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Force Necessary - "Police Judo"
"Old School Meets New School Meets Old School Again!"
"Using Only That Force Necessary to Win and Survive"
In the 1950s, 60s and the very early 70s in the USA, almost all martial training was called simply “judo,” an easy, generic name. Even karate was called judo back then by many experts because of this. And, for many in "old school" law enforcement, defensive tactics was often, first loosely called police judo and passed on informally in gyms, work-outs sessions and academy classes. Such were the places where W. Hock Hochheim first learned of police judo, mostly from retired FBI agents, military police and city cops who studied and specialized in fighting to survive, win and arrest.
The original, old-school, police judo is not anything like the Japanese sport of grappling Judo! But rather is a collection of survival strikes, kicks, takedowns, contain, restrain, handcuffing and small weapons combat. It involved hand, stick, knife and gun play. Mixed weapons. It was part tactics, part tricks of the trade - old-school. Police Judo later morphed into the various enforcement acronyms and training programs one finds today, but many of these new programs are strictly filtered to ease the worry of police administrations and insurance companies rather than teaching hard core, street survival for the individual officer, alone in worst case scenarios. Life-saving, worst case scenarios methods, completely legal in desperate times, have dissolved away from the modern programs.
"It is not my intention to move in and replace existing police agency, use-of-force and tactical programs. Not at all. Police Judo adds on to existing programs with advanced applications and innovations in situational and positional problem-solving."
"I wanted to re-organize a physical-response system
based on statistics and probabilities,
positional and situational scenarios.
No single, response fits all situations." - Hock
After over 36 years of military and Texas law enforcement, bodyguard /protection work (for clients such as NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani) and private investigation, multiple martial art black belts, W. Hock Hochheim now tours 8 countries teaching his brand of hand, stick, knife and gun, strategies and tactics. Hock has taught police officers, agencies, and academies worldwide, as far as Australia, Germany, Guam, at the one South African Police Academy, Sweden and all over the United Kingdom as well as in the United States. He has been a paid consultant for all four branches of the U.S. Military.
“I have decided to resurrect the pure concept of police judo, the old-school, practical, problem-solving,
scenario-driven approach through informal work-outs and training based on positions and situations.
But! Also include all the new statistics, strategies, theories, bio-medicine and science.” --Hock
 Hock teaching a midwestern USA SWAT
team. Over the last 13 years Hock has
officers and teams from over 400
police agencies from South Africa,
Australia and Canada.
Through the late 1980s and 1990s, he was a regular guest instructor at Texas Police Academies .
Hock Hochheim teaches London Police with regularity. For Hock's British endorsements click
Training in the London
Police "Sims City" site.
CQC Gun arm grappling session with sims pistols
for the Special Armed Teams in the United
Kingdom.
The Police Judo Training Modules and topics are designed to augment and add-on to the pre-existing knowledge base of the average police academy and in-service school graduate and the experienced enforcement officer and agent. They already exists within agency use-of-force rules. The material is organized from the core Training Mission,CQC Group material and customized into police related modules. The modules are based more on problem-solving the major personal, survival concerns of the working enforcement officer.
"Old School Meets new School meets Old School Again!" These modules are what I think is vital and important. What I wished someone had officially prepped me for and trained me. Instead, I had to spend a lifetime collecting and experimenting to gather it." - Hock
The Force Necessary Police Judo Modules are:
* Police Judo Module: The Shove! Doing the Shove and Being Shoved, and the Fall, all in a Mixed-Weapon World
* Police Judo Module: Gun Arm Grappling! Enforcement Counters to Weapon Quick Draws and Armed Threats
* Police Judo Module: The Clinch! Enforcement Clinches, Body Rams and Mixed Weapon Arm Grappling
* Police Judo Module: Enforcement Takedowns: The basic takedowns while holding pistols, batons, long guns
* Police Judo Module: Ground Zero! Enforcement Survival Ground Fighting Measures and Maneuvers
* Police Judo Module: Enforcement Counters to Sucker Punches, Strikes and Tackles
* Police Judo Module: Enforcement Pistol Disarming and Retention Measures
* Police Judo Module: Enforcement Impact Weapon Disarming and Retention Measures
* Police Judo Module: Enforcement Knife/Counter-Knife Measures: What LEOs need to know and practice!
* Police Judo Module: Enforcement Tactics vs. Multiple Opponents with Mixed Weapons
* Police Judo Module: You! Hostage! Enforcement Measures When Taken Hostage!
* Police Judo Module: Enforcement Traffic Stop Combatives from Hand Fights to Gun Fights
* Police Judo Module: Enforcement Tactical Team Combatives (conducted by Steve Krystek and PFC)
* Police Judo Module: Enforcement Joint Cranks/Locks and Control Measures
* Police Judo Shooting Modules with simulated ammo (numerous - see gun combat page)
* Police Judo Module: Tactical Team Combat Skills, Drills and Team Building (in conjunction with other trainers)
* Police Problem-Solving Modules Constructed on your Request
"Hock, stay safe, Hock and continue to do the fine work that the profession recognizes you for."
--W. E. Burroughs, Executive Director, 25 year vet, Calibre Press and LETN (Law Enforcement Training Network)
 "Hi, Hock! My work with law enforcement has been the high point of my professional life and any contribution I have made has been returned many fold by being able to associate with outstanding people like yourself. The mission we share can't be topped in importance, in my opinion. Best wishes always."
Chuck Remsberg, Author of The Tactical Edge, Blood Lessons and pioneer
in police training
"Hock is a retired patrolman and detective. He gears his training primarily to LEO's and Soldiers. He will differentiate the finish for every technique based on YOUR individual needs. He shows a comprehensive game, start to finish, for police in accordance with a proper Use of Force continuum, and then take the technique and show the end game option available to the Soldier. He trains Police forces all over the world, i.e. England, Germany, Australia and Scandinavian. In all honesty, his training has been the most applicable and pertinent to Law Enforcement that I have ever been through- And I have been through damn near all of them. There are guys out there who have NEVER worn a badge, slinging their snake-oil "gospel" and police administrators are slobbering all over these guys, to buy into it. Not so with Hock. Those who know better, realize that he has a proven method that works in the realm of Law Enforcement. I don't receive dime-one for endorsing and recommending his training; I would be negligent as a federal Defensive Tactics Instructor if I didn't give you the best of my knowledge. Department of Homeland Security and FLETC - Federal Law Enforcement Training Center sent ME and paid for it- And FLETC is the Agency that USFWS bases it's use of force policy on or we wouldn't be training you guys."
Greg S. FLETC, Georgia
 "These are just a few short lines to thank you Hock, for the time and effort that you expended on behalf of my colleagues when you you came to the Hendon Police Academy last week. The officers who attended came from a wide background of training from across the Great Britain's London Metropolitan Police service, officer safety, public order and specialist firearms instructors, all of whom were able to take something away. Everyone present found the seminar of great interest and thoroughly enjoyed their time with you.The instruction you gave in ground defense and defense against the knife or pistol-armed subjects, and the pistol stress quick draws provided insights into area of doctrine that need development. A big thank you."
--Inspector R. Blackburn, London Metropolitan Police
Hock, Just wanted to write and say thanks for the training Saturday (03/24/07). I have been in law enforcement for fifteen years. I attended the Tennessee Law Enforcement Training Academy initially and numerous officer survivor seminars since. A few years ago I attended the Federal Academy (FLETC). One of the instructors told me about you. I then became an ardent reader and follower of your articles and training philosophies. I must say that your seminar was by far the best practical/tactical training in which I have ever been exposed. Of course I was your stunt man for the day therefore, I had a first hand experience of being whooped by you all day. It was great...to say the least. I believe the majority of law enforcement officers training is extremely deficient and not at all a reality. One only needs to remember the last so called tussle or fight he was in and then compare it to his training. If he/she is honest with themselves they will recognize the deficiency and seek out better more realistic avenues. My suggestion to them all and any who ask from now on is, Hock Hochheim's Scientific Fighting Congress .
Tim Dennis U.S. TVA Police, TN.
Dear Hock: Just wanted to say thanks again for putting on a spectacular seminar. I can't speak highly enough of your skill and expertise in the area of close quarter combat. It was an honor to host you and I am looking forwarded to having you back in S/E Michigan to teach again. You are a true WARRIOR and consument professional. The (SWAT) Michigan Tactical Officers Association would strongly recommend anyone looking for an instructor in the areas of close quarter combat to book you for a seminar. Thanks again, stay safe and train hard. Chris Periatt Executive Board Secretary
Michigan Tactical Officers Association
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I Was Alone (or, the Bottom-Side of Hell)
By W. Hock Hochheim
 Alone for decades. Even though I was attached in spirit and by radio to hundreds of police officers, or thousands of soldiers, I really worked alone for decades. I spent years alone, day and night in patrol squad cars and then working the streets as a detective. I have been alone in some bad neighborhoods that the local police would not send a solo officer into, been alone on fresh robbery and murder calls. Alone in fights. Alone on surprise raids. I've been spit on, cursed, pushed, punched, kicked, tackled, shot at and stabbed at. Things just happen that way sometimes. Well, a lot of times.
As I travel the world teaching, I see police officers in a squad car in London or South Africa, on a beat in Melbourne, standing around a Canadian airport security checkpoint, or holding a machine gun in a village square in the Philippines, or on a plaza overseeing a riot in Spain. In a way I know them all. Every one. Everyone is connected by a mission in their heart, a radio on their hip, but still everyone...has to stand there alone. Even in the most coordinated team movement, inside your head, you are alone, doing what you must do. Your part. Your share. Deciding. Calculating. Taken aim. Pulling. Punching. Kicking. Grabbing. Alone. The street survival textbooks mandate that you to never do anything dangerous alone. Textbooks. Sure. In a perfect, textbook world there's a basement full of backup officers at headquarters just awaiting your call for help. In real life, police basements are cold and empty. Your other squad is all to often busy, or even pinned down on their own calls too. Your life may hang on that term “response time.” In some cities, rural counties and states - you can order and get a pizza delivered before you can get police help. Annual statistics prove that about 1 to 10 percent of the people you arrest will fight you, and about 1 to 3 percent are bent to kill you. So many times in these life or death, mixed weapon fights, you are so alone. He is beating the uniform right off of you, smashing the cop right out of you. You become someone drowning, just struggling to breathe. To live. So flattened out and striped down, you are not even a cop anymore- just an animal. And only the rules of the jungle apply.
And, that's real alone-when its just you and him and he's spitting blood and hate, pounding your face. As your nose goes flat (smash) and each tooth cracks out of your mouth (bash), as he reaches for your pistol, you begin to wonder (crash), if you could even think, what tactics and techniques the best of the military would use, or the most, serious martial experts would try, to save your life. Unfortunately, you have probably been taught some timid, paranoid moves that are thinly disguised to keep your police agency (and now your military too) from being sued, or even just troubled. Their reputations and budgets are saved? You. You fall. Out there, all alone out there in the jungle.
In the United States, in the 10-year period 1995-2004, the FBI reports that 213 law enforcement officers were alone when they were murdered, representing 40 percent of the total 531 on-duty officers who were murdered. There are few statistics on officers wounded, not killed, but common sense tells you it is a sizeable amount. The year 2007 is a new record year for police death and injury.
Who is in control of your life?
Your future? Your training?
Who helps you win, when you are all alone
You, on the bottom-side of hell?
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More Notes and Comments on Force Necessary/Police Judo "Without a doubt, the most fun I have had in teaching lately is when I teach the Police Judo outlines. It seems with very little advertising and just some word of mouth, I have one and sometimes two of these seminars a month from here in the United States to Belgium and Ireland just in the first half of this year. And I also receive a number of questions about the course. Here are the typical ones."
Are there Police Judo DVDS?
No. Just get the Training Missions DVDs (see the left side column.) Most of the material comes from the hand, stick, knife and gun course material - the CQC Group as a core source. As with all my courses, I cherry-pick from there and customize it for law enforcement missions. This customization may way generate a need for Police Judo Series someday, but not in the foreseeable future, in a complete enforcement-dedicated series. I hate to duplicate things and have some people pay twice for the same information. Is there a progression? Where do you start?
No. Note that the modules are not numbered. They are themes. Themes taught in any order. Agencies select the theme as needed. My premise is that every attendee is already a police academy graduate and is a street veteran of some level. They have already done the "kick/punch thing " in their academies and again at in-service schools. We just work on the meat, that they really need. Plus, this is really for officers at a point in their career where they want to learn and build some customized tricks that best suit them. Something for them, their size, their shape, their strength, their needs. Not the cookie-cutter, general, mass group, one-size-fits-all basic training material.
Do you expect to change "department use of force policy of police agencies?"
No way! Police Judo is an add-on to any department policy. It is a communal "work-out." These newer police courses who want to come into an agency and take over their department policy? They are in for a big surprise.Not going to happen. You might have done that in the 1980s and very early 90s, but those days are over now. The idea is to build tactics with the already existing policy.
Is this Police Judo POST or state -certified in my state?
Probably not. Each state in the USA (50 of them!) has a rigorous process to rubber stamp any police courses. And there are many insider, politics involved. If you only taught some simple, sit-down, "Power Point Use for Police" class, it would easily pass state requirements (but still after PILES of submission paperwork). But, defensive tactics/fighting courses are treated like ripe nitroglycerine for fear of law suits. One could spend a lifetime catering to and appeasing 50 different state agencies for approval. Each state - thick piles of forms. A medical overview of material by a recognized doctor! In the end, your course would be so watered down and "safe" it would be nearly worthless.
Aside from this, I see a growing trend in police training where more and more courses presented at national training seminars ARE NOT state-by-state certified. Savvy police trainers are realizing that they are going to sponsor or attend many non-certified courses - or have no modern, progressive training at all. Basically, to be state certified in 50 states? I would spend the rest of my life running around making each of the 50 states happy.
As a civilian, can I become an instructor?
No. Police only. Someday, I may make some adjunct-style, certification title, but right now? No. If you tell me that you are just a civilian and hope to officially teach the police? You have almost a zero chance. Other martial courses have sold these "citizen-to-teach-police" certification courses and now you know they have just taken your money and you are not teaching the police. Many of these "citizen-to-teach-police" courses just innocently teach the same material already taught at police academies. The officers have seen it, got it for free. I hate to encourage civilians into thinking they will have some success at teaching the police. If you've never been a cop? Odds are really, REALLY against you that you will teach police, especially since about the year 2000.
As an enforcement officer, can I become an instructor?
Yes. Attend any of the modules once and you can teach any the material. You are supposed to! Save lives. Spread the word! I think these people who impose patents, copyrights and tithing to life-saving material for police are rather insidious. Just please mention us and where the material came from. That is all I ask. Attend the same module twice, get the nod from me and then you will be an instructor who can make other instructors. The very heart and soul of Police Judo is this pass-the-word, work-out, format that I first learned so much in. Formal, yet informal.
LEARN POLICE JUDO!
Each month W. Hock Hochheim teaches this Police Judo course to agencies around the globe. Check out the seminar page.
Contact Hock at Hock.Hochheim@SBCGlobal.net to organize a program at your agency or group.
  
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