Tier 1: Defense vs. Unarmed Attackers

Prerequisites: PROACT Intensive
Training Time: 48 hours
                      4 Levels, 12 Hours each

Tier 1 provides a thorough understanding of the principles, strategies and physical skills necessary to control and/or neutralize the majority of violent encounters involving unarmed attackers, including multiple attackers. The four modules composing the Tier 1 program also provide the skill and knowledge base that allow for handling more advanced scenarios, such as armed attackers and multiple opponents with weapons.

1. Defensive Tactics: Participants learn the fundamentals of personal security: positioning, mobility, proactive and reactive strategies, indirect vs. direct attacks, physical control skills, and nerve control techniques.

2. Advanced Control Tactics: Building on the Basic Defensive Tactics course, this course teaches advanced maneuvers necessary for eventually handling multiple opponents. Advanced joint controls and strategies are developed in this comprehensive and exciting course.

3. Offensive Tactics: This course advances participants' capabilities by teaching the fundamentals of offensive action including: Gaining and maintaining the initiative; skill sets such as punches, elbow strikes and trapping, fully integrated with the Defensive Tactics program, participants become versatile and well rounded

4. Multiple Opponents: This course in many ways represents a highly advanced skill level, and in itself is a culmination of all the skills developed throughout the first tier of instruction. An understanding of your own advantages and your opponents’ disadvantages, combined with techniques honed throughout the previous courses, and overlaid with the Multiple Opponent strategy provide realistic alternatives in these critical, yet common situations.