Personal Defense Readiness – Blauer Tactical System
Students are exposed to aggressive as well as defensive role playing to simulate encounters and to prepare them to react ethically as well as decisively to real-life aggression. Our curriculum covers verbal defusing tactics, choice speech principles and a host of other behaviorally researched strategies. Our breakthrough research on fear management is the foundation of our program and understanding and directing fear is the key to overcoming any obstacle in life.
The Personal Defense Readiness mindset and toolbox should be a component in everyone's life: man, woman or child. Aside from the street defense applications, learning more about safety, awareness, proactive thinking, avoidance skills, fear management, self control, verbal de-escalation will have direct positive impact on any person's confidence
The S.P.E.A.R. SYSTEM™ Combative Philosophy: Applications & Implications for Personal & Professional Self-Defense
Spontaneous
Protection
Enabling
Accelerated
Response
Blauer Tactical Confrontation Management Systems® research the startle/flinch phenomena and its link to the survival system’s withdrawal reflex has spawned one of the most important evolutions in close quarter training: the S.P.E.A.R. SYSTEM™, which utilizes the speed and reliability of the startle/flinch mechanism to convert the sudden attack into a tactical counter. Most importantly, this system will not interfere with your current training and in fact it is most easily used as a bridge to any complex motor skill transition.
The S.P.E.A.R. SYSTEM™ is a 'behaviorally' researched, close quarter personal defense method that utilizes the body's natural flinches and reactions to fear or violence and then converts these reactions into efficient tactical choices. Because the system is "Genetically wired and behaviorally inspired™", anybody can learn it and everybody can do it.
It is the result of over two decades of research. The S.P.E.A.R. SYSTEM™ is so direct and efficient, it is currently being adopted by major law enforcement and military training units across the globe.
The foundation and nucleus of the S.P.E.A.R. SYSTEM™ is based upon what the body will do prior to any training, making it the fastest, most natural way to move the human body.
This process cuts muscle-memory training by about 80%, allowing anyone to improve more quickly and with greater confidence. Retention of the S.P.E.A.R. SYSTEM™ mechanics is vastly superior as the tactics taught are based on natural movements.
The S.P.E.A.R. SYSTEM™, developed by Tony Blauer, is based on his pioneering research on the psychological, emotional and bio-mechanic realities of close quarter combat. His program, is referred to as '3-DIMENSIONAL BEHAVIORAL TACTICS', because it is the first 'genetically' inspired close quarter combat system; remember, most systems rely on muscle-memory drills to create and develop their arsenal, but the S.P.E.A.R. SYSTEM™ toolbox is inspired by how the body actually wants to move.
From a 'tactics' perspective, the S.P.E.A.R. SYSTEM™ is not based on a 'sport-model' where balance, distance and tools are agreed upon. The system is based on a 'street model' that takes into account fear, reflexive flinches and emotions as mitigating influences during high stress confrontations. The S.P.E.A.R. SYSTEM™ methodology then capitalizes on this instinctual process and converts the energy and movement of these behaviorally based reactions into tactical options. In short, our system incorporates psychological, emotional and bio-mechanic truths to form a synergistic, realistic, protective system.
Blauer Tactical Confrontation Management Systems® strives to enhance the survivability of every person regardless of size or gender by creating tactics that are developed to take advantage of the body’s natural response mechanisms. The objective of these tactics is to be gross motor oriented, innate/instinctual so they will function during high stress and adrenaline overloaded incidents and also respect the body's survival system, signals and responses.
Blauer's research into the extreme close quarter fight has lead to important evolutions in the understanding of the psycho-physiological response that governs the human body in confrontational situations.
The foundation of our curriculum is the SPONTANEOUS PROTECTION ENABLING ACCELERATED RESPONSE™ system or the S.P.E.A.R. SYSTEM™, a scientifically researched close quarter measure that uniquely aids in converting instinctive survival flinches & reactions into effective protective tactics. The natural human response mechanism to a physical threat revolves around the fight or flight principle. The working hypotheses for Blauer’s clients is that 'flight' is not an option. Therefore our R&D team MUST develop performance technology to fight the threat. This requires breaking down the physical, psychological and emotional elements that interact to define the response to that threat.
An individual who is confronted by a physical threat will have an autonomic response, startle-flinch that is part of the unconscious self-defense mechanism. This occurs long before the cognitive identification process which allows a victim to process the available information and make a conscious decision that results in the fight or flight response.
It is medical fact that the neo-cortex, limbic system and reptilian brain can run conflicting messages during real combat stress, especially when the SOP's and tactics taught are based on purely theoretical attacks and counters.
The S.P.E.A.R. SYSTEM™ is based on natural flinches, therefore it is not really a perishable skill once learned correctly. While this may sound incredible, remember, on a psychomotor level, there is no longer any 'muscle-memory' interference with the body's instinctive response.
REMEMBER...IN YOUR FIGHT, YOU ARE POINT.
Irrespective of your training, if the opponent is in your face, it's now your fight. And while there may be legal or professional rules of engagement, it’s also now a very personal moment. If you can't subdue this threat, it is likely that you will not accomplish your task within the professional mission and likely the confrontation will also have impact on your personal situation.
THE ANSWER: TOTALITY IN TRAINING..
While 'totality' may appear to be grandiose, the reference is merely a philosophically based argument that suggests that 'we' must look carefully at the combative arena, the environment and specifically the opponent through a disciplined threat assessment filter. This will enable us to customize training to provide the greatest tactical advantage for the next engagement.
"The superior fighter has no emotional attachment to any particular range of combat."
-BTCMS Maxim
Our methodology seeks to improve spontaneous effective modification or adaptability of the warrior's arsenal. This includes personal tools (body/mind) as well as tactical tools (all other weapons). Tony Blauer’s message has always been to be diverse, skilled in all ranges. If push comes to shove you must have no physical preference, no emotional attachment to a range, only then you can make a calm, calculated, strategic choice and force the confrontation to the range that suits the situation.
(from www.tonyblauer.com)
