Ken Murray

Training at the Speed of Life: Advancing Reality-Based Training

Kenneth Murray is the Director of Training for the Armiger Police Training Institute (www.armiger.net) located in the greater Orlando area of Florida. Born in Winnipeg, Canada, he has spent the past twenty years as a police and military trainer, specializing in the field of Reality Based Training. In the late 1980's, he co-founded SIMUNITION® with David Luxton as an offshoot of the Armiger Corporation in Ottawa, Canada. He subsequently wrote numerous articles and policy papers on the safe conduct of projectile-based simulation training exercises.

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Using the 'Stunt Double' and 'Pause Button' in DT training
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Some simulations necessitate the use of physical intervention skills or hard-contact offensive and defensive tactics
Reality Based Training - Training to Failure
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In an outstanding analogy that anyone who has ever pushed themselves at the gym will quickly appreciate, instructor Ken Murray explains the difference between training TO failure, and training FOR ...
Realistic edged weapons training
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Video: Broadband Dialup Download Windows Media Player In this week's Police1 Video Tactical Tip, Trainer Ken Murray shares insights into how you can make your edged weapons training realistic and e...
Making a name for yourself!
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Ladies and Gentlemen: Step right up! For you see before you the LATEST and the GREATEST innovation in law enforcement training … it slices, it dices … it slithers on its belly like a reptile! What ...
Spotlight on training: The misunderstood concept of "No pain, no gain"
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There is no question that pain, or often just the possibility of pain, can play an important part in training for high-risk situations. The pain of a marking projectile, for instance, colliding wit...
Training at the speed of life, July 2005
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In this issue: I. RBT Tip of the Month II. Close Call Corner III. RBT Q & A I. RBT Tip of the Month Stop Killing Your Students In Training We've all been there - a training simulation whe...
Training at the speed of life, June 2005
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I. Tip of the Month: Learn That You Don't Know "You don't know what you don't know." According to John Grinder, co-founder of a powerful learning and therapeutic intervention model known as NLP (Ne...
Training at the speed of life - May 2005
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RBT Tip of the Month "Empty" weapons are not "cold" weapons. In many of the instances where people have been injured or killed during Reality Based Training exercises, loaded conventional weapons h...
Training at the speed of life - April 2005
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RBT Tip of the Month SIMUNITION® is a company not a type of cartridge. The terms "simunition", "simmunitions" or just simply "sims" are dangerous terms. It might sound like semantics, but using the...
Training at the speed of life: Volume 1. The new book by Ken Murray
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The Definitive Textbook for Police and Military Reality Based TrainingBook available here Armiger Publications has announced the release of a new textbook for the Reality Based Training of military...
Introducing a New PoliceOne Column: Training at the speed of life: Advancing reality based training
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In Florida yesterday, two officers were wounded during a training exercise when one of the officers inadvertently discharged a loaded firearm. The bullet passed through the hand of the first, hitti...