TRAINING:
PROJECT GECKO
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particularly awesome companies. That´s why we created a
second company under Project Gecko, the company is named
GECKO Superior and its sole purpose is to act as a bridge and
gateway to the efficient, durable and & unique equipment
based on our field experience. As we like to say ‘’Experience
is one thing you can’t get for nothing.’’
Once trained, how do those successfully attending your
courses go about finding employment?
This is a tricky question. The thing is, our clients currently
divide into two categories, some who come with a skilled
background and some who come with definitely nothing. We
tend to keep contact with some of our clients and as far as
I know, a few already enlisted in the military after visiting
several of our courses. We also heard from several layers of
backgrounds, that our training gives them confidence and a
better glimpse of reality into their profession and what could
possibly go wrong.
Let’s talk over those with zero background who come to us
though. This group itself is broad and wide and mostly based
on civilian partcipants. The theme is mostly oriented around
one topic; can I defend myself or others? Can I make a
difference?
Attacks are often brief, brutal and unexpected. Chances are
you will be on your own with no policeman to help you at that
crucial moment. If you have developed good avoidance and
awareness skills (covered in our CQB courses, especially Level
1), you will dramatically increase your ability to stay out of
harm’s way. Still, an attack may occur. If you have developed
proper mental preparation, speed, and accuracy with a
handgun, you will dramatically increase your ability to prevail
over your attacker, no matter his size. So we focus not only on
giving a guarantee or resume checkpoints, we focus on giving
tools, a way and a solution to modern conflicts and dangers.
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Do you offer your own services in your market area?
Yes and no. We actually did already couple of private trainings
in the area of North Germany, but ironically we found
ourselves mainly around Central \ Western Germany and
central Belgium. Those two countries are countries where we
focus 90% of our current effort. Other countries such as Austria
Czech and Poland received \ will receive our attention soon
enough, this time open to the public.
Without going into specifics who do you, and your
successful trainees, work with?
As mentioned above it highly depends on the course \ or
program we talk about. Overall? We have a strong traffic of
German Bundeswehr reservists & active soldiers now. As well
we have had several clients from the firefighters or other
emergency services. All in all it is very broad and different.
Where do you see Project GECKO evolving in the future?
I like to imagine our development as a walk down a corridor;
there are many doors, and we tend to open each one of
them. We have clear goals for the long and short term. We
are definitely always looking to partner with professional
organisations and to develop even stronger depth into our
training concepts. To be honest, personally I think the next
years in Europe will be the most challenging (geopolitical
wise) and I am certain we will be able to sustain and
differentiate ourselves form others.
If someone reading this article likes the sound of what you
offer, what should be their next step?
They should first check out our website under WWW.
PROJECTGECKO.INFO, or contact us via our Email contact.
[email protected] or via phone: +49(0)42636758312
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