Control Tactics

Specialist class for security professionals and others who face emotionally charged situations and potentially uncooperative subjects.

• Are you a security officer, bouncer, cooler, bodyguard, EMT, paramedic, firefighter, ER staff member, nurse, process server, or real estate agent?
• Does your work put you in contact with distressed, angry or intoxicated individuals? Meeting strangers alone in rooms, buildings or outdoors? Communicating bad news to people and/or asking them to do what they don’t want to do?
• Do you wish you could handle whatever comes safely and competently – protecting yourself and others in the process?

Learn cutting-edge physical skills that go well beyond police defensive tactics training – in addition to verbal and tactical skills and invaluable legal information – and go with confidence wherever your job takes you. The class is offered in ongoing once-a-week format as well as in crash course format. Please contact us for details of enrollment.

A sampling of what you will learn includes:

Physical:

• Street-safe joint manipulation: myths vs. science and experience
• Street-safe pressure points and rapid absorption drills
• From minimum custody to total restraint
• True grit: experiential wisdom about controlling aggressors
• Neuromuscular conditioning: isolation drills for sure-fire retention
• Carotid constraints: hype vs. reality
• Foiling the grappler's game
• Surviving the proficient grappler
• Relevant martial arts training? Supercharge it.
• Defending against the sucker puncher
• The charge, the clinch, the shoot and the overhand right
• Controlling big subjects -- what works and what doesn't
• Surviving edged and blunt weapons
• Surviving improvised weapons
• Restraining subject in place
• Restraining downed subject
• Preventing structural damage and other undesirables

Tactical:

• Reading the room
• Controlling the room
• Failing the aggressor’s “interview”
• Verbal de-escalation
• The art of the graceful exit
• Taking the fight out of the subject
• Premises removal
• Breaking up a fight
• Right and wrong ways to approach subject
• Right and wrong ways to deal with impulse control issues
• Right and wrong ways to use size advantage
• Dealing with the intoxicated / drugged aggressor
• When to abandon restraint tactics

Legal:

• Use of force for non-peace officers
• Weaker restraint - legal issues
• When can you hit?
• Court-defensible self-defense
• Talking to the police
• Dealing with the media