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For twenty years and twenty days, I served in the largest Police Department in the world, the N.Y.P.D. I have effected and or supervised over 5,000 arrests in my career.
My first meeting with Evan came in the early 90’s at a martial arts seminar. I was immediately impressed by his teaching ability and proficiency as a professional martial artist. I knew then that I had to surround myself with the most knowledgeable and technically proficient people if I wanted to increase my chances for survival on the streets of New York.
I can remember many times when I had to use the applications of Kyusho on uncooperative perpetrators. This was done in order to protect myself and escape without injury. Without this specialized knowledge, the outcomes of these encounters might not have been in my favor. Knowing Kyusho, I felt like I had an advantage over the criminals. This gave me increased confidence to handle the various tasks that police officers are required to perform.
I strongly urge every police department’s training units to incorporate these training methods into their physical training in their respective police academies. I firmly believe that this type of training would severely decrease police officer liability and give the officer another tool in their arsenal to use in the war on crime. Safety and practicality is very important to the officers of this country and Kyusho provides the officer with another level of protection. While serving the citizens of New York, I was passionate about self-protection and the safety of others; these practical applications and self-defense methods are invaluable to law enforcement. The methods are easy to learn and are extremely effective.
This knowledge was obtained by associating with the best Kyusho practitioners in the world, and being part of Kyusho International. I urge all law enforcement, military, corrections, and security personnel to practice and apply these techniques; it may be the difference between life and death.

Marcello Giannola

“During the service control of the territory have stopped a stranger who was without the proper permit us were preparing to accompany him at the Forensic science to make a photograph, and subsequently transported to the nearest reception center to subsequent deportation. We make a personal control but when we said him that he must come with us in the car, it opposed resistance , with their hands on the roof of the car service and left foot on the platform. My colleague who was trying to enter it by pushing, explaining him that if he had opposed further we could use the handcuffs as an alternative. The opponent has to continuous oppose using their hands and left foot, so I helped my colleague, pressing with the knuckles on the point GB23 situated on the right side, debilitating the support leg and taken on removing the left arm and help him enter in the car.”
In my opinion, the knowledge and use of Kyusho is very important for the police officer people, who are working often in situations of conflict or even dangerous, to meet with the proportionality offense received or probably received , forcing the operator at frequently less use supplied weapon and use of physical coercion without the use of specific weapons including non-firearm. All this, implies by these operators, knowledge of a system that has as its objectives the following points:
1. non-hazardous nature of the system or the appropriate response to danger and situations. In order, when possible, to ensure the criminal at law order, to serve their sentence that civil society imposes on redeem, and a social value not indifferent that away from the generic and personal justice.
2. the opportunity to learn a few simple techniques and easily training without the complicated knowledge of developed engine schemes unless the based engines schemes , valid for men and women.
3. A voiding further legal consequences related to the use of excessive force, criminal complaints for power abuse of and excess negligence related to physical injuries reported perpetrator although not serious but still visible.
Profit for the police which work in jail, to quell without use of weapons (prohibited inside the prison by the security staff) any fights.
Departments of public order (Italian police) dedicated to the maintenance of public order during of public demonstrations or protest violent or not, where the use of weapons is still prohibited in the security and guarantee the ” right ” to strike or protest event.
Medical Team on board of Unit public emergency. Can be used for interventions on people in confusion due to excessive alcohol and drugs, mentally ill or example even at times to quell the relatives panic aggressive and all people involved in traffic accidents with serious injuries.
Useful attempted suicide intervention.
In my experience of 13 years of police officer in recent years of learning, training and improvement I found, in the Kyusho, the right way to handle the potentially dangerous people to himself and others.

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As a United States Federal Air Marshal, I have been trained in a variety of different self-defense styles that have given me the proper tools to defend myself as well as my country.  While these self-defense styles may vary in execution and method, they all share a similar technique and principal.  Kyusho is one of the core foundations that the Federal Air Marshal agency has used to help better equip their agents to be prepared to defend themselves against any style of attack.  Kyusho uses simplistic yet highly effective techniques to disarm, restrain, prevent or stop an individual from completing any type of physical assault.  With the basic understanding and use of Kyusho I am able to not only apply the methods to potential life-threatening situations, but also incorporate the underlying fundamental movements in any other type of self-defense technique I may use.

I have had many qualified and experienced instructors train me in an assortment of martial art and self-defense styles; however none have been able to communicate, instruct and deliver their knowledge like Evan Pantazi. I have been fortunate enough to work with Evan Pantazi in a personal and individual setting and his understanding and application of Kyusho is as effective and applicable as any instruction I have received.  His ability to tailor Kyusho’s methods to suit that of the small and unique environment of an aircraft is only one example of how effective and relative Evan’s principals are to my job description. Evan has given me a new and dynamic way to fight and defend myself in any situation.

Dan King Corrections Officer

When police officers arrest someone they transport them to an intake area of a jail. The individuals who are being put in custody of the corrections officers at that point often become violent because they have been arrested and may be high on drugs and drunk. The booking area is not a happy place for arrestees. They have lost their freedom, the “cops” are now taking their property and clothing, and the reality of the situation is starting to sink in. This is the point when I have had the most fights in my career as a working corrections officer.
Over the years I have studied a few martial arts. The sad truth is that many modern arts are taught more on the art side than the martial part. PPCT even has limits. Eventually I began learning about this crazy way to combine pressure points beyond just hit and run strikes of PPCT which may not always work. Kyusho in law enforcement and corrections goes beyond trying to inflict pain on people who can’t feel anything. It manipulates the nervous system of your opponent to control the situation or even knock the person out with little to know effort. (Just because they don’t feel pain in one spot doesn’t mean the rest of their nervous system is out of order) I’ve fought crack heads, meth heads, and drunks using Kyusho to effectively end altercations. It’s easy to learn, it’s fun, but most importantly IT WORKS – PERIOD.
My name is Dan King, and I believe in what Sensei Pantazi teaches. You should too.

Fred Mastison President – Force Options Tactical Training Solutions Actively teaching law enforcement and military for almost 20 years and holds 13 law enforcement POST instructor certifications. He travels worldwide providing instruction in combatives and firearms.

” The KTCP is one of the best pressure point programs available to the LE community. It is simple to learn, easy to retain, and is proven to be effective. ”