LMI was founded because of the lack of serious defensive training in the civilian, Law Enforcement and Military communities.   Defensive techniques must be simple to learn, simple to deploy, and most importantly, MUST BE EFFECTIVE enough to either stop an attacker or give you the time needed to get away.
 
We take personal defense very seriously.  We aim at building the student’s confidence and proficiencies in awareness and defensive skills through intense, reality based training.   At LMI, the student learns that their body and mind are their primary weapons, and that knifes, firearms and improvised weapons are only supportive tools that can give them an advantage, should they be available.  
 
An effective Combat Mindset is essential to winning an attack and are discussed, and built during all training courses at LMI.  You may have the skills to stop an attacker, but if you do not have the mindset to immediately react to an attack and use that force necessary to stop the attack, all other skills are useless.
 
Building and maintaining a combat mindset, as well as learning the skills to help you avoid, and if justified, win a lethal attack are the objectives at LMI.
 We don’t just teach the skills to ‘survive’. We teach the skills to ‘win’.
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Lauinger's Marksmanship Instruction, Inc.
LMI specializes in Tactical Marksmanship, Defensive Knife and Close Quarter Combat Instruction. Located in Rochester, New York, LMI is a complete tactical school which can tailor its courses to meet the demands of their clients. Close Quarters Combat (CQC) / Defensive Knife LMI also offers unparalleled defensive courses.  These courses stress awareness and avoidance, however, should an attack be imminent and unavoidable, LMI teaches you the skills to instantly attack back using empty hands, as well as knifes and improvised weapons and win, and go home at the end of the day. These courses range from Defensive Knife Courses; which teaches the student how to defend against knife wielding attackers, to Close Quarter Combat (CQC); which teaches the student to use empty hands and improvised weapons to instantly devastate an attacker.  The student will learn these techniques slowly at first, but will quickly transition into full speed, full force attacks, as attacks on the streets are fast and furious. All techniques use only gross motor skills 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 like most other defensive schools. At LMI, we also offer Reality Based Training, using Force on Force techniques. This type of training places the students in real life situations, at real street speeds. This is where the students will learn what works, what doesn’t work, and why LMI teaches what it does. Tactical Marksmanship 
At LMI, Tactical Pistol, Tactical Shotgun and Tactical Rifle courses are taught using only real world tactics. Multiple targets and props are utilized in all courses.  Unlike other shooting courses taught by others, At LMI, you will not stand in one place and shoot. The Tactical Marksmanship courses are very active as you will be engaging both paper and steel targets.   LMI uses 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 at 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 unknown individuals.  Also, there are always good guy and bad guy targets 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.   *** ALL Law Enforcement and Government personnel get a (15%) discount on all training courses at LMI. *** *** All groups of 3 or more get 25% discount off each student. *** *** LMI will travel to your range or facility to offer you their courses. Please contact us for details. ***
  1. ★United States Marine Corps Scout Sniper.
  2. ★Four Years full contact Karate.
  3. ★No Lie Blades P-1 Instructor
  4. ★Graduated over 20 Tactical Firearm courses.
  5. ★United States Marine Corps Marksmanship Instructor (Pistol & Rifle)
  6. ★23 years: Defensive/Combat Shooting Experience. (Pistol, Shotgun, Submachine Gun)
  7. ★Defensive Shooting Instructor at one of the largest shooting schools in the country.
  8. ★Ten Years Martial Arts Experience, resulting in two Dans. One in Karate, and one in Aikido.
  9. ★18 years: Executive Protection/Corporate Security/Security Management.
  10. ★Corporate Executive Protection / Security Manager for a Fortune 100 Company.
  11. ★NAFI representative for the state of New York - 'National Association of Firearm Instructors'.
Ron Lauinger - President
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