Officer Skills Courses

Officer Skills Courses are designed for individual officers who want to improve their ability to safely and effectively control resistant subjects. This course focuses on practical techniques that officers can apply immediately in real world encounters.

Training emphasizes positional control, safe transitions, and the ability to manage resistance while using the minimum level of force necessary. Officers will learn a streamlined and systematic approach to controlling subjects both standing and on the ground, including managing subjects who attempt to escape, resist, or transition positions.

The Officer Skills Course is suitable for officers of all experience levels.

The academy recognizes two primary competitors within this training space:

Gracie University, with its well-established Gracie Survival Tactics (GST) program.
Effective Fitness Combatives (EFC), another prominent training provider with a strong law enforcement following.

In the future, the academy intends to expand into private contract courses, where agencies directly hire Lawman’s Black Belt Academy to provide customized on-site training for their personnel. This model will allow agencies to integrate our curriculum into their defensive tactics and in-service training programs while reducing travel costs and maximizing training hours.