From a 24-year Special Operations Sergeant Major who spent five years in Iraq and Afghanistan, much of it without a weapon
30 short video lessons. No belts, no gym, no athleticism. Just the handful of brutal, simple moves that still work when your heart is pounding past 145 and your hands won't stop shaking.
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He's closing the distance. Bigger than you. Twenty years younger, maybe. Maybe high. Your wife is behind you, or your daughter, or nobody, and nobody is coming.
Your heart is already slamming. Your hands go cold. Your vision narrows to a tunnel. Everything you ever learned in a class (the six-step wrist release, the spinning back fist, the stuff you practiced on a mat with a partner who was trying to let you win) is gone.
Adam Seegmiller has been there. Here's how he puts it:
"Your knees are shaking, your heart's racing, you're not thinking about everything that we taught you."Adam, HAVOC lesson 16
That's not a weakness. That's biology. It happens to rookies and it happens to operators. And it is exactly why almost everything you've been sold for self-defense fails the one time it matters.
The fight is decided in the first 15 to 30 seconds. Adam's rule:
"I can't express to you the importance enough of finishing the fight in 15 to 30 seconds. Beyond 30 seconds, you're going to be super gassed, you're going to start running out of energy. And then it becomes who's fitter, who's stronger, maybe who's on drugs."Adam, HAVOC lesson 8
Who's fitter. Who's stronger. If you're over 40, you don't want the fight to turn into that contest.
What can you do in the first 15 seconds that still works with your heart at 145 and your hands shaking?
That's what HAVOC teaches. Nothing else.
Adam started young. Taekwondo, competing at a fairly high level in high school. Then he found out what it was worth:
"The only time I ever tried that in a bar, in a real fight, I got put on my ass. And then I tried that later on, goofing around in the army with some tough guys, and I got put on my ass again."Adam, HAVOC lesson 30
He noticed something else. In class, his instructors taught "these seven, 10, 12 movement techniques." When they actually sparred, they threw two or three hard moves and got out. So why teach the rest?
"Because they need content for a class."Adam, HAVOC lesson 3
HAVOC's co-instructor, Andrew MacDonald, is a third-degree black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu who took first place at the AGP Rome Grand Slam. Adam asked him straight out whether the ground is where he wants to be in a fight. His answer: "Absolutely not."
The street has no mats. In Adam's words: "Glass, rocks, curbs, cars, people have friends that come out of nowhere and kick you."
"He throws punches, whoever the better boxer is, is going to win. I'm not going to do that."Adam, HAVOC lesson 23
If your plan is to out-punch a younger, heavier man, you need a better plan.
Adam has used a firearm to defend himself in a real situation. That's exactly why he doesn't think it's a plan by itself. Even where you can carry, you often can't take it into many buildings, government offices, planes or trains. And a weekend course doesn't make you ready. From his own book:
"Yes, they can put holes in paper but take it from me, this is a far cry from knowing what to do with a firearm in an emergency situation."Adam, Be Your Own Bodyguard
In a lot of the places he worked overseas, carrying one wasn't allowed: "a lot of those locations didn't allow me by virtue of my role to carry a weapon." When the gun isn't there, the plan is your hands.
There were 1.21 million violent crimes in the United States in a single year. Every one of those victims assumed it wouldn't be them. Adam doesn't let anyone off the hook:
"Yeah, you can blame the guy for throwing a sucker punch, but blame yourself for lacking the tactical acumen to put yourself in a position to not get punched."Adam, HAVOC lesson 10
When a real threat hits, your heart rate spikes past 145 beats a minute. At that point, in Adam's words, "your fine motor skills and peripheral vision start to diminish." Complex technique is gone. What's left is your gross motor movement and your instincts.
So HAVOC doesn't fight your body's reaction. It's built on it. When you're startled, you square up to the threat and your hands come up. Every person does it. Adam: "So we're using our body's natural reaction to stress, an autonomous reaction to build their platform for all of our striking and all of our self-defense."
Then you do three things, fast:
You set your distance and your angle before he knows a fight has started. To him, and to every witness, you look like a man pleading for calm. You're actually in a guard.
"It's speed and aggression." You don't trade punches. You overwhelm him so his brain can't catch up: "We want to overwhelm his brain, overwhelm his body and have him shut down."
A man on drugs can fight through pain, and a bigger man can absorb a punch. There are a few places on the human body where none of that matters. HAVOC goes there, and only there.
Then you put him down and you leave. That's the whole system. Adam calls it "a bare bones, down and dirty, gross motor skill, street fighting, self-defense program." His rule for every technique in it:
"The genius is in the simplicity, if it's complex, it's not going to work."Adam, HAVOC lesson 1
Demo clip · Lesson 19
"I retired after 24 years in the military as a Sergeant Major."Adam, HAVOC lesson 1
HAVOC started as a program for a military unit, built "for guys that don't have a high level of self-defense skills, but find themselves in situations that they need it." Adam was in the working group that built it more than ten years ago. He's been refining it ever since.
Before any of that, Adam took a job working the door at the roughest bar in town, on purpose. His first night, a man was beating his girlfriend with a closed fist. Adam stepped in. She smashed a beer bottle on his face and broke his tooth, and the boyfriend beat him badly.
His own girlfriend asked how long he was going to keep doing this. He said:
"Until my knees stop shaking."
HAVOC is everything he learned after that night.
Andrew pressure-tests every technique in HAVOC against real resistance. When a world-class grappler tells you to stay off the ground, believe him.
Yes. It was built for you.
HAVOC isn't for the guy who wants a UFC contract. Adam says so in lesson 3: "You're not going to take this program, practice it a few times and jump in the cage and have a contract with UFC."
It's for the man with a family to protect, a body that isn't what it was, and no time to "go to a class five nights a week for three years in order to develop a basic level of competency."
"It is simple and effective, and someone my age can easily perform these techniques. I love it."
Under three hours of video, in five phases. Here's a small part of what's inside.
The "harmless" hands position that makes every witness see a frightened man begging for calm, while it's actually a loaded guard.
Why you should never look a threat in the eyes, and where Special Operations operators look instead.
The one-inch step that puts you exactly where his best punch is at its weakest, before he ever throws it.
The safe-distance rule that's measured with his leg, not yours. Get it wrong and you're already in range.
The village tell Adam learned in Afghanistan that warns you something's wrong before anyone makes a move.
How most knockouts really happen (it's not the big punch), and the simple head position that protects you from the one you don't see.
Why you must never back straight up when a man rushes you, and the move that sends him stumbling past you instead.
Why punching a man in the face is one of the worst things you can do in a street fight, and what to hit him with instead.
The open-hand strike that wrecks his balance and leaves him disoriented.
The only kick in HAVOC, and why every other kick gets you "put on your ass" (Adam's words).
What Adam learned hammering a pro boxer's thigh for five rounds, and why you'll never see that kick in this course.
How to overwhelm a man's brain so he's making bad decisions before he realizes the fight has started.
The 15-to-30-second rule, and why you're in serious trouble the moment a fight runs past it.
The one cover that works against every punch he throws. No blocks to memorize, and none of the six months of drilling that blocking takes.
The punch you're most likely to face in a street fight (it's not a jab), and the counter that can drop him with a single strike.
The operator's grip that pins him in place and protects your chin at the same time.
Why a shot to the groin often just makes him angrier, and what HAVOC goes for instead.
From the course
The technique Special Forces operators called bullshit, until Adam put it on them. It works on men who can take a punch.
How to control a bigger man with one free hand when you're pinned against a wall, in a car seat or in a bathroom stall.
The move Adam almost cut from the course, and the undercover officer who said "the best training they ever got was some of this stuff."
Why pain alone won't stop a man who's high, and the one target he can't fight through.
"Where the head goes, the body follows": two hand positions that steer a man wherever you want him.
How to put a bigger man on the ground without going down with him, the reason a BJJ black belt says "absolutely not" to the ground.
How to stop a man who's beating someone else, from behind or the side.
The two-word finish, "nose to toes", that puts him down and gets you out.
The level-of-force rule that helps you end the fight and stay on the right side of it.
And that's not all of it. Every technique is shown slow, then at live speed, by Adam and Andrew.
"Hello, I am currently going through your HAVOC program. I am 62 with 45 years of martial arts, 24 years of military, and over 40 years of LE and security. It is simple and effective, and someone my age can easily perform these techniques. I love it."
"I'm learning so much, I wish I had this a few months back, I got into a street fight with a guy and if I new how to take him out quickly I wouldn't have been jumped by the 4 others…. We were boxing and that gave his friends time to get to my six and do damage from the back.."
"Really good stuff. I'm sure your critics think it starts too slow - you know, "show me the ninja shit." But this program is very solid and very in line with the realities that face most people in a confrontation."
"I have studied TKD and Aikido. I know what they are talking about when they talk about typical martial arts training vs what works in the street. So, far, this is very down-to-earth stuff."
"I am a BJJ student and love it. But it takes a good while ( and it should) to become proficient at BJJ. … The simple, gross motor methods it teaches were easily learned and upped my confidence for real-life violence greatly in a short period of time. So I highly recommend this program."
"You guys have a great balance of soft skills, hard skills, and also very transparent on the legal consequences, and what you feel after a violent encounter. You guys are the real deal."
"I have broken HAVOC down into smaller sections, studied them and demonstrated them to my class. It made sense to them and makes sense to me as a Sensei."
"legit system with basic stuff that works"Brian L.
"Great tactics right out of the gate and simple to deploy!!!!"HAVOC student
"GREAT program! Straight forward steps/videos to follow and to train. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED."Joe F.
"You will not regret signing up for this course."Kevin V.
| HAVOC | Martial arts class | Jiu-jitsu | Carrying a gun | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| With your heart at 145 | Built for it | Fine motor skills fail | Works on the mat, not the street | Fine motor skills, under stress |
| Time to be useful | A weekend | Years | Years | Months of real training |
| Against a bigger man | Targets beat size | Size wins | Until his friends show up | If you can reach it |
| Goes everywhere you go | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not on planes, trains or into many buildings |
| Cost | $97 once | Monthly dues, for years | Monthly dues, for years | Gun, permit, ammo, range time |
A year of martial arts dues costs more than a thousand dollars, and you'd still be years from useful.
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That's who it was built for. Gross-motor moves, a fight that's over in seconds, and targets that don't care about size or strength.
Yes. Every technique is shown slow, then at live speed, with Adam and Andrew. Most take a handful of reps at home to get right.
Not to start. A partner helps you sharpen it later.
No. It fills the gap your training leaves on the street: no mat, no gloves, no ref, and maybe his friends. Andrew, a third-degree BJJ black belt, teaches half of it.
HAVOC teaches you to match your level of force to his, end it and get to safety. Adam: "The level of force I'm using is directly dependent on the level of force he's exhibiting towards me." Know your local laws. HAVOC is not legal advice.
Yes. The targets HAVOC teaches don't care how big the man attached to them is.
No. It's $97 once, with lifetime access. After checkout we'll offer optional add-ons. Take them or don't.
It won't be on a mat. Nobody will stop it. Adam:
"This isn't sport. This isn't in a ring. So there's no ref. You say time out, there's nobody there that's going to stop it."Adam, HAVOC lesson 2
You can keep hoping. Or you can spend a weekend learning what a Special Operations Sergeant Major teaches the men who go hands-free into hostile places, and own it for life for $97.
"During an assault there are only two sides, it starts with a Predator and Prey, but ends with a Victor and a Victim. Decide right now, you will not be a victim."Adam, Be Your Own Bodyguard
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