Private Executive Training

By Rodrigo Braddock, 5 August, 2026

COMBATIVES · EXECUTIVE PROGRAM 

Private Executive Training

An individualized program focusing on prevention, perception, personal protection, and decision-making for executives, business owners, and families who want to be better prepared for critical situations outside controlled environments.

You don't need to become a fighter. You need to understand risk, recognize vulnerabilities, know how to make decisions under pressure, and have simple responses ready when seconds truly matter.

PERSONAL PREPARATION 

A program built around the participant's reality.

Executives and business owners have different routines, responsibilities, and exposure levels. That is why the training does not follow a generic sequence of techniques.

The program can take into account your professional routine, commuting, travel, family, residential environment, physical characteristics, previous experience, and specific situations where you want to increase your prevention and response capabilities.

01

Prevention

Identifying vulnerabilities, habits, and situations that can be modified before a problem occurs.

02

Perception

Reading the environment, behavior, and relevant changes in context without turning security into paranoia.

03

Response

Developing simple and functional decisions for situations where distancing and prevention were no longer enough.

04

Protection

The ability to make decisions considering not only your own safety but also that of family members and people under your responsibility.

STRUCTURE 

From everyday behavior to responding under pressure.

PHASE 01

Personal assessment and routine analysis

The program begins by understanding the participant. Routine, frequented environments, commuting, responsibilities, professional exposure, and family context help define training priorities.

PHASE 02

Situational awareness and decision-making

Attention to the environment, recognizing relevant changes, controlling distractions, positioning, distance, communication, and decision-making in unexpected situations.

PHASE 03

Essential self-defense

Simple physical fundamentals are worked on in a way that suits the participant's profile. The goal is not to accumulate techniques, but to understand basic principles of balance, protection, movement, creating space, and exiting.

PHASE 04

Family protection

The participant learns to think beyond their own movement. Positioning, communication, and coordination are analyzed when children, partners, elderly family members, or other dependents are present.

PHASE 05

Pressure and decision-making

Controlled exercises introduce uncertainty, time limits, communication, and the need to decide. The goal is to show how perception and behavior can change under pressure.

PHASE 06

Applied scenarios

Situations related to commuting, parking lots, professional environments, arriving at and leaving home, traveling, and accompanying family members can be analyzed according to the participant's profile.

Martial arts experience is useful. But protecting yourself in the real world requires perceiving, deciding, and adapting before even thinking about fighting.

METHOD 

Basic defense. Efficient. No excess of techniques.

The program utilizes fundamentals drawn from different martial arts and personal protection experiences, selected based on the principle of simplicity.

Complex movements that rely on extraordinary precision, partner cooperation, or years of specialization are not the core of the training.

  • Stance, balance, and movement
  • Basic body protection
  • Creating distance
  • Releases and disengaging
  • Conscious use of the environment
  • Communication and posture
  • Protecting third parties
  • Exiting and de-escalating the situation

COMPLEMENTARY EXPERIENCE 

Knowledge also means understanding what demands responsibility.

For adult and legally eligible participants, the program may include complementary experiences conducted outside the regular COMBATIVES environment and exclusively in appropriate professional facilities.

CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT 

Supervised experience in a training center

Optional module held at a specialized center, under professional supervision, and strictly within safety regulations and applicable laws.

The activity is designed for responsible familiarization and understanding of a controlled environment, led by properly qualified professionals. Depending on the team composition, instructors with police or military experience may participate.

PRIVACY 

Individual and discreet service.

Executives often do not look for a traditional gym and do not wish to participate in open groups.

The program can be conducted individually or in pre-defined small groups, ensuring privacy and allowing the training to be tailored to the participant.

Customized format

Depending on the required structure, part of the training can take place at a location pre-defined by the participant or in an environment selected by COMBATIVES.

Activities that require specialized facilities are strictly conducted in locations suited for that purpose.

PROFILE 

Preparation for those who cannot rely on improvisation.

Business owners and executives Personal preparation adapted to professional and family routines. 
People with no martial arts experience No prior background in martial arts is required. 
Families Development of communication and simple protocols among family members. 
Traveling professionals Perception, behavior, and decision-making in unfamiliar environments. 
People with limited time Content focused on essential and applicable principles. 
Private groups Closed training sessions for partners, family members, or selected teams. 

WHAT THIS PROGRAM IS NOT 

Preparation is not seeking confrontation.

The goal is not to turn the participant into a bodyguard, police officer, or professional fighter.

There is also no promise of invulnerability. Critical situations are unpredictable, and no technique completely eliminates risk.

  • It is not a training to seek out conflicts
  • It is not a demonstration of choreographed techniques
  • It is not a substitute for security professionals
  • It does not promise absolute control of violent situations
  • It does not encourage reckless behavior
Permanent priority: Perceive early, avoid when possible, protect vulnerable people, seek help, and safely end exposure to risk.

COMBATIVES 

Preparation does not begin at confrontation. It begins long before it.

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