Phoenix Fitness & Performance
2026 Firearms Training Classes
Tactical Mastery... Redefined
Hosted by:
Phoenix Fitness and Performance, Raynham MA
at:
🏫 K & H Facility, Plainfield, CT, &
🏫 Phoenix Fitness & Performance, Raynham, MA
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Elevate your mindset. Sharpen your skills. Become the defender you were meant to be.
Step beyond ordinary firearms training and forge yourself into a truly elite defender. Every program developed and delivered by Critical Dynamics™ is built for students who are serious about developing tactical firearms proficiency through training grounded in research-backed science, proven human performance principles, and practical methods designed to enhance survivability in real-world encounters. Each training experience targets a different critical domain and utilizes a variety of weapons platforms, including the semi-automatic pistol, semi-automatic rifle (defensive, patrol rifle, or carbine), and shotgun. From foundational instruction to advanced courses, this is your path to tactical excellence.
With focused instruction, expert diagnostics, and immersive hands-on drills, the training delivers personalized attention and real-world application. Whether you're preparing for personal defense or professional deployment, you’ll build exceptional competence in decision-based shooting, movement under threat, and high-stakes performance.
Led by seasoned law enforcement master instructors and engineered for maximum skill retention under pressure, this training is your gateway to real-world readiness. You’ll develop combat-tested techniques, stress-proof your motor skills, and gain the confidence to perform when it counts.
This is the real deal.
No gimmicks. No fluff. No egos. No BS.
Just elite training for elite defenders, grounded in human performance science.
We guarantee it.
UNLOCKING THE BRAIN CODE
Exposing the Limits of Traditional Firearms Instruction and High-Liability Training Through Neuroscience, Psychology, and Human Performance Research
Paperback; 7x10, 230 pages: $14.95
(Keith will sign and personalize your copy when you see him in a class.)
Most training does not fail because instructors lack passion, experience, or technical skill. It fails because it is built on assumptions about learning that are incomplete, outdated, or simply wrong.
Unlocking the Brain Code is a clear-eyed examination of how human beings actually acquire, retain, and retrieve skills, and why so many traditional training models produce short-lived performance gains that collapse under time, stress, or real-world conditions.
Drawing on cognitive psychology, neuroscience, motor learning, and performance science, this book reveals the hidden mechanisms that shape learning: how memory is formed and consolidated, how bias distorts feedback and evaluation, how stress affects decision-making, and how instructional structure determines whether skills endure or decay.
Rather than offering drills, shortcuts, or motivational slogans, Unlocking the Brain Code focuses on something more fundamental: the architecture of instruction itself. It explains why outcome-focused training creates illusions of competence, how familiar methods persist despite poor retention, and why well-intentioned instructors often reinforce the very failures they are trying to prevent.
This book is written for instructors, trainers, and professionals operating in high-consequence environments, where performance failures are not academic and where the cost of ineffective training is measured in real outcomes. While grounded in firearms instruction, its principles apply broadly to coaching, professional development, and any discipline where durable skill acquisition matters.
Inside, you will learn:
- Why “performance during training” is a poor predictor of real capability
- How biases such as familiarity, confirmation, and the illusion of learning distort instruction
- What neuroscience and motor learning reveal about retention, transfer, and stress resilience
- Why traditional instructor development models struggle to evolve
- How a learning-centered framework reshapes how training should be designed and evaluated
Unlocking the Brain Code does not compete with existing instructor certification programs. It examines the blind spots they rarely address and provides the conceptual tools needed to evaluate training through the lens of how the brain actually learns.
If you have ever wondered why skilled students regress, why training gains disappear, or why experience alone does not guarantee instructional effectiveness, this book offers the missing framework.
This is not a manual, nor is it a motivational guide.
It is a recalibration of how training itself should be understood.
Beginning in January of 2026, Critical Dynamics' Director of Law Enforcement Training, Keith Hanson, was asked to join Officer Media Group, and specifically, Officer.com as a contributing writer, where he now writes a weekly segment on various aspects of operational and tactical firearms instruction, special operations training, and other topics pertaining the design and development of curriculua responsible for ingraining durable, transferable skills within high-liability training domains.
Click the link below to be taken to his contributor page and review his recent articles.
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Phoenix Fitness & Performance
2026 Firearms Training Course Roster
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Gunshot Wound and Trauma First-Aid Training
🗓️ Saturday, May 9th, 2026 • 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm • Raynham, MA
💲 US LawShield MEMBER course fee: $10.00 pp
💲 NON-MEMBER course fee: $15.00
What's worse than a life lost? A life that could have been saved.
This comprehensive training program is designed to equip you with the understanding and knowledge you need to save a life, maybe even your own, in the event of a GSW (gunshot wound) or other types of life-threatening trauma.
While based directly upon updated Co-TCCC (Council on Tactical Combat Casualty Care), TEMS (Tactical Emergency Medical Services), and TECC (Tactical Emergency Casualty Care) standards, this program was developed for use by the medical layman or average person. This means that NO previous medical knowledge or training is required to learn, understand, and apply these life-saving techniques!
This comprehensive four-hour training program will cover:
- Essential items for your IFAK (individual first-aid kit) and go-bag
- Understanding 'Good Samaritan' laws
- Safety & security concerns regarding care under fire
- How to properly stage and use a Combat Application Tourniquet (CAT)
- Treatment of massive hemorrhaging
- Understanding and using hemostatic agents & anti-hemorrhagics
- Treatment, dressing, and stabilization of a penetrating chest wound
- Recognizing and treating a "sucking chest wound"
- Differentiating an open pneumothorax versus tension pneumothorax
- Vented and non-vented chest seals... what they are and when to use
- Controlling shock
- Airway maintenance
- Treatment of evisceration injuries
- Effects of hypothermia on massive hemorrhaging and how to prevent it using passive and active warming
- Recovery positions and patient reassessments
- and much more!
Students will get hands-on training with several of the techniques taught in this program.
EQUIPMENT REQUIREMENTS:
👉 If you have a trauma kit/gunshot wound kit/IFAK, please feel free to bring it. The course will provide an opportunity to review the materials contained in student IFAKs.
👉 All training materials will be provided as part of the program.
👉 Participants are encouraged to bring a notebook and a pen.
FAQS:
Q: Is there a minimum age requirement to participate?
A: This training program takes a very frank approach to the treatment of life-threatening injuries and requires that participants remain focused and attentive for approximately four hours. The modules presented, however, are easy to learn, understand, and practice.
This program has been presented to Boy Scout and Girl Scout troops, youth sports teams, and various other extracurricular student groups. It is recommended (although not required) that participants be twelve (12) years of age or older and accompanied by a parent or guardian.
Use the link below to complete your course registration via the US LawShield website.
Immersive Force Dynamics™
🗓️ Sunday, May 9th, 2026 • 12:30 pm to 6:30 pm • Raynham, MA
🗓️ Sunday, Mar. 15th, 2026 • 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm • Raynham, MA
💲 Course Only: $159.00 pp
💲 Course PLUS book: $173.95 pp
From the range to reality, Immersive Force Dynamics™ is designed to close the gap between square-range performance and real-world capability.
In a violent encounter, you will not rise to the occasion. You will default to the level of skill your brain has actually encoded, stabilized, and made retrievable under pressure. That distinction matters. Traditional range training often produces visible performance, tight groups, clean repetitions, passing drills, but those outcomes can create a dangerous illusion of learning when the skill has not been built for retention, transfer, or adaptive use in chaos.
Most armed citizens, and even many professionals, spend the majority of their training time in static, low-variability, and highly-controlled environments. Paper targets do not think, they do not move, they do not deceive or evade, and they do not fight back. They do not compress time, force decisions, or exploit hesitation. Real violence does all of that. It creates cognitive overload, uncertainty, perceptual distortion, and rapidly changing demands that expose the limits of mechanically polished but context-bound skill.
That is where high-fidelity reality-based training becomes essential. Using defensive handguns converted to fire man-marking ammunition, this immersive program places you inside representative force-on-force problems designed to challenge perception, decision-making, movement, emotional control, and action selection under pressure. These are not theatrical drills. They are structured training experiences built to develop adaptable performance against live, thinking adversaries who react, resist, and force your brain to solve problems in real time.
Critical Dynamics™ uses these scenarios to move students beyond the seductive simplicity of outcome-based training and into the development of resilient capability. The goal is not merely to perform well in the moment. The goal is to build skill that holds up when context shifts, stress rises, and the environment stops cooperating. In other words, this program is about more than shooting. It is about learning to process, decide, and act when the cost of hesitation is real.
This course draws from the same reality-based training principles used in federal, state, military, and high-liability professional environments, while applying them through a cognitive lens that recognizes a hard truth: performance on demand is not the same as durable learning. Here, students are exposed to contextual variability, unpredictable resistance, and the kinds of perceptual and decisional demands that traditional drills cannot reproduce. The result is training that more directly supports retention, transfer, and real-world application when it matters most.
Use the "PAY NOW" link below to submit a credit/debit card payment once you've completed your course registration. Thank you!
NRA Range Safety Officer Training & Certification
🗓️ Sunday, May 24th, 2026 • 9:00 am to 6:30 pm • Raynham, MA
💲 Course Only: $99.00 pp
💲 Course PLUS book: $113.95 pp
The NRA Range Safety Officer (RSO) program was developed in response to the demand for a nationally-recognized range safety officer certification. NRA Range Safety Officers are people who possess the knowledge, skills, and attitude essential to organizing, conducting, and supervising safe shooting activities and range operations.
RSO courses are NOT all the same, and this one proves it. There is no 'Death by PowerPoint' here. Instead, you'll get an exceptionally robust and highly engaging RSO training program that goes far beyond the minimum requirements. This presentation integrates the full NRA curriculum with the instructor's over 24 years of real-world operational and instructional experience in developing and delivering firearms and high-liability training curricula for federal and state law enforcement, federal security contractors, and responsible private citizens. He brings a proven background as a law enforcement Rangemaster, small arms master instructor, and tactical operations trainer in active shooter response, tactical counterterrorism, and TCCC/TEMS. He is a certified Force Science Analyst, a court-recognized expert witness in both police and civilian use-of-force cases, and the author of “Unlocking the Brain Code,” a book about the science behind advanced firearms and tactical instruction.
Students will be presented with detailed educational modules on:
- The role of the Range Safety Officer (RSO)
- Implementing range Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
- Fundamentals of indoor and outdoor range inspections
- Structuring and delivering effective range safety briefings
- Emergency procedures and emergency incident management
- Recognize and remediate firearm stoppages and ammunition-related malfunctions
This training and certification program is a fun-filled and informative day packed with volumes of information and lots of student input, role-playing, and interactive dialogue.
Use the "PAY NOW" link below to submit a credit/debit card payment once you've completed your course registration. Thank you!
MA LTC Training and Certification Program
Get your Massachusetts License to Carry (LTC)!
🗓️ Next Session: TBD
🗓️ Sat., Mar. 14th, 2026 • 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm • Raynham, MA
💲 Course Only: $79.00 pp
💲 Course PLUS book: $93.95 pp
This interactive training program satisfies the legal requirements to apply for a Massachusetts Class A License to Carry (LTC) or Firearms Identification (FID) Card, in accordance with MGL Chapter 140, Section 131P and 515 CMR 3.00, and follows the approved curriculum outlined by the Massachusetts State Police (LTC-007).
Over the course of the class duration, this program will cover essential topics including the state firearms licensing process, use of force laws, legal considerations for carrying a firearm, concealed carry, transportation and storage in vehicles, home storage requirements, and safe firearm handling. The course includes demonstrations of handgun components, ammunition, and proper storage methods, along with an in-depth discussion of the legally permissible use of a firearm. Upon completion, students will receive a certificate and the necessary application forms for the LTC or FID.
Use the "PAY NOW" link below to submit a credit/debit card payment once you've completed your course registration. Thank you!
Practical Pistol Dynamics (Level 1 Pistol)
🗓️ Next Session: TBD
💲 Course Only: $209.00 pp
💲 Course PLUS book: $223.95 pp
This training program covers a comprehensive range of topics essential for developing high-level defensive shooting skills. It begins by debunking common firearms training myths and establishing a foundation in motor learning to support effective skill acquisition. Following an initial assessment course of fire to evaluate baseline proficiency, students will learn to perform target diagnostics to assess shot groupings, diagnose marksmanship errors, and apply corrective techniques to improve accuracy, consistency, and overall performance using the proprietary C.E.C.A.R Matrix™.
Emphasis is placed on understanding the relationship between shot placement patterns and shooter behavior under various conditions. This course also emphasizes effective stress-based combat presentation from the holster using a fusion of visual and kinesiological factors, the full array of ready positions, safety circle (Sul), and mastery of trigger control.
Use the "PAY NOW" link below to submit a credit/debit card payment once you've completed your course registration. Thank you!
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PPD 1 student targets after four (4) hours of coaching and participation.
Black/red reactive targets 3" diameter; Black square target 2" diameter.
These targets aren’t anomalies, and they weren’t shot by pros. These are beginner averages.
First-time shooter after a two-hour coaching session.
24 rounds of 115-grain 9mm FMJ from a H&K VP9
Tactical Pistol Dynamics (Level 2 Pistol)
🗓️ Next Session: TBD
💲 Course Only: $209.00 pp
💲 Course PLUS book: $223.95 pp
Building upon the skills developed in the Level 1 program, this intensive training session picks up where Level 1 Pistol leaves off, focusing on both basic and advanced ammunition management and malfunction remediation techniques essential for high-pressure, real-world performance.
Students will master ergonomic magazine staging, administrative loading, press checks, emergency and tactical reloading procedures, and critical one-handed reloads—all designed for safe, efficient operation under stress. The curriculum also emphasizes understanding and diagnosing stoppages versus ammunition-related malfunctions, teaching effective methods for maintaining operational readiness by clearing the dreaded 'jam.' (Unless it's strawberry jam. Then it cannot be dreaded. Because strawberry jam is the yummiest of all.)
With a strong emphasis on stress-tested performance and immediate-action procedures, participants will leave equipped with the skills to reload and troubleshoot confidently in any tactical environment.
Use the "PAY NOW" link below to submit a credit/debit card payment once you've completed your course registration. Thank you!
Tactical Pistol Dynamics 2 (Level 3 Pistol)
🗓️ Next Session: TBD
💲 Course Only: $209.00 pp
💲 Course PLUS book: $223.95 pp
This program builds upon the skills developed in the Level 2 program, picking up where Level 2 Pistol leaves off.
ACRASE™
Armed Citizens' Response to the Active Shooter Event
New! Blended learning program for maximum efficiency!
- 4 Hour LIVE eLearning session, and
- FULL DAY in-person training program featuring
- One (1) hour review with booster practical exercises
- Four (4) hours of live-fire range training
- Four (4) of reality-based, force-on-force training
🗓️ Next Session: eLearning: TBD
🗓️ Next Session: In-person: TBD
💲 Course Only: $349.00 pp
💲 Course PLUS book: $363.95 pp
The Armed Citizen Response to an Active Shooter Event™ (ACRASE™) is arguably the most comprehensive training program available for providing students with the legal, ethical, tactical, and medical considerations required to effectively respond to an active shooter/attacker event. The goal of the program is to help mitigate outcomes, like reducing injuries and potentially saving lives.
ACRASE™ educates students on law enforcement-proven best practices that substantially reduce the likelihood of a well-meaning armed responder being mistaken for the perpetrator by responding officers; a mistake that can result in serious injury or death.
This dynamic and robust course also includes instruction in the fundamentals of Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC), with a focus on immediate first-aid for gunshot wounds and multi-system trauma.
The program is led by active, federally certified law enforcement instructors specializing in active shooter response and tactical counterterrorism.
Use the "PAY NOW" link below to submit a credit/debit card payment once you've completed your course registration. Thank you!
Tactical Rifle/Carbine Dynamics (Level 1)
🗓️ Session 1: TBD
💲 Course Only: $209.00 pp
💲 Course PLUS book: $223.95 pp
This professionally instructed, full-day immersive training program is tailored for both new and seasoned shooters seeking to build real-world proficiency with the AR-style defensive rifle or carbine. Whether you're refining the basics or enhancing tactical application, this course delivers hands-on instruction in core competencies, including rifle parts and nomenclature, disassembly/reassembly, marksmanship fundamentals, proper loading/unloading, and ammunition management. You'll gain in-depth experience with iron sights, mechanical zero, natural point of aim, and practical zeroing—all taught through a structured progression designed to build confidence and consistency.
Use the "PAY NOW" link below to submit a credit/debit card payment once you've completed your course registration. Thank you!
Tactical Shotgun Dynamics 1
🗓️ Next Session: TBD
💲 Course Only: $209.00 pp
💲 Course PLUS book: $223.95 pp
This one-day, 8-hour training course is designed for both new shooters and experienced operators seeking to build or refine their skills with the tactical/combat shotgun. The program is rooted in human-performance research and evidence-based training methodologies, incorporating cutting-edge andragogical best practices to optimize both the acquisition, retention, and transference of critical motor skills.
Through hands-on, performance-driven instruction, students will develop the technical and tactical proficiency necessary to effectively operate the modern tactical/combat shotgun. Training begins with a safety and handling refresher before progressing into formal instruction on shotgun nomenclature, marksmanship, and operational handling techniques.
This structured curriculum emphasizes motor skill reinforcement techniques, ensuring students develop efficient, consistent, and instinctive weapon-handling skills.
Use the "PAY NOW" link below to submit a credit/debit card payment once you've completed your course registration. Thank you!
Keith Hanson is a nationally recognized rangemaster, small arms master instructor, high-liability training developer, author, and court-recognized expert witness with more than two decades of experience training law enforcement personnel, security professionals, private investigators, and responsible armed citizens.
Hanson’s work bridges the gap between traditional firearms instruction and the modern science of how people actually learn, decide, and perform under pressure. His training programs integrate operational experience with neuroscience, psychology, adult learning, motor-skill development, and human performance research to create practical, evidence-based systems for real-world application.
His shooting and tactics credentials include instructor-level and master instructor-level certifications in Immediate Action/Rapid Deployment, Multiple-Assault Counterterrorism Action Capabilities, Solo Officer Rapid Deployment, ALERRT Level 1 active shooter response, Exterior Response to Active Shooter Events (ALERRT Level 2), and Civilian Response & Casualty Care. He is also a Certified Master Instructor in pistol, patrol rifle, and tactical shotgun, a certified Force Science Analyst, a Force Science high-liability curriculum development specialist, and a certified realistic de-escalation instructor.
Hanson has designed and delivered training across some of the most demanding areas in public safety, including firearms, use of force, tactical decision-making, rapid deployment, active shooter response, de-escalation, threat assessment, trauma response, and complex motor-skill development.
He is also the author of Unlocking the Brain Code: Exposing the Limits of Traditional Firearms Instruction and High Liability Training through Neuroscience, Psychology, and Human Performance Research, and a featured contributor to major law enforcement publications.
Whether developing curriculum, training instructors, advising agencies, or analyzing critical incidents, Hanson helps professionals move beyond outdated training models and build programs that reflect the realities of human performance when the stakes are highest.
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I would like to take a moment to personally introduce you to US LawShield. I am proud to serve as US LawShield's sole trainer in the New England region providing in-depth programs on Gunshot Wound and Trauma First Aid, as well as Civilian Active Shooter Response. I have held this training role with US LawShield since 2018.
US LawShield covers you against ANY defensive use of force liability, and remains the ONLY self-defense insurance program that provides full coverage to professionally employed, certified, and/or licensed, armed professionals as well. This coverage isn't limited solely to firearms, either. LawShield also covers other use of force options besides firearms, like knives, specialized physical skills like Krav Maga, and other forms of martial arts, as well as TASERs and batons. No other program provides this comprehensive level of coverage to private citizens, as well as law enforcement and armed security & investigative officers.
Just a reminder that if you choose to enroll with US LawShield, you'll enjoy peace of mind knowing you have:
‼️ Access to an attorney on call, and by your side, in the critical moments after being involved in a self-defense incident.
‼️ Zero attorneys’ fees for covered events with no limits, caps, or deductibles. No need to worry about legal defense placing a financial burden on you and your family.
‼️ Attorney representation in criminal and civil cases. Imagine that you are cleared of any criminal wrongdoing, only to find yourself involved in a civil lawsuit regarding the same incident. The experienced attorneys are by your side, fighting to protect your hard-earned assets and livelihood in the event of a civil lawsuit.
‼️ 'Red Flag' coverage
‼️ Accidental discharge coverage
‼️ Bail bond coverage
‼️ Expert Witness and Private Investigator coverage
‼️ Coverage in all 50 states, and much more!
If you use our promo code, "CDUSLS" to enroll, you'll also get:
✔️ A FREE IFAK unit [Individual First Aid Kit (Gunshot wound trauma first aid supplies)],
✔️ NO set-up fees ($0 due at signup), and
✔️ FREE first month of coverage
Simply click or scan the QR code below with your smartphone, or visit https://classes.critical-dynamics.com/lawshield to learn more and begin your enrollment. Start enjoying the same peace of mind I enjoy as I travel the country training armed professionals and private citizens just like you today!
All the best,
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