The Self Defense Company’s Protector Program: CSI

The Pro­tec­tor: Cit­i­zen Sup­port Initiative

The per­fect self-contained self-defense and readi­ness pro­gram for any­one who wishes to be pre­pared to take care of them­selves and oth­ers when threat­ened with phys­i­cal violence!

Damian Ross has done it again! For those of you who are famil­iar with Mr. Ross’ Self Defense Train­ing Sys­tem Com­bat­ives pro­gram you know how effi­cient and effec­tive that pro­gram is. Now, there is a new sys­tem based on the Police Com­bat­ives pro­gram from the Self Defense Com­pany, but this pro­gram is for civil­ians who want to help their com­mu­nity and themselves!

Kendo: The Way of the Sword

Kendo is a very pop­u­lar mar­tial art involv­ing the prac­ti­tion­ers using sim­u­lated swords which are called shi­nais, to bat­tle each other in matches which are meant to repli­cate an actual sword fight between Samu­rai warriors.

How­ever, there is much more going on dur­ing prac­tice than meets the eye. Kendo teaches dis­ci­pline, coor­di­na­tion, bal­ance, focus, and self-enlightenment. These skills are use­ful in the mod­ern day world we live in.

Home Invasion Survival: The Home Invader Mind-Set

Let’s face it…we aren’t nearly as trust­ing in soci­ety as we once were, are we?

Behav­iors that were once com­mon­place, indi­cat­ing a much greater level of com­fort with what we thought was a safe and civ­i­lized soci­ety, have changed to reflect more fear, more pru­dent cau­tion, and even more paranoia.

We keep a much closer eye on our kids, for fear that some per­vert will snatch them.

We’re ner­vous in park­ing garages.

We lock our doors at night.

We’re sus­pi­cious of the knock at the door.

And with good reason…

The aver­age cit­i­zen is easy pick­ings for the preda­tory class of crim­i­nals cat­e­go­rized as “home invaders”.

Southard Combat System: Reality Based Self Defense!

Tony Southard is a unique man. He has been a full con­tact pro­fes­sional fighter, a body­guard for celebri­ties, a mar­tial arts instruc­tor, a police instruc­tor, a mil­i­tary instruc­tor, a Karate Grand­mas­ter, and a chap­lain! This North Car­olina based mar­tial arts expert and trainer is a man you should know. Many law enforce­ment offi­cers, police recruits, and mil­i­tary oper­a­tors already know Mr. Southard very well. He fre­quently teaches the local police and mil­i­tary personnel.

How to Become “Invisible” in a Riot

Of course you’re smart enough to avoid dan­ger­ous areas prone to a riot, right?

But the very nature of social chaos reveals that riots can occur at a moment’s notice and have been known to occur in such com­mon sce­nar­ios as:

• Sports team cham­pi­onship loss
• Bad court deci­sion like LA “Rod­ney King” riots
• Flash mobs like 2011’s Mil­wau­kee State Fair attack

These very events have led to severe injury and even death where there was once a peace­ful environment.

If you find your­self caught in a riot, one of the things you want to make sure of is that you don’t draw atten­tion to yourself.

How to Choose a Tactical Flashlight for Home Defense

While you may be a crack shot down at the range with the bright lights and nice sta­tion­ary paper tar­get, you must under­stand this…

… most shoot­ings will occur in low-light set­tings and while you (and/or your attacker) are moving.

This is impor­tant to know because I’ve been notic­ing more and more sto­ries in the news of late night home invasions.

In low-light, you have the added chal­lenge of iden­ti­fy­ing your tar­get and then mak­ing a shoot — don’t shoot decision.

(You wouldn’t want to find out that bump in the night was just your teenager sneak­ing in through the win­dow after los­ing the house key, right?)

This is where a good qual­ity tac­ti­cal flash­light comes in handy.

So what type of light do you need?

The Defender: A Covert Defensive Tool

Don’t let the small size fool you; this lit­tle tool can help you out of a jam!

I recently had the oppor­tu­nity to learn how to effec­tively use this device at a train­ing con­fer­ence I was teach­ing at and now I am in the process of becom­ing a cer­ti­fied instruc­tor in the use of it. I plan on teach­ing my police offi­cers and mar­tial arts stu­dents how to use this strange look­ing object to defend them­selves, and in the case of my fel­low police offi­cers, to con­trol the bad guy so that he can go to jail!

Hockey Dad Killer — Lessons Learned for Self Defense

You may remem­ber this heart­break­ing news story…

In 2000, 42 y.o. Thomas Junta took his 11 y.o. son to hockey practice.

The coach wasn’t con­trol­ling the rough play on the ice and when Junta saw his young son get elbowed in the face, he yelled at the coach to calm the kids down.

The coach didn’t like that.

“That’s hockey!” was his reply.

The fum­ing Junta left the rink to regain com­po­sure but came back in to round up his son and his friends to take them home.

When he did, the coach report­edly phys­i­cally attacked him, even though Junta far out­weighed him.

Junta defended him­self and punched the coach 3 times in “self-defense”.

Tactical Firearms Training: Airsoft Carjacking Drill

Many firearms train­ing courses use air­soft guns to help with their firearm train­ing exer­cises because they are a real­is­tic option. These guns offer some real­ism and they help peo­ple in the sce­nar­ios stay in the mind­set that they are car­ry­ing a weapon. With this force on force edu­ca­tion, you have the chance to be putted against a real live per­son and have the chance to use a weapon in the same man­ner as a firearm for defense. How­ever, there train­ing is lim­ited indoors and until you are faced with the pub­lic. Because of this, it is impor­tant to learn how to con­duct the car­jack­ing defense in a real­is­tic man­ner, while in public.

Tactical Firearms Training: Airsoft Home Defense Drill

When you are using air­soft guns as part of your firearms train­ing, you need to be sure that you cre­ate real sce­nar­ios. Real­is­tic drills like a home inva­sion would be a good way for you to ensure that trainees under­stand how to use their guns prop­erly in a mat­ter of moments. Here is a way you can prac­tice home defense in the home should dan­ger arise, with­out using a real firearm.

Home Inva­sion: Set­ting Up the Training

Begin with a stop­watch and sit­u­ate your­self in your liv­ing room set­ting and turn on the tele­vi­sion. Keep your air­soft gun in a loca­tion where you would poten­tially keep your own firearm, such as a drawer or a night­stand. Now with your part­ner, you will begin a home inva­sion sce­nario. Begin by hav­ing them knock on the door and then enter your home in a man­ner that would be unpre­dictable. Stu­dents should be encour­aged to enter through dif­fer­ent doors to keep oth­ers on their toes and to sim­u­late an intruder that you will help to improve the actual home defense experience.