About Us
Instructors have experience in a variety of martial arts styles and disciplines. Some instructors have backgrounds in law enforcement, the military, counseling, and other specialties. They have studied criminal typologies and have experience attending to survivors of assaults as first and secondary responders.
Male Instructors are trained to wear the body armor safely. They learn the dynamics in which predators operate so they can best help their students during full-contact scenarios. They wear about 50 pounds of protective equipment that is extremely hot and fatiguing, so their students can avoid future victimization. They define the warrior spirit in their acts of giving and individual sacrifice.
Female Instructors are crucial to the Model Mugging Training. They are Role Models for their students to emulate. They never leave their student’s side and coach each one to personal victory. They are familiar with the equipment and completely understand what their students are going through. After all, they were students themselves, having graduated from multiple classes and Advanced Model Mugging courses. They have exceptional technique and strategy during full-contact fighting. They have training in rape crisis advocacy and the myriad of emotions the course raises. Most of all, they lead you to the greatest feelings of empowerment any course can offer.
Background Summary on your primary instructor: He has law enforcement experience investigating all types of crime, from burglaries, rapes to homicides. He has taught arrest and control tactics, baton techniques, and self-defense to law enforcement personnel. He has experience with military police and has developed law enforcement training with the Iraqi Police in Baghdad, encompassing physical security and anti-terrorism measures, criminal analysis, weapons training, patrol techniques, police management, and more. He has training in anti-terrorism, physical security, bodyguarding, and other specialties. He has taught Model Mugging since 1989. He has a master’s degree in forensic psychology. He has studied the subject of sexual assault since the late 1980s, researching thousands of academic articles and receiving training in criminal typologies as well as the opportunity to interview predators. He has improved protective body armor for certified Model Mugging instructors.