‘ P r o t e c t ’ strives to enhance the survivability of every person regardless of size or gender by creating tactics that are developed to take advantage of the body’s natural response mechanisms. The objective of these tactics is to be gross motor oriented and instinctual, so they will function during high stress and adrenaline overloaded incidents and also respect the body's survival system, signals and responses.
As a professional aviator, CEO and Managing Director of P r o t e c t - U.S. , Kevin McDonald compares the highly developed, reality-based concept in modern pilot training to conventional ‘square range’ training:
‘Most range training is limited to the important, but technical, skills of operating the weapon system, ignoring the fundamental human factors involved. These factors, such as body language, maintaining situational awareness, remaining calm under stress-enabling fine motor skill, assertiveness, judgment, communication-verbal/non-verbal, are almost entirely ignored on the ‘square range’.
And yet, it is precisely these factors that determine success or failure in these incidents-as well as the leading cause of airline accidents’. ‘Aviation is the leading-edge profession in ‘Human Factors’ training-well ahead of the medical profession, police and the military. It is precisely these human factors skills and Israeli security experience that P r o t e c t - U. S. brings to the close quarters training environment’.
‘We understand the necessity of realistic training, where we activate the Secondary Nervous System, increase the heart rate, inducing a stress response and thereby achieving a form of ‘stress inoculation’ for the student’.