About Us
SelfGuardTraining is a U.S. Veteran owned international business that was founded in 1988. We provide professional development training to both public and private organizations. We are a State of California STC provider. 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 the concepts we now teach. We have seen them prove effective in the streets. We have studied and dissected the various, intense situations, repeating what went well and improving what didn't. Allow us to provide training in Diversity and Inclusion, Situational Awareness/Active Shooter, Leadership and Ethics, Self-defenses, Communication/De-escalation, Wellness. If you have a unique circumstance allow us to build a course specific to your organizational needs.
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 stakeholders we work with. Strategies in place translate to greater strength, resiliency and limited exposure to liability. We believe inclusion, sensitivity, understanding and learning while hardening 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 stakeholders we work with. Strategies in place translate to greater strength, resiliency and limited exposure to liability. We believe inclusion, sensitivity, understanding and learning while hardening 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.
