Personal Protective Measures, or ‘PPM’ is a quick to learn, effective Self Defence system developed in the USA by Dai Shihan Phillip Legare. It was developed it to be taught to US Government Employees that needed specialized training to increase their survivability during their travels to dangerous places around the world. Simply put, Personal Protective Measures is the modern combat application o
f Budo Taijutsu. PPM is the Taijutsu (body art) of the Bujinkan martial arts put into modern context to effectively deal with modern weapons and dangerous situations we may face today, while staying within our legal framework.” – Dai Shihan Phillip Legare, creator of Personal Protective Measures. Personal Protective Measures- Level I
PPM Level 1 covers the following 8 modules. Module 1 - Defensive Concepts: Survival mindset. Assessing your situation. Assess, Plan, Act. Flinch Response. Getting off the X. Basic defense and offensive stances, movement and striking. Module 2 - Ground Defense: how to survive getting knocked down, protect yourself while on the ground and fight you way to a safe location. Module 3 - Defense Against Grabs and Chokes: surviving common scenarios of being grabbed, choked and incapacitate opponent and moving to a safe location. Module 4 - Defense Against Blunt Weapons: Surviving being attacked with a blunt weapon, such as a bat, crow bar, truncheon and the like, disarm and incapacitate opponent and moving to a safe location. Module 5 - Defense Against Edged Weapons, Pre-Contact: surviving being attacked by edged weapons, such as a machete, fixed blade knife and folding knife, disarm and incapacitate opponent and moving to a safe location. Builds on the previous module. Module 6 - Defense Against Edged Weapons, On-Contact:surviving being held at knife point, disarm and incapacitate opponent and moving to a safe location. Builds on Module 2. Module 7 - Defense Against Firearms: surviving being held at gun point, disarm and incapacitate opponent and moving to a safe location. Builds on Modules 3 and 4. Module 8 - Defense Against Multiple Attackers and Improvised Weapons: Builds on all modules. On completion of all 8 Modules, students undergo Scenario testing. Scenarios are based on the skills learned in the above modules and customised to the types of threats relevant to the student. The key objective of the system is to survive the three fights we are faced with when violence is directed at us; The physical, the emotional and the legal. The process we train to follow is to Assess, Plan and Act, while minimizing damage and maintaining 360 degree situational awareness. In the instance where you must fight, the level of violence used by you must be proportional to the threat and be directed and effective at stopping the attacker(s) ability to continue to harm you. Some more words from Dai Shihan Legare..."In 1995, I started teaching a form of combatives, called Protective Measures, to military and government employees who had to work in high threat environments. The core of the combatives program that I put together comes from Budo Taijutsu; specifically Taisabaki (natural body movements), ma-ii (distancing), timing and the strategy of henka (flexibility to adapt technique to new situations). Another part comes from the previous USMC close combat system (which was called the LINE system) and the current CC system (called MCMAP). Back in the late 80s, I was fortunate enough to be asked by then Commandant, GEN Al Gray, to assist creating the LINE program. The Marine Corps combat mindset and use of modern military weapons and tactics were added to my program. Finally, Officer Safety and Survival techniques and tactics for dealing with the civilian threat (criminal/terrorist) were added to the program. These were added from my experiences as a DOD Special Agent and training at the FLETC, ITI, BSR, InSight, HRP, and other government sponsored training."
