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Massad F. Ayoob
DOB 07/20/1948 in Cambridge, MA
Two daughters, Cathbin and Justine
Education
- Bachelor of Science in Business, 1970
New Hampshire College, Cum Laude
Title
- Director of Lethal Force Institute, Inc, 1981-present
Teaching Experience
- International Director of Police Firearms Training, Defensive Tactics Institute, 1980-82
- Special Instructor, Chapman Academy, 1981-88
- Assistant Professor teaching weapons and Chemical Agents, Advanced Police Training Program of New Hampshire 1974-77
- Special Instructor, NH Institute of Karate
- Feature lecturer, Missouri Police Shooting State Championships and Seminar, 1983-88
- International Instructor Staff, PR-24 police baton training program
- National Chairman, committee on police firearms training, American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers (ASLET), 1987-present
- Co-instructor (with former world combat pistol champion Ray Chapman) of Advanced Officer Survival Seminars conducted nationwide through Police Marksman Association
- Lecturer and coordinator, first state ASLET seminar (New Hampshire, 1988)
- Guest lecture experience includes Second Chance Officer Survival Seminar 1980-85
- Smith & Wesson Academy Instructors’ update
- Metro-Dade Police Academy (use of deadly force, unarmed combat and arrest tactics, officer survival)
- Ordnance Expo., Los Angeles 1983-84
- New England SWAT Seminar
- ASLET NATIONAL SEMINARS (knife/counterknife; plainclothes/off-duty encounter management; forensic aspects of gunshot/knife/bludgeon wounds)
- Regional International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors Seminars, New York (ammunition selection) and Switzerland (dynamics of violent encounters)
- McGill Univ. School of Medicine, Royal Victoria teaching hospital (wound dynamics, knife and gunshot), 1988
- International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors (aftermath management in police shootings), National Conference, 1988
- Lecturer, National Tactical Invitational, Gunsite Training Center, 1995
Personal Training
- Smith & Wesson Academy Advanced Combat Shooting, 1st in class
- Smith & Wesson Academy Instructor Course, 1st in class
- Smith & Wesson Academy Officer Survival Course, 1st in class
- Smith & Wesson Academy Weapon Retention Instructor Course
- Smith & Wesson Academy Instructors’ Update (Twice)
- Smith & Wesson Academy Match Shooting School
- PR-24 Baton Instructor Course (Lon Anderson)
- PR-24 National Instructors’ Seminar (annually)
- National Instructor, Telescoping Baton (CASCO)
- National Instructor, Persuader Baton (Joe Truncale)
- Instructor, Straight Baton (COPSTK)
- PPCT Pressure Point Control Tactics (Bruce Siddle)
- Kubotan Instructor Course (Takayuki Kubota, John Peters)
- International Police Academy Defensive Tactics Instructor Course (Rated “master instructor” by Sensei Jim Morell)
- Advanced Homicide Investigation (Lt. Cmdr. Vern Geberth, NYPD, ret.)
- Medical Legal Death Investigation (Dade County Medical Examiner’s Office)
- International Homicide Investigators Seminar (Twice)
- NYPD “Hostage Negotiation for Supervisors”
- NYPD “Post Shooting Tactics”
- NYPD “House Clearing Techniques”
- NYPD “Off Duty Confrontation Tactics”
- NYPD “Summary of Violent Encounter Patterns”
- NYPD “Police Shotgun Program”
- Ordnance Expo. “Firearms and Ballistic Evidence”
- Ordnance Expo. “Handling Barricaded Suspects”
- Ordnance Expo. “Officer Involved Shooting Investigations”
- Ordnance Expo. “Officer Involved Shooting Investigations Advanced”
- Ordnance Expo. “Officer Survival””
- AELE, “Police Civil Liability Seminar”
- Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, B.O.S.S. program including officer survival, intelligence briefings on outlaw bike gangs, booby traps, counter-ambush tactics, arrest techniques
- Sceptre Baton Program, Georges Sylvain
- Illinois Department of Law Enforcement Counter-Terrorist Series, including “Use of Explosives in Terrorism” and “Hostage Negotiation”
- Escrima (short stick fighting) seminar, Grandmaster Remy Presas
- Knife/Counter-Knife, Master Paul Vunak, Jeet Kune Do, Long Beach, CA.
- Knife/Counter-Knife, Hank Reinhardt, Atlanta
- Knife/Counter-Knife, Sensei Jim Maloney, Uechi-ryu, Concord, NH
- Chapman Academy Intermediate Pistolcraft
- Chapman Academy Advanced Pistolcraft
- Mid South Institute of Self Defense Shooting, Advanced (John Shaw)
- Defense Training, Inc. judgment shooting program (John Farnam)
- DEFT Simulator (Judgment Shooting Test), LAPD Academy
- FATS Simulator (Judgment Shooting Test), Atlanta (consultant for mfr.)
- Calibre Press Street Survival Seminar
- Glock Instructor Certification
- Glock Armorer’s Certification