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Primary InstructorGreg Stough is founder and president of Tactical Self-Defense Services, Inc. a Company specializing in training programs and consulting for law enforcement, civilian self-defense, and martial art topics. These programs are presented to an array of individuals, departments, and organizations including but not limited to Federal, State, Tribal and Municipal Police, Corrections and Probation and Parole agencies; U.S. Army, U.S. Navy and Foreign Service Military Personnel; Security and Protective Services Agencies; Businesses, Corporations and Educational Institutions; and also Individuals, Private Groups and Organizations. He is an active Municipal Police Instructor at the Senator John J. Shumaker Public Safety Center located on the campus of Harrisburg Area Community Collage (HACC) and has over 11 years of experience teaching in the Municipal Police Academy, the Lethal Weapons Program and a number of other State and privately designed programs through this institution. He is certified by various State agencies to instruct Defensive Tactics, Mechanics of Arrest, and Firearms Retention in various law enforcement programs. Greg has been certified as a Master Instructor in the State of Pennsylvania's Constable Program. This was a "train-the-trainer" position designed to teach and certify instructors who then teach the Defensive Tactics to candidates in the Constable program. He is a Charter Member of International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association (ILEETA) and assisted at the 2005 convention as the "official photographer". As a member of the American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers (ASLET) and has presented workshops on defensive tactics topics at ASLET's international and Regional conventions. Greg trains hundreds of Law Enforcement, Military and Security personnel each year, in addition to private individuals too. Below is a summary of Greg's Certifications; Instructor-Trainer Certification (certifies people to be Instructors)
Instructor Level Certification
Additional Certifications
Greg's introduction into Law Enforcement training began as a result of his extensive martial arts training. After a private handgun retention lesson a certified Municipal Police officer strongly encouraged Greg to contact the Director of the Local Academy because the high level of knowledge and the training he was offering. In the late 1970's Greg began his training in martial arts and in the mid 1980's he began studying in the Bujinkan system. In 1992 Greg became a fully licensed instructor in the internationally recognized Japanese Self-Defense system called Bujinkan Ninjutsu, currently known as Bujinkan Budô Taijutsu. This promotion and teaching authorization came directly from Grandmaster Masaaki Hatsumi of Japan. Greg spends several weeks each year in Japan to continue his personal training and travels across the US to attend seminars and programs on a variety of topics on a regular basis. Greg had been recommended by three Bujinkan Shihan (Master Instructors) for promotion to Jû-dan (10th Dan), and in the spring of 2002 Grandmaster Masaaki Hatsumi promoted Greg to the level of Jû-dan. During his 2005 trip to Japan Grandmaster Hatsumi promoted Greg to Jû-ni-dan (12th Dan - this system has 15 levels of black-belt). In addition to "normal" self-defense/defensive tactics training, Greg has attended a wide variety of firearms training programs. This has accumulated into several hundred hours of professional training with handguns and long guns. In addition to standard firearm manipulation and accuracy subjects, use of force considerations, building clearing, street and vehicle tactics are but some of the additional topics covered in this training. He has assisted during range operations and ran students through a live fire shoot house in the above programs. Greg has also been involved in American Tactical Shooting Association (ATSA) the host organization for National Tactical Invitational (NTI). He has presented programs at their Regional and National events. When his schedule permits, he attends and assists in both "range" and "self-defense" training and practice of the NTI's Tactical Study Group meetings, held monthly. Greg's belief is that even though he is an instructor in a number of different areas regular and continuous training are very important, and allows him to continue his personal learning and refinement of all self-defense skills and related topics. These topics of study include all areas of law enforcement use-of-force and martial arts/self-defense subjects and also protective services (executive protection) too. These programs cover the complete spectrum of unarmed self-defense and defensive tactics skills, and both modern and traditional weapons. Greg believes that one of an instructor's primary responsibilities is to continuously study, learn, and evaluate a wide variety of skills, tactics, and philosophies. Learning and understanding the circumstances with which these methods are effective, and just as importantly, under which conditions they will fail, is paramount. This information is liberally passed on to each student through class participation, seminars, and discussions. To complement the training and experience Greg has acquired he is writing a very technical book on self-defense skills, methodologies and mental preparation, considerations and perspective. He has been working on this work for several years already and hopes to have it completed and published in 2007. As a hobby Greg enjoys learning and teaching seminars on various outdoor awareness and survival skills. He has attended several weeklong classes in awareness, observation, tracking, and wilderness survival skills offered by Tom Brown Jr., America's foremost authority on these topics. Each year Greg presents workshops and lectures on primitive skills through seminars and free public programs. Many of the awareness skills learned through these wilderness are included in the self-defense programs. Awareness is vital for self-protection as it is the first step in one's ability to avoid or prevent a situation requiring the implementation of self-defense skills. Greg has a strong interest in knots, ropes and rigging and regularly volunteers as a rigger on large mast ships. He has been involved in many other activities or personal interest too, including hiking and camping, mountain biking, repelling, astronomy, science in general and caving. Greg also enjoys partner dancing and has taken lessons in East and West Coast Swing, Ballroom, and various Latin style dancing. When he has a chance, he also enjoys reading non-fiction books most of which are technical in nature and related to his varied interests. Greg has been involved in a variety of other professional activities over the years too. He is a certified EMT-B in Pennsylvania and has volunteered on a local ambulance. He has formal technical training in electronics with over seventeen years experience working on process control instrumentation as a Senior Service Representative. His responsibilities included service, calibration, programming of a wide variety of industrial and municipal electronic controls. He was involved in component level repair of instrumentation and overall process system troubleshooting in Industrial, Municipal, and Laboratory settings. He also has experience in servicing and repair of two-way radios and also experience with telephone company special circuits. Until his schedule became unforgiving, Greg was a paid musician. He regularly played with the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, York Symphony Orchestra, and the Spring Garden Concert Band. He enjoyed playing in the percussion section, with these organizations, for over twelve years. Use this link to e-mail Greg Stough. |
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