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What Makes the Bando Systems Program Different?
The Instructors:
One of the most significant attributes of Bando Systems is the quality, experience and competency of our instructors. We will not contract out to provide instructors who do not have the professional public safety experience or the educational, competition, teaching and Bando backgrounds as we do. Some of the larger defensive tactics companies will contract out to facilitate bigger classes as well as to offer classes more often so they can make more money. This goes against the Bando training philosophy which has been adhered to for many years.
The Problem:
Years ago, we began to take a hard look at the defensive and offensive tactics programs offered to public safety agencies. Serious concern grew between us as we noticed the lack of practicality, realism and effectiveness of the techniques being taught. The majority of programs we observed were based on "choreographed" / "text-book" techniques.
"Choreographed techniques" are defined as specific techniques taught with no basic principles in place, and practiced in an unrealistic staged setting to cause a theatrical winning affect. For example: displaying techniques that only work against overly cooperative opponents in a training environment. In fact, these choreographed techniques would most certainly fail in real-life incidents. To the untrained eye (like a recruit), a choreographed technique demonstrated on a volunteer that results a positive affect may appear to be effective and efficient, when in fact it is not. Some of the most common and most irresponsible choreographed techniques taught are empty-hand knife and gun defenses. These types of techniques do much more harm than they do good. There can be nothing more damaging than giving our fellow officers a false sense of confidence and ability that could later get them seriously injured or killed.
These kinds of training programs appear to have been developed and implemented by individuals who had little combative and professional knowledge and experience relative to the topic and audience they were teaching. Looking through trained eyes, it almost appears that many of these program developers did not care about the betterment of our officers. Instead, it unfortunately appears that they only cared about filling their pockets with government money. These programs contained only the most basic karate style techniques that were renamed to sound police-like and then sold for thousands. The promotion and sale of courses like these is an insult to all of us who wear a badge. Sadly, programs like these teach officers just enough to get them seriously injured or killed.
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