Tier 5: Close Quarter Combatives & 3rd Party Protection

Prerequisites: Tier 1 & 2

Training Time: 48 hours
                      4 Levels, 12 Hours each

Tier 5 develops advanced combative skills as well as the principles, systems and skills necessary to engage a situation when you are not the target, a real necessity for families in today’s world. 

Beginning with advanced strikes, advanced kicks, trapping and combative skills, participants hone existing skills to a keen edge, and further develop advanced new abilities & strategies that build off Tier 1 & Tier 2 protocols.  Special emphasis is placed on dynamic power generation, footwork and combative timing, close quarter tactics, gaining and maintaining initiative and counter-striking.

In 3rd Party Protection situations, the standard protocols of Tier 1-4 must change.  When you are no longer the focal point of the situation, control becomes more challenging to exert.  Modifications to existing techniques and special protocols are required. The same principles that apply to an executive protection or body-guarding situation are applied in a practical and user-friendly way for participants, especially useful for families. 

1. Close Quarter Combatives: This module emphasizes the advantages, disadvantages and objectives of extreme close quarter fighting where normal mobility and tactics are compromised.  High level punching and elbow strikes are developed, emphasizing advanced footwork, timing, direct and indirect attacks and close quarter defensive skills including, “intercepting” and “counter-offensive” tactics

2. Close Quarter Combatives 2: This module builds off the skills developed in CQC-1, developing specialty kicks and strikes not introduced in Tiers 1 or 2, thus providing a broader knowledge base and rounding of skills allowing participants to better match the right tool for the job, as well as more advanced Joint manipulations and control tactics.  Controlling another person without causing extreme injury and without him/her causing injury to him/herself is extremely difficult.  Proven techniques and applications are developed in this module which allow for the effective control of an assailant, above and beyond skills taught in Tiers 1 & 2.

3. Fundamentals of 3rd Party Protection: This module teaches the principles, systems and skills necessary to engage a situation when you are not the target, as well as how to assess when action is appropriate.  Most skill sets are modifications to abilities built in Tiers 1-4, which allow for rapid development and implementation of 3rd party techniques throughout the full spectrum of scenarios: single opponent, armed opponents, or multiple opponents.  A framework of priorities, objectives, techniques and strategies are developed through simulation and live exercises.
   
   
4. The Family Protection Detail (Mom-Dad-Kids):  This module follows up on the skills and strategies developed in the Fundamentals of 3rd Party Protection course.  Defining and training families to operate as a unit in a crisis situation is essential.  Each family member should understand what their role and objective is during a security situation, as well as the “cues” given by family members to alert them that a situation is possible or imminent.  In this course, parents will learn the physical, non-verbal, and verbal skills necessary to keep children and themselves safe, in an organized and pre-planned manner throughout a range of scenarios.  Fun and exciting, this course truly brings families together.