Course Background and Pre-requisites

YFA does NOT maintain a home range in Arizona. We have, instead, elected to hold our courses in various areas of the country. In this way, the student will incur less cost and time taking a class. Our schedule reflects areas of the country from which we have received repeated inquiries. However, classes can be set up for individual groups in their home area with a minimum of 12 students.

Our courses are based on a minimum of 12 students and a maximum of 18. We limit our classes this way in order to give students the maximum benefit. In a class of 12-18, the student receives personal attention plus the opportunity to learn from problems that other students may encounter. With less people, one loses the benefit of observing others' problems, a big factor in the learning process. For maximum training benefit, courses are conducted with single relays, split relays, one-man drills, and a mix of 2, 3, 4, 5, & 6-man "teams". This results in optimal gain with minimal down time. If circumstances so dictate we can arrange for private or larger classes.

Courses are normally of 2 or 3 days duration, though 5 day 2-weapon classes are also available, as well as courses tailored to the client's request. With the exception of the Reed's Indoor Range courses, one day courses are scheduled only as refreshers for previous students unless exceptional circumstances so warrant. Each course runs approximately 7-8 hours per day on the range and a dim-light session is also included (range permitting).

Our Stage I courses are a prerequisite to our Stage II courses. In requiring this, we are recognizing that teaching methods, philosophy and physical drills performed differ from school to school. It is only fitting that a student should already be familiar with the practices of a particular school from which they wish to take an advanced course, and this is to the student's advantage. If special arrangements are made to bypass this prerequisite, it is with the understanding that since it is an advanced course, it will be the student's responsibility to pick up the training in the event they encounter a drill they have not had before - the other students will already be familiar with that drill!

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