Engineered specifically to meet today’s realities, INPAX® is a practical approach to managing physical conflict in the real world.
Developed from over a 15 years of research, development and real-life application in the USMC, the field of executive protection, and a lifetime of martial arts, the INPAX® system provides solutions to the safety and security problems typically faced by executives and professional people in managing and controlling the physical and psychological dynamics of conflict.
Traditionally most people felt the only route to developing personal protection skills was through either Martial Arts, such as Karate, or through basic Self-Defense courses.
For many people, neither option was very appealing as neither truly address the realities of the street in a practical yet comprehensive way, which would be appropriate for men and women, as well as youths.
INPAX® is changing that: Safe, user friendly and most of all effective, the modular training system is engineered to produce dynamic results in hours instead of years, and is suitable for anyone, regardless 
of age, size or athletic ability.
Whereas martial art or self defense systems require highly athletic and competitive techniques which are developed over years of dedicated training, INPAX® provides a practical approach to managing physical conflict in the real world.
Understanding conflict begins by defining and categorizing conflict into predictable and manageable stages. The system then utilizes several fundamental positions and realistic techniques to manage and control the situation throughout each stage.
This knowledge allows you to address the situation, regardless of the aggressor's size, skill, and whether weapons or multiple aggressors are involved. This additionally allows you to transform real world conflict from its typically random, unpredictable competitive format to a non-competitive, systematic formula that anyone can follow successfully and predictably.
Human conflict, as with any subject, can be understood, quantified and predicted within certain parameters. Before even worrying about the physical elements of defense, training begins with a comprehensive understanding of the physiology and psychology of conflict.
Conflict as a whole cannot be entirely controlled, but it can be managed.
Management of conflict can be defined as: The ability to expect and control the elements that are predictable, and the ability to respond appropriately to and properly address the elements that are unpredictable.
Predictive skills coupled with a strong framework of decision-making and appropriate physical skill sets allows for immediate assessment and response to changing, or unpredictable elements. These elements combined allow for the effective Management of Conflict.
There are three basic stages of conflict which exist on a continuum. Conflicts can progress up and down this continuum, or skip stages entirely (exp. a surprise physical assault with no opportunity to avoid or negotiate).
Most people prefer and strive to avoid conflict at all times, and this natural ability to avoid conflict can be enhanced through better awareness & recognition skills. Further, appropriate physical training enhances your avoidance ability so that you naturally emit the signals of a harder target best avoided by predators to begin with. Trained Awareness Skills and Avoidance Programming combine to make you a difficult person to surprise, and a target predator’s prefer to leave alone to begin with.
It has been said that all of life is a negotiation—a statement that implies that conflict is unavoidable; since it is inevitable, we must learn how to manage it. It is a simple fact that unless you live in a cave, avoiding conflict entirely, all the time, is impossible. As such, we must have predefined skills and strategies for how to negotiate and both use and interpret non-verbal body language (posturing) to maintain conflict at a low level and prevent it from escalating to a physical altercation. Even if you are 
a skilled negotiator in a business environment,
negotiating and interpreting a potential physical altercation can be disorienting at best and more often terrifying--if you do not have a clearly defined plan.
When conflict cannot be avoided or negotiated, some level of physical action & response is going to occur. (If you manage to flee a conflict unharmed, or you hand over your purse without further conflict, the situation has been successfully avoided.)
The Action stage occurs as we respond in some capacity to the initiation of physical assault. There are two fundamental responses to conflict, an Untrained Response and a Trained Response.
The vast majority of people, even many with martial arts training, fall into the Untrained Response method.
People who over-react respond in a panicked or crazed manner, which will typically result in either excessively injuring the aggressor (liability), or in totally compromising their ability to defend themselves in a composed manner.
Most commonly, people who are unprepared for physical conflict will shut down entirely and freeze. Commonly experiencing a total inability to think or take action, the person faced with conflict is left vulnerable and without an appropriate or viable defense. A trained response will prevent this vulnerability and allow for a successful defense.
A Trained Response to conflict is what yourINPAX® training will provide. We fill the void in the continuum, and provide a realistic anduseable framework from which to respond in a moment of crisis. INPAX® trains you to effectively manage the situation in the most appropriate manner, both physically and psychologically.
When dealing with the stress of real life violence, physical skills are needed, but of far more importance is the ability to think under pressure. For your brain to effectively evaluate, process and initiate correct responses to stimulus and situations. Without such a process, success is more a function of luck than of skill.
This concept is paramount in all levels of conflict, whether small scale individual or large scale as in war. Look at the lessons learned from Vietnam, and the resultant change in the US approach to war. Beyond the physical training and equipment, it is imperative that at all times that the individual troops explicitly 
know the 4-W’s:
- What their objective is
- Where they are right now (in relation to their objective)
- Where they need to go (to advance toward accomplishing the objective)
- What to do to get there (a clearly defined and systematic approach for how to get there)
On a micro level, individual protection follows the same basic objective needs. As the brain does not organize well under stress, we must provide it with a clear framework from which to make decisions to at all time clearly know where you are in the conflict, where you need to go, and how to get there.
INPAX® clearly defines, under any circumstance, what your objective is and allows you to effectively make decisions at each stage to accomplish the objective.
All the techniques in the world are meaningless without the fundamental ability to clearly think and to 
decisively take action under stress.
Along with this strategic method, the physical techniques themselves must qualify in a number of critical ways before we consider them effective; these criteria are called the
4 - S’s.
- STATE: The techniques must be able to do the job they are intended for regardless of the state of the aggressor (drunk, high, angry, big, strong, aggressive, etc.)
- STRENGTH: The techniques must be useable & effective regardless of the physical strength of the user (if a 100lbs women can’t make it work against a 300 lbs guy, it’s not a viable technique).
- SPECTRUM: They must work throughout the full spectrum of potential situations (from one-on-one, to armed encounters, to multiple aggressors)
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STRESS: They must work under extreme pressure
Additionally, the physical techniques utilized in the INPAX® system are specifically chosen not only for their effectiveness and versatility, but also with a concern for liability to the user. The techniques allow for a range of options from control & restraints to incapacitation and, in conjunction with the INPAX® response protocols, are carefully chosen to place your security foremost, yet allow for an appropriate use of force that would limit liability due to excessive injury to the aggressor.
The over-reaction of an untrained response often leaves you having won the fight only to lose the resulting legal war because you excessively injured the bad guy. Most people are not concerned with this while in a life threatening situation, but guaranteed…they will be after the fact.
Much like learning to speak and understand a language, learning the trained responses to conflict are fairly simple – if presented in a logical and appropriate manner.
When learning a language, you first learn the alphabet…A, B, C, etc. From there, you learn the basic rules of grammar: what you should and shouldn't do. Then you form simple words…CAT, RAT, BAT (notice that they all end the same and that building onto the same root is the only change at first.) As you progress, you learn to form bigger words, and eventually you move onto sentences and paragraphs. Finally, once you become fluent, you can even bend the rules of grammar to suit your needs, but the framework is firmly ingrained for you to fall back on when in doubt.
Have you ever noticed how people conversing in a foreign language seem to be speaking incredibly fast, and when you learn the language it seems to slow down? It's not that everyone slows down; it's that your rate of comprehension has increased. The same effect occurs with defensive tactics: as your comprehension and skill increases, the things that previously seemed incredibly fast or impossible to comprehend don't seem so difficult to understand or control.
