Control and Restraint Program

Tohkon Ryu has a number of police, security, ambulance and correctional officers involved in training programs. Our courses have also been of benefit to nursing staff and airline personal.

Self defence, control and restraint and defensive tactics courses conducted in police academy or security training are often basic and limited by time and cost restraints.

Control and restraint techniques are often bypassed in favour of more aggressive techniques that don't comply as well with "use of force" guidelines, because security personal are not confident in using control and restraining tactics.

Most confrontations are with unarmed offenders and do not require a violent or armed response. Negotiation, reason and logic may not be successful because most people are not rational and logical in stress situations. Techniques of leverage, pain compliance and motor dysfunction may be successful when lower levels of management are not and where higher levels of force are not appropriate or not within legal boundaries.

Tohkon Ryu teaches control and restraint procedures that are tactically correct and require a low degree of forceful application to be effective. Control and restraint techniques involve a low degree of injury potential to both the practitioners and receivers of the techniques. All techniques have back up principles of body safety combination techniques and escalated use of force where necessary as a last resort.

It is extremely important for those that use control and restraint in the management of assault behaviour, to be proficient in the correct application of techniques. If controlling techniques are applied incorrectly, it can lead to a needless escalation of force or severe injury and litigation.

The Tohkon Ryu control and restraint system is based on combat proven techniques that can be effectively used by men and women of all physical capabilities, ages and strengths. The techniques in the system are easy to learn and apply, insuring that individuals can attain a high level of proficiency within a relatively short period of time. The retention of these skills can be achieved with minimal revue of practice.

IMPORTANT: The techniques in this course are aimed to neutralize, control and discourage not to injure.

CONTROL AND RESTRAINT

Course Content

MODULE 1

Theory and principles.

a. Confrontation management. Includes stance, distance, approach, defensive positioning and body safety.

b. Principles of containing resistive behaviour. Includes crisis communication skills using body language (both yours and his).

c. Awareness procedures. (Intelligence gathering) includes subject evaluation, environmental analysis, indications of attack (practical postures) and threat assessment.

d. Avoidance procedures and practice. Includes confrontational control (not allowing a confrontation to escalate, controlling its progress and outcome with passive and physical defensive tactics).

e. Use of force accountability. (Escalate and de-escalate with appropriate level of force).

f. Mental preparation for confrontation. (Formulate strategies).

MODULE 2

Techniques of control and restraint

a. Balance retention and displacement techniques.
b. Tactical positions. Includes relative positioning
c. Distraction techniques.
d. Leverage techniques.
e. Pain confidence techniques (includes nerve pressure tactics).
f. Motor dysfunction techniques.
g. Transport techniques.
h. Wall and floor restraints.

MODULE 3

DEFENSIVE TACTICS AND SCENARIO TRAINING

a. Defence against common hand blows.
b. Close quarter defensive tactics.
c. Multi-attack situations.
d. Negative position defences (ground, corners, stairs, unfamiliar or adverse circumstances).

MODULE 4

DEFENSIVE TACTICS AGAINST BLUNT AND EDGED WEAPONS

a. Realities of edged weapon attacks.
b. Static knife attacks (Knife held to a throat or body).
c. Moving attack with edged weapons.
d. Moving attacks with blunt weapons.
e. Miscellaneous weapon defences tactics, broken bottles baseball bat, garrote.

PLEASE NOTE:Specialist courses in defensive baton tactics and handgun disarming tactics are also available.