Defense After Dark

Description

Your training stops at the edge of the light. Most attacks don’t.

The crimes most likely to force you to defend yourself — robberies, burglaries, and vehicle offenses — happen disproportionately after dark. Yet almost all of our practice happens on a bright range lane in the middle of the afternoon.

And when shooters do get low-light instruction, most of it traces back to law-enforcement doctrine developed in the 1990s and 2000s: officers working in teams, clearing buildings, carrying duty gear, following department policy. That doctrine was never designed for one person alone in a parking lot with a concealed handgun and a single light.

Defense After Dark takes what the current generation of instructors has pressure-tested and rebuilds low-light defense from the ground up for the armed citizen.

What you’ll be able to do when you’re finished

• Evaluate any light — handheld, weapon-mounted, or rifle-mounted — on the attributes that actually matter in the dark, not the number printed on the box
• Understand photonic barriers and how darkness, shadow, and light shape what you and an attacker can see
• Use your light to gather information while denying it to an adversary, instead of spotlighting yourself
• Apply handheld and weapon-mounted techniques, and know when each one is the right call
• Run structured dry-fire and live-fire low-light drills that transfer to real environments
• Make faster decisions from first detection through identification to engagement or disengagement

What’s inside

Five modules. 23 lessons.

• Module 1 — Why this matters: theory of use, when and where low-light skills apply, and why dry fire is the foundation
• Module 2 — Understanding the equipment: handheld, weapon-mounted, and rifle-mounted light attributes, features, selection, care, and troubleshooting
• Module 3 — The power of light: photonic barriers, why candela beats raw lumens, and controlling information with your beam
• Module 4 — Use & techniques: practical handheld and weapon-mounted technique, comingling both, and choosing between them
• Module 5 — Scenarios & drills: dark parking lot encounters, leaving a store with your hands full, identifying threats through photonic barriers, and the Apache Solutions low-light challenge drill

Who it’s for

Beginners who have never had formal low-light instruction and want a safe, structured starting point — and experienced shooters and instructors whose low-light training is a few years old and due for an update. This course respects what you already know, then shows you why current approaches have moved on from it.

Your instructors

Dan Brady is a career law-enforcement officer with more than 25 years of service and over 20 years as a firearms instructor. For the past six years he’s been part of the instructor cadre at Apache Solutions Firearms Training, building curriculum specifically for the armed citizen. He is widely recognized in the civilian training community as a subject-matter expert in defensive white light.

Riley Bowman is Director of Training at ConcealedCarry.com, host of the Concealed Carry Podcast, a USPSA Grand Master, and a multi-division Colorado State Champion with hundreds of hours of formal instruction under the industry’s top trainers.

What’s included

• Lifetime access — no subscription, no recurring fees
• Stream on any internet-connected device: phone, tablet, or laptop
• Pause, rewind, and retake as many times as you want
• Closed captioning on every lesson
• Printable certificate of completion for your training binder
• Email support from our Colorado-based team, escalated to the instructor when needed

60-day money-back guarantee

Go through the course. If you don’t find it valuable, contact our Colorado-based support team within 60 days for a full refund. (Refunds forfeit access to the course, certificate, and any Guardian Gold earned.)