Speaking Events
Dangerous Skills can provide a host, speaker or clinician at your conference, seminar, church, civic event, or concert. We speak on a variety of topics as current as the daily news. In churches, we bring messages with meaning for every congregation.
Speaker topics include but are not limited to:
Meet Our Speakers
Charles Powell
Charles Powell’s life is filled with remarkable memories, from his childhood amid the 1960s fight for civil rights in Mississippi to his 1980s midnight encounters with Soviet spies during the Cold War, life as a bodyguard for royalty, and working undercover in the War on Drugs.
Powell spent his 20s and 30s experiencing a level of danger that few men survive.
In recent years, he led the Mercy Movement, a clandestine organization dedicated to rescuing victims of human trafficking.
Today, Powell is a gifted writer, speaker and consultant. He is the founder of Dangerous Skills LLC, a consulting firm offering real-world expertise in the areas of personal security, branding and marketing.
Jody Pyles
Don’t let his good looks fool you. Beneath the surface, you will find in Jody Pyles the heartbeat of a champion. He’s held titles as state, national and world champion in karate, but he didn’t stop there. He took his skills from the ring to the streets, working as a police officer on patrol, a police defensive tactics instructor, and undercover. Pyles isn’t just an athlete, he’s a gifted singer-songwriter with fans who eagerly await each new performance and song.
In his time away from the spotlight, he is a highly skilled operator, using his expertise to free enslaved children in countries across Asia, Central America, South America and the U.S. More recently, he provided security for humanitarian efforts in Ukraine on three battle fronts.
In dangerous and dusty places around the world, Pyles is known as a friend to the many – and a champion to the forgotten few.
Virtual and live on-location event course offerings include:
Personal Security Basics:
Awareness In the Home and On-the-Go
Personal Security – Intermediate:
New Means of Survival Training
Intersectional Self-Defense:
Mods I, II and III
Basic Firearm Safety
Basic Carbine, Setup, and Marksmanship
Live on-location only training events
Handgun Marksmanship Courses
See supply list and course prerequisites
Carbine Marksmanship Courses
Dangerous Skills Course Details
Classes begin Spring 2024
Personal Security Basics: Awareness In the Home and On-the-Go
- Awareness is more than a situation.
- In the home: locks, cameras, event planning, worst-case scenarios, etc.
- On-the-go: traveling near and far, planning for crime & terrorism, if it quacks like a duck…
Personal Security – Intermediate: New Means of Survival Training
- Basic personal security review
- Conceptual, psychological and philosophical constructs of survival
- New circumstances of survival
- SWITCH or FIRE
- Survive by your “G”
Intersectional Self-Defense Mods I, II and III
- Mod I – Theoretical with hands-only defense
- Mod II – Theoretical and hands-only review, plus hand weapon, exploitive hand weapon and telephone booth fighting
- Mod III – Theoretical review with hands, hand weapon, handgun & long blue gun firearm training
Basic Firearm Safety
- Basic weapon knowledge, identification and nomenclature
- Firearm safety
- Firearm cleaning and maintenance
- Firearm storage and security
Basic Handgun
- Safety review
- Stance, grip and trigger control
- Sight alignment and sight picture
- Knowing your target and what’s beyond
- Live firing exercise
Supplies: pistol, three (3) mags, 100 rounds of ammunition, notebook and pen, eye protection, ear protection, and holster for pistol and mags.
Defensive Handgun*
- Safety review
- Understanding defensive pistol
- Stance and body language
- Getting off the X
- Engaging the threat (draw and fire)
- Magazine change
- Live fire exercise
Supplies: pistol, three (3) mags, 250 rounds of ammunition, notebook and pen, eye protection, ear protection, and holster for pistol and mags.
*Prerequisite: Basic Handgun
Combative Handgun*
- Safety review
- Understanding combative situations
- Finding your objective
- Moving to your target
- Magazine changes
Supplies: pistol, three (3) mags, 250 rounds of ammunition, notebook and pen, eye protection, ear protection, and holster for pistol and mags.
*Prerequisite: Basic Handgun
8 hour Course
Basic Carbine Safety, Set-up, and Marksmanship
- Range and Gun Safety
- Gun setup
- Understanding zeros and yardage
- Zero rifles
- Understanding height over bore and close head shots
- 25/50 yard drills 6, hammer, controlled pairs
- 3 shot drills
- Loading, unloading, reloading
- Basic malfunctions
Supplies: Carbine(AR-15 or Pistol Caliber Carbine), Six (6) mags, 300 rounds of ammunition, notebook and pen, eye protection, ear protection, sling, plate carrier or chest rig. (No pistols, phones or cameras allowed on your person during this event.) No prerequisites for this course.
All course descriptions, content and curriculum are subject to change at any time.