Active Response Tactics Self Defense

Specialties

You can’t protect anyone, until you can defend yourself…

Self Defense is not about winning a fight, it is about self preservation. Your goal is to try to escape as fast as possible from the situation.

One of the primary areas we teach our students is on fundamental awareness. Being aware of your surroundings and being able to see red flags that should warn you to take caution.

We also teach self awareness: are you making yourself an easy target with your manner, how you walk, are you texting or listening to music, etc.

Our goal is not to make you into self defense experts or to frighten you so you are paranoid to walk down the street. It is to make you just a little more aware of the dangers that are around you and to arm you with some fundamental skills.

We are not teaching you martial arts. Martial arts techniques can take years to master. You don’t need a Black Belt to be able to defend yourself!

Meet the Business Owner

John H.

Business Owner

John Hanley has been training in Martial Arts for over 17 years. He is a Level 4 Certified Instructor with the Self Defense Company which specializes in Military and Police Combative’s. John has also studied at the Mass Firearms School and the Sig Sauer Academy for firearms and situational awareness training. In addition he has spent the last 10 years researching realistic self defense and the psychological effects of self defense by studying the works of Damian Ross, Rory Miller, Lawrence Kane, Marc MacYoung, Geoff Thompson, Peyton Quinn, Gavin DeBecker, Lt. Col. Dave Grossman and strategic mindset from The Art of War and A Book of Five Rings.