Our Courses

This course empowers individuals to enhance their safety by developing situational awareness and recognizing pre-attack behaviors across various settings. Whether navigating crowded public spaces, working in confined environments, or traveling alone, participants will learn how to identify potential threats, make informed decisions, and respond effectively to ensure their safety and the safety of others.

This course empowers individuals to enhance their safety by developing the ability to avoid, escape, and evade potentially violent situations. Participants will learn how to assess controlled and uncontrolled environments to determine the best options for avoiding, escaping, and evading threats of violence, whether in public or private spaces.

This course provides practical techniques, tactics, and strategies for de-escalating conflicts and defusing potentially violent situations. Participants will learn to recognize early signs of aggression, use effective communication to reduce tensions, and maintain personal safety while managing challenging interactions.

This course is designed to provide participants with the foundational theory and principles of armed and unarmed combatives, focusing on understanding practical applications for personal defense against violence. Participants will learn concepts of predatory violence, pre-attack behaviors, situational awareness, and how the body responds to threats as the basis for understanding effective tactics and techniques. This course is ideal for anyone looking to enhance their fighting skills.

This intensive course in unarmed combatives provides participants with a comprehensive foundation in practical, real-world hand-to-hand combat skills. The curriculum blends fundamental theory with dynamic application across all combat ranges. Students will develop awareness, adaptability, and the ability to transition seamlessly between fighting distances and tactics. Covering everything from striking to clinching to ground control, the course emphasizes principles such as timing, angles, and distance management—critical components for surviving and dominating in close-quarters encounters. Through technical instruction, partner drills, and scenario-based training, participants will gain the tools and mindset needed to fight effectively under pressure.

This comprehensive course offers a modern, combat-effective system of edged and impact weapon methods seamlessly integrating with empty-hand combatives. Drawing from Filipino martial arts (FMA), military combatives, and law enforcement defensive tactics, the course trains participants in the essential skills to fight with and against sticks and knives in real-world engagements. Through structured progression, students will learn to read, measure, manipulate timing, control distance, and attack from multiple angles across all fighting ranges—including striking, trapping, clinching, and ground engagement. The course strongly emphasizes weapon-to-weapon, weapon-versus-empty-hand, and transition drills to ensure readiness in chaotic, high-stress encounters.

is a combative course based on Contemporary Jeet Kune Do principles, which Paul Vunak developed and taught for special operations and law enforcement units. This battle-proven system is designed to end a violent encounter in seconds through a sequence of overwhelming aggression using the core tactical triad of Entry, Pressure, and Termination. This course focuses on weaponizing the human body with gross-motor, high-percentage techniques that are pressure-tested and tactically sound under extreme duress. RAT is not about sport fighting or prolonged engagements but about rapid incapacitation of the threat, whether standing, clinched, or on the ground. Students are trained to take initiative, dominate the engagement zone, and neutralize the threat decisively.

This dynamic and reality-based course is tailored specifically for female participants seeking effective, no-nonsense protection strategies. The course emphasizes "Escape to Gain Safety"—a tactical mindset that trains women to disable an attacker using quick, aggressive strikes to the most vulnerable areas of the human body: the eyes, throat, groin, and shin. Participants will learn to apply devastating combative techniques across all engagement ranges—from long-range kicks to close-range clinching and ground scenarios. Weapon-based concepts from stick and knife fighting will enhance awareness, timing, and coordination, even when unarmed. The focus is not on fighting to win, but on fighting to escape, using maximum efficiency and ferocity to neutralize threats and create opportunities to flee.

This course provides participants with basic firearms safety, handling, marksmanship, and gunfighting theory and principles. It focuses on understanding practical applications for gun defense against lethal threats of violence. Participants will learn concepts of predatory violence, pre-attack behaviors, situational awareness, compliance, use of force, and how the body responds to threats as the basis for understanding effective tactics and techniques. This course is ideal for anyone looking to enhance their understanding and use of firearms.

The Pistol Marksmanship course is designed for individuals new to pistols or wanting to refresh their fundamental pistol skills. The course covers safety essentials, gun handling, basic shooting techniques, marksmanship, maintenance, storage, and building confidence in firearm use. This course qualifies for Missouri or Kansas concealed carry permits.

The Pistol Gunfighting course is designed to introduce participants to proactive and reactive gunfighting techniques and tactics. This course goes beyond basic pistol handling and marksmanship and is designed for experienced shooters. Students will learn how to engage threats based on distance, angle, and timing considerations in close, medium, and distance encounters, based on who has the initiative.

This course is a specialized communication and de-escalation training program for law enforcement officers, private security personnel, and tactical responders who encounter high-risk individuals in crisis or conflict. Drawing from the proven principles of hostage and crisis negotiation, crisis intervention techniques, and the Behavioral Influence Stairway Model (BISM) developed by the FBI, this course equips participants with practical tools to influence behavior, stabilize volatile situations, and resolve confrontations peacefully. Unlike traditional negotiation training, this course focuses on first responder and tactical-level negotiations in the field, where time is limited, conditions are chaotic, and the stakes are high. Whether facing emotionally disturbed persons, barricaded subjects, suicidal individuals, or hostile confrontations during patrol or security operations, participants will learn to apply structured communication strategies to gain control, reduce resistance, and enhance public and officer safety.

The course is designed to provide law enforcement officers, security professionals, and other public safety personnel with the skills and knowledge to control resistive and aggressive subjects safely and effectively. This hands-on course emphasizes real-world, legally defensible techniques that prioritize officer safety, subject control, proportional response, and the preservation of human life. Participants will learn and practice physical control skills, defensive countermeasures, takedowns, joint manipulation, and handcuffing procedures within constitutional use-of-force guidelines and agency policy. Scenario-based training reinforces decision-making, de-escalation, and articulation of actions taken.

This course is designed to equip law enforcement officers and security professionals with the skills necessary to safely and effectively deploy a straight, expandable, or side-handle baton in the line of duty. The course integrates defensive tactics principles with use-of-force law, focusing on control, compliance, and subject safety. Training emphasizes appropriate baton use within the context of agency policy and legal standards, including the use-of-force continuum. Participants will learn how to carry, draw, strike, block, and retain the baton and transition between empty-hand techniques and other force options. Instruction also includes de-escalation, situational awareness, and report articulation for courtroom defense.

This course is an advanced defensive tactics program designed to prepare law enforcement officers and security professionals to respond effectively to close-quarters encounters involving edged weapons and firearms. It addresses the unique challenges posed by sudden assaults, rapid escalation, and limited reaction time during lethal force confrontations. Training integrates principles from firearms tactics, edged-weapon defense, and empty-hand combatives to enhance survivability in ambush or close-contact scenarios. Emphasis is placed on threat recognition, weapon retention and disarmament, transitioning between force options, and decision-making under stress. This hands-on course includes scenario-based drills that simulate realistic attacks and force-on-force encounters.

The NRA Law Enforcement Handgun Training Course is a comprehensive, operator-level firearms training program designed to enhance the handgun proficiency of sworn law enforcement officers and authorized armed professionals. This course emphasizes the safe, lawful, and effective use of duty and off-duty handguns in both structured qualification environments and dynamic, real-world scenarios. Delivered through classroom instruction and intensive live-fire range exercises, the course develops and refines essential shooting skills necessary for successful performance in law enforcement engagements. Officers will train in marksmanship fundamentals, weapon handling, threat engagement, and tactical movement while addressing decision-making under stress and situational awareness.

The NRA Law Enforcement Shotgun Training Course is a professionally structured, operator-level course designed to develop and enhance the tactical proficiency of sworn law enforcement officers in using the duty shotgun. This course focuses on practical applications of the shotgun as a versatile and effective tool for patrol, perimeter, and close-quarters situations. Participants will learn to deploy, operate, and maintain pump-action and semi-automatic shotguns with precision and confidence through classroom instruction and hands-on range training. Training includes proper carry conditions, ammunition selection, patterning, target discrimination, and tactical problem-solving under stress.

This course is a tactical and operational program designed to prepare law enforcement officers and security professionals to respond swiftly and effectively to active shooter incidents in various environments, including schools, businesses, public venues, and critical infrastructure sites. It focuses on rapid threat neutralization, team movement, incident command integration, and life-saving response under extreme stress. Participants will learn best practices for solo and team entry, tactical movement in confined spaces, room clearing, and threat engagement while coordinating with responding units and managing chaos at the scene. The course also emphasizes threat identification, communication, casualty care integration, and post-incident considerations such as securing the scene and preparing for investigation.

This nationally recognized training program is designed to certify individuals to teach the NRA Basics of Pistol Shooting Course. It equips prospective instructors with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to effectively instruct students in the safe and responsible use of pistols. Candidates will learn to deliver structured lessons, supervise live-fire exercises, and evaluate student performance per NRA training standards. The course combines classroom instruction with range work and emphasizes the fundamentals of adult learning, instructional methodology, firearms safety, and proper shooting techniques. An NRA Training Counselor conducts this course and includes a pre-course qualification, NRA Basic Instructor Training (BIT), and the NRA Pistol Instructor Training Module. Participants who complete all course requirements recommended by the NRA Training Counselor will receive NRA Certified Pistol Instructor credentials.

This course is an advanced-level instructor development program based on the battle-proven Contemporary Jeet Kune Do system developed by Paul Vunak for U.S. military special operations and law enforcement units. It is designed to certify competent practitioners as instructors capable of teaching the RAT method to law enforcement, security professionals, and combative students in high-threat environments. RAT focuses on ending violent encounters within seconds through the systematic application of overwhelming aggression using the core tactical triad of Entry, Pressure, and Termination. The instructor course goes beyond skill execution and includes instructional methodology, scenario integration, student safety, legal articulation, and progressive training strategies. Participants will be taught how to teach, demonstrate, correct, and evaluate high-percentage gross motor techniques that perform reliably under duress. Emphasis is placed on developing an offensive mindset, integrating scenario-based learning, and fostering student confidence and survivability. Upon successfully completing all performance evaluations, teaching practicums, and written assessments, participants will receive a Rapid Assault Tactics Instructor Certificate that is valid for three years.

This course is a comprehensive train-the-trainer program that certifies instructors to teach the TCR personal protection system—an all-encompassing methodology grounded in the integrated pillars of Talk, Fight, Shoot, and Move. Designed for professionals responsible for training others in conflict management and personal protection, this course equips instructors with the knowledge, instructional methodology, and tactical proficiency to deliver legally sound, real-world training across the force spectrum. Instructor candidates will learn how to teach verbal de-escalation, unarmed defensive tactics, firearms response, and tactical movement in a progressive, layered format that emphasizes context, safety, adaptability, and legal defensibility. Instructors will also be trained in lesson plan development, student assessment, scenario management, and safety protocols necessary for high-liability instruction. Upon completing all practical evaluations, teach-backs, written assessments, and safety requirements, candidates will be awarded the Certified Tactical Conflict Resolution Instructor Credential valid for three years. Recertification and advanced modules are available. Talk – Instruction in Verbal De-escalation & Psychological Influence Learn how to teach students to manage pre-violence indicators, use tactical communication, and defuse volatile individuals while integrating principles of crisis negotiation and behavioral threat recognition. Fight – Instruction in Defensive Tactics & Combatives Learn to teach gross-motor, high-percentage striking, clinch, and ground control techniques suitable for law enforcement, security, or civilian contexts, emphasizing safety, legal force thresholds, and scenario realism. Shoot – Instruction in Defensive Firearms Use Prepare to instruct students in core handgun skills under stress, including safe handling, weapon retention, dynamic engagement, shoot/no-shoot judgment, and articulation of deadly force decisions. Move – Instruction in Tactical Movement & Positioning Learn how to teach students to control space, use cover, escape danger zones, move dynamically with purpose, and manage environmental awareness in confined or populated spaces.