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Personal Defense Measures

General Overview:

Vigilance and individual initiative are critical components to surviving sudden physical violence. As both high-risk professionals and responsible armed citizens, we are each responsible to take the appropriate measures necessary to ensure our own individual safety and personal protection under critical stress.

Scope:

Vanguard delivers a full spectrum of armed and unarmed responses required for personal protection and mission success. The emphasis of this specific Vanguard program of instruction is designed to prepare the student regardless of age, gender, or previous ability to survive violent physical attacks occurring at close range by one or more armed or unarmed motivated attackers.

The training and subject matter covered within this course of instruction is relevant to both personal protection and mission success, and will greatly increase the end-user’s ability to:

  • Survive high-risk/high-threat confrontations.
  • Maximize tactical performance under extreme stress.
  • Develop the mindset and an increased sense of confidence to prevail against overwhelming mental and physical odds.

Methods:

The cornerstone of the comprehensive training programs employs the combat-proven curriculum of the Vanguard Counter Assault Training VCAT™ The armed and unarmed TTP’s and countermeasures taught within the system will provide the client with an enhanced capability to quickly orient and optimize the systems assets to meet a full spectrum of both personal, and mission requirements.

End State:

The fundamental principles and training attributes provided will produce outcomes that greatly increase the end-user’s ability to survive high-risk / high threat confrontations, maximize tactical performance under extreme stress and further develop a controlled and aggressive combat mindset to prevail against overwhelming mental and physical odds.

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