It was developed for the U.S. Navy Seals as a primary combative program based in Jeet Kune Do martial arts. Rapid Assault Tactics focuses on identifying phase (or range) in which an attack situation is occurring and responding to it with appropriate tools, typically using the HKE apporach (headbutts, knees, and elbows). Today the R.A.T. system is taught to Special Forces, Military, Marines, Rangers, F.B.I, D.E.A, C.I.A, S.W.A.T. Teams, and over 50 Police Departments in the U.S and other countries. Jim Wagner's Reality-Based Personal Protection system has revolutionized the way people are learning self defense. It's easy-to-learn, 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.
Even many of the world's elite police and military units have come to Jim Wagner for training :
- German counterterrorist team GSG9,
- the Israeli National Police Academy,
- the FBI,
- Argentinean G.O.E.,
- Brazilian G.A.T.E.,
- the U.S. Army,
- Finland's National Police Academy,
- the Royal Dutch Police,
- the German Federal Police Academy,
- the DEA,
- Homeland Security,
- and the list goes on.
On the other hand, if you join the United States Army, the Israeli Army, the French Army, or the Russian Army how long will it take for them to teach you how to defend yourself? These organizations will not only teach you about self-preservation but how inflict injury on the enemy in only five to six weeks by attending a Basic Combat Training course. This short time not only includes hand-to-hand combat and learning various weapon systems, but other soldiering skills are in the mix including marching, hygiene, military customs, and a lot of other things.
A SWAT officer goes to learn the highest levels of police tactics in a matter of only two weeks to four weeks. Most counter terrorist courses for special operations personnel are under eight weeks. Most top bodyguard schools in the world are six months long, and only a few days are devoted to the defensive tactics one needs to know.
If you were to boil down the advanced Israeli military hand-to-hand combat program into an around-the-clock course it would amount to a full week of intense training, and slightly longer for the U.S. Army Combatives program and the U.S. Marine MCMAP system.
So, why is it when you go to a traditional-based civilian martial arts instructor they say it takes years to learn self defense, and when you go to the professionals who do the conflict for real they tell you it will take only days? Who's right, the civilians or the professionals?
The truth is that learning real self defense only takes days. If you can't master any self-defense move in five minutes then it is either too complicated or too impractical.
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