-of-force scenarios, we will be COMPROMISED before we can even get our guns drawn.

What does that mean? It means this:

The 'classic' Concealed Carry use-of-force scenario, where you see a threat approaching and draw your gun to counter him....

... is fictional.

What is MUCH more likely?

THAT YOUR THREAT WILL WAIT TO APPROACH / ATTACK YOU UNTIL HE HAS EVERY ADVANTAGE...

...HE'LL USE THAT ADVANTAGE TO PUT YOU 'IN CHECK'...

...AND HE'LL TAKE TOTAL CONTROL OF THE SITUATION.

We sheepdogs may be tempted to think: "What?? Not me!"

But here's the thing we have to understand about violence and violent people...

(....and this is one of the most inconvenient realities about armed self-defense....)

Nobody has eyes in the back of his head.

I don't and neither do you.

Nobody is 'switched on' 100% of the time. Nobody's level of awareness is perfect.

The thing is... even the dumbest violent criminals tend to have expert-level skills where target (that's YOU) & risk assessment are concerned. In this way, their senses are as sharp as wolves.

They will not approach or attack within your cone of awareness.

They are experts. They have all week to plan their assault. They have all day. They get to choose the hour. The minute. The second.

And therefore we can know:

IF we're attacked...

...it'll be when the criminal is certain he will win.

And the thing is..?

In this kind of crime: They usually do. They usually win.

You might be thinking...

"Now wait just a minute, Pat - I thought

you taught us to Survive and WIN in EVERY scenario!"

Absolutely! Remember, it's the OTHER trainers who completely ignore this 'painful armed defense reality' and focus only on what happens after the shooting starts.

Here at CCU we are all about SOLUTIONS and EFFECTIVE preparedness.

Because this is where we can turn the tables on these guys:

Remember... criminals rarely approach and kill out right. They want something from you. They usually need you alive -- at least for the moment...

And this is where 3 SECONDS v3:

WINNING THE 1-SECOND ADVANTAGE

Swoops in to Save the Day:

As we just discussed:

When you are attacked, it will be at a moment when your attacker has a massive advantage... and when you are at your most vulnerable. That’s because the man who attacks you will have had minutes, hours, days, or even months to plan his assault against you.

When they get the drop on you, 95% of conventional armed self-defense wisdom goes flying out the window because trying to draw against a pointed gun is tactical suicide.

In those moments, we often have to make a lot of decisions very quickly – and the fate of your life will pivot on each one of them.

And yet: deadly force may be 100% necessary to save your life - you have to decide.

But how can you out-draw a drawn gun?

answer: You can’t. If you try, you will die.

In these situations, you need a (a) A WINDOW in which to safely ACT and (b) 1-second advantage over and against him. Our ‘Windows Concept of Effective Self-defense’ will teach you to SURVIVE and WIN in these critical moments.

Presenting and demonstrating this tactical reality within the context of nearly 30 gunfights and giving you this knowledge, understanding, and pyscho-tactical skillset is the sole purpose of Volume 3.

Volume 3: WINNING THE 1-SECOND ADVANTAGE.

In Volume 3, we explore, demonstrate (in the arena and through real force-situations), and discuss the differences between Reactive and Proactive violent attacks, and the 'step 1, fundamental' ways in which our immediate physical responses must change based on how you're attacked.

For Proactive situations, we show you how to leverage the Windows Concept to stay cool, stay alert, and - even when they completely get the jump on you - identify just the right moment to launch and crush your attacker by achieving a 1, 3, or 5 second advantage over him.

And for both, we educate and train you in the art of the dramatically powerful principle of PRE-POSITIONING. We guide you through how to work this into your core auto-pilot actions, and you'll see plenty of examples of how pre-positioning alone can change and save your life.

NOW YOU KNOW.

And now you know why I want to take this education & training experience and put it square into your hands and mind.

If you look below, you'll see exactly what I've done to make this your perfect opportunity to get this program at a fantastic price and with free shipping.

Good luck, cheers, and I'll see you on the inside!

- Pat

IN STOCK & READY TO SHIP.

If you already know you want this program (because, like me, you are on board for the 3 SECONDS journey - thank you!), feel free to use the blue button below to place your order.

Otherwise - please keep reading below so I can explain how

this program is going to make becoming the Guardian you want to be

as fast, cost-efficient, and self-reliant a process as possible.

Disc One - "The Education." 90 mins. "Understanding Skill." What skill IS and what it's NOT; When and why Skill matters during an engagement & when and why it doesn't matter.
Disc Two - "The Action." 3 HOURS of gunfight reviews where only skill made the difference. Which skills? They may surprise you. But I can promise it will motivate you to practice these identifiable skills regularly in your daily life.

How to ‘read’ violent people, avoid arousing suspicion, and control their attention.
What "gray lines" and “red lines" are - and how and why we need to be able to instantly draw them in a threatening situation.
How to SPOT and IDENTIFY and if all else fails, CREATE windows for drawing & action... even after a threat has got the drop on you.
Gain further combat wisdom.
Learn to think dynamically and act decisively to ensure that YOU control violence - not your attacker.

Your Price Today: $77.00

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More About...

3 SECONDS FROM NOW:

Your #1 Resource For Developing and Advancing Your Survival Abilities & Raw Efficacy as a Responsibly-Armed Guardian.

Inside the 3 SECONDS FROM NOW training series, the viewer is exposed to a series of real-life self-defense gunfights caught on tape, and these attacks are slowed down, paused, explained, and often re-created inside the Sim 'force on force' arena, so that the viewer can clearly see what went wrong (or right) and why.

Most importantly of all, these gunfight videos are curated per volume to highlight and teach on important aspects of combat dynamics, so the viewer can learn the most important lessons related to armed-defense survival and effectiveness in an easy-to-digest, chronological order.

IN SUMMARY: 3 SECONDS FROM NOW has been hailed as "the way self-defense should be taught"; "the best way to learn how to quickly rocket oneself to the upper echelons of intelligence, skill, and ability within the realm of armed defense"; "the most engaging way to learn the tenants and principles of armed self-defense and handgun fighting... from beginning, to mastery."

CCU Founder Pat Kilchermann uses the '3 SECONDS' principles of "Windows", INTENSITY, and 'Precision' to discreetly draw against a drawn gun, and then shoot the attacker 7 times, without being hit once in return.

Here's why we created and developed the the 3 SECONDS FROM NOW handgun defense training series:

Understanding that the vast majority of self-defense pistol instruction available today misses the boat on staying truly effective against the demands of REALITY, we believe educating on self-defense within the context of real-life defensive use-of-force incidents is important.
Understanding that even live Sim training simply happens too fast for the student to actually learn within, a new training method was required.
Understanding that most people who carry concealed will never be able to afford either the time or investment required to travel across the country to a premiere training school, remote-based professional training was needed.
And finally, understanding that even the best training is quickly forgotten by the body and mind without regular upkeep, this new reality-based, in-home training method had to deliver engaging, focused, important lessons to the guardian viewer a couple times per year.

Thus, 3 SECONDS FROM NOW was born.

Why "THREE SECONDS FROM NOW?"

Our research has shown that most (but not all) criminal attacks share the following commonalities:

Most attacks are 'Reactive-Based' Attacks, where the victim is surprised by the attack. (an ambush, where the criminal has waited for the your attention to be distracted before moving against you).
Most attacks are over in about 3 seconds. By this point, the victim is usually in some kind of state of submission.

And yet, even FBI statistics prove that resistance is almost always the surest way to not only survive a violent encounter, but to survive one without experiencing injury. And as people who have chosen to carry handguns concealed for self-defense, we have the potential to do a lot of good should we find ourselves in one of these situations.

However... because of the way our bodies and minds are programmed, (and as every professional trainer will warn you), during an attack, we will never 'rise to the occasion.' Instead, we will revert to our most basic level of training. Therefore: if we want to offer effective resistance and protect and preserve innocent human life in the face of a violent attacker, we must seek to elevate what is our most basic level of training.

What THREE SECONDS FROM NOW

Will Do For You.

The education you'll receive through this series brings with it these core benefits:

ACCLIMATION: You will develop a familiarity with violence, violent people, and how violent situations usually play out. You won't be stunned (or as stunned) when it explodes around you.

COMBAT WISDOM: Your senses and intuition will be educated on how you yourself, criminal adversaries, and bystanders alike react within the sphere of a violent situation.

TRAINING IN VIOLENCE AWARENESS & COMBAT RESOURCEFULNESS: You will see and learn first-hand how our immediate surroundings thoroughly dictate our responses to an attack, as the vague idea of "using your pistol in self-defense" is made plain and clear through the viewing of dozens upon dozens of real-life gunfights.

DIRECTION & GUIDANCE: You'll discover your own strengths, uncover weaknesses you weren't aware of, and you'll get a road-map for how to shore up your vulnerabilities and take your armed efficacy to the next level.

THE GREATEST LESSONS IN HANDGUN SURVIVAL / COMBAT KNOWN TO MAN: Perhaps the greatest benefit of this series is that the focus of each volume, from #1 onward, highlights as an under-current one major, critically-important lesson of both violence-survival and handgun fighting effectiveness... FOR EXAMPLE:

Volume 1: DECISIONS UNDER FIRE.

Inside Volume 1, we focus on the DECISION to use force. Certainly, like all prudent instructors, we want to make sure that we understand the gravity and implications of what it means to deploy lethal force. And we discuss this at length, showing many scenarios where lethal force WAS NOT necessary, and where an attempt to deploy it caused a victim to become an aggressor, or even to lose his or her own life.

But we also show a multitude of scenarios where lethal force absolutely was exclusively necessary to survival, and where the victim was carrying concealed, but where that victim failed to take action - either quickly enough... or at all.

Why do some hesitate? What goes into making a GOOD decision to use force? These are the questions we explore, visualize, illustrate, and answer in Volume 1: DECISIONS UNDER FIRE.

Volume 2: THE FIGHTING PRINCIPLE OF INTENSITY.

In Volume 2, we focus on the Fighting Principle of Intensity. We teach the reality that most violent attacks can be shut down and stopped much, much faster than the statistical average (and thereby drastically increasing your odds of both uninjured survival and stunning victory) if you deploy and use force in a particular way, which we refer to as "responding in self-defense with intensity."

Professionals often refer to the critical need to "+1" your attacker in order to gain any control over the situation. They are referring to the energy that he is bringing to bear against you. Match this energy or lose; Overcome this energy and win. By the end of Volume 2, you'll have seen this play out either intentionally or accidentally in countless videos. (Usually it's the criminal who attacks 'sheep' and wins immediately based on this principle, but once you're armed with this idea, you will have the education and simple skill-development road map required to +1 your attacker.)

Volume 3: WINNING THE 1-SECOND ADVANTAGE.

A Personal Note to all CCU Guardians, from Patrick Kilchermann

Friend: Let me ask you:

What would the perfect concealed carry training tool look like?

Let me tell you...

I founded the Concealed Carry University because of potentially dangerous errors I saw with much of concealed carry education, but I had no idea if there were other people out there like me… People who thirsted for truth, and who were wise enough to know they weren’t getting it from your average ‘gun blog’, YouTube channel, or gun magazine.

Well, here you are! A quick word about WHO you are:

YOUR ROLE AS A GUARDIAN

I’m ecstatic to have a virtuous group of friends and peers to travel alongside in life (and devote my life to) here in this CCU Alumni. Thank you for that.

“CCU Alumni are as diverse as their careers and passions, but are united by one desire: to feel responsible, confident and effective while going armed.”

You are rare. Based on my surveying, Guardians are between 5% and 8% of the population. Some turn toward careers in the police, the military, or in other Guardian roles such as firefighting. But most of us are spread all over the map.

CCU alumni come in the form of machinists, accountants, elementary school teachers, Broadway performers, commercial airline pilots, Naval Admiralty, field front-liners and company commanders, CEOs, CFOs, entrepreneurs, and business owners – you name it.

MY GOALS → WHERE I WANT TO LEAD YOU

If I may be direct: I want to build REAL warriors. Warriors who are beacons of virtue and pillars of strength to those around them. Warriors who are actually and efficiently capable of turning violence into peace by shutting down attacks using FORCE if required…

…and in the blessed chance that they never need to use their skills, to help guide them and walk with them in their journeys so that the martial-art-discipline of concealed carry makes them better people and improves their lives in every department.

Now I’m sure you wear many ‘hats’ in life (I am a Father and Husband before anything else), but I know that IF YOU’RE HERE, THEN warrior-hood (or being a true Guardian) is part of your calling… it IS a role that you were born to fulfill…. and I know that I can help you fill that role very well.

Many people have affirmed that the training you just invested in is your first and greatest step yet.

YOUR NEXT STEP: DEVELOP COMBAT WISDOM

As you see above:

After a career in the realm of Concealed Carry spent trying to CUT OUT every ounce of fat, fluff, myths, misconceptions and dangerous bad habits... and to find out EXACTLY and ONLY what a concealed carry warrior truly needs to know... I believe your next step is to obtain Combat Wisdom.

That's right:

Without requiring you to devote your life to the painstaking and astronomically minutea of training full time...

I want to make you Combat Wise.

...so that when the hairs begin standing up on your neck, your mouth becomes dry as a bone, and your heart dumps into 2nd gear, you have a second-nature understanding of:

WHETHER to engage.
WHEN to engage.
HOW to engage.
HOW the situation is going to play out, even before you draw.

I want you to come to the highest quality decision as quickly as possible. And when engagement is necessary… when your pistol clears its holster and you’re bringing it up to eye-level... I want your expectations and actions to be loaded with certainty and confidence:

Exactly HOW the bystanders around you will react, and how soon they’ll begin reacting.
Exactly how YOU will react before, during, and following that first shot.
Exactly HOW and WHERE to move.
Exactly HOW to shoot / apply force.
Exactly HOW to finish the fight based on your attacker’s reactions.

Knowing the answers to these questions – ALL OF THEM – are key determining factors in whether or not you are successful in a self-defense engagement, especially if your attacker’s eyes are on you the moment it becomes necessary to begin moving your hand the 10,000 mile distance to your carry position.

“The more combat wisdom you can obtain, the more clear your mind and calm your body will be once (if) violence finds you.”

“We *need* the LESSONS from combat *BEFORE* we are forced to experience combat. Catch 22? Not anymore.”

“Victorious warriors win first, and then go to battle. Defeated warriors go to battle first, and then seek to win.” – Sun Tsu, Art of War

That's right: Knowing the answers is 100% of the game. It's 100% of the challenge.

BUT KNOWING IT IN OUR MINDS DOESN'T REALLY HELP US.

Give a room of monkeys the layout of a threatening situation featuring three ex-con felons, one of whom is already wanted for murder.... and eventually they will come up with a perfect plan.

Knowing things in our minds is too slow. Fresh soldiers out of boot camp or pilot school KNOW everything.

BUT THEIR SENSES AND INTUITION ARE JUST AS UN-EDUCATED AND INEXPERIENCED AS THE DAY THEY GOT THEIR FIRST HAIRCUT.

Instead, Combat Wisdom:

is when your BODY knows the right answers.
it's when your SUBCONSCIOUS knows the right answers.
it's when your INTUITION (your sixth sense) knows the right answers.
it is PURE, SURVIVAL, INSTINCTIVE GOLD.

Once you have combat wisdom, you will know. You will understand, and you will be more calm and in control.

The Problem is This....

Until now, there has been only one way to obtain combat wisdom:

....to be in and survive enough gunfights.

But I know you can see:

This is the WORST POSSIBLE Way to Learn to Survive anything.

This would be like depriving our nation's teens of driver's ed. "Good luck... if you make it past your first two years, you're going to do great."

It would be like throwing kids out of boats to teach them to swim.

And yet…. many modern schools of thought within Concealed Carry Education tell us that until we are tested, we won’t know if we have what it takes to survive or not.

I've heard this a hundred times from people who call themselves instructors.

I hope this sounds as absurd to you as it does to me, but this attitude of “jump in head first and see if you make it” has been around for generations.

In the second World War, pilots were given as much training as could be afforded, but at the end of it all the attitude was one of, “whether you can survive your first encounter or not is anyone’s guess. You either “have it” or you don’t… good luck!”

And statistically, with every engagement that a pilot survived, the greater his odds became of surviving the next one.

Why?

Because experience allowed these lucky pilots to learn the lessons that can only be taught within the context of REAL VIOLENCE.

They learned the lessons that have to be felt. The lessons that can’t exactly be put to words.

They developed… COMBAT WISDOM.

The absurd fact of the matter that I refuse to accept for myself or my students, however, is that for many pilots, their first engagement was their last.

(NOBODY wanted to fly on a bombing mission with a brand new B17 pilot, for example. Their bunkmates didn’t even want to learn their names until after the first mission! That is how huge the odds were that they would die, and the pain of losing friends would only grow worse.)

They were sent in unprepared, in the same state in which many people carry concealed.

(Few people realize just how un-trained American bomber and fighter pilots were at the peak of the air war in Europe, in 1943.

Many of the top pilots had fewer than 30 hours of air time over the continent; the vast majority had, at the time of their first engagement, fewer than 10 hours in the aircraft model they were flying! It's no wonder so many got chewed up.

But I do NOT want this for you.)

“Without Combat Wisdom, our survival depends mostly on luck."

WE CANNOT AFFORD TO CARRY

WITH THIS ‘CAN I SURVIVE? WAIT AND SEE!’ ATTITUDE.

We have families and friends and roles in life that depend on us. We enjoy life too much, and to reduce a good life to the chew-toy of a wolf is a waste, and it is unjust.

WE NEED COMBAT WISDOM… BEFORE COMBAT FINDS US.

We should be unwilling to accept anything less than obtaining as much real combat wisdom in advance as we can. And taking you into the beating heart of REAL GUNFIGHTS and giving you this wisdom is my primary goal from this point forward – now that you’ve ‘graduated’ from The Armed American’s Complete Concealed Carry Guide to Effective Self-Defense.

So… HOW CAN WE DEVELOP COMBAT WISDOM?

4 years ago, I really, truly believed that putting you within a series of Force-on-Force scenarios was going to be the ‘secret sauce’. I first became certified in Simunition™ Safety and Scenario creation back in 2011, and now I’m one of the few private individuals to own a collection of Sim™ pistols, rifles, safety gear, and thousands of rounds of Sim™ ammo.

(In fact, at one time I was told after another $30,000 round of purchases that mine was the largest private collection of this top-notch training gear! in the nation!)

“Pat gaining the initiative on an already-drawn gun, and putting 6 shots on target while gaining distance and without getting hit. Sim training is incredible, but I have discovered that it is NOT THE BEST WAY to gain COMBAT WISDOM…”

My plan was to develop three force-on-force training academies across the country where people like you could come and be thrown into REAL WORLD threatening scenarios featuring trained actors. I even had some investors on the line!

But here’s one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned after spending a fortune on this equipment: gunfights (real or simulated) are simply too fast-paced to learn within!

They kick off and then they are OVER - usually before your mind can catch up with the reality of the scenario.

(And the more skilled and experienced your THREAT is... the FASTER it will be over!)

At that moment you learn

a potentially very painful reality:

You either already know what to do

and you do it and win...

...or you don’t know what to do,

and you lose.

And so I’ve learned through experience that it is the down time I spend reviewing and analyzing other gunfights in which the most important skills I have, improve.

THIS is how I develop combat wisdom. It has to percolate following observation or experience.

And that leads me to an announcement possibly even more exciting than the release of my Complete Concealed Carry Guide all those years ago… The announcement of a brand new educational tool that I hope to see completely revolutionize the way we responsibly armed Guardians develop ourselves and keep ourselves sharp.

THE REAL ANSWER TO

OBTAINING COMBAT WISDOM… BEFORE COMBAT:

I believe I have come up with a solution to this problem.

A method of obtaining a necessary degree of Combat Wisdom so that we have it with us when that day comes.
A way for us to educate our senses and sharpen our decision-making abilities.
A responsible and balanced way for us to become acquainted with violence and violent people, so that we’re not stunned into submission should we ever encounter them face to face – but instead, can react appropriately and justifiably.

This concept and educational tool that I’ve come up with is one that’s so simple, so rational, and so effective that I cannot believe it hasn’t existed for decades.

But: Now it does. And this is something I want every single one of my students and CCU Alumni to experience; bar none.

And once you expose yourself to this brand new tool, I believe you will agree with me: absolutely everyone who carries a concealed handgun for self-defense should receive this education and training.

Since its launch, the 3 SECONDS FROM NOW series has been an instant hit. Adopted and appreciated by private citizens and professional warriors alike, it has helped to frame defensive violence within the right mindset for thousands of diligent students seeking to improve their understanding of and odds against facing motivated criminals.