Basic Personal Defense Spray Training Program
Certification Through the ASR Instructors Council:

Introduction
The dynamics of spontaneous subject control and human confrontation
Personal defense spray not meant to replace any other tool
Exposure to personal defense spray in air

Psychomotor Skill Development
Relative positioning
Danger zones
Pre-training tactical warm-ups
Static and dynamic stances
Body mechanics
Cool-downs

Psycho-Motor Skill Techniques
Use of hand-held spray units
Retention techniques
If the subject has a personal defense spray

Student participation in taking a dynamic personal defense spray hit

Custodial Transport and Monitoring
Police Use-of-Force
Definition of police use-of-force
Threat assessment and evaluation
Control success factors
FBI Statistics on officers killed and assaulted
Understanding the force continuum
Officer/subject factors in justification of use-of-force

Threat Assessment and the Combat Mind-Set
Threat assessment
Components of survival
Mental states of awareness and preparedness
The etheric experience
Early behavioral warning signs
Pre-attack kinesiological clues

Written Examination