About this Course:

This course is primarily designed to equip students with advanced protection skills, focusing on keeping family and loved ones safe from danger. Students will learn third party protection tactics and how to apply them during everyday situations. Participants will familiarize themselves with close quarters combat and principal evacuation techniques and perform them in live fire. Finally, the course will finish with a series of full contact Force on Force scenario simulations where they will be tested in fast paced dynamic threat environments, giving them an opportunity to validate their knowledge and skills as Third Party Protectors.

Your Instructor:

With over 15 years of operational experience, Bernardo is a subject matter expert (SME) in the field of Counter Terrorism (CT) and security best practices. His expertise covers high-risk police tactics, special operations (SOF), dignitary protection (CP) and close quarters battle (CQB).

Bernardo recently retired from active duty in a Special Operations unit of the Border Patrol, focusing on direct action and low visibility operations. Previously, he has served as a Federal Air Marshal, Personal Bodyguard to the Chief of Staff (IDF), Combat instructor and Counter Assault Team member to the Israeli Security Agency.

Skill Level: 

Students must have completed a Pistol fundamentals course or equivalent

What You’ll Learn:

• Safety briefing
• Concealed Carry Best Practices
• Combat pistol Fundamentals
• Combat Timeline & Third Party Protection Fundamentals
• Contact & Evacuation Techniques with Principal
• Live Fire Third Party Protection Drills
• Dynamic Threat Scenario Simulations

The technique behind Krav Maga is built on natural human reflexes and movements making it easy and intuitive to learn as well as immediately applicable in real-world situations. Our Concealed Carry Krav Maga courses are perfect for beginners and advanced learners of the technique.

Learn more about these courses

These Home Defense Force-on-force courses are all designed to teach practitioners the skills and tactics to defend their home. We have designed these home defense courses and scenarios around use of rifles, pistols or a combination of the two. They have also been created to cover a wide range of these scenario’s including low-light and various other conditions and scenario-changing factors. Furthermore, you will learn the following amongst more course specific skills:

What you’ll learn

• Firearms Safety
• Rifle/Pistol Shooting Fundamentals
• Point Shooting Method
• Room Clearing Tactics
• Simulations drills with airsoft & UTM
• Considerations for Home Defense

Our Handgun Fundamental courses are designed for all levels of skill. Subsequently, you will learn the following as part of the curriculum:

Covered Areas

• Firearms Safety
• Loading and unloading
• Pistol shooting fundamentals including: Stance, Grip, Sights, Trigger
• Drawing from a holster
• Reloads
• Basic movement
• Various defensive shooting drills

Learn proper use of the IWI Tavor battle rifle directly from the source! Our Tactical Fitness founder, Ron, a former IDF sniper, will be your instructor for this course. All of our IWI course’s have been designed to teach the fundamentals of shooting the Tavor SAR and X95 rifle systems as well as more advanced skills.