Taylor Louvrien, an instructor of TLM’s Fighting Chance, was held up at gunpoint

Thursday night by two thugs. One shoved a handgun in his face and threatened to

kill him if he didn’t give up his cash and keys to his truck. Taylor disarmed him and

proceeded to deliver some bad karma on his thug ass….while the other ran.

Taylor flew to Orlando from Minnesota to pursue instructor training in our system

that he heard about from my friend, stunt coordinator Artie Malesci. They met

sheerly by accident in a restaurant in Minnesota while Artie was visiting his wife

Barbra’s parents who lived there. Taylor met Jenn , his current girlfriend while in

Orlando taking the instructor program.

Taylor brought Jenn into Safe House as a test student to teach under my

supervision along with another instructor trainee, Marty Joachim. Jenn and her 11

year old daughter began training with us also and are featured in numerous videos

we do. All are extremely talented and often help me teach.

Taylor recently moved back to Minnesota looking for work and planning to start a

life there with Jenn and Bri. It was there on Thursday night he was confronted with

the very real and terrifying threat that could have turned out tragically for so many.

He survived a deadly threat and he and Jenn both credit TLM’s Fighting Chance for

his ability to overcome the threat.

In thinking about everything that led up to that life altering moment: all the

perceived coincidences, the chance meetings, the discussions that provoked a

young, hard working, former tree trimmer to travel over a 1000 miles and spend

considerable money to become an instructor of a self defense system he’d never

seen or heard of prior to his meeting Artie.