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What is DRST?

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Kingdom Elite Tactical has teamed up with TEES (Tactical Energetic Entry Systems) to offer you the following instructor courses. Garry brings over 40 years’ experience in the martial arts and close quarters fighting systems and tactical training. He is also a 26- year veteran law-enforcement officer and law-enforcement trainer. Garry has worked on staff at city, county, state and federal training academies where he trained recruits and cadets at the basic level, as well as in-service training courses in advanced tactical training and instructor courses. He holds multiple instructor trainer certifications in law enforcement, including defensive tactics, firearms, cqb, edged weapon defense and tactical knife fighting.  

Grand Master Welch currently holds the rank of 9th degree black belt and holds multiple other black belts in different systems. Garry holds multiple Master Instructor certifications in various tactical training programs, including an Expert Level Instructor in Krav Maga. Garry has recently been recognized and awarded the title and rank of “Soke” for the creation of his own close quarter fighting system called “Kingdom Combatives”. Garry is also a Master Instructor in many Firearms Training Programs and an Expert in Use of Force. Garry is a past inductee into the United States Martial Arts Hall of Fame and has also been awarded a Professorship in the Psychology of Combat and Martial Arts.

Basic Courses = 2 Days
Instructor Courses = 3 Days
For more information on becoming a certified DRST Instructor, click here.

What is DRST?

DRST is a defensive tactics system that offers tactics and options to the professional when they encounter active aggression or a deadly force level of resistance. It gives them more control options instead of escalating straight to deadly force.

DRST is a defensive tactics system that is a no no-nonsense, practical system that is designed around techniques that work optimally under high stress situations. It is not a generic cookie cutter one size fits all mindset.

DRST is a system of Response Options that are totally courtroom defendable, because the system is built around and upon the “Reasonable Officer” doctrine of Graham V. Connor, that each response option and technique is Reasonable to the amount of Assault and Violence being encountered.

DRST is a simplistic system built upon over 4 decades of training, using Concepts, Principles, Tactics and a Methodology of using the body’s natural response actions to a stimuli of a violent assault.

When a professional encounters an assault at any of these two levels of attack, it requires a dynamic and immediate response from the person being attacked. They must overwhelm the attacker and put them on the defensive.

We support the one plus one theory and the resistance / control continuum as published by PPCT Management Systems / Human Factors. The one plus one theory of control states that the professional can immediately move up the continuum to one level of control above the level of resistance being encountered.

This Methodology and Tactics are also supported as presented by the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLTEC) Use of Force Continuum Model.

In the modern-day profession of law enforcement, corrections, jail/detention officers, EMS, fire and security, things have really changed over the past few years. Attacks on Law Enforcement, Security Officers and all other professionals are at an all-time high and are escalating every day. Unfortunately, deadly force assaults are on the rise and are occurring nearly every day against our officers and security professionals. Our officers need a higher level of training in how to deal with these types attacks and our officers must know how to legally defend themselves. The defensive tactics systems of the past have always been enough, but today officers need a higher level of training. 

This defensive tactics system provides you with additional techniques and options when you are fighting for your survival. You are defending against active aggression, which is physical actions of assault that could render you severely injured or unconscious, or deadly force assaults which has a high probability of serious injury and / or death.

Most encounters are much like ordinary social or business contacts. However, in many situations our duties may require us to exert control over people who will not obey the officer’s lawful commands and directions. Our good faith effort is always an attempt to gain voluntary compliance from subjects, but as we know, there is always the possibility of encountering different levels of resistance, requiring different levels of subject control.

Unfortunately, despite the best efforts of the most skilled officer to gain voluntary compliance, we know that in reality this is just not the world we live in. Sometimes you will have to apply the use of reasonable force to achieve control and accomplish your legitimate Law Enforcement objective.

Kingdom Elite Tactical is a division of Elite Training Specialists, Inc. which is a research-based use of force training company that services the professional communities as well as the civilian industry. ETS, Inc. has developed the Dynamic Response Survival Training defensive tactics program to meet the needs of the modern day professional. In the ETS Dynamic Response Survival Training, you will learn when and how to use acceptable legal force to control the various levels of subject resistance. These techniques are psychomotor skills, which mean that they involve both the brain and muscle memory. For that reason, the techniques taught are all gross motor skill based which you can perform optimally under stress.

The Dynamic Response Survival Training system is dedicated to the advancement of defensive tactics that begins where most DT systems stop, and it fills in the gaps left by other systems. It integrates in easily with all other defensive tactics and only compliments that system by giving the professional techniques to combat the deadliest assaults. It only compliments other DT systems that the officer/ student may have already been trained and certified in through their years of training. We do not retrain the officer; we simply teach them much needed skills that add to their abilities to defend themselves or the public against deadly force attacks.

This system is ideal for everyone from the patrol officer, detention officer, security officer including special teams and units.

Dynamic Response Survival Training is based upon techniques and tactics that are taught all over the world to law enforcement, military, corrections and security services. This system has its roots in the Israeli Defense Forces. Agencies and Departments all over the US and the world are now teaching these techniques.

What Makes Dynamic Response Survival Training different?

Since the beginning of time there has been the need for strategic warfare. There has always been a very special group of individuals given the task of training warriors how to win and how to survive in combat. It is the only recognized profession that trains the student how to protect their lives or the lives of other people by gaining control over and conquering a combatant. 

DRST is not just another police defensive tactics system based on traditional martial arts approaches that has been taught for years. It is a modern-day reality-based method of training characterized by the element that it works for all officers regardless of their gender, size or physical conditioning. 

Survival skills must be performed under stress, so you must have a system that the techniques are appropriate for the arena of performance where the skills will be applied. The students must be able to learn these skills quickly and develop confidence in the skill quickly. The skills in this system are all gross motor skill based and very easy to learn.

Law Enforcement / Corrections / Security / Military Applications

HANDCUFFING: This training course does not instruct in handcuffing procedures or techniques, unless specifically requested. We understand that every agency and department already have their own approved cuffing methods that are established in policy and procedure. What this course will do is get the professional to the cuffing position where they can apply their approved method of cuffing.

EFFICIENT TRAINING PERIO:. Students attain a high level of proficiency in a short period. This training is easy to learn and easy to teach, and most importantly it is gross motor skill based, which means it works optimally under stress.

RETENTION OF TRAINING: Because this system is based upon common principles and natural/instinctive movements, students are able to retain the techniques with minimal review and the ability to perform them under stress.

PRACTICAL TECHNIQUES: The core emphasis of this system is on effectiveness and simplicity. This real-world system provides realistic defenses against a variety of aggressive attacks, whether the assailant is armed or unarmed.

PERFORMANCE UNDER STRESS: These training methods are taught at the static level of training first to introduce the student to the technique and to enable them to gain confidence quickly. The student will then train at the fluid level of training where the student will be introduced to a particular stimulus and will respond to that specific stimulus. This will create a conditioned response to a certain stimulus. 

Training methods unique to the development of this system provide reality-based training designed to improve the operator's emotional and physical response to danger. These training methods develop the ability to identify threats at the earliest stages, react without hesitation, and escalate or de-escalate with the appropriate level(s) of force. Then the student will move to the third level of training which is the dynamic level of training where they will respond in real life scenarios just as a threat would be in the open motor skill environment of the real world. It is through these training methods that the professional will be able to react without thought with a high level of confidence.

“In a time of great crisis, you will never rise to the level of your expectations, you will always fall to your level of training!”

USE-OF-FORCE ISSUES: DRST enables operators to deal with the most violent offenders they encounter, while remaining acutely aware of reasonable use-of-force and civil liability issues facing law enforcement and military personnel. Dynamic Response Survival Tactics is 100% relevant to modem-day law enforcement because most agencies cannot afford the luxury of prolonged training courses for their personnel. All Use of Force and Civil Liabilities considerations and concerns are taught and addressed in this training. ETS supports the PPCT Resistance / Control Continuum and also supports all the documented tactical, legal and medical research of the PPCT system. The defensive tactics taught in this program will integrate right into existing policy and procedure on active aggression and deadly force assaults.

Instructional Methods of Training:

All Kingdom Elite Tactical training programs are taught to the student in these 3 levels of training.

Static: This is step-by-step and by-the-numbers. This is how you begin to build a neural pathway in the brain. You must build a “conditioned stimulus response”, a specific response to a specific threat.

Fluid: At this level, you begin to put the technique together with a response to a stimulus in a fluid / flowing manner at a “slow is smooth . . . smooth becomes fast” speed.

Dynamic: This is real world speed with no fixed or preplanned attack. That is why you must learn first at the 2 levels mentioned above. At this level, you must be able to perform without thought. 

Our Duty as Survival Instructors

We must understand that it is imperative that we instill in each student the confidence required to encounter and defeat these threats. We will teach . . .

1. Warrior Mindset / Connection to Reality

As trainers, we have the responsibility to prepare our students mentally for what to expect when they encounter a deadly force threat. The effects of stress on the human body is one main factor. We must create in our student the mindset that they must win at all costs. Part of this mindset is giving up is not an option. 

At Kingdom Elite Tactical, we stress to our students “In a time of great crisis, you will never rise to the level of your expectations, you will always fall to the level of you training”. 

2. You must understand the “intent” of the attacker

People seem to forget that whether someone is trying to severely injure us or take our lives, both are qualified as a deadly force attack.

Even though it is hard to recreate an actual attack in training, that does not mean we should not at least do the best we can. After all, our students are literally trusting us with their lives.

When learning the basics of a system, the training must follow the form of an “attacker” and a “defender” being pre-selected. The moves are then choreographed to a certain degree to let the defender win. Then the roles are reversed. This builds motor skill selection and confidence in the warrior then, when put under stress in a more advanced training, they have the foundation to move into more fluid and dynamic scenarios.

3. Technique Selection

As survival instructors we must minimize the number of techniques and response options that are taught. The more techniques and response options that are taught for a specific threat stimulus, the slower the reaction time will be. We must minimize the response options and reaction time.

4. Motivational Factors

Motivating students to practice is as important as developing the technique. A student who is not motivated will leave a course of training without developing any skills. When we introduce a skill, we must immediately demonstrate the need for the skill. Then the student must believe they can learn the skill and immediately have a positive learning experience. By ensuring these factors are present in our training courses, we have motivated students that are eager to learn new skills.

Layout of the Course

We begin each level of the course with a classroom lecture discussing the concepts of situational awareness, reactionary gap/ reaction time, the OODA Loop, the effects of stress on performance, and the law and legalities and the legal aspects of the resistance / control continuum. We will discuss the warrior/ survival mindset and how to effectively read the threats posed in body language. Also taught are the principles of escalation and de-escalation and the appropriate use of each.

We will teach the use of force standards as set forth by the US Supreme Court, including deadly and non-deadly force. We will discuss the criminal and civil aspects of liability to the officer and to the agency; we will discuss the philosophy and mindset of combat and the physiological changes that occur within the mind and body during any close quarter battle situation.

This training course can be structured to meet the limitations or needs of any department, agency, or training center in a 16, 24, 32, or 40 hour training period. This course can be taught consecutively at one time or structured in separate levels taught at separate times.

*Instructor Certification Courses are also offered for each course.