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Level 1 Outlines

Below are the five current (Revised September 2006) Level 1 Reality-Based Personal Protection outlines that are taught around the world by current certified Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection instructors (those instructors recently certifed or current members of the World Reality-Based Personal Protection Association).

These outlines contain only the headlines. They do not contain the sub-headlines, nor do they contained the detailed descriptions of the techniques.

These posted outlines are for two purposes:

1.  For future students or instructors considering signing up for one or more courses with Jim Wagner and who wish to have a general idea as to what will be taught.

2.  For those students who are about to, or are in the process of, taking lessons from a certified Reality-Based Personal Protection instructor (listed on this website under CERTIFIED INSTRUCTORS), and who wish to verify that they are receiving all required instructions.  

Copyright 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Jim Wagner. These course is the intellectual property of Jim Wagner. Teaching this material requires official instructor certification directly from Jim Wagner, founder of the system. Instructors must follow this course outline EXACTLY and in its ENTIRETY (no additions or deletions may be made) according to the Agreement of Understanding Contract in order to legally and morally issue a Certificate of Training under Jim Wagner and the Reality Based Personal Protection system. This course may be taught in an 8 hour block, or it can be sub divided into smaller blocks no less than 30 minutes each. Subdivision of this outline into multiple training blocks must still be followed in sequential order as it is shown here in this outline. It is forbidden to alter this outline without permission or to delete this paragraph.

Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection
DEFENSIVE TACTICS
Student Course Outline: Revised September 2006

Start of Course
1.   Sign in
2.   Introduction
3.   Safety Rules
4.   Training Concepts
5.   Shooting Demonstration

Warm-up (15 minutes)
1.   Stretching
2.   Cardiovascular exercises
3.   Strength exercises

Section 1.  Conflict Indicators and Defense Stances

1.01   Threat Zones

1.02   Criminal Assault Cycle
         
1.03   Conflict Indicators
         
1.04   Alert Stance
 
1.05   Imminent Conflict Stance

Section 2.  Movement

2.01   Rapid Stance Change

2.02   Forward Step

2.03   Backward Step    
                      
2.04 Horizontal Step

2.05   Vertical

2.06   Diagonal Step   

2.07   Forward Run

2.08   Zigzag Run
 
2.09   Hasty Retreat
         
2.10 Run, Stomp & Stop

Section 3.  Arm Strikes (closed fist & open hand)

3.01   How to make a closed fist

3.02   Technique Train for arm strikes
               
3.03   Primary Arm Strike Directions (Jim Wagner Metric System) 
         
3.04   Close fist Combinations

3.05 Open Hand Strikes 

3.06 Weaker Subject Submission Strikes
 
3.07 Do not tell “war stories”

Graph 1. Use-of-Force Ladder

Graph 2.  Assault Elements

Section 4.  Arm Strikes (deadly force) 

4.01   Finger Thrust

4.02   Thumb Thrust

4.03   Claw

Section 5.  Arm Strikes (pushes)

5.01   Two-hand Push

5.02   Two-hand Push

Section 6.  Arm Strikes (elbows)

6.01   10 Primary Arm Strike Directions (Jim Wagner Metric System) 

Section 7.  Hand Grabs

7.01    Clothing Grab

7.02 Head Target Grab

7.03 Body Target Grab 
     
Section 8.  Arm Blocks
     
8.01   Handcuffed Defense Movement Drill

8.02   10 Primary Arm Block Directions (Jim Wagner Metric System)
         
8.03   Shield Blocks
   
Section 9.  Arm Block Drills

9.01   Aggressive Defense Drill

9.02   Short Duration Sparring

Section 10.  Kinetic Sensation Response (Level 1, unarmed)

10.01   One-hand Drill

10.02 Two-hand Drill

Section 11.  Leg Strikes (feet)

11.01 Technique Train for leg strikes

11.02   Forward Lead Leg Strike (Push Off)
     
11.03   Forward Rear Leg Strike     
      
11.04   Backward Leg Strike

11.05   Horizontal Leg Strike

11.06  Vertical Leg Strike Up

11.07   Vertical Leg Strike Down      
         
11.08   Diagonal Leg Strike)     

11.09   Leg Sweep

Section 12.  Leg Strikes (knees)

12.01 Forward Front Knee Strike
Ineffective

12.02   Forward Rear Knee Strike
     
12.03   Backward Knee Strike
            Ineffective

12.04   Horizontal Knee Strike
            Ineffective

12.05   Vertical Knee Strike Up

12.06 Vertical Knee Strike Down 
A)  Knee Control
B)  Knee Drop    
         
12.07 Diagonal Knee Up

12.08 Diagonal Knee Down
            Ineffective  

Section 13.  Leg Blocks

13.01   Stop Kick Block

13.02   Stop Knee Block

Section 14.  Head Strikes

14.01   Forward Head Strike

14.02   Head Butt Whisper
           
14.02   Backward Head Strike

Section 15.  Biting

15.01   A daily routine action

15.02  Decontamination
        
Section 16.  Chokes Defense

16.01   ABC’s of Choke Holds

16.02   Front Choke Hold     
      
16.03   Back Choke Hold

16.04 Side Choke Hold

16.05   Spontaneous Choke Holds Exercise

Section 17.  Holds Defense

17.01   Bear Hugs
           
Section 18.  Butt Strikes

18.01 Rear Butt Strike

18.02 Sit Down
           
End of Course

Copyright 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Jim Wagner. This course is the intellectual property of Jim Wagner. Teaching this material requires official instructor certification directly from Jim Wagner, founder of the system. Instructors must follow this course outline EXACTLY and in its ENTIRETY (no additions or deletions may be made) according to the Agreement of Understanding Contract in order to legally and morally issue a Certificate of Training under Jim Wagner and the Reality Based Personal Protection system. This course may be taught in an 8 hour block, or it can be sub divided into smaller blocks no less than 30 minutes each. Subdivision of this outline into multiple training blocks must still be followed in sequential order as it is shown here in this outline. It is forbidden to alter this outline without permission or to delete this paragraph.

Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection
Ground Survival
Student Course Outline: Revised September 2006

Start of Course
1.   Sign in
2.   Introduction
3.   Safety Rules
4.   Training Concepts

Warm-up (15 minutes)
1.   Stretching (to prevent muscle injuries during exercises & drills)
2.   Cardiovascular exercises (to overcome conflict fatigue)
3.   Strength exercises (to overcome suspect resistance)

Section 1.  Falls

1.01   Forward Fall
         
1.02   Shooting Prone Position          

1.03   Back Fall
         
1.04   Side Fall

1.05   Forward Roll

Section 2.  Crawling                 

2.01 High Crawl

2.02 Low Crawl

2.03  Russian Crawl

2.04  Sniper Crawl

Section 3.  Run & Drop

3.01   Running Slide
3.02   Running Slide

Section 4.  Take Downs

4.01  Take Downs

Section 5.  Tackle Defense

5.01   Ground Drive

5.02   Tackle escape

5.03   Tackle Fall

Section 6.  Ground Conflict Position

6.01   Ground Conflict Side Position 

6.02   Ground Conflict Back Position (Against Weapon)
         
6.03   Ground Leg Strikes & Blocks
            
6.04  Ground Arm & Blocks
         
6.05   Ground Recovery
                    
6.06   Head Tap Drill

6.07   Ground Knife Attack Drill

Section 7.  Mounted (Forward) Strikes Mounted

7.01 Arm Strikes from the Ground

7.02 Grabs from the Ground

7.03   Biting

Section 8.  Mounted (Forward) Blocks

6.04 Arm Blocks from the Ground
  
Section 9.  Take Offs
       
9.01   Wiggling

9.02   Hip Buck

9.03   Jim Wagner 4 Boxes Take Off Rule  

Section 10.  Choke Escape Mounted

10.01   Front Choke Escape

Section 11.  Face-Down (Backward) Ground Conflict

11.01   Rear Ground Suppression
            
11.02   Rear Ground Choke Hold

Section 12.  Side Position (Horizontal) Conflict Strikes

12.01   Side-by-Side Striking Drill

Section 13.  Ground Weapon Retention

13.01   Fight Over Single Weapon

Section 14.  Getting to Guard Position

14.01   Basic Principles

14.02   Side Mount Escape

14.03   Partner Shin Push Exercise

Section 15.  Counter Guard Techniques

15.01   Femoral Elbow Pry
           
15.02   Groin or Bladder Strike

Section 16.  Environment Utilization

16.01   Head Bouncing

16.02   Pick up weapon from ground

16.03   Deploy concealed weapon while in ground conflict 

Section 17.  Kick While Down Defense
 
17.01   Front Kick Defense
           
17.02   Back Kick Defense
           
17.03   Horizontal Kick Defense
 
17.04   Vertical Down Kick Defense
           
Section 18.  Victim Ground Rescue Techniques

18.01   Standing Wrist Drag

18.02   Georgia Street Drag
           
18.03   Knee Drag  

18.04   Ground Level Rescues

Section 19.  Citizen’s Arrest Techniques

19.01   Cooperative Unknown Suspect

19.02   Restraining

Section 20.  Restraint Positional Asphyxiation

20.01   Signs and symptoms

20.02 Body Positioning

End of Course

Copyright 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Jim Wagner. This course is the intellectual property of Jim Wagner. Teaching this material requires official instructor certification directly from Jim Wagner, founder of the system. Instructors must follow this course outline EXACTLY and in its ENTIRETY (no additions or deletions may be made) according to the Agreement of Understanding Contract in order to legally and morally issue a Certificate of Training under Jim Wagner and the Reality Based Personal Protection system. This course may be taught in an 8 hour block, or it can be sub divided into smaller blocks no less than 30 minutes each. Subdivision of this outline into multiple training blocks must still be followed in sequential order as it is shown here in this outline. It is forbidden to alter this outline without permission or to delete this paragraph.

Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection
Knife Survival
Student Course Outline: Revised September 2006

Start of Course
1.   Sign in
2.   Introduction
3.   Safety Rules
4.   Training Concepts

Section 1.  Scenario Demonstration

1.01   Knife Attack on Unarmed Victim
         
1.02 Knife Attack on Armed Victim

1.03   21 feet / 7 meter Rule

Section 2.  Knife Avoidance

2.01   Basic Principles 

2.02   Knife Survival Drill
         
Section 3.  Self Triage & First Aid / Victim Triage & First Aid

3.01   Head-to-Toe Pat Down

3.02   Request Help

3.03   Tend to Injuries

3.04   Victim Shock Prevention
            
Section 4.  Mental Preparation
          
4.01   Knife Conflict Realities
         
Section 5.  The Purpose of Doing Cold Training

Section 6.  A.T.T.A.C.K.

6.01   Think like the enemy
           
NOTE:  The Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection system in no way endorses the following world wide edged weapons attack methods, but the following demonstrations are intended for information only in order to know how to defend against such attacks.

Section 7.  Weapon Deployment Cycle

Section 8.  World Wide Edged Weapons Attack Methods

8.01   Prison Yard Techniques 

8.02   Ethnic Knife Techniques

8.03   Criminal Edged Weapons Techniques

8.04   Terrorist Attack Techniques
         
8.05   Military Attack Techniques

8.06   Traditional-Based Martial Arts Attack Techniques
        
Section 9.  Weapon Grip

9.01   Common Knife Grips
         
9.02   Fist Grip Point Up

Section 10.  Knife Conflict Stance (standing, armed)

10.01 Historical Knife Conflict Stances

10.02 Alert Knife Stance

10.03   Imminent Knife Conflict Stance

10.04   Knife Forward Stance

Section 11.  Primary Knife Strike Directions 1 – 10

11.01 Primary Directions / Jim Wagner Metric System

11.02 Weapon Distance Familiarization 
 
Section 12.  Directions Combinations

12.01   Combination Efficiency
           
Section 13.  Knife Injuries

13.01   Cuts v. puncture wounds
           
Section 14.  Improvised Edged Weapons

14.01   Limited Blade Length
  
Section 15.  Knife Blocks
     
15.01   Primary Knife Block Directions

15.02   Specialty Knife Blocks 

Section 16.  Fakes

16.01   High to Low Fake
           
16.02   Low to High Fake 

Section 17.  Kinetic Sensation Response Level 1 (armed)

17.01   Primary Side KSR Drill

17.02   Secondary Side KSR Drill

17.03   Two-hand KSR Drill

17.04   Blind KSR Drill on Primary Side

Section 18.  One Point Sparring

18.01  Block and Counter 

Section 19.   Feeding Drill

19.01   Three-second feeding Drill

19.02   Two-second feeding Drill

Section 20.  One-for-One Drill

20.01   Block-Counter-Block

Section 21.  Freestyle Drill

21.01   Knife-to-Knife Freestyle Drill

21.02   3 in 1 Drill
           
Section 22.  Leap Frog Drill

22.01   Single Weapon Struggle Drill

Section 23.  Walking the Gauntlet Drill

23.01   Hostile Environment Reaction Drill

Section 24.  Jim Wagner Knife Disarm Rule 

24.01   Confined Space Principles
           
Section 25.  Freestyle Ground Drill
         
25.01 Armed Suspect Mounted

Section 26.  Hostage Situations

26.01   Knife to Throat Escape
           
26.02 Knife on Stomach Escape

Section 27.  Double Blades

27.01   Double Blades Feeding Drill

27.02   Double Blades One-for-One Drill

27.03   Freestyle Drill

Section 28.  Throwing Blade Theory

28.01 Weapon Selection

28.02   Positive and Negative Aspects
           
End of Course

Copyright 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Jim Wagner. This course is the intellectual property of Jim Wagner. Teaching this material requires official instructor certification directly from Jim Wagner, founder of the system. Instructors must follow this course outline EXACTLY and in its ENTIRETY (no additions or deletions may be made) according to the Agreement of Understanding Contract in order to legally and morally issue a Certificate of Training under Jim Wagner and the Reality Based Personal Protection system. This course may be taught in an 8 hour block, or it can be sub divided into smaller blocks no less than 30 minutes each. Subdivision of this outline into multiple training blocks must still be followed in sequential order as it is shown here in this outline. It is forbidden to alter this outline without permission or to delete this paragraph.

Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection
Crime Survival
Student Course Outline: Revised September 2006

Start of Course
1.   Sign in
2.   Introduction
3.   Safety Rules
4.   Training Concepts

Section 1.  Course Goals

1.01   Criminal Mentality

1.02   Definitions

1.03   Victim Choices        
          
Section 2.  Crime Experience

 2.01   Pre-Conflict Preparation
   
2.02   Post-Conflict Actions    
                         
2.03   Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome
           
Warm-up (15 minutes)
1.   Stretching
2.   Cardiovascular exercises
3.   Strength exercises

Section 3.  Multiple Attacker Survival

3.01   Two-on-One Attack

3.02   Anti-sandwich Maneuver
         
Section 4.  Firearms Survival
 
4.01   Pistol in Reach Techniques

4.02   Firearm Out of Reach Techniques

4.03   Out of Reach Crescent Counterattack

Section 5.0  Armed Robbery Defense

5.01   Armed Robbery of Person
     
5.02   Armed Robbery of a Location
        
6.0  Protecting Others

6.01   Pre-Conflict Preparation

6.02   Body Shielding

6.03   Bagpipe Hold
         
6.04   Cover & Evacuate

6.05 Fight Natural Instincts Drill 

Section 7.  Criminal Chemical Attack Defense
     
7.01  Jim Wagner Criminal Chemical Attack Rule
        
Section 8.  Impact Weapon Survival

8.01   Distance & Close In Rule

Section 9.  Advances & Site Security

9.01  Location Advance
        
9.02   Social Locations Situational Awareness
           
9.03   Commerce Locations Situational Awareness

Section 10.  Vehicle Security

10.01   Vehicle Target

10.2   Driving Security

10.03   Road Rage Prevention

10.04   Jim Wagner Car Seat Defense Rule
          
10.05 Car Seat Defense Against Firearms

Section 11.  Criminal Counter-Surveillance

11.01   Definition of surveillance

11.02   Definition of counter-surveillance. 

11.03   Types of criminal surveillance
           
11.04   Soft Targets for Opportunist Criminals

11.05   Detecting a Foot Surveillance

11.06   Evading a Foot Surveillance

11.07   Detecting a Vehicle Surveillance
                      
11.08 Evading a Vehicle Surveillance
 
Section 12.  K.I.M.S. Game (Keep In Memory System) 
           
12.01   K.I.M.S. Game Categories

Section 13.  Home Security

13.01 Exterior Physical Security

13.02 Interior Physical Security
                 
13.03 Personal Information Security
  
End of Course

Copyright 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Jim Wagner. This course is the intellectual property of Jim Wagner. Teaching this material requires official instructor certification directly from Jim Wagner, founder of the system. Instructors must follow this course outline EXACTLY and in its ENTIRETY (no additions or deletions may be made) according to the Agreement of Understanding Contract in order to legally and morally issue a Certificate of Training under Jim Wagner and the Reality Based Personal Protection system. This course may be taught in an 8 hour block, or it can be sub divided into smaller blocks no less than 30 minutes each. Subdivision of this outline into multiple training blocks must still be followed in sequential order as it is shown here in this outline. It is forbidden to alter this outline without permission or to delete this paragraph.

Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection
Terrorism Survival
Student Course Outline: Revised September 2006

Start of Course
1.   Sign in
2.   Introduction
3.   Safety Rules
4.   Training Concepts

Section 1.  Hand Grenade / IED 

1.01   Single Person Hand Grenade / IED Survival Technique        
        
1.02   Protectee Cover These techniques created by Jim Wagner for the
          Canadian Government

1.03   After Blast Device Identification
         
Section 2.  Purpose of this course

2.01 Types of Targets

Section 3.  What is Terrorism?

3.01 Definition of Terrorism

Section 4.  Categories of Terrorism

4.01 International Terrorism

4.02 Domestic Terrorism

Section 5.  Terrorist Targets

5.01   National targets  

5.02   Observation of suspicious activity at possible target sites

Section 6.  Terrorist Attack Methods
 
6.01   Bombing
                         
6.02   Small Arms Attack
         
6.03   Assassination
         
6.04 Kidnapping 

6.05   Hostage Taking
         
6.06   Cyberterrorism
         
6.07   Hijacking
         
6.08 Skyjacking

6.09   Arson
                 
6.10   Vandalism

6.11   WMD
          
Section 7.  Transportation Seating Selection

 7.01  Position of Advantage

Section 8.  Small Arms Attack Defense

8.01  Conflict Rehearsal Terrorist Attack (Victim Perspective)
        
8.02   Conflict Rehearsal Terrorist Attack (Terrorist Perspective)

8.03  Terrorist Personality Traits
  
8.04 Cell Structure

8.05   Terrorist Attack Cycle

Section 9.  Cover & Concealment Movement Exercise

9.01 Definitions

9.02   Bead Fix Awareness
         
9.03   Movement Under Fire Drills  
          
Section 10.  Room Entry Evasion

10.01   Tactical Options

10.02   Room Entry Evasion Techniques (unarmed)

Section 11.  Going Over Obstacles

11.01   Clearing a wall   
           
Section 12.  Countersniper Tactics

12.01 Definition of a sniper

12.02   Observation before a shot is fired
           
12.04   Actions to take under sniper fire

Section 13.  Bombs

13.01   Bomb Threat
                             
13.02   Planted Bomb or IED
           
13.03   Letter & Package Bomb
           
13.04   Car & Truck Bombs

13.05 Vehicle Bomb Search Pattern

13.06   Suicide Bombers

Section 14.  Public Transportation Survival

14.01   Reality-Based Survival Bag

Section 15.  On Fire Survival Drill (Improvised Incendiary Device)

15.01   Personal Survival Technique
               
15.02   Vehicle Survival Technique
           
Section 16.  Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

16.01   Categories of WMD Weapons
           
16.02   Nuclear Weapon Survival
 
16.02 Chemical Weapon Survival

16.03   Biological Weapon Attack

Section 17.  Kidnapping Survival

17.01   Types of Kidnapping

17.02   Kidnapping Demonstration

17.03   The Kidnapping Cycle

17.04 Surviving as a Hostage

End of Course



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