Our Presentation this month “The Defensive Tactics Time Bomb” will explore why the current Law Enforcement and Private Security Industry defensive tactics
or physical skills methodology is on course for a liability explosion.

Presentation Outline: The currently and historically accepted open-hand defensive tactics physical skills methodology cannot be transmitted, embedded and reproduced under stress by the average person within the structure of the current delivery system. It cannot meet the increasing demands for stress-based outcomes and is now even decreasing in generic relevancy due to a major degradation of the physical culture within our society. We believe there is a solution which can be task-specifically applied to the Private Security Industry.

About our Presenter Mr. Robbie Cressman: Robbie Cressman is the President of Canadian Use of Force Systems, a Toronto based Mobile Training Team that has focused on contract training work with Canadian Federal, Provincial and large Municipal SWAT Teams, American Federal, State, Regional and City Law Enforcement and International Military organizations up to and including Special Operations applications. Robbie, as a civilian contractor, has a background in training a variety of traditional martial arts but found his calling and focus in 2001 on preserving and reviving the original work of Bill Underwood and his martial systems known as COMBATO and DEFENDO. In 2004, Mr. Cressman being dissatisfied with inabilities of standard martial or defensive tactics systems to transmit, embed, have skills reproduced under stress in a short period of time, which could prove functional for male and female officers operating with the physical movement restrictions imposed by gear, equipment and confined physical space environments, embarked on developing a solution. The “Immediate Recall” Tactile based training and operational platform was born as a result of this quest. Mr. Cressman spends his time representing Canada’s original Unarmed Combat and Defensive Tactics systems (COMBATO and DEFENDO) and teaches the Immediate Recall platform and its specialized applications internationally.

Robbie enjoys spending time with his 2 sons, Kristopher and Michael, developing and modifying his methods for television/movie stunt professionals, NHL Teams and working on his personal pets, his 1976 Starsky and Hutch Gran Torino, “Zebra 3” and “The Battlewagon”, his 1972 Chevy Kingswood Station Wagon.

The meeting notices are attached and the deadline to register by is Noon on Monday March 29. Please plan to attend and register early.

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