Incidents of high tension abound in the daily life of those protecting our borders.  With each vehicle coming into the United States or Canada, border agents are facing the potential of life-threatening risk.  While performing their jobs they are placed in settings where, for the vast majority of their time, they are too close to the potential threat to effectively deploy and utilize the weapons they carry.

 Within that 0 to 10 foot zone of proximity agents need to be proficient at the lost science of combatives.  This is not a sport-based martial arts or mixed martial arts setting.  Combatives is the immediate incapacitation of the threat to ensure the survival and well-being of the agent involved.  We concentrate on the rapid incapacitation of the attacker, or multiple attackers, in a manner that causes immediate loss of conscious control of the body and begins a series of induced reactions leading to loss of structural capacity to carry out their intent to cause harm.  Typical loss of conscious control occurs well within the first second of active contact with situation resolution within 3 seconds of contact.  Size and physical skill of the threat are irrelevant in the application of these skill sets and principles.

 Weapons threats, including edged, blunt force and firearms, are dealt with as well as the justified deadly force scenarios with a ramp-down force continuum that allows fluid adaptation to settings permitting, where possible, the non-lethal intervention and structural incapacitation of the potential threat(s).  Also covered are multiple weapons retention skill sets that absolutely guarantee any loss of agent weapons into the hands of potential aggressors.

 This is offered as an 8 hour hands on seminar or agencies can license the curriculum and have internal staff trained as trainers to educate throughout the agency.  Please contact for details.