May 4 + 5 | Warrendale, PA
Live Ready Essentials
Training Seminar
THE SKILLS TO PROTECT YOURSELF + YOUR LOVED ONES. So you can live with certainty.
Early registration pricing ends 4/19 (Save $150)
Space is very limited!
Anyone, anywhere can master the essentials of personal protection.
→ Have you ever wanted to learn how to protect yourself and your family—but don't know where to begin?
→ Have you become frustrated with complex, impractical, or unrealistic approaches to self-defense? Or maybe you have some skills, but realize there are missing links in the chain?
→ Are you concerned about the uncertainty of today’s world and want the confidence of knowing you can protect yourself, anywhere, anytime?
If so, this course is designed for you.
Welcome to Live Ready
I'm Sam Rosenberg.
In 1996, after a stint as a Marine officer, I became a close protection specialist. I had the privilege of bodyguarding some of the world’s highest-profile individuals including notables such as Tom Cruise, PM Benjamin Netanyahu, and Warren Buffet, among others.
But in 2003, I had a philosophical shift:
"It's good to have a lifeguard, but it's better to know how to swim."
As a result, I shifted gears from protecting people and organizations, to teaching them how to protect themselves - with the same skillsets and mindset elite close protection specialists use to protect public figures.
I've been on a mission ever since—to empower others with these critical life skills.
Not just so you can better avoid or manage violence, but so you can live life on your own terms, with the unique brand of confidence that only comes from knowing you can protect yourself and your family ... anywhere, anytime.
The world is filled with dangerous people, but living ready is not about waiting for the lifeguards, living in fear, or avoiding all risk. It's about recognizing that life itself involves risk and that peace of mind cannot be achieved by outsourcing your security to others. To Live Ready is to take full responsibility for your own protection. To have certainty—not that life will be free from danger or trouble but in your own ability to respond.
It's about becoming, when needed—a dangerous person yourself.
About this Training Seminar
Violence is never random, and you are never helpless.
This immersive event distills the most important lessons learned—over the past 25 years of research, development, and practical application—into a practical, simple, and immediately usable series of lessons, as easy to learn as they are comprehensive.
We will cover the full spectrum of unarmed defensive tactics—from how to recognize danger and avoid trouble, to managing "interviews" that precede an attack, to the physical defensive tactics needed against the most common attacks - including defense against edged weapons and guns.
Learn what to do—and how to do it— in hours, not years.
Using our unique "compression learning system," which combines interactive lectures, hands-on skill-building workshops, and practical simulations, you will be systematically introduced to key concepts and techniques that you'll then progressively apply against more complex scenarios as the course progresses.
This allows you to master a small, but highly versatile "toolbox" of skills and processes, that can be applied against a wide array of situations and threats.
This "vertical" approach to learning builds high-level skills quickly and simplifies decision-making under stress, enabling you to always know your options and priorities, and allow for automatic, physiologically-based responses to threat stimuli. All of which can be relied upon to work under adrenalin.
Designed for everyone: from beginners to experienced practitioners.
During this immersive 1½-day event you will learn how to:
Implement our simple, proven, 3-step process for protecting any person or place
Enhance your radar by knowing what to look for, how to look, and when to achieve the situational awareness of an elite operator
Understand the 3 key types of bad guys. How they select their targets, and why, and how you can tell if you are being targeted - even if they use charm, or persuasion to create opportunities to victimize
How to identify and deal with the most dangerous predators in nature - sociopaths (who shockingly, are as common as 1 in 25 Americans)
Overcome paralysis and panic even in a critical incident, and the key to mastering your mind under stress—so you can always think, make decisions, and act
Unleash your inner Jason Bourne by learning how to use pens, magazines, and cell phones as powerful improvised weapons and force-multipliers
Instantly disrupt someone’s nervous system and incapacitate an aggressor with your bare hands— without risk of hurting your hands
Neutralize someone pinning you to the ground and escape
When and how to use a remarkably simple gun disarm that works against handguns, and long guns, in defense of yourself or another, from varying distances and circumstances
Recognize hostile surveillance by even professional-level bad guys, and know what to do if you find yourself being followed or stalked
How to scan and read a room, crowd, or person and habituate good security habits to always know your options - and how to teach these skills to your family
Simply and effectively defend against edged weapons
Realistic and effective defensive tactics against punches, grabs, and holds
Strategies and tactics for operating as a family unit including verbal and non-verbal signals, roles, responsibilities, and priorities when you are together, and how to teach your kids what to do in an emergency
And much more ...
Course Requirements
Ages 13 and older (Parental Discretion is Advised as we will be addressing adult topics such as active shooters and sexual assault)
Ability to perform mild to moderate physical activity
Comfortable clothing
Avoid jewelry on hands and arms
Willingness to learn and have fun!
Arm yourself with the skills to survive + thrive amidst uncertainty and danger.
“LiveReady provided me with the tools to handle any physical confrontation on my terms. This program will change your life.”
— MARK D.
“It’s practical. It’s real life. It works.”
— DEV C.
“An effortless way of empowering you and equipping you with potentially life saving information.”
— MAGALIS G.
“A disciplined, focused, systematic approach to understanding confrontation.”
— GEORGE B.
“I’m more in tune to my surroundings because of the training. I love the sense of self confidence.”
— LYNN S.
Schedule
DAY 1
INPOWER
The foundations of personal protection
Topics include:
→ The Anatomy of Violence
→ The Anatomy of Evil
→ Foundational Situational Awareness & Interview Management
→ Verbal & Non-Verbal Tactics & Confrontational Management
→ Soft Touch Control Tactics
→ Improvised Weapon Tactics
→ Nervous System Disruption & Incapacitations
ASSERT
Active Shooter Survival Escape & Response Tactics
Topics include:
→ Critical Incident Response (Active Shooter / Kidnapping / Home Invasion)
→ Handgun Disarming 1st & 3rd Party Perspectives
→ Long Gun Disarming 1st & 3rd Party Perspectives
→ Tactical Decision Making & Legal Considerations
RADAR
Advanced Situational Awareness
Topics include:
→ How our RADAR works
→ Intuition vs. Rapid Cognition
→ Tuning the RADAR: The 5 Habits
→ Detecting and Defeating Hostile Surveillance
→ Visual Intelligence: Pulling it all Together
ONGUARD
Edged & Impact Weapon Defense
Topics include:
→ Gross Motor Edged & Impact Weapon Defense
→ Distance & Damage Control
→ The 4 Attack Patterns & the Leveraging Arm
→ Finishes & Problem Solving
REACT - Part 1
Unarmed Defensive Tactics
Topics include:
→ Proactive Unarmed Strikes & Nervous System Disruptions
→ Compression Strikes
→ Physiologically Based Reactions, Collision Management & Guard Entries
→ Initial Position of Control (IPC) Fundamentals
→ Options from IPC – Takedown / Incapacitate / Terminate
→ Fundamentals of Punch Defense to IPC
→ Multiple opponent theory with the IPC
Schedule
DAY 2
REACT - Part 2
Unarmed Defense Tactics
Topics include:
→ Escape Tactics to IPC for Common Grabs and Holds
→ Emergency Escapes for Ground Defense Situations
Your Family Protective Detail
Responding to dangerous situations as a family unit
Topics include:
→ Roles & Responsibilities
→ Verbal & Non-Verbal Alert & Duress Signals
→ How to integrate everything you’ve learned as a family unit
RESERVE YOUR SPOT
May 4 + 5
1½-Day Immersive Event
CAMELOT BANQUET HALL
260 Northgate Drive
Warrendale, PA 15086
$750 $600 per person
Early registration pricing ends 4/19.
Space is very limited.
Registration includes:
Lunch on Day 1
A signed copy of Live Ready: A Guide to Protecting Yourself in an Uncertain World
An official Response Pen
Access to the online version of the seminar (once completed)
A projected $3,500 value!
Frequently Asked Questions
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This course is a comprehensive training workshop. We use a combination of lectures, hands-on training, and simulation to rapidly develop and reinforce key concepts, and build realistic and practical skill sets.
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For the skill sets to be viable under real-world stress, they must be simple, easy to develop, and easy to retain in muscle memory. As a result, this training is suitable for just about anyone, of any physical background. Just let us know if you have any limits so we can accommodate you.
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Our training is very fast-paced and addresses adult-level subjects such as sexual assault, and mass-homicide events, we typically don't recommend this training for anyone under 15 years of age. However, some exceptions may be made—simply call us to see if your kids qualify.
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Short answer - Yes. However, we strongly advise staying for the whole event, as some of the core elements of personal security are addressed on Day 2, and the second day of training allows for considerable reinforcement of core techniques and concepts - especially after a night's sleep.
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Absolutely. We offer this course for private events and retreats and have half-day and full-day programs for organizations to address work-related topics such as Workplace Violence Prevention.
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Since 2003, we've trained tens of thousands of people—from individuals, to families, schools, workplaces, and places of worship both large and small, including numerous iconic brands and Fortune 500 and 100 companies. This system works and has saved lives!
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The Live Ready program is unique in the personal security world. We bring a scientific approach to self-defense training ensuring every technique and process is based in sound psychological, physiological, and bio-mechanical responses that work under stress and can be retained for life.
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Absolutely. In fact, some of the most important lessons and skills are the "soft" skills—how to recognize danger, avoid trouble, and escape before you end up in a defensive situation. That being said, the physical elements are very accessible - so don't hesitate to be a part!
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Absolutely - simply email us at info@LiveReadySolutions.com and we'll connect directly!
Chance favors the prepared mind.
LIVE READY is a book about dangerous people—about predators who live in our midst and who violate our social contract with impunity.
It’s also a book about navigating a world filled with such people. It shows you how to recognize them, how to understand their methods and motivations, how to keep them at a safe remove from yourself and your loved ones (and when that’s not possible, how to defeat them).
As Louis Pasteur once remarked, “Chance favors the prepared mind.” LIVE READY offers a way to prepare our minds and bodies to live in a world full of risk and dangerous people—and when necessary, to become dangerous ourselves.
Willingness is state of mind.
Readiness is a statement of fact.