Traditional-based, Sport-based or Reality-Based?
There are three distinct branches in the Martial Arts, so how do you know which is right for you?
Traditional-based systems
Such as Karate, Tae Kwon Do, Kung-fu, and others, are based on ancient systems that adhere to ancient techniques and training methods. They typically wear uniforms, have a belt ranking system, and require their students to learn foreign customs, traditions and terminology.
Found within these systems are fundamental self-defence principals, but they are not structured to teach students modern criminal and terrorism situations such as bombings, armed robberies, drive-by shootings, stalking, car-jackings, gang violence, threat assessment, etc.
Sport-based systems
Such as Ju-Jitsu, Judo, Greco-Roman Wrestling, Western boxing, and others, have their roots in traditional-based martial arts, but adhere to sporting rules in order to compete in various tournaments, sporting events, or even the Olympics.
Like the traditional-base martial arts, viable self-defence techniques and training methods can be gleaned from sport-based systems as well, but also like the traditional-based systems they also lack many modern conflict solutions.
Reality-based systems
Are those systems that teach the fundamental self-defence techniques that are found in both the traditional-based and sport-based systems, but go a step further by training specifically for modern conflict situations, and eliminating outdated techniques and training methods.
Although there are many systems today calling themselves “reality-based,” because they see themselves as training more realistically and have abandoned non-essential customs and traditions, few of them are actually “complete reality-based” systems.
In other words, they lack Pre-Conflict and Post-Conflict training in their curriculums and their Conflict training may be lacking simply because they have no real-world experience with criminals, abnormals, or terrorism.
The two missing elements from most Self-Defence Training
Pre and Post Conflict Training
Jim Wagner was not only the first instructor to articulate that there are these three distinct branches in the martial arts, but he was the first instructor to tie Pre-Conflict, Conflict and Post-Conflict training together into one system.
Pre-Conflict training is the foundation for all of our training which includes, Threat Assessment, Situational Awareness, Conflict Cues (reading a person for hostilities), the O.O.D.A. process (psychology of a conflict), legal issues, criminal counter-surveillance, knowing the Assault Elements, Threat Zone Management, Conflict Conditioning (mentally and physically, training documentation, and much more.
Conflict training is where we go way beyond what any other self-defence system teaches.
Our techniques come from the world’s elite police, military, corrections, and security units, which ultimately ties into an understanding of criminal and terrorist tactics.
We’ll teach you what few instructors are qualified to teach: defence against terrorist bombings and small arms attacks, criminal style stabbings, carjackings, drive-by shootings, kidnappings, sexual assault, armed robbery, criminal chemical attacks, gang violence, school and workplace massacres, child abductions, sniper attacks – just to name a few.
Of course you’ll learn all the strikes, blocks, and movements common to other systems, but only those techniques that will actually work in the streets.
Post-Conflict training are those actions immediately following a physical conflict, such as Self-Triage and Combat First Aid, victim rescues, citizen’s arrest methods, Incident Recollection, evidence identification and preservation, police contact, the Conflict Cycle, courtroom survival, and the list goes on.
What exactly is the Reality-Based Personal Protection system?
Jim Wagner left full-time law enforcement and formed the civilian version of his system. Thus, on January 21, 2003 this revolutionary system was officially born.
The definition of the term Reality-Based as defined by Jim Wagner is:
Training and survival skills based on modern conflict situations that the
practitioner is likely to encounter in their environment (their “reality”),
in an accordance with the use-of-force continuum of that jurisdiction.
The Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection system is the world’s original reality-based system, not just because Jim Wagner coined the term for the civilian martial arts, but because it is the very first system to include Pre-Conflict, Conflict, Post-Conflict and the creation of the very first civilian use-of-force continuum graph (how to judge reasonable force in the eyes of the law).
The system for all systems
If you are a martial arts practitioner or a self-self defence instructor from another martial arts system, and are debating with yourself on whether to try the Reality-Based Personal Protection system or not, you are not alone.
Many traditional-based and sport-based are intimidated by our system or are afraid that we are “anti traditional martial arts.” Nothing could be further from the truth.
We are here to augment your own training and to give you new and fresh ideas, and techniques and training methods you have never seen before.
By taking any of our courses you are not being a “traitor” to your own system, but obtaining crucial life-saving information. You do not have to drop your own system to train with us.
All systems are welcome to train with us, and from our own experience we have found that no matter if someone is a 6th Dan black belt, Special Forces Operator, or a new beginner with no training at all, everyone tends to be at the same level when it comes to any Reality-Based Personal Protection course because this system is totally revolutionary. This is exactly why we say that this is The system for all systems
