About Us
SelfGuardTraining is a U.S. Veteran owned business that was founded in 1988. We provide professional development training to both public and private organizations. Our clients have covered all sectors, including military, colleges, and private companies. Our professional instructors come from a background built on real life experience. We have personally tested all of the theories we once learned and now teach. Time and time again, we have seen them proven valid in the streets. We have studied and dissected the various, intense situations, repeating what went well and improving what didn't.
Our instructors are humbled and honored that organizations trust their future to us. We are humbled and honored by the positive feedback we receive from the organizations we work with. Our proven track record and credibility gives us the confidence to assure you that the results of the time and effort we have spent developing our training programs will result in your organization and staff becoming stronger and more resilient. We believe it is vital to have plans in place to combat active shooter; a proven plan that is designed to minimize injury and death. A realistic plan that will work in the event of a traumatic incident. Strategies in place translate to limited exposure to liability. We believe inclusion, sensitivity, understanding and learning while hardening your resolve are the keys to building trust, transparency, and legitimacy.
Our instructors are humbled and honored that organizations trust their future to us. We are humbled and honored by the positive feedback we receive from the organizations we work with. Our proven track record and credibility gives us the confidence to assure you that the results of the time and effort we have spent developing our training programs will result in your organization and staff becoming stronger and more resilient. We believe it is vital to have plans in place to combat active shooter; a proven plan that is designed to minimize injury and death. A realistic plan that will work in the event of a traumatic incident. Strategies in place translate to limited exposure to liability. We believe inclusion, sensitivity, understanding and learning while hardening your resolve are the keys to building trust, transparency, and legitimacy.
Our Goal
To improve communities and organizations by providing excellent professional development training programs.
President and Lead Instructor
James (Jim) Tucker is the President of the Shudokan Center LLC dba Self Guard Training. Jim is a Vietnam Veteran and a retired Deputy Sheriff Sergeant. He has taught Diversity and Inclusion training in several sheriff, police academies to police officers and to community members. He has instructed Japanese and Chinese police officers and well as U.S. Military. His cultural diversity awareness goes back to 1973 resulting from race riots aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Kittyhawk. His perspective is neutral and comes from the view of a person of color as well as seen from a law enforcement officer for 28 years. He is a published author whose recent book addresses leadership, ethics, racism, diversity and reform in law enforcement and in the communities they serve.
