Combative Resolutions offers customized training seminars from 4 to 40 hours with lead instructor Mike Malpass, covering material found in our different training curriculum. Training sessions can be designed for an agency or in the seminar format for groups of interested individuals and can be adapted to your needs. Contact Mike for more information on training options.
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
Arrest Control: A Constraints-Led Approach
The Constraints-Led Approach to training matches the predictive processes the brain is going through under stress to the training environment. The brain’s predictive processing takes account of the individual in a given environment and matches the necessary tasks to be performed based on the capabilities of each performer in that specific environment.
CLA training aides these predictive pathways by manipulating the task, individual, and environment so that variability is introduced as opposed to rote learning. One of the key principles of the constraints approach is repetition without repetition. In other words, training under volatile, uncertain, chaotic and ambiguous circumstances. Adult learning requires agitation and focus not rote repetition. The CLA approach creates agitation and the opportunity to focus on problem solving.
Manipulation of constraints allows for alive training instead of dead drilling and an acceleration in skill adaptability. This class is for novice officers up to defensive tactics instructors as the constraints of task, individual and environment can be manipulated to safely perform under contested conditions.
Topics Include:
The Neuroscience of Critical Incidents
Learn to prepare, manage and recover from conflict. Planning, preparation, and training for conflict within ourselves and with others. Managing conflict both from within ourselves and with others including real-time tools for managing fear, anxiety, stress, and pressure. The importance of recovering the brain/body balance after conflict. Science based tools for recovering balance in the body budgeting regions of the brain. The impact of critical incidents on overall health and wellness. Gain a fundamental understanding of how the brain processes information with/without fear, anxiety, stress, and pressure. Learn to use probabilistic thinking to enhance critical thinking skills. Know the truth about the implicit biasing systems of the human brain. (Hint - it's not what you have been told to believe.) Leverage all of this information to effectively design, implement and adjust training from two perspectives: personal and organizational.
The Neuroscience of Conflict
Based on the research for Taming the Serpent and his new book, Fall Seven, Rise Eight, this course teaches the difference in how the brain processes information in normal conditions and when stress and pressure are elevated. Stress is what is happening inside our body and pressure is the tension to find the solution to the problem happening outside of our body. Most law enforcement training caters to a brain that is not under stress and pressure. The fundamental misunderstanding in brain processing accounts for many of the mistake of fact errors which occur in real life law enforcement engagements. The course can be designed to your needs and can run from two to ten hours.
Integrating Tactical Concepts
Law enforcement training falls under two distinct categories: domain specific and domain non-specific. Firing a weapon system on the range or working defensive tactics skills on a mat are non-specific methodologies because there is no integration of skill sets between the two. Current neuroscience research shows that the brain wires experience the same way the neuromuscular system responds to exercise, through the SAID principle (Specific Adaptation to Implied Demands). If your goal is better performance in uncertain and time-compressed situations, it means that you need to train disciplines with practiced integration of skill sets, so you can be prepared for a close quarter crisis.
Team Arrest Tactics
Designed for two to three officers working together to deal with a subject face down on the ground who is hiding his/her hands underneath their body to prevent handcuffing. This tactic does not require strikes and a strong emphasis is placed on containment and control of the suspect using techniques from several different grappling systems. This program is currently taught to officers in the state of Arizona as a tactic which when used correctly does not generate a use of force report.
Ground Survival
Designed to teach the principles of ground movement, escape movement, takedown defense, and survival strategies when involved in a real-world encounter that ends up on the ground. While it is a given that law enforcement officers should avoid a ground encounter at all costs, the reality is the majority of encounters end up grounded. Many systems offer sports style techniques including joint locks and step sequence escape movements. While this style of training works for the sport or martial art application, it is not realistic for law enforcement officers who must deal with weapons, multiple opponents, equipment restrictions, and lack of time for training in complex movements. Our system focuses on the principles of movement and escape on the ground and by the end of one of our courses, the student is performing escapes, correct ground movement principles, and takedown defenses without having to remember sequential movements.
Topics covered: headlock escapes, mount escapes, cross body escapes, defeating the rear choke, why the "guard
position" should not be used by an officer, defeating a suspect's guard, grounded officer standing suspect drills, kneeling officer standing suspect drills, ground striking principles, weapon retention, and weapon defense. Included in this curriculum are principles of standup striking to avoid the takedown as well as takedown defenses.
Ground Survival can be custom designed as an eight-hour seminar or developed into eight-hour blocks up to a
forty-hour course format.
The Standing Fight
Teaches the proper way to strike to protect the hands as well as principles of striking. The reality is that closed
fist strikes are dangerous to the hands of a police officer due to the fact a broken primary hand may prevent the ability to draw and fire the handgun when needed if an encounter escalates. For this reason, correct striking applications are taught with strategies that will turn an officer's mindset from defensive to offensive when an encounter escalates. Also taught are
de-escalation and subject control applications when the situation calls for this strategy.
SWAT Entry Combatives
Teaches tactics for dealing with unarmed individuals who are either in the way or resisting team movements. Includes techniques for taking subjects to the ground, wall pins, and subject control on the ground.
Dignitary Protection Defensive Tactics
Topics covered; techniques to “swim” a crowd when no threat is present and when the situation has escalated to
high risk, knife and close quarter handgun defense, and team tactics and responsibilities. Also includes weapon retention and using your weapon as an impact instrument in close quarters.
Edged and Impact Weapons Defense
Topics covered; the truth about edged weapons, simple effective strategies for dealing with edged and impact weapons, the defensive shells, and “one defense to instant offense.”
The Constraints-Led Approach to training matches the predictive processes the brain is going through under stress to the training environment. The brain’s predictive processing takes account of the individual in a given environment and matches the necessary tasks to be performed based on the capabilities of each performer in that specific environment.
CLA training aides these predictive pathways by manipulating the task, individual, and environment so that variability is introduced as opposed to rote learning. One of the key principles of the constraints approach is repetition without repetition. In other words, training under volatile, uncertain, chaotic and ambiguous circumstances. Adult learning requires agitation and focus not rote repetition. The CLA approach creates agitation and the opportunity to focus on problem solving.
Manipulation of constraints allows for alive training instead of dead drilling and an acceleration in skill adaptability. This class is for novice officers up to defensive tactics instructors as the constraints of task, individual and environment can be manipulated to safely perform under contested conditions.
Topics Include:
- Approach to Arrest
- Resistance
- Standing Control
- Takedown & Grounded Control
- Two & Three Officer Controls
- Service Weapon Protection
The Neuroscience of Critical Incidents
Learn to prepare, manage and recover from conflict. Planning, preparation, and training for conflict within ourselves and with others. Managing conflict both from within ourselves and with others including real-time tools for managing fear, anxiety, stress, and pressure. The importance of recovering the brain/body balance after conflict. Science based tools for recovering balance in the body budgeting regions of the brain. The impact of critical incidents on overall health and wellness. Gain a fundamental understanding of how the brain processes information with/without fear, anxiety, stress, and pressure. Learn to use probabilistic thinking to enhance critical thinking skills. Know the truth about the implicit biasing systems of the human brain. (Hint - it's not what you have been told to believe.) Leverage all of this information to effectively design, implement and adjust training from two perspectives: personal and organizational.
The Neuroscience of Conflict
Based on the research for Taming the Serpent and his new book, Fall Seven, Rise Eight, this course teaches the difference in how the brain processes information in normal conditions and when stress and pressure are elevated. Stress is what is happening inside our body and pressure is the tension to find the solution to the problem happening outside of our body. Most law enforcement training caters to a brain that is not under stress and pressure. The fundamental misunderstanding in brain processing accounts for many of the mistake of fact errors which occur in real life law enforcement engagements. The course can be designed to your needs and can run from two to ten hours.
Integrating Tactical Concepts
Law enforcement training falls under two distinct categories: domain specific and domain non-specific. Firing a weapon system on the range or working defensive tactics skills on a mat are non-specific methodologies because there is no integration of skill sets between the two. Current neuroscience research shows that the brain wires experience the same way the neuromuscular system responds to exercise, through the SAID principle (Specific Adaptation to Implied Demands). If your goal is better performance in uncertain and time-compressed situations, it means that you need to train disciplines with practiced integration of skill sets, so you can be prepared for a close quarter crisis.
Team Arrest Tactics
Designed for two to three officers working together to deal with a subject face down on the ground who is hiding his/her hands underneath their body to prevent handcuffing. This tactic does not require strikes and a strong emphasis is placed on containment and control of the suspect using techniques from several different grappling systems. This program is currently taught to officers in the state of Arizona as a tactic which when used correctly does not generate a use of force report.
Ground Survival
Designed to teach the principles of ground movement, escape movement, takedown defense, and survival strategies when involved in a real-world encounter that ends up on the ground. While it is a given that law enforcement officers should avoid a ground encounter at all costs, the reality is the majority of encounters end up grounded. Many systems offer sports style techniques including joint locks and step sequence escape movements. While this style of training works for the sport or martial art application, it is not realistic for law enforcement officers who must deal with weapons, multiple opponents, equipment restrictions, and lack of time for training in complex movements. Our system focuses on the principles of movement and escape on the ground and by the end of one of our courses, the student is performing escapes, correct ground movement principles, and takedown defenses without having to remember sequential movements.
Topics covered: headlock escapes, mount escapes, cross body escapes, defeating the rear choke, why the "guard
position" should not be used by an officer, defeating a suspect's guard, grounded officer standing suspect drills, kneeling officer standing suspect drills, ground striking principles, weapon retention, and weapon defense. Included in this curriculum are principles of standup striking to avoid the takedown as well as takedown defenses.
Ground Survival can be custom designed as an eight-hour seminar or developed into eight-hour blocks up to a
forty-hour course format.
The Standing Fight
Teaches the proper way to strike to protect the hands as well as principles of striking. The reality is that closed
fist strikes are dangerous to the hands of a police officer due to the fact a broken primary hand may prevent the ability to draw and fire the handgun when needed if an encounter escalates. For this reason, correct striking applications are taught with strategies that will turn an officer's mindset from defensive to offensive when an encounter escalates. Also taught are
de-escalation and subject control applications when the situation calls for this strategy.
SWAT Entry Combatives
Teaches tactics for dealing with unarmed individuals who are either in the way or resisting team movements. Includes techniques for taking subjects to the ground, wall pins, and subject control on the ground.
Dignitary Protection Defensive Tactics
Topics covered; techniques to “swim” a crowd when no threat is present and when the situation has escalated to
high risk, knife and close quarter handgun defense, and team tactics and responsibilities. Also includes weapon retention and using your weapon as an impact instrument in close quarters.
Edged and Impact Weapons Defense
Topics covered; the truth about edged weapons, simple effective strategies for dealing with edged and impact weapons, the defensive shells, and “one defense to instant offense.”
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