One of your most important considerations while looking for a person who is going to help you to train, is their personal qualifications to instruct you.  You have the right to ask any person who is going to be teaching you what their qualifications are.  You will find that a great many so-called trainers are sorely lacking in their education. Therefore, how can they be your trainer??

~ Here is a brief sampling of the courses I have taken to develop myself as a Professional Trainer:

Women's Handgun Defense, Advanced Handgun Defense, Defensive Handgun & Qualification, Civilian Firearms Instructors Certification, Defensive Shotgun, (Instructor Marty Hayes), Certified Capstun User Training, Unarmed Self-Defense Techniques & Tactics,Certified Capstun Instructor, Offensive & Defensive Knife Fighting, (Instructors Joe & Connie Strain, Counter Attack Studios), Introduction to Deadly Force, Police Survival, Handgun /Long Gun Retention & Disarming, 40 hour training program in the Legal, Moral, Ethical & Practical Parameters of the Use of Deadly Force & Deadly Weapons by Private Citizens in Self Defense, LFI II, (Instructor Massad Ayoob), 30 hour Defensive Handgun, Moving Target & Low Light Shooting, (Instructor John Farnum), Monadnock Persuader Instructor, (Monadnock Lifetime Products), 27 hour Powerful Choice Basics Graduate (model mugging), 44 hours Firearms Instructor Course for Private Security/Private Detective, (Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission, Phil Shave), 44 hours Private Security Firearms Instructor, Defensive Pistol I, II, Defensive Pistolcraft, (Delta International Inc. , Bill Burris), Kubotan Course, (Grand Master Takayuki Kubota), Home firearm Safety Course Certified Instructor, Certified Instructor Personal Protection Course, (National Rifle Association, Max Stone), Knife Counter Knife, (Insights Training Center, Inc. Erik Remmen), American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers (Certification, Continuing Education...), Controlled FORCE (Instructor Certification Training), USNSTA (Master Instructor Certification), Sno. Co. Fire Dist.1 (CERT - Community Emergency Response Team), FEMA (ICS - Incident Command Systems), FEMA (NIMS - Nat. Incident Mgmt. System).

Clay Bloomfield Dir. of Operations Associate Instructor

Currently working in Iraq, as a PSD Medic and Team 2ic, Clay's background is diverse and extensive.  Having began his training in 1984 while serving in the U.S. Navy, he took his first Martial Arts instruction and never looked back. During tours with Navy and Marine Corps Units as a Combat Medic, his education in defensive tactics grew and developed from a need to stay alive. He trained in weapons, hand to hand, traditional martial arts, martial arts weapons, edged weapons, aerosol restraint, firearms, and various other methods of self protection.
~ ALL of which have helped save his life, during several violent encounters, while in the performance of his duties.

Having studied and trained in the martial arts while overseas, this allowed him to fully experience the "traditional manner" in which these arts are meant to be taught, and studied.

After his honorable discharge from active military service in 1990, he continued his education and training while attending Law Enforcement institutions, and public Colleges, pursuing a                                                                         career in the Criminal Justice field. 
During this time he sought out additional education in the martial arts, studying under several well known martial arts instructors in Brazil, and Southern California.

In 1991 he relocated to the Pacific Northwest, and attained a post with a private security firm as the, Director of Operations. Providing a multitude of services that included, Personal and Executive Protection, Private Investigations, Contract Security and Law Enforcement Training, it enabled him to use his education and experience to best serve the firms clients.

Since joining BFI in 1995, he continues to provide support as a Consultant, Protection Specialist, and Certified Trainer to several agencies and individuals Worldwide.

As the founder of "MoN-SoM Do", he continues to study some 30 additional martial arts and defensive arts systems. His education into these various arts goes beyond the learning of the motions, he is also a dedicated advocate of the "old teachings", pairing ones use of the mind, and body with the arts.

~Here is a sampling of the training he has received to develop himself as a Professional Trainer and Protection Specialist:

USN/USMC (General Military Training, Seamanship, Navigation/Orientation, Emergency Medical Training, Communications, Firearms, Amphibious Warfare, Diving, Skydiving, Counter/Anti-Terrorism, Guerilla/Urban Warfare and Tactics, Special Weapons and Tactics, Survival Training, Martial Arts, Explosives Detection, Defensive & Evasive Driving, VIP/Dignitary Protection), Martial Arts 20+ years experience (Traditional Boxing , Korean Taekwondo, Chinese Tai Chi's, Japanese Aikido and Jujitsu, Brazilian Jujitsu, African, Russian and French martial arts forms, traditional Karate's, Judo, Grappling, Edged Weapons and Martial Arts Weapons), Century Business College, S.D. Ca. (Security Administration and Private Investigations, Law, Defensive Tactics, PR-24 Baton, Aerosol Restraint Certification), Grossmont Community College, S.D. Ca. (Law Enforcement/ Criminal Justice), So. Ca. Law Enforcement Academy (Law Enforcement Procedures, Cadet Training), Firearms Academy of Seattle (Advanced Firearms Training/Certification), Advanced Security Protection, Inc. (Advanced Firearms, Aerosol Restraint, Restraint Tools/Handcuffing Procedures, ASP Collapsable Baton, Protection Specialist Training), Burtons Firearms Instruction, Inc. (Advanced Firearms Training/Certification), Wa. St. Criminal Justice Training Cntr. (Law Enforcement, Investigations, and Security Guard Firearms Certification), American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers (Certification), OMNI Institute (Close Personal Protection Certification), Nat. Assoc. of Investigative Specialists (Advanced Executive Protection Certification), Controlled FORCE (Departmental Instructor Certification), PSDTT (Level 5 High Risk Protective Services Training), Ex-MED (Medicine in Remote Areas, Remote Trauma Medic, Associate-Royal College of Surgeons), Erinys Iraq (PSO Iraq Induction Program), FCC (Radiotelephone Operator License), USCG/MARAD/TRANSEC (Port Facility/Company/Vessel Security Officer), SIGHLS (Certified Homeland Security Professional).

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