Our Services
We provide a full spectrum of Close protection services in Spain. We also provide full logistical support, including investigations and recce, to visiting security teams. We have offices in Colombia and Ecuador, Portugal and Andorra. We also provide training packages for career advancement in the close protection industry.
Included within our services we have various, client-specific packages to accommodate the needs of the full spectrum of students we have encountered during our 50-year journey in the protection of individuals, groups of individuals.
The teaching of risk identification, to be able to recognize and avoid conflictive emotionally charged and possibly violent situations, of maintaining control in volatile and potentially violent situations and the teaching of applications of violence for the Military and Police in service of their national security at all levels are included within our portfolio.
Overview
d.a.d.a
DADA is the acronym for DETECT, AVOID, DISTRACT, ATTACK.
You will have little chance of successfully defending, defeating or avoiding an attack, robbery, or potentially dangerous situation if you do not first detect its presence. For that reason many other instructors of Self-defence talk of attacks coming from “ambush”. In actual fact that should be a “surprise attack”.
A surprise simply because it was not identified as a threat in advance!
DETECTION training and situational awareness courses heighten your senses alerting you to the dangers that may be encountered in your daily activities program; your home, social or work life.
AVOIDANCE should always be your main goal. Nothing positive will be achieved from unnecessary conflict, be that physical or verbal. Physical avoidance of a detected ‘possible threat situation’ can be as simple as walking in another direction or jumping into a taxi. It is, however, not always that simple. You will learn techniques of evasion as well as persuasion, increasing your chances of avoiding physical confrontation.
DISTRACTION is the main tool used by professionals to achieve the higher ground, the upper hand. Smoke and mirrors. All magicians and Close Protection Operatives employ these methods to achieve their goals. Goals which may be very different but all the same, very important to the successful accomplishment of their mission. Your mission of course, is to get home to your loved ones safely, we will give you all the tools available to make that happen.
ATTACKING may well be your only available option and we must make sure that if things get physical, they will not only be beneficial to your escape plan but will also be legally defendable should that become an issue at a later date. Let me be clear here. Distraction aids us in launching a surprise attack to increase our chances of making a successful escape. Attack may not always be your last option, but it may be the best option in the time frame provided. For this reason, legal defense should always be a part of your escape plan.
All of our services rely heavily on the D.A.D.A principles. Our Professional Close Protection Security Services as well as our Training courses and seminar-based learning modules, be those in person or online, delivered to the highest level of Government employees, or a stay-at-home mum.
Our courses are open to all, as they are client-specific. The same skills are taught to all who have the need and the urge to survive.
Principle-based learning
Physiological and Psychological reactions to modern-day threats are examined and explained simply, to better aid your learning experience whilst negotiating conflict and violence management.
- Your learning experience can start immediately with one video call.
- You may choose to take a course or an individual module online.
- You can learn as a family group or individually.
- Corporate plans are available and tailor-made to suit your requirements.
- Private lessons are available in person here in Cádiz, Spain, or as live distance learning modules presented via a videoconference online platform. These include but are not limited to:
- Situational Awareness and Situational Control.
- De-escalation; Tactical Conversation. Ego Management.
- Risk Management. Risk/Reward explained.
- Physiology of violence.
- Psychology of combat, the Who, What, Where, Why, and When of violent confrontation explained.
- Personal Profiling and Behavioural Analysis.
- How to best employ the use of violence to prevail in a violent confrontation.
Training Programs.
Combatives
Combatives is a military-grade, modern martial art designed with the sole intention of giving the best physical and psychological tools available to soldiers fighting, hand to hand, in confined spaces CQB/CQC. In life-threatening situations. No time for flash, no time for freeze, no time to error. Time only to fight and to prevail.
mindset
Mindset is what makes everything else work (or fail). You must have a combative mindset, tuned in to the expectation of you doing violence to someone else for your survival. It matters not, what your skill levels are if you have the wrong mindset and it matters much less if you have the right combative mindset! The willingness to do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, and to continue doing it until it is DONE.
violence prevention
Violence prevention is a huge part of all our training programs (with the exception of combatives, which is violence participation dependant). There are so many variables in human interaction especially when one or more chooses to do harm, for whatever reason, to another. Prevention is our main goal, using whatever methods are available to us.
self-defense
Self-defence goes way past what most people expect from it. Self-defence should not be only the physical. In fact it is far from the physical that so many believe it to be when they sign up for their typical self-defence course. In our classes, about 75% is study-based training, with the intention of teaching the “who’s, where’s, why’s, and when’s” before moving on to the “HOW’S”. You will be amazed how much better and quicker you can master the HOW once all the other pieces have fallen into place.
attack
Attack is what we do to them, not what they do to us. Defence is what they employ to mitigate the injury received from our attack. We will show you correct methods of legally defendable attacks and supply the mitigation for your actions in a way the legal system can understand. Beware there is no guaranteed legal defence for the employment of physical violence against another Human being.
Situational awareness
Situational Awareness is the “Big Brother” of all violence prevention and Self-Defence. Without it, the only option left will be Combative.
Situational Awareness is what lets you know what is going on around round you whilst giving you the correct tools to evaluate the situation and all the possible outcomes. Supplying you not only with information but solutions to the situations in which you find yourself. It is not a tool to be studied, learned and then applied, it is in fact a tool to be lived, a way of life.
We will help you find the best methodology to make situational awareness an unconscious accessory to your self-defense arsenal, as natural a part of your life as it was for your ancestors.
situational control
We have employed our “Situational Awareness” to our advantage we have all the bases covered, but no immediate escape in sight. Therefore, the only option we have is to control this situation until a valid escape route presents itself or is indeed created by our “control/manipulation” or our “Charismatic Influence” of the situation!
Situational control may include ensuring that there is an obstacle between you and your perceived threat, it may be the use of tactical conversation or something as simple as having your mobile phone at hand to record evidence at an accident in which you are neither involved as a victim nor needed to perform medical assistance.
personal protection
Personal protection covers a wide spectrum of issues related to our wellbeing. Wearing a seatbelt for example might be classed as personal protection by some as would having the correct locks on your home’s doors or informing someone of your whereabouts and your intentions, including the method you have arranged for arrival home after say, a night out with friends. Personal Protection is in fact everything we do to ensure we do not need to use physical self-defense to defend us against would-be wrongdoers or Combatives to eliminate the threat to us.
What To Expect
You should expect from us as a minimum 100% respect, regardless of your experience in any of the given disciplines you chose to study. Commitment in providing you with the most modern, and effective solutions to the problems presented to you in your everyday environments.
Our enthusiasm to learn from you. There are no questions that are “out of bounds”, ask any question, plant any scenario. I personally love being pushed and tested on my theories and explanations.
Above all you should expect to leave any of our classes, courses, workshops or seminars with a revitalized enthusiasm to learn more, to push yourself further, and with a feeling that your investment was well worth it.
presential training
Presential training. Personalised training for the individual or in deed any size group of friends, family co-workers, in Spain’s beautiful Cádiz province.
visitng workshops
Workshops. Any of the subjects we teach can be supplied in workshop format. You give us the time available to you and a space to meet up and we will build learning modules for you.
Individual on-line training
Individual online mentoring, tutoring, or security and safety training, designed to your individual and specific needs.
Police and Military
Government forces. Police and Military. We have specialised training available for Government forces and these can be supplied in any of the previously mentioned formats. Visit us in Spain or Latin America. Or we can visit you in your own training facilities.
live on-line group workshops
Classes designed to meet your needs. This could be for the work place or any other civilian environment where team building and security are combined for your group safety.
Adaptability is the key
Timescales are client-specific. Any of our training programs and lectures can be expanded or reduced into modules to fit your schedule. The shortest being a one-hour online module, and the longest is currently a six-week fully immersed, on-site presential program for professionals.
