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Protection Response Tactics (PRT) Modules 1-3

Course Description:

The Executive Protection Institute (EPI) and Alan Baker have developed a system of innovative and proven response measures designed to fulfill the unique requirements of the Personal Protection Specialist (PPS).

EPI's Protection Response Tactics (PRT) includes techniques from a variety of striking and grappling arts that will be beneficial to both the skilled operator and the novice.

PRT offers appropriate solutions to all levels of risk.

All countermeasures employed by professional bodyguards should reduce the risk to those they protect. The executive protection agent seeks to reduce the risk to the client by avoiding confrontation. If faced with confrontation, the professional bodyguard would prefer to evacuate the client.

Sometimes, avoidance does not work, sometimes evacuation is not the answer, and sometimes the appropriate countermeasure is the reasonable application of physical force. This system provides the tools necessary for that reasoned response.

With the increased popularity of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), professional bodyguards face an opponent who has increased awareness and access to effective training. Despite proper preparations to avoid conflict, the professional bodyguard or personal protection specialist may be faced with a threat that requires immediate engagement.

PRT provides the tools and the training to reduce the risk by engaging the threat.

The Protector's ultimate goal is to reduce the client’s risk by using the appropriate response. Protection Response Tactics provides the tools and the training to give the protectors additional appropriate countermeasures to help keep their clients safe.

Module 1:

Personal Protection Specialists will learn the fundamentals of the PRT program – Physical and Verbal Posturing, Soft Control, and Hidden Force methods. You will learn to follow the PRT principles of using applications that are visually appropriate and socially executable. Everything you do in the PRT program will look appropriate to the situation you are dealing with. Learn to avoid overreacting with the incorrect level of force. PRT will teach you ‘soft control’ methods so you can deescalate and control any situation.

This module reviews the basic tools and mechanics needed to defend and protect a client from a low-level threat all the way up to a more aggressive threat. The material is taught on a force continuum that is appropriate for the protection agent and the various environments they work in. Due to the visual nature of some environments, it is important to understand the nature of lower-level controls and how to apply them so they will be effective as well as be able to read the body language of a threat and know when to respond with elevated force.

Module 2:

This module will introduce you to PRT’s Assault Tactics methods. You will:

• learn to deal with higher levels of aggressive action from a single threat or multiple threats.
• be introduced to the skills needed to fight off a vertical surface and from the numerous positions of the ‘around the world drill.
• learn the multi-tool principle and how to use it to choose more intelligent and usable applications in a high-stress environment.
• be introduced to the PRT’s predator mindset and how to connect to the switch to turn it on when it is needed in a high threat situation.

You also get into more advanced levels of ground fighting when forced to the ground and is being held. The second part of this module begins to introduce the environment around a vehicle and the various problems you may encounter as you move your principle in and out of the car. Students learn to use the car as a tool. All techniques are taught to be appropriate for the protection agent.

Module 3: 

Module three of the PRT program will train you to deal with Halls, Walls, and Doors. You will learn the Vehicle Centric Defensive Tactics, a technique that teaches you to manage a threat or threats in and around a vehicle. In protection work, you spend a lot of time in and around vehicles. The vehicle is also one of the most common points of attach on the protector and their principal.

This module begins introducing the firearm into the previous material learned. you start to recognize and ingrain the needed reactions and techniques to respond to it. It also covers the principals involved with firearm disarming. We believe that you will develop a greater understanding using this educational process then just learning a list of techniques. Lastly, countermeasure for the knife is introduced into the module.

PRT Module Three will give you the tools you need to be comfortable in this environment regardless of what level of force you are dealing with.

*SINGLE OCCUPANCY LODGING INCLUDED IN TUITION COST (Saturday through Sunday)

**Discounts Available for Current NLA Members and Groups of 3 or more  

*** Discounts Available for Current and Former US Military, Law Enforcement, Firefighters and First Responders (Verification Required)

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