This course delivers a practical, dynamic system for personal and professional self-defense, subject control, and combative engagement. Participants learn integrated techniques to create safety under pressure, defend against physical threats, control and restrain suspects, disarm weapons when appropriate, apply handcuffing procedures, and elevate overall situational awareness and personal safety decision-making.

The course focuses on practical skillsets valuable for today’s safety and security professionals, police officers, and military personnel. You’ll learn to integrate simple and effective techniques to create space and time for Use of Force options, safely control and detain suspects or combatants, proper searching techniques, and how to stay safe.

Learning Objectives:

1. Apply dynamic defensive movement and positioning to create distance, angles, and safety against common physical threats.
2. Execute effective subject-control techniques that allow safe management of non-compliant or resistive individuals.
3. Integrate combative skills to neutralize immediate threats while maintaining legal and tactical soundness.
4. Demonstrate firearms-disarm methods and transitions to control when faced with firearm threats (as appropriate to the environment and authority level).
5. Maintain control of your own firearm in the holster and out of the holster if attacked or an attempt is made to disarm you.
6. Perform proper handcuffing and restraint application under realistic conditions, emphasizing safety for both the officer/protector and the subject.
7. Strengthen threat recognition, situational awareness, and personal safety decision-making to reduce risk before, during, and after physical encounters.