Bourne in the Desert

By Bob Owens

If you’ve got a week, Denise Bixler wants to turn you into Jason Bourne.

Okay, maybe I’m over-selling it.

Ms. Bixler, of BixPros, is only offering you a chance to learn edged, impact, and hand-to-hand techniques with legendary ex-CIA non-ballistic weapons expert Steve Tarani, combat carbine with Navy SEAL Chief (retired) Chris White, and handguns with some guy named Rob Leatham, who might have several dozen USPSA championships under his belt.

When you’re done with the five-and-a-half day experience, you will not look like Matt Damon, or be able to speak innumerable foreign languages fluently, or have hidden safety deposit boxes tashed in exotic locations around the world.

Probably.

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There are some people in the world who simply have a talent for meeting other people and establishing fascinating social networks, and Denise Bixler is one of those people.

Bixler first ran into Steve Tarani while undergoing training as a Sheriff’s Auxiliary in Jackson Hole, Wyoming with the sheriff’s and police departments. She didn’t have experience with any sort of self-defense courses at the time, but quickly took to the training and began to thoroughly enjoy it. She took additional courses through Tarani, and thorough him, she eventually met retired Navy SEAL Chief …Read the Rest

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