Every once in a while a picture from The Jail Training Center (of blessed memory) surfaces online!
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TBT: The Jail Training Center
Does anybody know whatever happened to the Jail Training Center? Does the facility itself still exist?
Before it was the Jail Training Center it was the Academy, first in Missouri and then in the Atlanta area. I went twice when it was in the Atlanta area, after it had become the Jail Training Center, and this was after Chip had departed the scene.
Jail Training Center
Somebody got a mysterious email from these guys that they are re-launching their site? I have not heard anything about it myself, but it is a great excuse to show this picture:
He can lock me up, anytime!
The story behind the Jail Training Center/Academy
Speaking of Jack Fritscher (see last week’s posting) there is much more to share. Many of you guys remember the Jail Training Center/Academy:
Well, Jack Fritscher was there! He writes:
“My longtime friend, Chip Weichelt, was the founder of The Training Center Academy. I worked as producer on several of his films, especially his first, ‘Atlanta Knights.’ As the founding San Francisco editor or Drummer magazine, I went undercover for Drummer, with Chip’s cooperation, and wrote a Drummer feature article about the Academy in Drummer 145, January 1990.
To read that story, plus Jack’s detailed history of Chip, his life, and how his Training Center and videos were created, click here.
Metal would like to thank Jack Fritscher for sharing this stuff!
Jail Training Center / The Academy
There once was a place just outside Atlanta with realistic jail cells, solitary confinement and a padded isolation chamber. It was a place where you used to be able to go and — for a fee — have real cops and military guys (supposedly straight, but who knows) lock you up and work you over. When they were operating under the name of the Jail Training Center, I went twice. Here is a picture during my first visit of my boots when I was locked in one of their cells, and another picture during my first visit of me hogtying a guy.
There is also some video out there somewhere of me helping restrain another guy in a straitjacket, which I have never seen. I have since lost touch with the guy who was running it, and I am not sure if the place is even still in operation. If it is still running, I am not aware of it. Before the place in Atlanta, they also had a facility in Missouri. It was also called The Academy.