Course 1 of the Cervizzis Tactical Training Academy certification roadmap is a 3-hour live and online tactical training session. This is the first step in a 12-course certification course delivered over one year.
Bad Things Happen When Good People Do Nothing
Your Safety Is Your Responsibility
Train Like IT
No Experience Required, Only Commitment to Your SafetyTurning Fear Into Fuel
Engaging the Startle Flinch Reflex in Offensive Movement
Studying and implementing Tony Blauer's innovations — transforming your body's natural flinch response into an offensive weapon. Real-world pressure-tested principles for civilian survival.
Stance, Strikes & The Foundation of Your Hands
Basic stance, fundamental punches, and combination striking sequences 1-4. The building blocks of your personal striking system — simple, effective, and immediately usable.
Kicking Systems & Lower Body Weapons
Front kick, Thai kick, side kick — plus knee stop defenses in and out. Your legs are your longest weapons. Learn to use them first, fast, and with purpose.
When the Distance Is Gone — Survive the Clinch
Body change escapes, hand crank defenses, hand whip, falling safely, and getting back to your feet. The skills that matter most when someone already has their hands on you.
Everything Around You Is a Tool
Improvised weapons from your environment, everyday carry concepts fully integrated — pepper spray deployment, pen and flashlight improvisation. You are never unarmed if you know how to look.
Recognize It. Deflect It. Survive It.
Lightning strikes 1-6, Doce Pares strikes and blocks 1-6, deflection fundamentals. Blade awareness is not optional in today's world — this course builds your foundation for edged weapon survival.
What To Do When a Gun Is In the Room
Handgun safety foundation, firearm defense concepts, gun retention awareness, and legal primer. Not a shooting course — a survival course. Know what to do before, during, and after a firearm threat.
If It Goes to the Floor — You Need a Plan
Pain injection, tackle counter, installing an arm bar, standing back up, biting and nibbling, rear naked choke introduction. Street ground survival built for chaos — not sport competition.
Your Digital Life Is Your Physical Threat
Online safety protocols, surveillance awareness basics, geo-fencing and surveillance concepts, being-followed protocols. In today's world, threats begin online long before they arrive at your door.
Recognize It. Plan For It. Get Everyone Home.
Recognizing an active shooter, developing a personal and family emergency plan, basic first aid, and home invasion considerations. The capstone of Year 1 — everything comes together in your complete survival framework.
The Cervizzis Tactical Training Academy Course 1 session introduces core movement principles, threat awareness, and decision-making models designed to keep you left of bang. It is the first live module in a year-long certification series.
Train to spot danger early and move proactively to avoid or neutralize threat vectors.
Adopt a preemptive mindset that keeps you aware and prepared before violence occurs.
Recognize subtle signs, environment cues, and behavioral red flags before an incident escalates.
Read posture, gestures, and intent so you can separate honest actors from potential threats.
Build mental resilience and control so fear helps you stay sharp instead of shutting you down.
Identify concealed, overt, and improvised weapons through observation and situational cues.