Why attend a Physical Conflict Resolution (PCR) Course?

 

This is a fundamental question that needs to be answered.

The history behind the course should help bring things into focus.

Nearly two decades ago, Ken Good started using Force-on-Force training to test and evaluate the validity of various tactical movements, team concepts, and training methodologies for the Department of the Navy. This following hisactive-duty service with SEAL Team One.

The program grew in scope and local law enforcement SWAT teams started requesting the use of the training platforms and guidance from the assembled instructor staff. This constant interaction provided the inspiration to develop training to assist Law Enforcement in whatever way possible.

In today’s higher threat, active-shooter situations, your job may not always be entirely defensive in nature, regardless you must only use the minimum amount of force required to resolve the situation. There is a Force Continuum. It’s there for a reason and we must respect the concept.

  

 

Throughout the years, we have observed the following:

Many officers do not really understand how to efficiently take no-shoot threats to the ground and keep them there without excessive force. They were getting there eventually, but leaving large gaps of time and space for other potential threats to move and aggress in.
Many officers do not understand how to deal with non-compliant no-shoot threats while maintaining the ability to address higher-level threats.
Some officers are over-reacting to combative behaviors by suspects and non-threatening bystanders located in a high threat area. (i.e. juveniles, females, elderly)
Many are fearful of basic attacks because intuitively they know that the skill set they currently possess is not adequate to meet the threat.

From that point forward, Ken Good sought to develop a training methodology that would concentrate on the specific set of skills that constitute an armed police officer in a multiple threat adversary situation. Not a self-defense focused martial art half-hazardly plugged into this unique environment.

An introspective look around the martial arts landscape will reveal that many systems DO NOT have the three elements of your environment (you are armed, your opponent may or may not be armed, and there is usually multiple opponents) inculcated into their training and operational philosophies.

Take for example Brazilian Jujitsu (BJJ) and its popularity in Law Enforcement. The overall strategy of the “combatants” is really quite simple. Close the gap without getting seriously hurt, take your opponent down to eliminate many of the striking options, take as much time as required to establish a dominant position, take as much time as necessary to submit your opponent.

In a one-on-one confrontation with no weapons, this has proven to be an extremely powerful strategy in the Ultimate Fighting Challenges. When you try to overlay this strategy on an armed police officer that must be prepared to address multiple threats (armed or possibly armed), the downsides should become self-apparent.

The idea that we should take it to the ground and stay there is a misapplication of a specialized Jujitsu as applied to the Law Enforcement and Military mission requirements.

Please don’t misread what I am saying. You should know how to conduct yourself on the ground (we will address this) and practitioners of this art are extremely good at what they do. Studying this art is in fact a good thing and it takes years to master. It teaches one to remain relaxed under pressure, breath control, strategy, etc. It is a great physically and mentally stimulating activity. But please do not consider it a complete, armed professionals art. It was never designed to be.
 

You don’t need “street fighting” techniques and it’s emphasis and priorities. - You do not some self-enlightenment experience, or a self-improvement program.
What you need is a system, a strategy, a set of principles and techniques that are tailored to your particular interaction with threats.

Police officers have X amount of time for this study and must gain a practical, working knowledge in compressed time frames. A challenge indeed! Add to that the legal and administrative burdens placed on the department and it’s officers and the challenge becomes even greater.

The Great News

After nearly 20 years of practical experimentation, and hand-on teaching, Strategos International’s Physical Conflict Resolution (PCR) course is formalized and being presented around the country.

The officers are shown many practical drills that demonstrate the principles that lead to repeatable success in this arena.

The officers are given an extensive (constantly growing and updated) nearly 300 page guide/manual that highlights the principles, drills, and techniques.

Updates will be at no cost to the officers. Once you have trained with Strategos International, the courseware updates will always be offered at no charge.

What will You See and Do in the Course?

No curriculum can fully embody all known equipment, encompass the vast number of potential techniques, or address all the methodologies used to meet the mission requirements faced by law enforcement agencies across the country. Therefore, this course of instruction has an open architecture. It is designed from the outset to be modified and improved upon.

This program is crafted to allow you to fit in and use what you already know and are required to use, as well as what you will learn in the future. If you are not moving forward, you are probably moving backwards!

This program gives you strong skeleton, a foundation from which to build a solid structure upon.

We are not going to focus in on X number of techniques, trying to stuff a confusing matrix of sequences into your operating system. It is our opinion, that viewing any confrontation as a simple matter of: “I see this, therefore I should select technique number 123 and fit in here” will more than likely fail under duress.

Time and time again I have asked officers to show me in a practical manner what they learned in a previous defensive tactics course. As they try to match a technique to a situation they are presented, they are often stumped when one part of the sequence they attempt to deploy is forgotten or misapplied.

As techniques become increasing complicated and exotic, the likelihood of an officer using any of them successfully is proportionally diminished. We look to simplify and remove unnecessary movements and procedures.


 

Therefore, we are going to present a way of dealing with confrontations that will allow you to use the appropriate level of force whenever force is required, whatever that level of force is.

  • We are going to present from the outset themes and variations on themes.

  • You are going to learn to use the inherent weaknesses in the human operating system to your advantage.

  • You are going to learn to control your balance, breath, posture and overall body movements while simultaneously taken that control from your opponents.

  • You are going to learn to keep your weapons in a variety of sitations, and learn to take them away from suspects.

  • You will learn to be comfortable and capable if you find yourself on the ground.

  • You will see and learn how to deal effectively with the most common attacks.

  • You will see continuity, simplicity, and adaptability.

The PCR methodology has a very important aspect deeply ingrained into the approach. This aspect is the idea and critical importance of the force continuum. Every movement, every technique can be applied with an absolute minimum of force resulting in no injuries to threats or be scaled in the dynamic to much higher levels of consequence to the recipient. This is in direct opposition to many approaches that rely on strength, speed, and aggression to accomplish the same task. This later approach is extremely difficult to scale resulting in totally unnecessary injuries to the officer and the public.

Attending a PCR course will quite simply dramatically increase your capability and fundamentally change the way you view problems you have seen many times before.