Close Protection Training
Close protection training if delivered by professional bodyguard or close protection Instructor specialists serves the purpose of two things.
First is saving lives. In close protection security operations saving lives means your life, the lives of your close protection team members and the life or lives of the people paying for your professional close protection services, i.e. your close protection VIP client/s.
At www.closeprotectiongz we understand the realities of bodyguard and close protection high and extremely high risk security operations. This enables our security and close protection specialist Instructors to deliver the most reality based close protection training available in the world.
In regard to professional bodyguard training the old saying, “it’s not the same to talk of bulls, as to step in the bullring” is very relevant. Our close protection training instructors are all former or serving special forces close protection specialists and we operate permanently in the high risk close protection bullring.
We operate globally and have close protection operational experience in 42 countries across 4 continents. Our professional close protection training has been delivered to governments, military special forces, Intelligence agencies, law enforcement, security agencies, corporate businesses and civilian bodyguards seeking well paid bodyguard jobs.
The second reason for close protection training if delivered by professional bodyguard or close protection Instructor specialists is so that inexperienced and operational bodyguards and close protection officers can ease their way into well paid bodyguard jobs.
This factor should never be ignored when considering which bodyguard instructor or bodyguard training company or bodyguard association to invest your hard earned cash into. Make no mistake if you are looking to find your way into well paid bodyguard jobs then the professional close protection training required to achieve this costs a lot. It’s a substantial investment, not only in finance, but in time, effort and energy.
We are in the business of professional close protection high to extremely high risk operations, and we have a duty to provide all bodyguards with the finest reality based training available in the marketplace. Our security and close protection experts advised us that virtually every bodyguard and close protection training organisation fails to address the business development aspects required post bodyguard training to turbo charge their close protection students into well paid bodyguard jobs.
It’s a simple enough concept for most bodyguard training organisations to take their students and beast them through a one to four week physically demanding bodyguard training programme. They work on the military premise of keeping the recruits cold, wet, hungry and tired enough so they are brainwashed into doing what their NCO orders without question.
They achieve this by pushing recruits to their physical and mental limits. This is undoubtedly effective for boy soldiers who have just left school and need to brainwashed very quickly into the Army Barmy mind-set. However when we talk about professional bodyguard and close protection training the last thing you need in a high risk close protection team is someone who can’t think quickly on their feet and is frozen in action waiting for orders. Undoubtedly physical fitness plays a role in providing close protection services for fee paying clients, but it’s a very small part, and something you can achieve away from your close protection training programmes.
We are very conscious that during the last 10 years several TV documentaries have been broadcast featuring close protection training companies. Most of these focussed their student close protection training on aggressive physical fitness. We canvassed our security and close protection experts for their opinions on this matter.
There was an overwhelming consensus that this was a smoke screen by these close protection companies to hide the fact they were focussing on delivering action packed training to the detriment of providing close protection reality based training which includes business development skills designed to fast track you into well paid bodyguard jobs. Several of our global close protection experts mentioned they could not remember the last time they had to rise at 05.00 hours on a cold snowy morning to fireman’s lift a VIP over their shoulder and run up and down hills until they vomited.
At www.closeprotectiongz.com we believe that all bodyguards entering security and close protection training should have achieved a personal fitness standard that is consistent with the demands of the industry. You achieve this in your own time at the gym, at a significantly lower cost than paying a close protection company to train you. There is no need to pay us for providing you with physical training. Your close protection training investment with us will focus on the specialist skills required to achieve mission success and maximum safety during close protection operations, and to identify well paid bodyguard jobs.
One thing to remember is that, it’s no good being the most highly trained bodyguard in the global close protection arena, if you don’t know how to find your way into well paid bodyguard jobs. After speaking to thousands of bodyguard training student graduates of various global close protection training programmes, our close protection specialists identified two issues.
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