At the age
of 14, Jim Wagner began to study his life long pursuit of self-defense by beginning his study of the marital arts.
Four years later he joined the United States Army. In 1991 Jim Wagner, sponsored by the Costa Mesa Police Department,
entered the police academy (Orange County Sheriff’s Department Training Academy Class 104). Like his military training
before, Jim Wagner was deeply influenced by the police academy’s realistic conflict scenarios. During his career with the Costa Mesa Police Department, Jim
Wagner earned a place on the SWAT team. It was through this conduit that Jim learned about logistics, command post operations,
hostage negotiations, entry team tactics, and sniping. On the job training included courses with LAPD SWAT, the U.S. Army
Special Forces, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department Tactical Training Center, and from U.S. Marines Division Schools
Camp Pendleton (Advanced Sniper Course, Military Operations Urban Terrain, Helicopter Rope Suspension Training, and Range
Safety Officer). While conducting a myriad of courses
at Camp Pendleton, both military units and other law enforcement agencies using the base for their own training discovered
Jim Wagner’s unique approach to training and his seamless blending of defensive tactics with edged weapons and firearms
skills. Before long he was getting offers from the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Marshals Special Operations Group, Department
of Defense Police, California Highway Patrol, California Department of Corrections, San Diego Sheriff’s Department,
Los Angeles Probation Department, U.S. Border Patrol, Immigration & Naturalization Service, U.S. Navy and U.S. Marines
Provost Marshal Office, Drug Enforcement Administration. By 1996 Jim found himself being invited by foreign unit to train
in their own countries: GermanGSG9, Brazilian G.A.T.E., Argentinean G.O.E., Royal Canadian Mounted Police, London Metropolitan
Police, Helsinki Police Department, and various units in Spain, Mexico, and Israel. The demand on Jim Wagner’s time was overwhelming and in 1999 he
decided to resign from the Costa Mesa Police Department and started teaching full time. Not wanting to fully give up his law
enforcement career Jim applied as a Reserve Deputy at the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. Jim Wagner is the author
of Reality Based Personal Protection. Designed as a companion book to Jim Wagner’s best-selling instructional
DVD series, Reality-Based Personal Protection provides eight detailed chapters. According to the
book description, “Reality-Based Personal Protection system covers the complete tactical spectrum of pre-conflict, conflict
and post-conflict techniques and training methods for a wide variety of worst-case scenarios. Mastering these tactics will
educate you on the dangers of the modern world and how to survive them. This must-have manual covers: knowledge domain and
conflict rehearsal; defensive tactics using strikes, threat zones and stopping power; using the ground to your advantage;
surviving a knife attack and countering effectively; military techniques and training methods for handgun proficiency; how
to protect yourself and others in criminal-assault scenarios; preparing for and surviving terrorist attacks; a special section
for women’s self-defense tactics. In this highly-anticipated book, Jim Wagner shares more than three
decades of martial arts, police, military and special-agent training through highly detailed conceptual explanations, charts
and captioned photo sequences. Coupled with his personal experience in the field and at some of the world’s most prestigious
training facilities, the techniques and tactics of Reality-Based Personal Protection form the basis for the ultimate modern
self-defense system.”
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