Coach Tony Blauer has been in the martial arts, self-defense, defensive tactics, and Combatives industry for almost four decades and is one of the only Combatives experts who has successfully affected training across all the combat-related communities: self-defense, combat sports, and the military & law enforcement sector. His research on physiology and mind-set as it relates to confrontation management has influenced over three decades of reality-based martial artists.

Founded by Tony Blauer in 1985, Blauer Tactical Systems is one of the most respected self-defense training companies in the world, specializing in the research and development of close quarter tactics & scenario-based training for law enforcement, military, and professional self-defense.