This TRICOM Fundamentals Instructor Certification Course for Law Enforcement & Self-Defense course is hosted by the Crater Criminal Justice Training Academy. It will be a 5-day training event. The TRICOM modules that will be covered in this event will tackle the primary topics necessary for police defensive tactics and general self-defense combatives. This includes clinch engagements in a weapons-based environment (Tactial Clinch), strikes/checks/distractions (Natural Impact Weapons), arrest and control tactics (Gross Motor Control Dynamics), Duty Knife as a Backup Weapon, Edged Weapons Countermeasures, Ground survival/evasion/resistance/escape (Ground SERE), Weapon Retention, and Vehicle Extraction.
*This course is exclusive to Law Enforcement only.
All course participants will require:
- Training t-shirt / top, cargo pants, indoor mats shoes
- Duty belt with holster, training gun that fits your holster (SIRT, Blue Gun or similar.)
- Personal training knife; or one may be provided by the Host Agency
- Personal focus mitts and boxing or MMA gloves
- All participants are responsible for their own meals, snacks and hyrdration
- DO NOT bring any live firearms or other weapons into the training environment
Payments
- Government agencies may pay be check or online invoice.
- We ask that all course participants register individually.
Brief Background
Over the past two decades, the TRICOM system has become an integral part of various law enforcement departments, military special operations, and executive protection agencies in multiple countries around the world. TRICOM has been adopted and accepted by some of the world's most elite police & military organizations and is accredited on its own merits.
The TRICOM modules (Tri-Angle Combatives) result from 40+ years of martial arts experience, with 24+ years of experience teaching police and military defensive tactics and combatives programs.
The primary instructor for this course, Jared Wihongi is a world-renowned Close Quarter Combat Instructor and founder of the TRICOM program. He is a student of multiple martial arts and combative systems but specializes in the baton and blade-based combat arts of the Philippines. The TRICOM system is a hybrid of tactics from Filipino weapon/counter-weapon tactics, along with grappling and striking based systems. He has 24 years of experience in law enforcement, with 20 years serving on SWAT Teams and as a Use-of-Force Instructor within that duration.
