Sworn officers, military, security teams, and protective details
Law Enforcement, Military & Security
Control, retention, and decision-making under load — for people who are paid to close the distance.
Most of my career has been spent training people who do not get to choose whether to engage. In my previous company I built and ran a division exclusively for law enforcement personnel, alongside a tactical medicine division and a firearms division, because those three things stop being separate subjects the moment something actually happens.
The problem for professionals is rarely a lack of technique. It is that the technique was learned in a gym, at a comfortable distance, against someone who agreed to be there, and then has to survive a real contact with a duty belt on, a partner nearby, a camera running, and a use-of-force policy you will be measured against afterward. So that is the environment we train in.
I have also worked protective details for people whose safety was somebody's job — government officials through to public figures. That work teaches a different discipline entirely: the whole point is that nothing ever happens, which means almost all of the skill lives in the ninety-nine percent of the time when nothing is happening. Advance work, positioning, reading a room, and moving a principal who does not want to be moved.
Much of my background is not something I discuss in detail, and I will not pretend otherwise on a website. If you are evaluating me for a departmental or corporate contract, ask me directly and I will tell you what I am able to.