ARMA TRAINING - Key Persons
Dave is the founder and Director of ARMA Training. He graduated from his first law enforcement academy in 1985, and now has 30 years of combined professional and civilian training experience.
Dedication, vision, experience, and instructional skills are the criteria by which a physical-confrontation and personal -safety-awareness instructor should be judged - and Dave excels in all of these attributes
Dave is recognized as one of the nation's leading tactical instructors and is an expert in equipment testing and establishing protocols. He specializes in crowd management, non-lethal weaponry, chemical and specialty impact munitions, ground and water-based defensive tactics, and personal safety awareness.
Dave combines a unique blend of physical expertise, teaching know-how and a hands on approach to tactics training, using anatomically correct techniques. He leads the class from the front and is an instructor that demonstrates how to survive - rather than just talking about survival.
Dave Young brings reality to training in order to create a believable environment that allows the participants to experience the stress of real world confrontations in a safe learning format. This approach gives his students confidence in themselves, their tactics, and their equipment.
From 2005-2008 Dave hosted a special television series for National Geographic titled, "Crash Test Human." This unique television show focused on Dave's expertise with product testing and evaluation - and included Dave surviving a head-on car collision, being trapped in a submerged car, and spending time in a hyperbaric chamber.
In recent years Dave has taken his background and expertise and applied it to developing programs for civilians - including parents, students, educators, martial artists, and executives. In 2010, he formed Vistelar Training Group with two other nationally-recognized defense trainers in order to create more focus to these efforts.