Sheepdog Self Protection Inc offers one day seminars called Integrated Street Combatives (ISC). ISC is the best program out there to provide you with the fundamental skills to prepare you for any confrontation.
ISC is an eclectic style of self-protection which covers the following ranges of combat:
- Psychological range
- Ballistic ground fighting range
- Stand up grappling range
- Punching range
- Kicking range
- Weapons range (gun, knife, baton, O.C.)
Why the name Integrated Street Combatives ( ISC)?
At ISC we combine a variety of mixed martial arts and integrate them to create a system that is effective and efficient in a real life confrontation.
What makes ISC different?
Unlike many mixed martial arts that focus on the physical aspects of fighting, we provide you with the fundamental skills on how to prevent a physical confrontation from occurring in the first place. Participants are provided prevention strategies on how to prevent, and/or avoid, a stranger on stranger attack. We then educate students on how to de-escalate a confrontation using verbal communication. If you can walk and talk your way out of a physical fight, high five, you’re doing a good job. The second you go hands on with someone your risk of injury sky rockets. We provide you with the necessary skills to de-escalate conflict and seek safety without going hands on.
Reality: There are times that, no matter how much you walk and talk, some interactions will go hands on. If you can not walk and talk your way out of a confrontation we provide you with the fundamental physical skills to de-escalate the situation and end the fight quickly.
Legal Aspects: Unlike most mixed martial arts that focus solely on the physical skills, we educate participants on threat perception, the criminal code, and how you articulate yourself; what you did, how you did it, and why you did it.
The Level 1 Beginner Program- “The Juniors”
“Junior” has nothing to do with age but moreso introduction to the material.
Topics covered include:
- Criminal Code of Canada, Threat Perception, Pre-Assaultive Cues
- Combative theory and mindset development
- Combative Fitness
- Pre-contact psychology
- Non-verbal, verbal Communication strategies
- Strikes/ Stuns
- Kicks
- Combative movement drills
- Alternative body strikes/Attacks
Upon successful completion participants receive a certificate and have fulfilled the pre-requisite to attend the “Senior” seminars.
Age Restriction: Participants must be 18+, 16+ if attending with a Parent/ Guardian
Physical Ability: This course is physically demanding. Although all fitness levels are welcome, know that we will push you to your potential.
Contact: Participants will work with ALL participants in attendance. This is done with intention to expose you to different people of different shapes and sizes.
Safety Gear: Participants are required to have a jock (men)/ jill (women) and a mouth guard (fitted prior to attendance). Failing to attend with this equipment will deny your participation with NO REFUND.
Class Size: Maximum 24 Participants.
Cost: $250 +GST/ 8 Hour Junior Seminar
SEPTEMBER SPECIAL: As this is a pilot we will be offering a discounted rate of $150 + GST/ 8 Hour Junior Seminar.
Registration: Please visit out Calendar to register for an upcoming class.
Instructors: Peter Gill and Kris Greffard
The Senior Program
The Level 1 Beginner program is the foundation of ISC. Advanced tactics are nothing more than the basics mastered. Upon attending the Senior Seminars, students build on the skills they have learned in the Beginner Program and implement them in diverse applications including:
- Multiple opponents
- Weapons: edged weapons, firearms, blunt impact weapons, bats
- Scenario based Force on Force training
- Ballistic ground fighting
- Break contact drills that we call CRASH (Combative Responses Against Spontaneous Hostility) chokes, grabs, bear hugs
- Combative throws
Senior Program Seminars are skill specific. The 8 hour seminars focus solely on a specific skill and/or range of combat. Eg. Edged Weapons.
Age Restriction: Participants must be 18+, 16+ if attending with a Parent/ Guardian
Physical Ability: This course is physically demanding. Although all fitness levels are welcome, know that we will push you to your potential.
Contact: Participants will work with ALL participants in attendance. This is done with intention to expose you to different people of different shapes and sizes.
Safety Gear: Participants are required to have a jock (men)/ jill (women) and a mouth guard (fitted prior to attendance). Failing to attend with this equipment will deny your participation with NO REFUND.
Class Size: Maximum 24 Participants.
Cost: $200+GST/ 8 Hour Senior Seminar
Registration: Please visit out Calendar to register for an upcoming class.
Instructors: Peter Gill and Kris Greffard
Senior Seminars…
Environmental Stress Inoculation:
To make the training as realistic as possible we have strobe lights, fog machines, cameras, as well as other tools and props to make the training environment as close to reality as possible.
If you have never fought in an environment where the strobes and lights are blinking, the music is blaring, and the smoke is thick, it can cause problems with your combative perception/reaction. The more real one can make their training environment, the better. The senior class trains in all conditions including the rain, snow, heat, low light, in the mud, on the grass, in the sand, in gravel, in close quarters, in open air, standing, seated, in vehicles… You name it. We train it.
What else do we do to make the training as real as possible?
- Tying of an arm to the body to replicate a broken or injured limb
- Covering one or both eyes to deal with sight deprivation and increase tactile sensitivity during Close Quarter Battle (CQB)
- Wearing goggles that are obscured to blur vision
- Training out in the environment (during heavy rain, on hills, uneven ground, darkness)
- Video feedback training. This is especially powerful during scenario based training.
- And much more…
Additional Points:
- These seminars are physical. We will push you mentally and physically. This is done for a reason, for you to see what your body is truly capable of achieving. For many students this is the ah-ha moment in training, when you push yourself beyond your comfort zone. You WILL get comfortable feeling uncomfortable.
- ISC is not a competition with anyone else but yourself. We have seen triathlon athletes quit while the stay at home mother of 4 perseveres.
Pursuing a Career in Law Enforcement? Security? Sheriffs? Border services?
ISC prepares you for any occupation to which you are responsible for keeping the public safe, your colleagues safe, and yourself safe. The mental and physical skills you will develop in this program will assist in making you a competitive candidate in any recruiting process. The skills you will develop in the junior program combined with the skills and scenarios you will be exposed to in the senior class will mentally and physically prepare you for almost any encounter you will experience in the above mentioned professions. Sheepdog Instructors are dedicated to ensuring you, your families, and your colleagues make it home safe at the end of each shift, mission, or detail.
Taking this Class to Protect Yourself and the Ones You Love?
That is what motivated Kris to begin this journey many years ago. Be the Sheepdog.
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