“Mission drives mindset, and mindset drives methodology.”

At Sheepdog Survival, we offer three distinct streams of combatives training — DEFENDER, PROTECTOR and RESPONDER — all of them sharing a common theoretical and technical foundation, but each with its own mission-driven mindset and methods.

If your mission is simply to avoid or safely resolve conflict, and get home to your family, our DEFENDER series of personal safety and self-defence courses is for you. 

Our professional combatives instructors will help you cultivate a “Defender Orientation”, and arm you with a variety of practical, proven tools, techniques, tactics and training methods that will ensure that you accomplish your mission as safely, expediently, ethically and legally as possible.