About O2DA

O-O-D-A (O2DA) is an acronym for the decision making process which was a natural law discovered by the late Colonel John Boyd. It stands for Observation-Orientation-Decision-Action. Every cognizant organism thrives or deteriorates, lives or dies via this simple mechanism.

We at O2DA Training have created our unique Orientation Engine which maximizes Colonel Boyd’s powerful framework by incorporating Ken Murray’s Task Triad (the three key aspects that affect your choice and response options during any conflict), which is in turn is enhanced with our proprietary Pulse Methodology. Our unique training empowers our clients to dramatically increase their survivability - not only in the realm of lethal force encounters, but it allows our clients, many of them for the first time in their lives, to see conflict for what it really is, not what we have been programmed by society to believe that it is

In reality, all conflict is chaos. Chaos is unpredictable, ever changing, messy, disorientating and dangerous to those who do not understand how operate within it or how to thrive in the chaotic reality that conflict is.

One must come to grips with the fact that there are no set pattern or counters that one can learn to increase their chances for survival in a lethal environment. It is only your ability to function and bring your own and greater chaos to your adversary, which will help you assure your survivability. Understanding this simple reality and knowing how to operate within the realities of violence is more important than any accessories that you can bring to the encounter with you.

Our outstanding Reality Based Training program, driven by our Orientation Engine, and unique training methodology rams home true reality and your choice & response options during any conflict. More importantly, it puts you directly into the reality of what it is like to be in your body during a chaotic event, where, perhaps, you find yourself and your emotions to be your biggest challenge. We help you see this, feel this, understand this, and most importantly, we give you the training and mental tools to overcome your own pre-programmed psychological and physiological reactions, so that you can reprogram the appropriate responses, especially under stress, so you can be decisively victorious, and supremely confident in your firearms handling abilities and your decision making process.

While our training empowers our clients by giving them both confidence in their firearms handling skills and almost precognitive abilities during lethal force encounters, more importantly, by understanding these simple yet often overlooked concepts, we open a whole new world of choices and options, choices and options which were previously unavailable to our clients, choices and options that they never even knew existed, which are directly applicable to their everyday lives.

As one of our clients recently commented “Without a doubt the #1 effect of the training was to integrate into my awareness the OODA LOOP. I have used that model/structure to enhance my business, home and relationships… I am more aware of my everyday choices and am living more in the moment, more prepared for the next moment.”

So what is the decision making process? The decision making process, “…can be seen as a time-competitive observation-orientation-decision-action cycle or ‘OODA Loop’. Each party to a conflict begins by observing. He observes himself, his physical surroundings and his enemy. On the basis of his observation, he orientates; that is to say, he makes a mental image or ‘snapshot’ of his situation. On the basis of this orientation, he makes a decision. He puts the decision into effect; i.e., he acts. Then because he assumes his action has changed the situation, he observes again, and starts the process anew. His actions follow this cycle, sometimes called the ‘Boyd Cycle’ or OODA Loop.”

“To win (any conflict), you need to get inside the adversary’s OODA Loop (the decision making process). You can either go through the OODA Loop cycle faster than your opponent or you can vary your tempos and rhythms so your opponent cannot keep up with you.”

For example: when someone has a weapon malfunction and needs to pause momentarily to think about what should be done, or clears a malfunction improperly, he expands his OODA Loop. If someone has problems presenting their weapon due to the incompatibility of their gear, they are expanding their OODA Loop. When an individual presents their firearm sloppily and slowly (perhaps because he has a false sense of security due to lax times on a qualification course), he is expanding his OODA Loop. When someone shoots and misses his intended target, he is expanding his OODA Loop.
Conversely; if you have the skills that will allow you to automatically recognize a malfunction and clear it reflexively, you will be shrinking your OODA Loop. This rule applies with individuals and extends to at all levels of the team - as a team member who is expanding his OODA Loop is simultaneously expanding his teams OODA Loops.

It is our unique understanding of Colonel Boyd’s theory, incorporation Murray’s Task Triad, which is in turn is enhanced with our proprietary Pulse Methodology, and its integration into our Reality Based Training that propels and empowers our clients to previously unattainable heights in such a short period of time. No one in the industry can even come close to achieving in their clients what we achieve in as little as a 16 hour course.

We are able to achieve this depth of understanding which conveys lifelong benefits to our clients because we give our clients full disclosure on the reality of conflict, lethal or not, and we thereby empower them to make proper, real time, fully informed decisions. We do this because as mentioned on our home page, our goal is not to string our clients along for a lifetime of unneeded or unnecessary courses, but to empower them to decisively win a lethal force encounter immediately. The byproduct of this unique and unparalleled training is our clients ability to translate what they deeply assimilate what they learn during their course, into their daily lives; leaving them empowered and fully cognizant functional beings, even under the normally debilitating stress of a lethal force encounter.

This level of understanding allows our clients to handle every day conflict at a level that far exceeds any industry standard, and empowers them to see all the options before them, and then make the best choices available to them.

  1. While O2DA does not train people or organizations in the implementation of the decision making process in regards to business, it is not a difficult mental leap to make, as the above testimony indicates. However, we highly recommend that our clients seek the excellent advice and services of vSente (http://www.vsente.com), one of the worlds foremost successful business authorities which campaigns via a proprietary methodology that utilizes maneuver theory to generate competitive advantage. The methodology is influenced by John Boyd and Michael Porter.
  2. William S. Lind, The Maneuver Warfare Handbook, p.5. (Westview, 1985)
  3. Ibid.

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O2DA offers a variety of state of the art, street proven, real world combative/personal protective training. As our students can attest, this training is not only applicable and highly effective while fighting with firearms; its real value is in the way it becomes part of your life, giving you real skills and confidence in how you handle daily situations, and helping you to see conflict for what it really is. If you are interested in learning these little-known secrets for assuring your survivability in the event of a worst case scenario, and you would like to have the confidence to handle any situation that could come your way, please complete the contact form under our "contact" tab. We'd love to help you take your skills to the next level so you can decisively win the fight, not just survive it.

"Radical, insightful, and powerful" is the way our clients describe our courses.

Whether you are a first-time firearms owner looking for life saving skills at the outset or you are an experienced gun handler looking to sharpen your skills to previously unobtainable levels, we will dramatically improve your abilities and confidence level far above the industry standard.

O2DA has been formed in order to give our clients the most up-to-date and cutting edge information available today in regards to real life lethal force encounters.

To provide you with the best instruction, O2DA contracts with and hires only the finest instructors in the industry: Those who have proven themselves as silent professionals, able to teach calmly and in a clear and concise manner, and who are able to perform on demand. Regardless of their previous experience, you can be assured that all of our instructors are dedicated and friendly professionals who have only one goal: to train you to decisively win the fight—not just survive it.

Our excellent instructional staff will give you what few can; a complete holistic approach to give your armed and unarmed fighting techniques very real, and raw power; which will function for you flawlessly under the normally debilitating stress for a fight for life. Our world-class instructional staff will assure your rapid progression with a calm and friendly demeanor that will guide you through your training with solid, reliable, and repeatable results that will stick with you for the rest of your life, not just the duration of our course.

Your Instructors

Your instructors are the best in the industry. They have been selected for their skill at arms and their ability to communicate vital truths to our clients in a clear and concise manner in order to dramatically help you to improve your survivability. You will find yourself thoroughly enjoying the experience of being around the most knowledgeable, dedicated and friendly instructors in the industry, whose only goal is to assure your rapid assimilation of ideas and techniques.

All of our instructors have a sincere desire to help you gain skills and confidence in the shortest period of time and to help assure your success in the worst case scenario. All of your instructors are the best in their particular field, serving or having served in the infantry and/or Special Forces of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps; law enforcement officers who fill street or special tactical unit assignments; or proven and capable firearms instructors from within the community. Every one of them has proven themselves exemplary fighters, weapons handlers and tacticians.

About the Founder

O2DA Training has been founded and directed by Ron a.k.a., (Silent Bob), who currently works overseas in the high threat arena. Ron has more than 20 years experience in the tactical and training field, having worked with some of the finest combative instructors in the world, and in numerous federal, state, and local schools, both public and private. Ron brings all of his military and contracting experience to bear on your training as he is determined to give you the most up-to-date and cutting edge information available in regards to real life lethal force encounters and combative training courses available anywhere at any price.

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Do you enjoy helping others by teaching them how to protect themselves and their loved ones? Do you enjoy knowing that you are helping society by producing the finest and safest gun handlers in the industry? If you do, and you believe that you've "got what it takes" to be an instructor for O2DA, clickhere for our instructor requirements and more information.