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Effective Combatives Problem-Solving©
& Police GroundDefense


Focus: 
All sworn or commissioned officers of any rank.

Length:  16 hours* 

"Fighting is hard enough without having
to remember how to fight"
©

This IS the Revolution in police defensive tactics.  Our training abandons complicated, technique-driven, Aikido-/jujitsu-based training designed by martial artists for martial artists.  Instead, we have a simple program of "Effective Combatives Problem-Solving"© utilizing exclusively the “Universal Rules & Principles of Defense”© that is effective, easy to retain, and easy to apply for every officer.  Proven by police officers on the mean streets for over 20 years, it is the only defensive tactics program in existence that is based on the aptitude and skills of your weakest and smallest officers. 

We prepare you and your officers by utilizing drills that deeply embed and condition a "Threat Recognition Response.©"  All physical assault on officers are foreshadowed by threat cues by the suspect.  Recognizing these warning signs early and responding to them effectively is the key to surviving.  These specialized drills, found no where else, quickly provides you with the skills to quickly recognize a developing threat, with the physical skills and decision-making processes to problem-solve a solution to any defense need.

This course provides extensive instruction in the following areas:

  • Constitutional Limits to the Use of Police Force (this is needed to place the curriculum in a legally acceptable context, reinforcing our participants’ reasonable force conduct and their ability to articulate their actions when they return to duty).

  • Skills development.

  • "Effective Combatives Problem-Solving©" including "Threat Recognition Response Drills.©"

  • Defensive tactics.

  • Arrest & control.

  • Weapon retention.

  • Knife defense.

  • Police GroundDefense.

  • Multiple officer takedowns.

This is a very popular seminar that provides officers with the tools and reinforcement of problem-solving through the Universal Laws and Principles of Defense© to reasonably and competently use on the street.  We constantly see officers from these seminars months and years later who are able to apply the training without thinking about which way to turn or how to grab the suspect when faced with an aggressively resisting suspect.  Simple.  Effective.  Non-technical.  For real officers, not police martial artists…Real world defensive tactics in the real world of arrest, defense, and control—not Hollywood or fantasy-based.  We teach you to problem-solve without complication or pretense, just like in real “police” fights! 

Available only through CUTTING EDGE TRAINING!

Our "Real-World Police GroundDefense" block is designed for police officers in the real world who struggle and fight with suspects on the ground.  Because more than 8 out of 10 police uses of force end up on the ground, you and your officer need a real world response to the down and dirty street fights on the ground.  Our Police GroundDefense has no jujitsu or wrestling moves for winning in tournaments...because your officers cannot learn them in the time allowed them in training.  We concentrate on officers applying simple rules and principles along with their skills to successfully hold a suspect to the ground, defend against a more highly skilled fighter, and to more safely take a resistive suspect into custody. 

This training has been described by participants as:

Practical

It works for everyone--not just your martial artists.  It is simple, it is outcome-based (no techniques that are graded as "correctly performed"), and it recognizes that you don't always get to arrest and potentially fight with people you are stronger than or will passively accept the latest "wristy-twisty" that some "authority" says will work but never does (because, according to the "authority," you are not applying it "correctly")
Uh, just one question:  Have these people EVER been in a fight?.

Tactical

There is a reality out there...sometimes, some people want to hurt, or even kill an officer.  The Universal Defense Systems is fanatic about following Safe Tactical Doctrine.  This system of self-defense and suspect arrest tactics reflects that the principles of safe tactics are not thrown out of the window because you, the professional peace officer, are magically exempt from safety rules because you are in a defense countermeasures or arrest situation.

Realistic

Our training is about "combat realities" faced by real officers in the real world.  Fantasies about catching knife hands, instantly responding to a suspect's movement, and what you "can" do (if everything is perfect and everyone cooperates) will only get you killed.  We understand that officers, because of their human response limitations, are behind everyone else on the street (action-reaction realities).  We understand that much of staying alive and uninjured is understanding what you CAN'T do real world of fighting a suspect who is unsearched, desperate, and with unknown intentions.  We have studied the real world realities of weapon retention, defense situations, knife attacks on armed officers, and provide training you can apply in the real world of real policing.

Defensible

The entire course is stringently based upon the latest laws governing the police force response.  Officers are trained and then required to articulate their force solutions and responses on the training floor.  This course provides the only police training that combines the physical skills, problem-solving expertise, and the legal justification and basis for an officer's force response combined into one heck of an effective training program.

 

*  NOTE: This course can be reduced to 8 hours with the elimination or condensing of the topics presented.

 

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