What martial arts should you have experience in to be a bodyguard?

Question

I do Gracie JIu Jitsu, Boxing, and Muay Thai

Answer 1

It probably depends on whether or not you intend to carry a firearm.

Answer 2

Anything that makes you train against live resisting opponents. For fitness and technique Thai boxing, western boxing, or any type of sport model grappling. But the good folks at Blauer Tactical can get you up to speed on fighting with firearms in your hands in no-shoot scenarios. Vitally important and often overlooked by people in EP work. Being able to square off against a guy and kick butt is skill developement and conditioning, but it's a far cry from what the job will entail for often then not. When you have the confidence that you can take most average men head to head in a sanitized environment, you'll then be ready to learn what you need to know. It's really not about being a butt kicker so much as avoidance of any violence all together. That's the job.

Answer 3

Those are all great additional martial arts, but I would prefer aikido, hapkido, or the most recent, Jeet kune do.

Aikido:
This martial arts has no need for weapons but can be used. It uses the opponents force against himself instead of wasting your enegy. The polices and law enforements are learning this as well.

Hapkido:
uses the combination of joint locks, pressuse points, throws, kicks, and strikes for self-defense. Similiar to aikido.

Jeet kune do:
You know Bruce Lee right? Well, he is the dude that studied various martial arts. He found the rules restrictive and took no account on the realities of street fighting, so he made a new style. This art was affective toward those who followed no rule. His quote was," Your action should be as fast as a shadow adapting to a moving object.

I hope this helps. For more info, just look on google.

Answer 4

You need a lot more than martial arts to be a body guard.i mean a real professional bodyguard.most of the huge guys you see there only used for there size to deter ppl and to push through crowds.most pro.body guards have done many ma plus combat training and various weapons.being a body guard is about avoidence not confrontation.its more about the way you think than the physical side.life experience and being able to read a situation before it happens is very important.your not there to defend yourself your there to remove the person your guarding and take out the offender/s as quick as possible.your safety is only of concern if it leaves the person your guarding unguarded.if your thinking of doing it because it sounds heroic or anything like that forget it.its not a good job and you have to remember your disposable,you mean nothing to the person your guarding or the other guards if theres any.you have to be prepared to take a bullet to protect the job.can you or would you?its about brains not brawn.it all sounds good but at the end of the day its a sh.t job and the money is sh.t when you have to earn it.

Answer 5

I did CQB with ex SAS people. so it was that, and the fact that they have their fingers on the pulse that allowed for CP (close protection) work.

knowing how to fight is one thing, knowing how to end it real fast is another. also, relying on your gun isnt enough, you need to have the skills to identify higher risk scenarios or areas, like choke points on your journey etc.

its not as glamorous as it looks. you have to send out an advance survey team to prepare the next destination. you have to have 3 or 4 plans in case of emergency. you may have to stand and wait for the principal to have a business meeting that may last half the day and you cant leave for the toilet if you are solo. but its all about information and communication being high level and accurate.

if you go to a foreign city, you need to know political issues, tensions, conflicts, emergency routes, police stations, hospital routes, safe areas... and have a great team. it is quite stressful if it is high stakes.

when trouble starts the event must be minimal to reduce the chances of injury to your principal. that may be physical assault through to embarrassment.

what I found was good about our close protection training was that all my life I was trained to protect myself, but not how to protect myself. sure, its easy to step up and help someone. but if the enemy is holding your principals clothes (if you failed to stop entry) you cant smash the guys face as he may rip your principals clothes. so you learn new ways to eliminate threats. it is no longer about you, its about the principal. so prevention is better than cure.

the last thing you want to do is grapple or fight a guy and leave your principal without protection. so you need a 'take them out' mindset, and be aware that if you get caught up in a fight, the rest of the team will vanish with the principal and leave you. its part of the job, so you need to have high damage with low time wasting. you need to think before acting and it can be stressful.

but its a thinking mans vocation and not a thugs.

though when you look around, everyone seems to get work doing it, it all depends on what the principal wants.

Answer 6

as many as you can.attitude and brains is the foremost thing you need to be a bodyguard.you dont protect some one after the incident you read it before it happens and avoid the situation.

Answer 7

Just kep training as long as you can go toe to toe with some one and and also be able to fight on the ground i would have to say you are good

Answer 8

You need to go through executive protective service training for anyone to take you seriously.

Answer 9

any would be good, but real keyword REAL not watered down krav maga would be good too...idunno of any in da states but in brazil many bodyguards learn Kombato

Answer 10

BaguaZhang and Ninjutsu or defendu