LMI specializes in Close Quarter Street Combatives. We offer instruction in Close Quarter Combatives, Knife Combatives and Combative Marksmanship. Located minutes south of Cleveland Ohio, LMI is a complete combative school which can tailor all of their courses to meet the demands of their clients.

Close Quarter Combatives (CQC) / Knife Combatives

LMI’s Street Combative Courses stress awareness and Avoidance first, however, should an attack be imminent and unavoidable, LMI teaches the skills to instantly attack back using empty hands as well as edged and improvised weapons so you can win and go home at the end of the day.

Student will learn techniques slowly at first, but will quickly transition into full speed, full force attacks, as attacks on the streets are fast, furious and deadly.

All techniques that we teach require gross motor skills only to stop the attack. We teach the student to fight the attacker; we do not promote sparring with, wrestling with or playing with the attacker.

LMI trains Close Quarter Combatives in all weather conditions. We never know when or where we may be attacked so we train and prepare ourselves to handle all environmental conditions.

LMI also offers Reality Based Training using Force on Force techniques. This type of training places the student in real life situations where the student must assess and react to real life situations and at real street speeds. This is where the student will learn what works, what doesn’t work, and why LMI teaches what it teaches.

Combative Marksmanship

At LMI, we do not teach you how to shoot a firearm.

WE TEACH YOU HOW TO FIGHT WITH IT.

LMI prepares you both mentally and physically to avoid, and if necessary, WIN an attack. We do not prepare you to compete in a competition. On the streets, your blood pressure will be elevated, targets will be moving, people will be screaming and the environment may be dark, wet, slippery or all of the above. These are the conditions that LMI trains their students in. We prepare you for the streets.

Combative Pistol, Shotgun and Rifle courses are taught using only real world tactics. Multiple shoot and no-shoot targets, as well as numerous props and barricades are common in all of the courses.  Students do not stand still at LMI. The Combative Marksmanship courses are active, often rigorous and always demanding. Standing still and engaging targets that are trying to kill you will get you killed. (How often have you seen someone stand there and shoot at a target that has a gun pointed at them? How far will he get in the real world ?? ) We believe in moving, preferably to cover and/or concealment, and making ourselves a harder target for our attacker, or attackers. Most shooting is done while moving.

We also use a moving target System which allows the student to engage moving targets while being required to re-load and utilize barricades, when possible. This same system can be set up so that the target charges towards the student to simulate an aggressive attacker, and only well aimed hits will stop the attack.  This is especially useful for police officers who confront and talk with individuals.  Down range, there are always good guy and bad guy targets which down range, forcing the student to distinguish the differences and assess accordingly.

LMI also incorporates a shoot house area where the student engages targets while using proper barricade methods, and learns to transition hall ways, corners and open doors while learning to properly search around corners, and engaging targets when warranted. This is essential to the student looking to use a shotgun, pistol or any other weapon, for home defense.

All paper targets are real world, human type colored targets.  We do not use circles, rings or zoned type shooting targets, as these type targets do not exist on the streets.  All targets include shoot and no-shoot as well as hostage type targets.  Also, barricades are set up during all shooting, to encourage the student to seek cover if time permits.  This training is always, 'reality based'.  This includes placing innocent targets in front of, next to, and even behind the criminal targets, as this forces the student to appropriately determine shot placement and angle of engagement