$1200 is not doable for me.
I would need to know who Mr. Ayoob is also, this would be a good start.

Masaad Ayoob can be found on a lot of You Tube videos on subjects like Firearms use, home defense, CCW, etc.  He is an all around expert in defensive use of firearms.  His resume is extensive and too numerous to mention.

And he's been around for a long, long, time.  In my younger years (in the early 80's) he was in every gun and rifle magazine around.  Harder nowadays because a lot of the retail outlets don't carry firearm magazines.  I remember working as a stock clerk at Foodland and I would go to the magazine rack on my breaks to read the gun magazines with him in it.

Do a search on Masaad Ayoob.  Lots of videos of him out there.

I've seen him through the years and know he has a lot of training in firearms, isn't he a former police officer?  I'm wondering about how he acquired his knowledge of the law, does he have a law background seeing as he's giving legal advise.

Massad F. Ayoob (born July 20, 1948) is an American firearms and self-defense instructor. He has taught police techniques
and civilian self-defense to both law enforcement officers and private citizens since 1974. He was the director of the Lethal
Force Institute in Concord, New Hampshire, from 1981 to 2009, and now operates his own company.[1] Ayoob has appeared
as an expert witness in several trials. He served as a part-time police officer in New Hampshire since 1972 and retired in 2017
with the rank of Captain from the Grantham, New Hampshire, police department.
...
While Ayoob has been in the courtroom as a testifying police officer, expert witness, and police prosecutor, he is not an attorney;
he is, however, a former Vice Chairman of the Forensic Evidence Committee of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
(NACDL), and is believed to be the only non-attorney ever to hold this position.[3][4] His course for attorneys, titled "The Management
of the Lethal Force/Deadly Weapons Case", was, according to Jeffrey Weiner: "the best course for everything you need to know but
are never taught in law school.

He is definitely a living legend and part of me wants to do it just to get to meet him, but I am having difficulty making the connection of how taking this class would lead to CCW.

I've read the Hawaii self defense laws and would be interested in classes that discusses the laws, the implications, and different scenarios that can occur in Hawaii self-defense situations.

When it is written in lawyer-speak I have a hard time interpreting it and a seminar/class that puts the jargon into layman terms would be nice.

Is defending your life really worth having to defend your decision in court and possibly lose everything you own?

Just get a big dog.

For $1200 is he going to come and be an expert witness to testify on your behalf if you have to use lethal force to protect yourself?

For $1200 is he going to come and be an expert witness to testify on your behalf if you have to use lethal force to protect yourself?

Yup, but it also includes any of his other self-defense courses too.  I don't think it covers while on LE duty though, I'm not sure.

I think one thing that might make a difference is how big of a class are we talking?  One instructor for 5 students and I think you are going to get a much better value than say 25 students to 1 instructor.

I think one thing that might make a difference is how big of a class are we talking?  One instructor for 5 students and I think you are going to get a much better value than say 25 students to 1 instructor.

I think one thing that might make a difference is how big of a class are we talking?  One instructor for 5 students and I think you are going to get a much better value than say 25 students to 1 instructor.

Looking at a class of between 15 to 20 locals and a bunch from the mainland for 2 instructors.  They just did a class in Arizona with 47 people last month, the one our group was supposed to attend if not for the quarantine, and it got good reviews.

A 1 to 5 ratio is not realistic unless you're thinking live-fire or other things that require a lot of supervision.

Optimistic about travel quarantines and restrictions on sizes of gatherings ending by then, are you?

 

It is after the elections.