Ground Defense Tactics
Studies have shown that the vast majority of empty-hand combat events typically end up with all participants on the ground. During this 8-hour session students will be introduced to the fundamentals of ground defense/restraint tactics. At the end of this session, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate safe positional transitions from standing to back-ground fighting positions.
- Demonstrate proper personal defense against various attacks (kicks, punches, edged weapons) while in the ground fighting position.
- Demonstrate escapes from various choke attempts while on the ground in back lying or front lying positions.
- Escape from a mount position attack.
- Escape from a guard position attack.
- Obtain subject restraint while on the ground using safe and effective control tactics.
- Demonstrate escape and disengagement techniques when securing time and distance is the preferred option.
Spontaneous Attack Defense
Often, despite the fact that we attempt to predict subject behaviour based on threat cues presented, the fact remains that often an attack can occur extremely rapidly, seemingly without notice. Although the reality is that pre-attack indicators are almost always present, we often do not notice them for what they are except in hindsight. During this 8-hour session students will learn the fundamentals of spontaneous attack defense using the best tools with which nature equipped them; the hands and the brain. Following this session students will be able to:
- Demonstrate a proper stance when dealing with subjects that respects the time/distance relationship (personal danger zones).
- Demonstrate effective interception/blocking of the attackers weapons.
- Describe the relationship between proximity and personal risk.
- Demonstrate rapid and effective balance displacement techniques designed to put the attacker on the defensive.
- Demonstrate proper and effective strikes and stuns to minimize the attacker's capacity to carry out further harmful action.
- Demonstrate effective disengagement techniques to obtain distance/time and other tactical options.
Multiple Assailant Defense
Every year the number of attacks involving multiple attackers increases. For those contact professionals exposed to a work environment where gangs are prevalent, the risk of a multiple assailant attack is even higher. The attacks are typically extremely fast, highly assaultive and often deadly for the individual.
At the end of this 4-hour session, students will be able to:
- Explain the risk management principles of multiple assailant attacks and the articuable proper responses.
- Describe the psychology of the multiple assailant attack and where the ‘Achilles heel' lies.
- Demonstrate effective grip-releases.
- Demonstrate the tactics of constant, unpredictable movement patterns.
- Demonstrate the technique of ‘cracking-stacking and redirecting' .
- Demonstrate effective strikes designed to incapacitate the attackers.
- When appropriate and possible, demonstrate effective disengagement.
Victory Over Violence© - Self-Defense
Contact professionals are being called upon more and more to deliver or teach the people in their organizations or under their protection, safe and effective personal awareness - self defense.
This practical self defense program, has been effectively delivered to various community groups, educational institutions and corporation for over four years.
This program is designed to empower the student with confidence, skills of personal awareness, risk management fundamentals and the necessary physical skills to protect them selves.
This 8-hour session includes classroom presentations, physical training and culminates in scenario-based training where students are able to face a padded attacker and utilize the techniques presented.
At the end of this session, students will be able to:
- Describe the levels of personal awareness.
- Explain why avoidance is always the preferred option.
- Describe the power of intuition and its function to keep the human organism safe from harm.
- Relate the typical pre-incident indicators of inter-personal human aggression.
- Explain why ‘ignored behaviour is condoned behaviour' and proper techniques for addressing improper behaviour.
- Explain the importance of appropriate boundaries and the danger signs of subjects that do not respect these boundaries.
- Discuss the risk management principles of personal safety.
- Explain what physiological changes occur in the body during high-stress incidents and why these are critical to personal safety.
- Describe the 5 keys to personal safety.
- Relate the ‘hierarchy of incapacitation'.
- Demonstrate effective releases from sudden grabs and grip releases.
- Demonstrate escapes from choke attempts and hair-pulls.
- Demonstrate counter-attack techniques standing.
- Demonstrate counter attacks and escapes from the ground.
- Demonstrate escape maneuvers to obtain time, distance and assistance.
- Participate in various scenario-based exercises with padded attackers to demonstrate all of the tactics learned.
