About the 2012 Instructors Academy
This instructor development training seminar is designed to help trainers put all their training programs into an integrated system of use of force training. Departments have already invested time and resources into budget line items for an array of less-lethal subjects such as baton training, handcuff training, defensive tactics training, ground defense training, weapon retention training, OC training, Taser training, and high risk arrest training. This conference will provide tools to maximize these training investments.
In developing the training seminar, U.S.N.S.T.A. training staff started by asking the question, as an instructor, what are you trying to teach your students. Are you trying to get your students to memorize course material and pass a test, or are you trying to develop their skills to stay safe and effective in the operating environment?
The 2012 Instructors Academy sets out to assist the instructor in learning how to better be able to work within time and budget restrictions, increase student proficiency and retention, train students that are resistant to being trained, address different learning styles, and organize and deliver multi-discipline lesson plans.
Why Attend This Training Seminar?
As an instructor, you most likely have been exposed to a wide variety of programs that are often taught as separate subjects. There is no way you can transfer all of this content to your students in the limited timeframes you are allotted for training. Your job is to synthesize all of this material and package it in a way that allows you to get as much useful information to your students as possible. The 2012 Instructors Academy is designed to help you better be able to package this information and deliver it in a way that maximizes the student’s proficiency and retention.
We will seek to provide answers to such questions as:
I am a new instructor, where do I begin to develop my skills for transferring less-lethal training content?
How can I get creative in budgeting, lesson planning, and time management to meet the training demands of my department?
How do I address motivational issues with students? How do I train people that don’t want to be trained, and how do I teach something new to veteran officers that have been doing things the same way for years?
How do I sharpen my instructor instincts to better know what my students lack and instruct them in the skills they need to survive and succeed?
The instructors that will be presenting bring a wealth of experience. This is an excellent opportunity to learn how to avoid the mistakes that we have already made, and pick up tricks of the trade for conducting use of force training.
Defensive Tactics Training Systems
Thirteen years ago, defensive tactics instructors in a variety of systems and disciplines joined together at the initial U.S.N.S.T.A. conference. This conference was spearheaded by the Controlled F.O.R.C.E. team in an effort to bring the nation’s best DT instructors into one room and see if it were possible to decide on a common standard of training. What these instructors unanimously agreed upon was that while every system had its place in the use of force continuum, the Controlled F.O.R.C.E. system of Mechanical Advantage Control Holds™ (M.A.C.H.) provided a user-friendly base level of response to resistance that any other system could build on. Thus a national standard of defensive tactics training was established, and has continued to evolve to meet the changing demands of law enforcement.
Most long-time Controlled F.O.R.C.E. certified instructors understand how well the M.A.C.H. system integrates with other training systems. Whether they utilize a pressure point based system, a rapid assault based system, or a ground fighting based system, these instructors know that the M.A.C.H. system can fill the gaps between these programs and improve their effectiveness. Because Controlled F.O.R.C.E. training emphasizes body movement, transitions, and response to failure, it provides the law enforcement officer with an accessible vehicle to transition between systems as a non-compliant situation may dictate.
Controlled F.O.R.C.E. has always emphasized the importance of maintaining the tools and skills you already possess. Instead of trying to replace those tools and skills, the program enhances them, and provides a format for packaging them into a comprehensive response to resistance capability. The 2012 Instructors Academy aims to show the departmental instructor how to build on the subject control foundation that Controlled F.O.R.C.E. provides and package whatever training they already use into practical programs that meet their agency’s training requirements.
LEO Training Concepts for Department of Defense
U.S.N.S.T.A. has assisted with the development of training that provides a key component to the Department of Defense’s (DoD) need to adopt more Law Enforcement Officer (LEO) based non-lethal training concepts to meet the evolving demands of contemporary operating environments.
Many military training units have participated in U.S.N.S.T.A. training seminars to contribute to the development of a M.A.C.H. based national standard of Close Range Subject Control (CRSC) programs, including: INIWIC (Interservice Nonlethal Individual Weapons Instructor Course), U.S. Marine Corps Special Operations Training Group (SOTG), U.S. Air Force Security Forces Squadron, U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps Military Police (MPs), and U.S. Army Special Forces.
The 2012 Instructors Academy is an excellent opportunity to continue your development within a “law enforcement friendly” system of less-lethal combatives training that is recognized by thousands of civilian and military LEO agencies nationwide.
We have After Action Reports (AARs) from a variety of Military Instructors that have attended U.S.N.S.T.A. training seminars available upon request. To request AARs or any other supplemental information, please call Sarah Dunlop at 630-365-1400 or email sarah@usnsta.com.
Additional Resources:
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