LEVEL 2
DESCRIPTION of COURSES
6 to 10
It is recommend that you take Lessons 1 to 5 first to build a solid self-defense foundation, but it is not required. These courses are open to anyone wanting to learn modern realistic self-defense. Like Level 1 you are not required to take the courses in the order that they appear. Our system is modular, and based upon your own needs. Each course is approximately 8 hours in duration with two 15 minute breaks and a 1 hour lunch break. You may attend the courses you are not able to take at a future seminar anywhere in the world where they are offered.
Becoming a Level 2 Reality-Based Instructor
Once you have completed all 5 Level 1 courses you are ready for this next Level. Even if you have not completed all of the Level 1 courses, any Level 2 courses you take will count as credit toward your Level 2 instructor certificate. Once you complete these 5 Level 2 courses, provided you can properly preform and demonstrate each technique and training method that you learned during each course, you will be granted Advanced Apprentice Instructor status. As such, you will have the authority to teach Level 1 and Level 2 courses, be listed as an official Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection Level 2 instructor on our official website, and be allowed to post the Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection Level 2 logo on your own website showing the world that you are endorsed by Jim Wagner at this level.
Like Level 1, by becoming a Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection Advanced Apprentice Instructor you are not required to teach the system.
Once you have completed all Level 2 courses you will qualify for the next level - Level 3 Professional Instructor.
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Course 6: Conflict Conditioning
The goal of this course is to prepare the mind and body for a wide variety of conflict using drills and exercises taken from around the world and from dozens of systems. Each drill and exercise is divided up into Individual, Partner, and Group.
This course starts with the Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection Warm-Up, which is famous for its systematic approach to warming up every joint in the body using the ten primary directions and circular movement.
Individual Stretching takes you more in depth than in previous courses. These exercises will keep the body young and agile through improved circulation and joint manipulation.
Team Stretching teaches you how to get a deeper stretch with the assistance of a partner. Each stretch always relates back to being a better conditioned fighter.
The next phase of the training is Conflict Strength Training starting with Individual Exercises that come from Boot Camps and Police Academies around the world. These exercises are designed to toughen you up. The names of these exercises speak for themselves: Peruvian National Police Push-ups, U.S. Navy SEALs Push-ups, Tokyo Riot Police Push-ups, British SAS sit-ups, and so forth.
Having a good partner will always provide you with a more intense workout that you could not achieve on your own. That’s why you will take it up a notch with Partner Conflict Strength Exercises. This is where the muscles start to burn and mental fortitude is built up.
Next comes Individual Conflict Training Drills that are designed to give you a warrior attitude. Some of the drills and exercises come from elite units around the world, but there are also drills that are entirely Jim Wagner Conflict Drills. When the Israeli Army first saw them they immediately wanted to incorporate some of them in their Basic Combat Training.
Just like in the Defensive Tactics course where one learns how to block, even in low light or no light situations, you will get better at blocking incoming knife attacks with the Jim Wagner Kinetic Sensation Response Level 2.
With a partner you will have the opportunity to participate in many drills that will build your self-confidence in fighting with drill like: Spin and Fight, Clench Escape, Mind Over Pain, and the Two Person Rescue Seat Carry, just to name a few.
Group Exercises and Drills are next, which will be both challenging and fun. You’ll get to see how the German counter-terrorist team GSG9 does push-ups and abdominal strengthening. You’ll get to experience the French Foreign Legion Crawl, Climbers Trust Fall, Brazilian Circle Hop, the Israeli YAMAM Boiler Pressure Drill, SWAT Three Person Wall Climb, and even bodyguard drills like Guard the Box or Walking the Gauntlet.
Once you have finished this course you will have a lot of new “tools” at your disposal for better workouts and to pass onto others.
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Course 7: Scenario Training
This course is just one more reason why the Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection is unsurpassed in the world of self-defense training. In Scenario Training you will learn skills that very few systems teach, but skills that will make your training come as close to realism as possible.
The first lesson begins with Equipment Selection for Contact Training. You’ll be shown and demonstrated the various Levels of Protection needed to conduct safe training. Since our system very safety conscience time is taken to explain the Safety Rules for Contact. Again, everything you encounter is at your own pace and your own skill level. You are never just thrown to the wolves, unless you want to be.
After the Warm-up you will participate in two contact drills. The first is One-on-One Contact Drill and the second is the Compressed Decision Time Contact Drill. Completing these drills means making it to the highest level of training in the RBPP system by testing everything you know up to this point.
The next step is teaching you how to create your own realistic scenarios, whether for your own personal training or to instruct others. Other than the police or military, the Reality-Based Personal Protection was the first self-defense system to put as much effort into having a realistic training environment as coming up with the best techniques and training methods available. You will be shown just what a Reality-Based Personal Protection Training Facility should look like: Stage, Lighting, and Sound – just like a theater or a Hollywood movie.
Probably the most creative part of any of our courses is the making of Props; items needed to make the scenarios feel more real. You’ll have a chance to get your hands dirty and work on a few projects. The props you’ll make are useful in a variety of realistic scenarios.
No scenario will ever feel realistic if there are not good Actors involved. You will learn how to train others to properly play the role you need them to become. You’ll get some professional acting tips along with Character Exercises. To some it sounds a little intimidating, but everybody who has gone through this training enjoys it and realizes that it takes training to a much higher level.
Conflict Rehearsal Scripts are needed to make the acting authentic. You’ll be given some good examples that have already been done for you, and then you’ll write your own script. In just one attempt you’ll find that you will be quite good at it. There’s a little bit more to it, but you’ll just have to wait to see what is in store.
Next you will learn how to apply Stage Make-up to create realistic bruises, injuries, and how to change someone’s looks. This is important if you ever want to have students treat gunshot wounds, see the aftermath of a terrorist bombing, or simply create some shock factor in some conflict scenarios. After you’ve been shown how to apply the make-up you’ll do your own masterpiece.
After this course is over you’ll have new skills that few other martial artists have, and it will make your training that much more “reality-based.”
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Course 8: Control & Defense
This information packed course begins with Chokes Defense. In hand-to-hand conflict the bad guy may try to cut off your air supply or the blood going to the brain. You’ll learn the three steps on how to get out of the most commonly used chokes. But, you won’t be left with just a bunch of techniques, as easy as they may be. You will learn how to get out of any choke instantly using the Jim Wagner Spontaneous Choke Holds Exercise.
After the neck as a target zone comes Holds Defense. You’ll experience, and learn how to break free from the Front Hold, the Back Hold, and the Horizontal Hold; each with your arms trapped and your arms free.
In real fights people get hurt, and it can be someone you are with that goes down. That’s why you will learn how to do Victim Ground Rescue Techniques; something that professionals learn, but which virtually no martial arts systems teach. These techniques are needed not only for get the victim out of a hostile area, but the same techniques can be used for structure fires or disasters.
If you ever get into a fight, or someone breaks into your home, the police will not be there to help you until after afterwards. Unit they come you may have to hold the bad guy until the police arrive, but how do you do this. The criminal is going to want to get away, therefore you will learn Citizen’s Arrest Techniques for Cooperative Unknown Suspects and Uncooperative Suspects and learn to avoid criminal tricks that can get you hurt or killed. However, even though you may be in the right you could also make mistakes, like accidentally killing the person you are trying to hand over to the police. The phenomenon is known as Restraint Positional Asphyxiation, and you’ll know how to keep it from happening while you are responsible.
Just walking to and from your car, or driving it, brings on a whole different set of security issues that you should know about. This phase of your training concentrates on Vehicle Security, such as: how to detect a Carjacking before it happens, Road Rage Prevention, knowing the Vehicle Position of Advantage whether you are driving on the highway or in the drive-thru of McDonalds. If someone tries to pull you from your car or shoots at you you’ll learn the Jim Wagner Car Seat Defense Rule.
Terrorism is not going to go away, and should you ever come across a Suicide Bomber before he reaches his target you’ll be taught how to take him, or her, down quickly like they learn in counter-terrorism units. Even if you never have to lay hands on someone you’ll at least learn to recognize a suicide bomber through some tell tale signs.
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Course 9: Improvised Weapons
This course is designed to teach you all about using common objects that you would find in any given environment and using them in deadly force situations to protect yourself or loved ones. Not only will you learn how to use a variety of improvised weapons, but you will learn how to defend against them as well if someone is armed with them and uses them against you.
The first weapon system that you will learn in this unique course is Impact Weapons. An impact weapon can be anything from a crowbar to a hammer. You’ll start with a Weapon Warm-Up to get a feel the object and its capabilities. Then you will learn the proper Grip, Conflict Stance, and the Jim Wagner 10 Striking and Blocking Directions. Once you know the basics you’ll become better at handling the weapon with Conflict Drills.
You will then become an expert in Staff Weapons. You may find yourself trying to save your life with a broom, a mop, or a painter’s pole; these are all staff weapons. In the process you’ll learn how ancient spears were used in warfare and how some of the techniques apply to today. Utilizing the same techniques and training methods you learned with the impact weapons you’ll also get new drills such as the Ground Staff Survival Drill and the Roman Legion Blocking Exercise.
The next weapons system is Flexible Weapons. This includes chains, cables, a jacket or even a belt. In addition to learning strikes and blocks a portion of your training will include how to survive the strangling weapon known as the Garrote. You’ll also get to participate in a historical exercise known as the Apache Indian Rope Fight.
Throwing Weapons is the next discipline you’ll be exposed to, because it may be your last ditch effort to survive. Knowing the trajectory of various objects will prepare you for this possibility. In this course you will actually throw Objects, Powders, and Liquids.
To understand the criminal mind better you’ll be given a variety of harmless objects that you would be able to get in a prison. Then you will take these items and form weapons out of them limited only by your creativity. This project is called Improvised Weapons Making.
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Course 10: Handgun Survival
Many criminals and terrorists use guns to intimidate or injure their victims. Even in areas with strict gun control laws the laws can do nothing to prevent a determined criminal or terrorist from using firearms to commit acts of violence. This “reality” is precisely why the Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection system is inundated with firearm survival techniques, tactics, and scenarios in every course. To make your training more realistic a variety of training tools are needed: plastic or rubber replica handguns and air guns that shoot a 6mm plastic projectile. Thus, the goal of this course is twofold. The first is to teach you how to properly handle and use a handgun, and the second is to teach you how to safely use an air gun for RBPP scenarios.
You will be shown the Equipment that you need for the training and you will be issued safety equipment.
Before you even pick up a training gun you will learn Gun Safety. Since the training area is also considered the “gun range,” you will be given the Range Safety Rules. You’ll learn terms like cold range, hot range, muzzle discipline, and RSO. These are the same rules known on any police or military firearms range the world over.
Then comes the hands-on portion of the course with Weapon Familiarization. You will learn the Weapon Nomenclature, that is to say the parts of the weapon, for the semi-automatic pistol and the revolver.
Next will be Weapon Handling where you will determine you’re Dominant Eye for shooting, learn the proper Grip, and how to avoid Negligent Discharges by Indexing. Right after that you’ll be demonstrated each of the Standing Shooting Positions and get into each one of them yourself: the Low Ready Stance, High Ready Stance, and the Extended Time Ready Stance. With all of these stances comes proper Trigger Pull for various situations: Single Fire, Controlled Pair, Double Tap and Triple Tap.
After learning about Drawing the Weapon and Reholstering you’ll learn Target Acquisition. Along with this are legal issue concerns.
The next group of positions you will learn to shoot from are the Ground Shooting Positions. These include the Kneeling, Sitting, Back, and Prone positions.
Once you have a good grasp of the basics the next step is learning Movement with a handgun. Several firearms drills will help you do them smoothly and confidently. For good defense you get more training in taking Cover & Concealment. You’ll learn how to go around Corners where the bad guy may be waiting for you on the other side, and how to do Building Searches; such as your own home that a criminal has broken into. Techniques include Dynamic entry, Stealth, the Jim Wagner Threshold Peak, leading to the Position of Advantage, Low-light Use of Light and Sweeping.
What about if you do find a bad guy in your home or business? Whether you are armed or unarmed you need may have to control the intruder. This is why you will learn Subject Contact & Control.
To finish up your training you go through a few more important firearms drills like Body Shielding, the Interference Engagement, and Firefight.
Again, this course does not qualify you to go out and start using a real firearm. You must get professional range training for that. However, this course will make you much safer when doing Reality-Based Personal Protection scenarios with your training tools.
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