REDZONE Reality Based Personal Protection

It doesn’t take years to learn real self-defense. It takes days.

“War arts.” That’s the literal meaning of the words “martial arts.” Unfortunately, most martial arts schools do not, and cannot, prepare you for the “wars” you and your loved ones are most likely to face: armed robberies, carjackings, gang attacks, criminal stabbings, drive-by shootings, acts of terrorism, and sexual harassment and sexual assault for you women.

Reality Based training bridges the gap between theoretical fighting arts, and actual street conflict through methods designed to force the trainee to respond instinctively and effectively.  Skills that you already have, if they’re valid, will assist you greatly.  We aren’t re-inventing the wheel here and the standard is not perfection – it just has to work. Ask yourself, does your current training get you barefoot on mats doing things you know you would or could never really do on the street?  Does your traditional art teach the same devastating type of response to almost any situation without preparing you for the legal and moral consequences?

Reality-Based Personal Protection is easy-to-learn, easy-to-teach, and most of all – realistic! Students and instructors from every type of traditional and sport-based martial arts you can imagine are coming to the system.

More important, people with absolutely no self-defense training find that they can learn and master the Reality-Based techniques and training methods just as well, if not better, as the “black belts” in the same courses. After all, it does not take years to learn real self-defense, it takes days.  If you can’t master any self-defense move in five minutes then it is either too complicated or too impractical.

There is nothing wrong with training in a traditional or sport based martial art or sweating for hours doing a high intense cardio workout/class however;

If your training ...

...does not teach the mental, emotional and social effects of a high stress situation related to every day dangers...

...does not mirror real life by utilizing real world situations, scenarios and props as much as possible...

...is not solely for protecting you or the ones you care about...

...has you spending time learning words in a foreign language, bowing, tying belts or competing in tournaments on mats or in a ring...

...teaches outdated, unrealistic, traditional or sport techniques that will not work in real life, modern situations...

...has you wearing a uniform and barefoot on soft mats...

...then it is NOT Reality Based Training.

Remember there is no tapping out, no rules, no refs, no mats and no belts in real life...

...Train for REAL...Train for REALITY

At REDZONE Reality Based Personal Protection, an Urban Self Defense program, we teach you ONLY WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW to save your life or the life of someone you care about. 

What makes this system different?

In brief, we keep the martial and take out the art. Most martial arts have rules, codes and a spiritual aspect along with rituals. This is all very good for character building, especially in children. Reality Based Personal Protection has only one concern: to teach you how to survive no matter what you have to do. There are no rules, no competitions, and no concern for how it looks. Martial arts rarely teach defences against real, random attacks, knives, firearms, clubs, multiple opponents…on the other hand, this is all that REDZONE teaches, all from a legal use of force perspective incorporating Pre and Post Conflict training!

Also, in martial arts, techniques are the most important aspect; they are passed from one teacher to the next unchanged for centuries. Reality Based Personal Protection is about concepts and principles more than it is about techniques, similar to how one learns first aid. We train people to find the proper solution to a wide range of problems using the realistic concepts and principles.

The definition of Pre-Conflict, Conflict and Post-Conflict

Reality Based Personal Protection includes the concepts of Pre-Conflict, Conflict, Post-Conflict within the legal use-of-force continuum.

Pre-Conflict training is the foundation for all of our courses which includes, Threat Assessment, Situational Awareness, Conflict Cues (reading a person for hostilities), the O.O.D.A. process, legal issues, criminal counter-surveillance, knowing the Assault Elements, Threat Zone Management, Conflict Conditioning (mentally and physically, training documentation, and much more.

Post-Conflict training are those actions immediately following a physical conflict, such as Self-Triage and Combat First Aid, victim rescues, citizen’s arrest methods, Incident Recollection, evidence identification and preservation, police contact, the Conflict Cycle, courtroom survival, and the list goes on.

Conflict training is where we go way beyond what any other self-defense system teaches. Our techniques come from the world’s elite police, military, corrections, and security units, which ultimately ties into an understanding of criminal and terrorist tactics. We’ll teach you: defense against terrorist bombings and small arms attacks, criminal style stabbings, carjackings, drive-by shootings, kidnappings, sexual assault, armed robbery, criminal chemical attacks, gang violence, school and workplace massacres, child abductions, sniper attacks – just to name a few. Of course you’ll learn all the strikes, blocks, and movements common to other systems, but only those techniques that will actually work in the streets.

The Right Choice for You

There are three distinct branches in the martial arts;

-       Traditional-based martial arts

-       Sport-based martial arts

-       Reality-Based martial arts.

So, how do you know what is right for you?

Traditional-based systems, such as Karate, Tae Kwon Do, Kung-fu, and others, are ancient systems that adhere to ancient techniques and training methods. They typically wear uniforms, have a belt ranking system, and require their students to learn foreign customs, traditions and terminology. Found within these systems are fundamental self-defense principals, but they are not structured to teach students modern criminal and terrorism situations such as bombings, armed robberies, drive-by shootings, carjackings, gang violence, threat assessment, etc.

Sport-based systems, such as Ju-Jitsu, Judo, Greco-Roman Wrestling, Western boxing, and others, have their roots in traditional-based martial arts, but adhere to sporting rules in order to compete in various tournaments, sporting events, or even the Olympics. Like the traditional-base martial arts, viable self-defense techniques and training methods can be gleaned from sport-based systems as well, but also like the traditional-based systems they also lack many modern conflict solutions.

Reality-based systems are those systems that teach the fundamental self-defense techniques that are found in both the traditional-based and sport-based systems, but go a step further by training specifically for modern conflict situations, and eliminating outdated techniques and training methods. Although there are many systems today calling themselves “reality-based,” because they see themselves as training more realistically and have abandoned nonessential customs and traditions, few of them are actually “complete reality-based” systems. In other words, they lack Pre-Conflict and Post-Conflict training in their curriculums and their Conflict training may be lacking simply because they have no real-world experience with criminals, abnormals, or terrorism.