Hey, Brian Jones...

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Bwilson

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I was reviewing some of the pics up in the sticky and noticed that you know C.J. Carracci. I had a law enforcement tactics class with him at Eastern Michigan University back in 1997 (maybe 1998) and he is a class act. Eastern somehow persuaded him to teach a class while he was in the area training various S.W.A.T teams. The greatest thing about it was Eastern imposed all of these restrictions on him (what he could and couldn't do, etc..) and he completely ignored all of them. He wanted to teach rappelling off the side of one of the buildings on campus (Eastern said no) so we all "volunteered" to come in on a saturday to do it anyway. He wanted to take everyone to the range so they could shoot "full auto" weapons (Eastern said no) so we again "volunteered" to come in on a saturday and do it anyway. As a side note, I don't know much about you personally, but my money would have to be on Mr. Carracci in the "duel" in the picture.
 
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Chris is a good friend and mentor, and has taught me much over the years. You can bet on him being the likely winner there, unless I could sneak in a JDAM strike on him without tipping him off. ;) However, he'd probably just use the shock wave to bounce off a rock and come back at me with the hawk at supersonic speed, like a WWE wrestler bouncing off the ropes in a ring. :p :D

Sounds like you had fun with him at Eastern. Chris was not just being defiant. He will only teach what works, and knows that only perfect practice makes perfect. To compromise would mean possibly compromising the lives of his students and those they may need to protect. Unfortunately, academics and politicians alike make rules in a vacuum, having long ago lost touch with reality.
 
I agree totally. He even told everyone in the class "look, you don't have to attend (on saturdays) but I think this stuff is important and I'm going to teach what I think is important. Class act. The stories alone were worth the cost of the class.
Here's a funny one from class. He was teaching some H2H stuff and a BIG wrestler from Eastern said "that crap don't work in a street fight". Chris said, I'm not telling you that you will be able to leave this class tonight or in 3 months and be able to use these techniques successfully, but they do work if you practice them and study them. He then told the BIG wrestler to come at him full force and try to hit him or do whatever he would do in a street fight. The wrestler half-azzed it over and slapped Chris in the face. Chris never moved and told the wrestler, look you're not going to hurt me, come at me like you mean it. The wrestler came at him A LOT more aggressively and Chris put the guy on the mat in about 2 seconds and had him whining like my daughter when I won't give her a cookie for dinner - it was priceless.
 
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