Specialized Training Systems For Real-World Operational Environments
Choose from established Baker Defensive Tactics programs or work with us to build a custom solution around your agency, organization, team, mission, policies, equipment, and training environment.
Set Curriculum Or Custom-Built Training
Baker Defensive Tactics offers pre-designed training programs that can be delivered in focused training blocks, multi-day courses, instructor development events, or custom formats. These programs can be taught from the standard outline, blended together, or redesigned around the specific needs of your personnel and operational environment.
Available Training Programs
Each program addresses a specific operational problem. Select a program below to learn more about the training focus, target audience, and application.
Protection Response Tactics
Client-protection focused defensive tactics for executive protection, protective services, and professionals responsible for protecting others.
View ProgramVehicle-Centric Defensive Tactics
Training for threats, movement, control, and protection problems in and around vehicles, doors, seats, frames, and confined spaces.
View ProgramWeaponized Grappling
Close-quarter grappling that accounts for weapon access, weapon protection, positional control, and real-world entanglement.
View ProgramOut-of-Position Fighting
Survival, recovery, and counter-offense when the operator is compromised, off-balance, grounded, seated, pinned, or placed at a disadvantage.
View ProgramGround Fighting & Counter Grappling
Ground survival and counter-grappling for armed professionals who must avoid entanglement, protect weapons, recover position, and disengage.
View ProgramGun Disarm & Retention
Principle-based firearm disarm and retention training focused on timing, control, prevention, recovery, and safe decision-making under pressure.
View ProgramClose-Quarter Gun Manipulation
Firearms operation, access, and control in critical-distance encounters, confined spaces, and close-quarter entanglements.
View ProgramEdged Weapons
Edged-weapon awareness, defensive response, close-quarter survival, range management, and protection-focused blade applications.
View ProgramClose-Quarter Combatives
An integrated defensive tactics program covering close-range striking, clinch control, mobility, pressure management, and functional survival skills.
View ProgramApplied Armed Pummeling
Standing grappling and weapons integration focused on clinch control, weapon retention, positional dominance, and armed entanglement problems.
View ProgramFind The Training Path That Fits Your Mission
Not every organization needs the same training solution. Some teams need a focused course. Others need a complete system built around their environment, policies, equipment, and operational responsibilities.
For Protection Teams
Built for executive protection agents, protective details, security drivers, and professionals responsible for protecting a third party.
- Protection Response Tactics
- Vehicle-Centric Defensive Tactics
- Applied Armed Pummeling
- Client-centered control and movement
For Law Enforcement
Training focused on officer safety, weapon protection, lawful force, control tactics, and performance under stress.
- Gun Retention
- Counter Grappling
- Close-Quarter Combatives
- Scenario-based officer safety training
For Security & Corporate Teams
Practical training for professionals who must manage people, environments, liability, escalation, and public-facing encounters.
- De-escalation and control tactics
- Workplace violence response
- Protective movement and escort skills
- Custom security training solutions
For Custom Training Needs
When an existing course is not enough, we help design a program around your exact mission, team, policies, and environment.
- Training needs assessment
- Curriculum design
- Instructor development
- Long-term program implementation
Need Help Selecting The Right Program?
If you are unsure which program fits your organization, schedule a consultation. We will discuss your goals, personnel, environment, policies, and training needs, then recommend the right course or custom solution.
From First Conversation To Field-Ready Training
Whether your organization needs a ready-to-teach course or a complete custom curriculum, our process is designed to identify the real problem, build the right solution, and deliver training that performs under pressure.
Assessment
We identify your mission, personnel, equipment, policies, liability concerns, training history, and operational environment.
Gap Analysis
We determine where current tactics, training blocks, procedures, and instructor development may be falling short.
Program Design
We recommend an existing Baker Defensive Tactics program or build a custom curriculum around your objectives.
Delivery
Training is delivered onsite, at your facility, or at an approved training location through focused, practical instruction.
Sustainment
We support long-term development through instructor training, follow-up courses, program refinement, and continued consultation.
Every Organization Is Different.
Military units, executive protection teams, law enforcement agencies, schools, churches, corporate security departments, healthcare organizations, and private teams all face different realities. Our goal is not to force your team into a generic training model. Our goal is to build the right solution for your environment.
Training Should Solve Real Problems.
Organizations do not contact Baker Defensive Tactics because they need more techniques. They contact us because they need better performance, better decisions, stronger instructors, and training that fits the realities their people actually face.
Reduce Liability
Training is designed around reasonable, defensible actions that support professional standards, policy expectations, and lawful use-of-force decision-making.
Improve Decision-Making
Personnel learn how to recognize options before, during, and after a confrontation instead of relying on memorized techniques under stress.
Increase Confidence
Confidence is developed through understanding, repetition, pressure testing, and training that reflects the actual environment where the skills will be used.
Develop Instructors
We help organizations create internal training leaders who can teach, maintain, and evolve the program long after the initial course is complete.
Close Training Gaps
We identify weaknesses in existing training before those gaps become real-world problems for personnel, clients, agencies, or organizations.
Build Mission-Specific Skills
Training is built around actual operational requirements, including equipment, environment, rules, policies, threat profiles, and responsibilities.
Better Prepared Personnel. Better Decisions. Better Outcomes.
That is the goal of Baker Defensive Tactics: to help organizations build training systems that create capable professionals who can perform effectively when the stakes are highest.
Organizations We Have Worked With
Baker Defensive Tactics has supported law enforcement agencies, executive protection professionals, security organizations, corporate clients, healthcare teams, training academies, and private sector groups across the United States.
Let’s Build The Right Training Solution For Your Team.
Whether you need a single training block, instructor development, a specialized program, or a complete defensive tactics system designed around your mission, Baker Defensive Tactics can help create a solution that fits your personnel, policies, environment, and operational realities.
Custom training. Proven systems. Real-world experience.