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ESP conducts numerous seminars, boot camps, and private intensives throughout the year.

Many of these are "Closed Sessions" for law enforcement and/or businesses or "Low Profile" sessions for schools/clubs with political ties to protect.  We respect our seminar hosts' privacy and keep these sessions confidential.

We'll be working with Coach Adam Hook and his crew at Wartrace Marital Arts in Vienna, IL on July 18th.  To register contact Adam at (618) 771-0155.

Additional Info:

4th Annual Tennessee Boot Camp  OK, I've been promising details for some time, so here you go.  This year's Boot Camp will be held on Saturday and Sunday, November 7th & 8th at Bill Whitworth's beautiful octagon-equipped facility in Morristown, Tennessee.  Here's the skinny:

You can listen to a podcast with Mark; click here.

Here we begin applying the formidable figure-4 choke/crank (the triangle) from a variety of unpredictable angles.  There is no reason that this powerful attack should be limited to back work.  We run this attack through 15 different variations in a point by point positional breakdown with attention paid to the hierarchy of utility.  Attacks covered include: Single-Hook Back Triangles (3 varieties) for when you've got one hook in but your opponent has either blocked or squirmed the other hook free, Head-to-Head Back Triangles vs. a High-Single Head to Outside (3 varieties) proving this is a formidable attack versus a sprawled shot, we then follow that with triangle attacks as a defense against your opponents Low Single shot (3 varieties).  For those tight wrestlers out there, we know the most efficient version of the high-single is the Head-to-the-Inside so we attack his smarter attack with 6 links in the triangle chain.  15 triangle attacks with detailed set-up analysis + a printed syllabus for inclusion in your training notebook.  This volume can be had in the month of June for only $32 S & H included (yes, that includes international orders).  At the end of the month the price goes to $42 and we no longer cover shipping.

Price:$32

NEW! NO SECOND CHANCE: A Reality Based Guide To Self-Defense

(192 pages) Our ground floor plunge into unarmed survival skills.  Chapters include: Duds & Thugs: Street Fight Vs. Street Survival, It's Not a Fire Drill If the House Is On Fire, The Truth As Blunt Object, You'll Never Be Ready, Animal Planet, 'Cause They Wanna, Predator-Prey Is Not An Analogy, You Are the Offspring of Survivors, There's No Middle Ground In Fight or Flight, Survive Now, Resistance Is Never Futile, Crime Is a Product of Opportunity, Know the Lay of the Land, Life Over Property, You Can't Run From a Gun, Back To School, Save Others By Showing Them How To Save Themselves, Crime Scene #2, Daydream Your Nightmares, Opposable Thumbs, The Neo-Cortex, and Padded Rooms, The Myths of Patterned Responses, Women's Self-Defense & Martial Arts, Survival of the Fittest, No Weapons, Natural Weapons, Palm Strikes, Fist Strikes, Lower Body Weapons, The Tasmanian Devil & Sam Spayed, On Pressure Points & Death Touches, Targets, Grappling, Static Vs. Fluid Assaults, Standing Static Assaults From the Front, Standing Static Assaults From Behind, Standing Static Assaults From the Side, Standing Static Assaults Against a Horizontal Barrier, Seated Static Assaults, Ground Static Assaults, Standing Postures To Fluid Readiness, Seated Postures To Fluid Readiness, Ground Postures To Fluid Readiness, Drills For Readiness Simulation.  And much more.   Autographed copy -$14 (International orders must add $10 shipping via the Shipping Button on the Products page.)

NEW! BEYOND BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU 2

(2 discs/150 minutes)  These two discs add to your defensive vocabulary regarding the formidable art of BJJ.  We offer a wide palette of defense for common BJJ offense so that you can better flow through your top game.  Included are: Inside Guard Defenses: Tie-up Releases, DWL/Kimura beats, Guillotine answers, Arm Bar beats, Double Arm Bar beats, Shoulder Choke beats, Sleeve Choke Defenses, Triangle Defenses (8), Head Scissors defenses for good measure, Split Arm beats and Leg-Under-Hook defenses are also addressed.  Next, we move to choke defenses including a variety of answers across the following choke classes: Scissors Chokes, Shoulder Chokes, Guillotines, and 15 answers for the Rear Naked.  Next. the Armlock Defense series from the following classes: TWL/Americana answers, Short Arm Bar answers, and Cross-Body Arm Bar answers (9).  We finish up with Standard Ankle Lock counters (9).  In all, 94 defensive tools on the 2-discs. -$61 (International orders must add $10 shipping via the Shipping Button on the Products page.)

NEW! THE MEGA-GLADIATOR CONDITIONING PROGRAM

(2 discs/130 minutes + 88 page workbook)  We provide an encyclopedic approach to bodyweight conditioning breaking the body into 5 Classes: Squat Grinders, Push-Up Grinders, Hinge Grinders, Neck Grinders, and the Pull-Up Grinders.  We offer a myriad of exercise choices in each to keep your body-weight regimen fresh and continuously challenging.  Included are suggestions on how to utilize and integrate the material at different conditioning levels.  We introduce 26 Squat varieties, 26 Push-Up varieties along with suggestions on how to double this number, 13 synergistic Hinge exercises meant to be performed in exact sequence, 19 Neck strengthening exercises, and 25 (+) Pull-Up varieties.  This is followed with the Menu Section for shaking it up and putting it all together: 1x1 in 20, Crap Shoot, The 500, The Sprint, The Marathon, One-at-a-Time, and The Countdown.  -$51 (International orders must add $10 shipping via the Shipping Button on the Products page.)

NEW! ESP T-Shirt (Black) -$21 (International orders must add $10 shipping via the Shipping Button on the Products page.)

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“In my line of work I have had the opportunity to train with some of the best CQC and DT guys out there.  Mark and the members of ESP are by far in that league.  The level of knowledge, skill, and enthusiasm for what they teach is by far unsurpassed by anyone.  You could not ask for better instruction.”

--J. Mayer, Special Agent; U.S. Government

We have many products, in addition to the ESP Raws, coming up in the years ahead; including:

THE JUNGLE GYMNASIUM-These are the wildest sets of eccentric exercises you've ever seen.  These challenges will build agility, balance, strength, muscular endurance, blow the lungs apart, as well as make a spectacle of yourself as you bounce around the gym in a manner befitting our primate cousins.

GROUNDED: EXPANDED EDITION-Covers the situation where you are caught on the ground but your opponent is on his feet. We run through the three ranges of defense, strikes from the ground, and submissions from the ground, then we flip the equation and cover how to enter on the grounded opponent.

 STREET BOXING & SURVIVAL WRESTLING-Our zero-sport version of Western martial arts applied to numerous standard static and fluid street offensives. This is all tendon ripping, bone-snapping material.

WARDROBE WORK-Chokes, cranks, and snaps using your opponent’s street clothes as handles.

GLADIATOR: FULLY LOADED--Here we demonstrate the sport specific weight lifting exercises to push your combat power through the roof. Trust me, these are not your standard lifts. The only items of equipment needed are weight plates, a barbell, and two dumbbells. No bench, no nothing.

GLADIATOR LEGION: COMBAT PARTNER CONDITIONING EXERCISES-Just like it sounds. We take the specificity and synergy principles and provide dozens and dozens of combat specific strength and endurance exercises in which the only equipment needed is yourself and a training partner.

THE OUTER LIMITS: ENVIRONMENTAL AND SENSORY DRILLS FOR ULTIMATE STREET SKILLS-Dozens of unique drills designed to mimic the high-stress and/or disoriented nature of the street scenario. Drills included: Endangered Species, Off-Road, The Violent Minority, Scrum and many more.

TO THE WALL-Street and cage matches both provide a unique factor; the use of the vertical surface in the combat environment. Most combat arts focus only on standing or the ground. Here, we run the complete offensive and defensive arsenals for finishing the man once he’s on the wall and perhaps more importantly what to do when your back is to the wall.

THE SUBMISSION ENCYCLOPEDIA: VOLUME 2-We pitch more of our trademark submission chains featuring dozens of new hooks for salivating mat fans.

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TAKEDOWNS-Everything you need to know about dropping your man to the mat.

ESP MIND SETTING/PREDATOR PROFILES-This unique audio/workbook package will provide all the information on real world violent assault survival, crime prevention, the predator/prey relationship, mind setting, and scenario specific strategies for numerous violent encounters.  Also, included, more that 75 Predator Profiles to provide you with a better understanding of the nature of the beasts we may face.

ESP ROUGH RIDER/LEG RIDES A-Z- In this instructional video we will show you the how's, when's, and why's in great detail of this little understood aspect of wrestling.  Leg rides covered include: Hooks In, Cockle-Burr, Saturday Night Ride, Highball Ride, Splitters, Groin Rides, Navy Rides, Hook Rides, Figure-Four Rides, Scissors Rides, Cross Scissors Rides, Banana Splits, Low Cal Banana Splits, and more.  You will learn the rides as well as drills for placing them and natural follow-up submissions.

THE ESP KNIFE FIGHTING ENCYCLOPEDIA- This 4 Volume video set will provide you with ALL aspects of Western Pragmatic blade work.  Among the subjects covered are: grips, movement, covers, slices, thrusts, attack patterns, defense patterns, unarmed VS. armed, forced scenarios, static defense, fluid defense, grounded blade work, ground zero blade work, and more.

STREET GRAPPLING- Real world grappling (stand-up/ground/and wall-work) in detail.  There is no sport work  to be found here.  Just pure OD survival tricks from the world of All-In wrestling and Boom-battle.

“This was my second time in training with the ESP instructors, and it’s getting better each time. Unlike many other training courses, you can walk out of one of these seminars and put the techniques to work right away. I feel that if you ever get a chance to attend one of the seminars, you owe it to yourself and loved ones to attend, and, with the reasonable fee, there is no excuse not to attend.”

--William T. Jeffers, Policeman

A sincere congratulations to the following individuals:

Head Coaches

Kory Hays, Jesse Marez, Dan Marx, Jim Marx, Jim McCann, and Mitch Thomas

Assistant Coaches

 Mike Flowers, Adam Hook, Rob Petry, Anthony Tamburrino, and Cardo Urso

Associate Coaches

Joe Burtner, Chad Dailey, Adam Freedman, Greg Hall, Matthew Harper, Dennis Hill, John Miller, Paul Molnar, Justin Mount, Rikk Perez, and David Webster         

Apprentice Coaches

Matt Aldiss, Tahir Aslam, Rogelino Avelino, Gary Armbrust, Peter Bobo, Dennis Bozeman, Scott Buendia, Matthew Campbell, Charles Chi, Lloyd Clark, Isaiah Combs, Andrew Conner,  Ryan Crispell, Ryan DeLaet, Harry "Roadhouse" Duhon, Marc Fesler, James Flanery, Rene Garza, James "Lyon" George, Keith Gilliland, Erwin Guadiz, Steven Haag, Christopher Hall, Randy Hares,  Joey Hixon, Patrick Hughes, Chris Imamura, Eric Kohtz, Pekka Luodeslampi, Miklos Major II,  Michael Malpass, Aaron Mangin, Colin Mellor, Steven Mosley, Nathan Mount, Shawn Naito, Joao Nascimento, Mike Odell, Chris "Headhunter" Osborne, Fred O'Keefe, Jay Pages, Don Partch, Kelvin Pyke, Jamie Rees, Kenny Reid, Rob Renfro, Jason Richards, Jesse Robinson, Ted Robinson, Bryan Roig, Seth Rolfe, Kody Rountree, Robert Royal, Leon Samadi, Jonathan Santiago, Misty Shearer, Paul Siemon, Sean Simon, Daniel Sommers, Scott Steckler, James Stilson, Robert Suarez, Rich Swete, Randall Toth, Paul Trembath, Shane Tucker, Jeremy Vance, Dennis VanWagner, Darren Wagner, Damion Waltermeyer, Todd Weber, Brian West, Bill Whitworth, and Chris Williams

“The seminar that the ESP staff presented to us was one of the best I’ve ever attended. Our security crew immediately was able to apply the knowledge we attained from the ESP system. The techniques were simple, but extremely effective and have been used over and over again to ensure the safety of our crew and other patrons of our nightclub. I would highly recommend any security personnel take the time to work with the ESP staff. This is an investment that will prove its worth many times over in real-life situations.”

--Erik Bryant, Bouncer

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