​Show # 270 - Coffee with Rich | Mallory is the co-owner of Michigan Civil Defense and a Krav Maga Black Belt
Show # 270 - Coffee with Rich | Mallory is the co-owner of Michigan Civil Defense and a Krav Maga Black Belt
On today's Coffee with Rich, we will be joined by Mallory Brake.
Mallory is the co-owner of Michigan Civil Defense, a community organization that focuses on transforming civilians into trained and engaged citizens.
Michigan Civil Defense offers training in self-defense, emergency first aid, and community preparedness.
Mallory is a Black Belt in Krav Maga and a Level 2 Certified Instructor.
Krav Maga is a military self-defense and fighting system developed for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Israeli security forces derived from a combination of techniques sourced from Boxing, Wrestling, Judo, Aikido, and Karate.
Mallory is the first and only female Krav Maga Black Belt in Michigan. She has been training Krav Maga for 10 years and instructing for 6. Her pride and passion for teaching is empowering women to take responsibility for their own self-protection.
Mallory is a certified USCCA firearms instructor.
She was the Honor Guard at the American Warrior Society’s Firearm Instructor Development Course 3-21.
Mallory is a certified American Heart Association Instructor for Basic Life Support, CPR, First Aid, AED and a Stop the Bleed Instructor.
Mallory has also been a Registered Nurse for 12 years. She is a bachelor’s prepared RN from Bellarmine University in Louisville Kentucky, and she has a certification in Critical Care nursing. Mallory worked in the Intensive Care at Henry Ford Hospital, a level one trauma center, in downtown Detroit for the past twelve years. While there she also worked as a Unit Educator for the Medical ICU. Mallory’s unit is run by Pulmonologists, and therefore was the COVID ICU during the current pandemic.
During her limited down time, Mallory loves being with her family – who made her the woman she is today. She also trains, trains, and trains some more.
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​Show # 269- Coffee with Rich | Matt Numrich Certified Executive Instructor Progressive Fighting Systems
 
On today's Coffee with Rich, we will be joined by Matt Numrich.
Matthew Numrich is a natural leader and teacher. He graduated from Concordia University Chicago with a Bachelor’s Degree in Clinical Psychology and a Master’s Degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. In the beginning, he began studying martial arts and training under Sifu Paul Vunak (under Guru Dan Inosanto) in Bruce Lees’s art of Jeet Kune Do. He founded his own studio in the Chicago suburbs shortly after being certified as one of only a handful of Full Instructors of JKD and the Filipino Martial Arts.
He also holds a Certified Executive Instructor position under Progressive Fighting Systems, which is the “crème de la crème” in functional Jeet Kune Do. Mr. Numrich has also had the pleasure of training with some of the other elite JKD instructors such as Sifu Larry Hartsell (original student of Bruce Lee) and Thomas Cruse (past instructor of the Navy Seals).
Mr. Numrich has written a manuscript on Jeet Kune Do (JKD), in addition to several articles in US and international martial arts magazines. In 2001, he completed the first JKD on DVD instructional series, which is now distributed around the world. Mr. Numrich was used as a public media resource after the attacks of 9/11, in addition to running several out-of-state seminars. In late 2003, he was invited to teach instructors of the Federal Air Marshal’s Chicago O’Hare office .
He also completed the Jeet Kune Do Self Defense Matrix, which is the perfect “at home” training companion and a great supplementary program for students at all levels. National publications and experts alike have hailed this program as “unique and groundbreaking” as it not only focuses on the content of JKD (what is taught), but the method (how it is taught), resulting in an incredible training tool. For more information on this, please go to: www.FearlessStreetFighter.com
Within the last several years, Mr. Numrich completed many new self-defense programs, which focus on “average and untrained civilians” – as he saw this is where the need truly exists.
Since then Mr. Numrich has concentrated on the Israeli art of Krav Maga and is currently a Level 5 Certified Krav Maga Instructor. He believes that Krav Maga Training is the most effective and efficient way to meet the most amount of civilian need in the area of self-defense.
Mr. Numrich still teaches at his new academy in Phoenix, AZ, when most owners hand the instruction over to the “best student” in the class. His passion is using martial arts to increase the quality of his student's lives. Whether he is teaching character values to children, intense street fighting drills to men, or confidence-building self-defense techniques to women – Mr. Numrich is living his mission.
His school has a pool of students that consists of police officers, security guards, military, other martial arts instructors, men, women, and children of all ages. His close-knit group of students creates an atmosphere of faster, more effective learning for all. The school has specialty instructors for different groups of students, including law enforcement organizations, security companies, young adults, children with learning disabilities (ADD/ADHD), and family members seeking proactive home/environment safety.
In addition to teaching weekly at his PhxKravFit Krav Maga school, Mr. Numrich has helped create, and now trains people all over the world in escape and evasion techniques, as the Head Trainer of the Spy Black Belt program (for Instructors) and Spy Defense and Survival (for civilians, law enforcement and military).
Matt currently lives in Phoenix with his wife Stephanie who heads up the Krav Maga Self Defense Training and Classes for Youth and their two sons and dogs.
Matt's website:
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​Show # 268- Coffee with Rich | Attorney Andrew F. Branca Internationally Recognized Expert and Author
 
Attorney Andrew F. Branca, Esq. is in his third decade of practicing law, specializing in self-defense law of the United States, where he is an internationally recognized expert. Through his legal practice, Law of Self Defense LLC, Andrew helps law-abiding armed citizens make better informed, more confident, more decisive decisions in defense of themselves, their families, and their property.
Andrew is an occasional Guest Instructor and subject matter expert (SME) on self-defense law at the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Academy at Quantico and the Sig Sauer Academy and has been the legal expert co-host on the Outdoor Channel’s enormously popular TV show The Best Defense.
Andrew also teaches other lawyers how to argue self-defense cases as a certified instructor with the Continuing Legal Education (CLE) system in the majority of states around the country.
In addition to his legal work, Andrew is also an NRA Life Member and Certified Instructor, an IDPA Charter/Life member (IDPA #13), and a Master-class competitor in multiple IDPA divisions.
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