Courses and Certifications

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Muay Thai are essential for Law Enforcement.

What is the percentage of calls to which an officer responds where someone has a gun at the scene?

Answer: 100 percent. If an officer is present, there is a gun at the scene.

It is highly likely that if someone gets your duty firearm ‒ for any reason ‒ that person will kill you. In every confrontation a law enforcement officer is involved in, at least one firearm is present, the officer’s firearm. If your firearm is ever taken away from you, and you fail to defend your gun successfully for any reason, it may be the first and last time it will ever happen to you. It is highly likely that if someone gets your gun ‒ for any reason ‒ that person will kill you. Like all training, handgun retention must be hands-on, with a qualified trainer, and in as realistic an environment as possible.

We extracted the simplest and most effective techniques to address the most common threat situations facing law enforcement professionals, providing time-tested techniques into an easy-to-learn system designed to help officers humanely prevail against larger and stronger opponents.

 

 

  • Customized Classes.  We can customize and mix classes to your Department or Group. Just contact weaponretention@gmail.com

 

  • Tactical Law Enforcement Jiu-Jitsu LEVEL 1 AND 2. Law Enforcement brothers and sisters often say “We don’t want to go to the ground”, but the only way you can successfully get up off the ground safely is if you know what to do when the fight falls to the ground, so to avoid panic when the fight falls to the ground you have to know what you are doing, you have to have been there before and learn techniques that can keep you alive.
    All the fundamental techniques to survive the ground fighting. All the main controls, defenses, escapes, and submissions. Jiu-Jitsu principles are based upon defending yourself or subduing a larger assailant utilizing leverage-based techniques while expending minimal amounts of energy. In terms of the use of force or self-defense, these skills can turn a potentially deadly encounter into a quickly resolved confrontation with lessened risks of injury and minimal aggression.
    TACTICAL LAW ENFORCEMENT JIU-JITSU LEVEL 1
    TACTICAL LAW ENFORCEMENT JIU-JITSU LEVEL 2

 

  • Ground Gun Control / FULL RETENTION.
    Modern-day policing needs modern-day tactics, and the weapon retention discipline is no different and often neglected. How to retain or draw your gun on all the main Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu techniques to ensure you can keep your gun and can access your weapon when necessary. This class is one of our main classes, and it is the class where we are able to implement our Protect, Retain, Control, Disarm, Submit, Restrain system. GROUND GUN CONTROL

 

  • Long Gun Clinch and Ground Rifle Retention.
    This a highly recommended class to all departments. Professor Andre Quiles was the first to create a full long gun curriculum incorporating our Protect, Retain, Control, Disarm, Submit and Restrain System. Starting from the clinch fight and clinch rifle retention to the full grappling gun control. Strikes for weapon retention, and backup retention tools. Retention with transition drills. Ideal for any rifle operator and CQB scenarios. LONG GUN CLINCH AND GROUND RETENTION.

 

  • Clinch Weapon Retention and Restraining Techniques.
    Techniques and drills for weapon retention on your feet. Weapon retention, control, and manipulation in clinch fighting. Disarm, retention and restraining. Striking techniques, angles, and “creating space” for a safe draw. CLINCH WEAPON RETENTION AND RESTRAINING TECHNIQUES.

 

  • Tactical Vehicle Combat and Extraction.
    From VEHICLE COMBAT to the best ways to retain your weapon. Potential weapon identification, quick exit techniques, and how to EXTRACT and restrain a suspect. . TACTICAL VEHICLE COMBAT AND EXTRACTIONS.

 

 

  • Striking for Law Enforcement Professionals. 
    Stay on your feet and stand your ground. The more confident and well-trained an officer becomes in his fighting skills, the greater the opportunity for them to resolve physical altercations with the absolute least amount of force necessary.
    Muay Thai (Thai Boxing) based class with MMA techniques adapted for Law Enforcement. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is the main police fighting tool nowadays, but when facing more than one suspect, BJJ can be dangerous. This class has all the main striking techniques and striking defenses. Clinch, distance management for protection and radio backup, fighting stance, footwork, reasonable amount of force, and avoiding the takedown are part of this class. STRIKING FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT / MUAY THAI AND POLICE

 

  • Weapon Retention for Civilians.
    If you carry a firearm you need to learn how to use it, be ready to use it if self-defense is necessary, and be able to keep it if someone tries to take it from you. 

    HOW TO KEEP YOUR WEAPON FOR CIVILIANS is a class with all the fundamentals of a weapon retention scenario. WEAPON RETENTION FOR CIVILIANS.

 

 

“THE TRUTH IS THAT NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOUR EXCUSES. NOBODY PITIES YOU FOR PROCRASTINATING,
NOBODY IS GOING TO CODDLE YOU BECAUSE YOU DIDN’T ACCOMPLISH YOUR GOALS.
IT’S ON YOU. NO EXCUSES! YOU ARE EITHER READY OR YOU DON’T.”   
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