Shivworks - Craig Douglas - ECQC
2026-04-10 18:00 - 2026-04-12 20:00 (America/Chicago) | MeadHall Range, 2181 S Blackberry Dr, Mcloud, OK, 74851, United States
Extreme Close Quarters Concepts – Meadhall Range Oklahoma
You do not need any prior experience with martial arts or you must only be able to safely draw, fire, and holster your pistol.

Your training scenarios will be recorded, and the video will be made available for your future review to help you develop your training.
You will also be granted 3 months of access to our online community, where we post lots of additional content.

Topics
Criminal Assault Paradigm: the reality of violent crimes against people and the trends commonly observed
Managing Unknown Contacts: a template for improving social literacy and navigating public space
Adapted presentation: functionalizing the pistol draw stroke for real-world space
Thumb Pectoral Index: Proper pistol retention, shooting, and diminishment
Appropriate Extension: Avoiding an unnecessary weapon retention problem
Grounded Weapon Fights: An efficient template to get to your feet, a weapon, or something between the two
Weapon Retention, Recovery, Disarm: Splitting attention and the impact of conversation on motor-skill, in-holster/out-of-holster gun problems
Full Spectrum Evolution: realistic problem solving with the possibility of multiple threats

Extreme Close Quarter Concepts (ECQC) course is the flagship Shivworks Course and takes place over 2.5 days with a total of 24 training hours. Instruction is given on functional handgun skills from zero to five feet, a unique problem requiring an interdisciplinary approach. Provided is a template for what we feel are the best practices between verbal and physical skills to avoid, stabilize, and resolve a life-threatening situation within the context of the criminal assault paradigm while armed. After developing new skills, everyone validates the skills through an unscripted evolution. Evolutions are competitive, non-consensual force-on-force experiences using marking cartridges and protective equipment.
You do not need any martial arts or combative experience to attend this course. You only need the ability to safely deploy your handgun from the holster.
**The first four hours of day two and three are live fire training. You can train from concealment or overtly outside the waistband; neither choice will impact the quality of your training experience. You must be able to safely and competently deploy/shoot/manipulate your firearm. This is not a pistol 101 course, and a lack of basic weapons handling skills will result in you being asked to step off the firing line. **
Please bring the following items with you to class:

Quality holster
Handgun, 220 rounds of ammunition
Safety glass, ear protection
Comfortable clothes
Mouthpiece and cup

All times are local for the training location.
There is a $75.00 range fee for the weekend, due in cash on Friday evening. Please have that ready to remit before we start class.
Location:
Here is the location for the class. It is outdoors plan accordingly. We will be at the location all weekend.
Meadhall Range: 2181 Blackberry Dr, McLoud, OK 74851
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***Cancellations***
A Shivworks course is a significant investment of time and money – not only for the participant but also for the hosts and the instructors. Courses fill up quickly, and unexpected cancellations significantly strain our niche, bespoke program. Therefore, we have a strict refund policy for every course. If you have enrolled in a class and are unable to attend, please contact us immediately.
**Payment installment option – You may provide a deposit to secure your spot and split the cost into two payments; however, the deposit is non-refundable. **The final payment is due one day prior to the start of the course. **
More than 30 Days Before Class
If a student cancels more than 30 days before a class, that student’s tuition will be refunded in full.
30 Days Before Class
If a student cancels anywhere between 10 and thirty days before class, that student’s tuition is not refundable. However, the tuition can be applied to another Shivworks class. This tuition credit must be used within 18 months of the original class date, or it is forfeited.
10 days Before Class
If a student cancels ten days (or less) before a class, that student’s tuition is forfeited and cannot be applied to any other class.

Shivworks Cancellations
If
Craig Douglas
has to cancel a class for any reason, all students enrolled in that class will receive full refunds.

Immediate Action Combatives - Cecil Burch - Grappling for Self- Defense in a Weapons Based Environment
2026-06-19 19:00 - 2026-06-21 19:00
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Real World Application of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Wrestling, and Boxing in a Weapon-Based-Environment (WBE)
Contrary to popular belief, many empty hand fights and those involving weapons, end up entangled, either standing or on the ground. No amount of pontificating or self-proclaimed “expert” posturing will change this simple fact. If you ignore this reality, you may very well find yourself in a situation you cannot handle with disastrous consequences. This course is designed to give the layman a realistic and functional set of concepts, techniques, methodologies, training drills and experiences that will prepare them for a worst case grappling scenario. All techniques and concepts are high percentile applications which span a wide spectrum of confrontations. Training consists of presentation, drilling and Force-On-Force evolutions providing attendees with immediate feedback regarding the efficacy of the skills learned. The goal of this course is not to create a “ground fighter” or grappler. The objective is to provide attendees who have limited training time and resources with solid ground survival and escape fundamentals geared toward the increasingly violent weapon based environments they may live, work and/or travel within. And all techniques/concepts are from Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Wrestling, and Boxing and are combat proven over the past 80 years by thousands and thousands of practitioners, including the U.S. Army.
• These methods are for everyone regardless of physical condition – young, old, male, female, athlete or not – You DO NOT have to be a professional fighter to perform at a functional level. This will be a class about physical training, but it is NOT boot camp. Participants may go at the pace that is comfortable for them, while trying to push the envelope of their own individual performance.
• Requirements: loose, comfortable but durable clothes, mouthpiece, cup, notebook, and an open mind. Boxing or MMA gloves are strongly encouraged, but are not mandatory. Blue Guns and matched holsters, and training knives are a good idea, but there will be loaners available.
Surviving/defending/escaping from the bottom
Getting back to your feet / staying upright
Defending against strikes on the ground or clinch
Denying the attacker weapon access – understanding technique, positional hierarchy, and timing
Proper role of “dirty tactics”
Multiple opponents
Essential training principles, methods, and drills
Underlying concepts and mindset for the clinch in a self-defense context
Dealing with the sucker punch/ambush
Fundamentals of the clinch
Controlling the entanglement
Disengaging and making distance for escape, weapons access or orientation reset
Performance coaching and troubleshooting
Structuring and balancing your training for a real world lifestyle
About Cecil Burch
Cecil Burch has been training functional Martial Arts for over forty years. He has studied many different arts and systems and has held numerous teaching credentials in a number of them, including multiple Filipino, Indonesian, modern eclectic street fighting/combatives arts, and many of the combat sports.
While he got his first training in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu in 1989 and spent time at Rickson Gracie’s gym in 1993, he began a dedicated study in 1994 with Megaton Dias. Cecil is currently a 3rd degree black belt under Megaton and has competed extensively, including the 2015 Pan-American Championships (silver medal – black belt), 2013 Masters World Championships (bronze medal as black belt), etc.
Cecil has also been a firearms enthusiast all his life. He went through his first NRA course at the age of twelve, and shot competitive skeet leagues. In 1987 he took the General Pistol class at Gunsite under Jeff Cooper and Louis Awerbuck, and he has trained extensively with SouthNarc in multiple classes (including assisting Craig in many of them), Larry Vickers, Mike Pannone, Ernest Langdon, Tom Givens, and Pat McNamara, among others. He has also competed in many different types of firearm competitions.
Cecil has travelled extensively and conducted seminars across the U.S. as well as internationally and has been a featured presenter at many tactical/defense oriented conferences including many times at Rangemaster Polite Society Conference and has worked extensively with Law Enforcement officers, Federal Air Marshals, military special operation troops, and private citizens on the functional utilization of Brazilian Jiu-jitsu, boxing, and clinch work in close quarters combat and how they can be integrated with a weapons based environment

There is a $75 range fee for the three days payable to Meadhall on Friday at the beginning of the course
