Explore Our Training Modules

Practical, hands-on training tailored for workplaces, schools, organizations, and civilian groups.

Why It Matters

In real-life, you don’t always get a warning. This training is built around what actually happens — not theory, rules or routines.

stop the bleed / CPR

Trauma Response – Save Lives When Seconds Count

After about 40 seconds you already become drastically affected with severe impairement of decision making and physical ability. After about 2 minutes, death is imminent.

What can you do to save a life with the knowledge and equipment you have right now?

Learn to stop severe bleeding, provide effective CPR, and use an AED correctly — even under extreme stress. Training is practical and scenario-based to build confidence and quick decision-making.

Duration:
2–4 hours (adjustable)

No prior experience required.

 

Key Topics:

  • Recognizing life-threatening bleeding

  • Tourniquet application (CAT & similar models)

  • Direct pressure and wound packing

  • Recognizing critical symptoms

  • Performing effective CPR

  • Correct AED usage

  • Acting fast under stress

Practical Self-Defense & De-Escalation for Civilian Settings & FIRST RESPONDERS

Your First and Last Line of Defense

ESDS provides tactical education for military, law enforcement, medical responders, educators, and civilians. Our instructors bring decades of real-world experience from special operations, police training, trauma medicine and protection. We train for what actually happens — not for theory, sport, or ego.

It’s a system of combative concepts and tactics based on the analysis and observation of human reactions to various stimuli, such as pain, fear and physical contact. Its key lies in its simplicity and proven practical effectiveness.

  • What is self-defence?

  • Situational awareness

  • Street attack dynamics

  • When and where violence begins

  • Human factors of combat stress

  • Fear, perception, and performance

  • Gross motor skills

  • Protective stances: high-risk vs. low-risk

  • Verbal de-escalation and body language

  • Attitude drills

  • Legal context & preemptive striking

  • Open-hand striking methods

  • Cover–counter–move flow

  • Targeting vulnerable areas

  • IBR – Instinctive Body Reactions

  • Defending standing/sitting

  • Handling multiple attackers

  • Ground survival (realistic, no sport)

  • Scenario-based drills

SURVIVING EDGED WEAPONS

Surviving Edged Weapons – Real Knife Defense

Knives are the most common weapon in close violence – and the most dangerous. This module builds your awareness, mindset, and physical strategy to survive.

  • Knife awareness and behavior

  • Understanding how attacks on the street happens
  • Common tools used as weapons

  • Types of injuries & reality of wounding

  • Mental preparation

  • Gross motor defense skills

  • Sensitive areas of the human body
  • Distance and position

  • Barriers and objects as tools

  • SKD – Spontaneous Knife Defense

  • Legal and ethical implications

  • Perceptual distortions, fear and performance in combat

  • Scenario-based drills

Select a training module or contact us to design a full-day or multi-day program suited to your unique environment.

Let’s Build a Safer, More Prepared Team.

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