For Individual Officers
Community Service Rate
$600 / 12 weeks
Normally $715.
Reserve Free IntroTrain in the regular adult program with officer-aware coaching and controlled beginner onboarding.
Start Path
Two Ways to Start
Train safer control as an individual, or bring a pilot squad when the department is ready to evaluate a private block.
Start as an individual officer
Use the community service rate to join the regular adult BJJ program with controlled onboarding, technical pacing, and officer-aware coaching.
Reserve Free IntroBring a pilot squad
A private squad block gives supervisors a cleaner way to evaluate attendance, fit, safety, and training value before scaling the program.
Request a Pilot Squad ProposalControl First
Why Close-Range Control Matters
Many high-risk moments happen too close for clean distance management. The goal is calmer contact, stronger positional choices, safer transitions, and better decisions under pressure.
Composure under contact
Officers practice frames, base, escapes, and top control so close contact feels less chaotic and less strength-dependent.
Cleaner cuffing transitions
The work emphasizes stabilization first, then restraint mechanics, team communication, and cuffing pathways under controlled resistance.
Policy-respectful decisions
Every scenario keeps a decision point in view: stabilize, disengage, wait for support, or transition only when policy and safety support it.
Links
Why Departments Are Looking at Grappling-Based Control
The strongest current case for law-enforcement grappling training comes from department-reported outcomes, internal analyses, and emerging peer-reviewed evaluation. These results should be treated as promising operational links, not guaranteed outcomes.
Department-reported evidence
Marietta Police Department: BJJ Training Data
Marietta Police Department reported that officers participating in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training, compared with coworkers who did not participate, saw a 48% reduction in officer injuries during use-of-force incidents, a 53% reduction in injuries to arrested people when force was required, and a 23% reduction in Taser use in 2020.
The same Marietta report says the department began requiring newly hired officers to attend at least one BJJ session per week during academy and field training, then later opened the program to all existing officers, with officers able to attend up to three BJJ classes per week.
Chief Dan Flynn’s companion article explains the training logic: Jiu-Jitsu emphasizes leverage, body weight, torso-and-hip control, escape skills, and calmness under physical pressure instead of relying primarily on blunt force or striking.
These are department-reported outcomes from Marietta, Georgia. They do not guarantee the same results for every agency, but they are a useful public example of why departments are testing consistent grappling-based control training.
Marietta, Georgia
Marietta Police Department reported that officers participating in BJJ training saw fewer officer injuries, fewer injuries to arrested people, and less Taser use than non-participating coworkers in its 2020 comparison.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Public reporting on the Saint Paul model describes a shift toward leverage, teamwork, positioning, and control rather than strength or striking.
Curriculum Alignment
Georgia POST’s public BJJ Officer Level 1 curriculum includes technical stand, side control, mount, guard, restraint, and cuffing transitions.
These examples do not guarantee outcomes for every agency. They show why more departments are exploring regular, controlled, policy-aligned grappling practice.
What Officers Train
Practical control, pressure, and decision-making
The work stays focused on safer movement, positional control, and cleaner transitions under realistic resistance.
Close-range control
Standing recovery
Clinch work
Escapes from bad positions
Controlled takedowns
Cuffing transitions
Two-officer teamwork
Scenario rounds
Program Structure
The 12-Week Pilot Covers
Standing recovery
Clinch control
Top stabilization
Escapes
Controlled takedowns
Cuffing transitions
Scenario rounds
Skills review
View Full 12-Week Pilot Curriculum
Built from public law-enforcement grappling and arrest-control models that emphasize technical stand, sprawling, positional control, handcuffing transitions, officer-specific adaptation, scenario-based reinforcement, and lower-risk beginner onboarding.
12 weeks. 3 classes per week. 60 minutes per class. 36 total sessions.
This pilot format is structured as supplemental arrest-control training. It is built around movement, positional dominance, standing recovery, clinch control, low-risk takedowns, restraint mechanics, team cuffing, survival under pressure, and final scenario testing.
- Use this as supplemental arrest-control training only.
- All content stays subordinate to department policy, state law, medical restrictions, and instructor oversight.
- Keep most partner work technical and controlled.
- Build pressure progressively, not all at once.
- Skill and competency matter more than competition behavior.
- Every scenario includes a decision point: stabilize, cuff, disengage, or wait for support.
- 5 min: Safety check, medical issues, duty-gear briefing, objective of the day
- 8 min: Movement warm-up
- 10 min: Review of prior material
- 15 min: Primary skill
- 10 min: Secondary skill
- 8 min: Positional or situational drill
- 4 min: Debrief, performance notes, policy tie-in
Week 1: Movement, Base, and Officer-Specific Mindset
- Class A: Introduce sport vs officer application, stance, posture, verbalization, and safe movement. Technical stand, movement with verbal commands, grounded-to-standing recovery, weapon-side awareness.
- Class B: Defensive reactions and disengagement mechanics. Sprawl, frame, create distance, reset, verbalize.
- Class C: Combine movement and recovery. Technical stand under partner pressure, angle off, verbalize, re-engage or disengage.
Week 2: Top Control, Pressure, and Positional Dominance
- Class A: Side control. Crossface, hip control, head position, timed top holds, verbal commands from dominant position.
- Class B: Mount control. Low-risk mount-to-side transitions, balance, posture, resistance management.
- Class C: Connect side control and mount. Single-arm isolation from top, control rounds without losing base.
Week 3: Bottom Survival, Escapes, and Stand-Up Recovery
- Class A: Side control escape. Create space, recover to guard or knees, protect head and weapon side.
- Class B: Mount escape. Re-guard, frame, bridge, recover without panic or bench-pressing.
- Class C: Guard get-up to technical stand. Escape, stand, create distance, verbalize.
Week 4: Guard Management and Control from the Middle
- Class A: Guard control. Posture, hands, hips, distance, and no head-forward posture errors.
- Class B: Open space and stand safely. Frame, separate, stand, recover distance, verbalize.
- Class C: Guard control to standing exit or pinning transition. Scenario rounds from closed guard.
Week 5: Standing Contact, Clinch Entry, and Balance
- Class A: Close distance without overcommitting. Clinch control, head position, underhooks, posture, stable disengagement.
- Class B: Break bad ties and survive grabs. Clinch escape, body-lock escape, angle creation.
- Class C: Standing control with escort mechanics. Move to wall or ground setup while contact and cover communicate clearly.
Week 6: Low-Risk Takedowns
- Class A: Arm-drag clinch takedown and single-arm takedown. Clean entry, controlled finish, posture-first cues.
- Class B: Walk-away takedown and grab-or-push response takedown. Redirect, finish, maintain top.
- Class C: Osoto-gari and limited double-leg exposure under instructor control. Takedown to immediate stabilization.
Week 7: Restraint Mechanics and Single-Officer Cuffing
- Class A: Top control to restraint. Single-arm control, kimura-style restraint pathway, stabilize torso without losing base.
- Class B: Belly-down handcuffing. Chest and hip control during cuffing, sequencing under light resistance.
- Class C: Alternate cuffing pathways from belly-up or side control once the subject is stabilized.
Week 8: Two-Officer Cuffing and Teamwork
- Class A: Contact-cover roles on the ground. One officer pins, one officer cuffs, both follow a communication checklist.
- Class B: Takedown to partner-assisted restraint. Role switching if first officer loses position.
- Class C: Team restraint under pressure. Escalating scenario rounds with organized communication and safe transitions.
Week 9: Survival Under Assault
- Class A: Bottom survival under simulated strikes. Cover posture, trap-and-roll pathway, airway and vision protection.
- Class B: Standing and ground headlock defense. Immediate posture correction, hand fighting, safe exit.
- Class C: Survival to escape to control. Recover top position or stand if top is not secure.
Week 10: Choke, Clinch, and Body-Lock Defenses
- Class A: Guillotine defense. Hand-fighting, posture correction, angle correction, no panic response.
- Class B: Rear attack survival. Rear naked choke defense, peel, turn, face, recover posture.
- Class C: Body-lock and clinch survival. Frame, turn out, create space, escape cleanly.
Week 11: Scenario Integration
- Class A: Standing resistance to ground control. Subject pulls away, pushes, or ties up. Officer links clinch, takedown, side control, verbalization.
- Class B: Officer starts grounded. Escape, guard get-up, technical stand, re-control or disengage, partner-arrival options.
- Class C: Two-officer arrest sequence. Takedown, top control, cuffing, role assignment, safe transitions.
Week 12: Testing, Remediation, and Final Scenarios
- Class A: Skills test part 1. Technical stand, sprawl, side control, mount control, guard control, side escape, mount escape.
- Class B: Skills test part 2. Takedowns, clinch escape, body-lock escape, headlock defense, guillotine defense, rear-choke defense.
- Class C: Final scenario day. Standing resistance to cuffing, grounded officer recovery, two-officer restraint, and disengagement when continued grappling is unsafe or unnecessary.
- Monday / Class A: New technical material
- Wednesday / Class B: Expansion and resistance management
- Friday / Class C: Integration, scenario work, and testing
- Recover to feet safely
- Maintain top position without losing base
- Escape common inferior positions
- Execute at least one reliable standing control sequence
- Transition from control to cuffing without rushing
- Communicate clearly with partner and subject
- Protect weapon side and airway under pressure
- Apply only policy-consistent force during scenario rounds
- Keep intensity moderate until Weeks 9 through 12.
- Do not let competitive habits override restraint goals.
- Every class should include verbalization.
- Every cuffing day should include contact-cover language.
- Every scenario should include a disengagement option.
- Every test should score control, communication, and decision-making, not just technique completion.
Training Tiers and Deployment
Tier 1: Individual Officer Community Service Rate
Available for law enforcement, corrections, military, veterans, firefighters, EMS, teachers, and other community service professionals.
Tier 2: Private Pilot Squad Block
Best first move for a department that wants proof-of-concept before scaling.
Tier 3: Department Training Block
Best for agencies that want a dedicated training cycle with consistent attendance, private instruction, and a clear internal rollout.
Important Training Note
This program is supplemental professional development. It is not presented as a replacement for department policy, academy training, DCJS-approved instruction, legal counsel, or agency use-of-force standards. Department pilots can be adapted for policy review, reporting needs, and supervisor approval.
FAQ
Regular BJJ builds the base: movement, frames, grips, escapes, pressure, and control. The law enforcement track applies those same mechanics to officer-relevant situations: standing restraint, wall work, ground stabilization, cuffing transitions, and team movement.
Yes. Individual officers can start through Adult Core Culture at the Community Service Rate: $600 for the 12-week program.
Start with a 5 to 8 officer private pilot squad block. Train for 12 weeks, evaluate attendance, confidence, control, and fit, then decide whether to expand.
Yes. The training focus is composure, positional control, safe stabilization, and better decision-making under pressure.
Next Step
How to Start
Choose the cleanest next move for your role: reserve an individual intro, request a private pilot proposal, or text Sandy with a department question.
Best next step
Reserve a calm Free Intro before you decide anything else.
Visit the room, meet Sandy, learn the safety basics, and choose the right class lane without pressure.