So what's the format?
Depends on the day and focus for the day as well as other variables.
As in X number of weeks, with X goals, and X as the consequences of success or failure?
This was 12 weeks of training with the goals of improving performance, functional strength, endurance, shooting under physical and mental stress,etc. Short term consequences for them of not completing the exercise and shooting rotations would be being less well prepared for the match they are focused on (The CT SWAT Challenge) and long term, not being as well prepared for their job as they could be, which could be fatal...
Oh, and what the typical success and failure rates?
Depends on how you define success and failure in the context of this particular training course. It's not like a SWAT tryouts where a person can fail the tryout and not be accepted to the team. These are already active team guys, so none "failed" in the classic sense, and this was not a pass/fail sort of training. The course was designed to gradually but steadily test and improve their performance. If you watch early vids from later vids, you can see an obvious progression in intensity and difficulty over the 12 week period.
However, I will be training a course based on the above style training as the SnW Training Academy Spring and Fall 2009. See my site
www.OptimalSWAT.com for more info on that is interested. I don't have exact dates yet, but will have them up soon as I get them.
Courses will be open to LE and or tactical LE only BTW.