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STORM Training Group We offer training solutions for law enforcement, corrections, security, and first responders. Strategies and Tactics On Redirecting Movement - S.T.O.R.M.

Training Group offers seminars and training for law enforcement, corrections, security, and first responders. The specialized training of S.T.O.R.M. Training Group can be custom tailored for your organization’s specific needs because S.T.O.R.M. Training Group is more than just another defensive tactics system. Our professional instructors have over forty years of combined training and experience.

The techniques we teach have been heavily researched and tested, and are designed to be practical and easy to use. Our systems have been successfully fielded in multiple law enforcement, corrections, and private security agencies. Our instructors are committed to reducing risk and saving lives through the development and delivery of high quality training to our clients. Our foundation is rooted in realistic, proven fighting principles and modern training methodologies. Our end state is 100% satisfaction and confidence in the knowledge and skills we bring to your organization. We guarantee to provide you with the most engaging and effective training you have experienced or your money back. Conventional instruction methods used in law enforcement yield a 20% rate of skills retention for officers. Our participant focused methods of training have been shown to increase that rate of retention to around 80%. This increase in skill retention translates to a reduction in aggravation and injury to subjects, which in turn lowers complaints of officers’ conduct and department liability. This skill transfer also contributes to overall citizen satisfaction as well as increased safety to officers and citizens alike. The founders of S.T.O.R.M. are united in the desire to provide premium quality training to law enforcement and related agencies. We are professional instructors and lifelong students of the combat arts and science. All of our materials and methods are optimized for rapid learning and real world application. Our training systems are time tested and proven to be effective in the field. Through years of hard work and research we have developed the most lawful and reasonable techniques available anywhere for law enforcement officers. We are equally capable of enhancing an existing program, or building a new one, based on the needs of each individual organization we serve.

08/21/2026

The guard position can be very useful but.....

08/20/2026

This video has been viewed over 3 million times, and it remains one of the best examples we’ve received of training transferring to the field.

The footage was submitted by an officer who attended STORM Training Group’s Foundation Instructor Trainer (FIT) course.

The subject had been taken into custody following an incident involving law enforcement and was transported to the hospital before being cleared for jail. While at the hospital, the subject’s handcuffs were moved to the front. By the time he arrived at the jail, he appeared calm and cooperative.

As this video demonstrates, circumstances can change very quickly.

After arriving at the jail, the subject suddenly kicked the officer and began actively resisting.

What stands out is the officer’s patience and composure. He maintained a strong top position, prevented the subject from returning to his feet, and continuously attempted to verbally de-escalate while maintaining control.

The situation was ultimately resolved without either individual being hurt.

This is also an important training reminder: a person with their hands cuffed in front can still present significant challenges. There are legitimate medical and physical reasons to move handcuffs to the front, but whenever possible, securing the hands behind the back generally provides a safer position for officers.

We’re grateful when officers send us footage like this. Seeing concepts taught in FIT successfully applied under real-world resistance is exactly why we train.

Great work by this officer.

08/19/2026

We obtained this footage from a local news network that featured the STORM Training Group curriculum implemented by this agency. The footage was released to the news in its entirety to demonstrate how the training transfers from the classroom to the street.

DWI arrest. When the subject physically resists handcuffing, both officers are already connected and positioned to respond together.

They communicate, transition immediately to a coordinated two-officer takedown, establish control, and de-escalate from a dominant position. Once the subject agrees to comply and the officers feel the resistance stop, they communicate again and use a team arm-pin turnover to complete the handcuffing.

No strikes. No intermediate weapons. No injuries to the subject or officers.

This is exactly why we emphasize two-officer team handcuffing: when resistance begins, both officers are already connected, positioned, and ready to respond together.

These tactics are part of a curriculum backed by the largest peer-reviewed and published study of its kind examining the relationship between police training and real-world force outcomes.

The research found:

• 37% reduction in overall use of force
• 86% reduction in strikes
• 55% reduction in subject injuries
• 40% reduction in officer injuries

This is what evidence-based training is supposed to look like: not just techniques that work in the training room, but skills designed to produce better outcomes in the real world.

Better training. Better outcomes.

Evidence matters, especially when the decisions being made affect officers, communities, and the agencies responsible fo...
08/18/2026

Evidence matters, especially when the decisions being made affect officers, communities, and the agencies responsible for protecting both.

Agency leaders should be able to demonstrate that the arrest and control training they provide is effective, evidence-based, independently evaluated, and legally defensible.

STORM’s curriculum has been independently studied, peer-reviewed, and published. The research found significant improvements across multiple real-world outcomes following implementation, including a 92% reduction in significant subject injuries.

Your officers deserve this level of protection. Your community deserves it. And agency leaders deserve the confidence and security of knowing their training decisions are supported by objective, published evidence.

Don’t just hope your training works. Know.

Better training. Better outcomes.

08/14/2026

This isn’t a theory. It’s been measured.

The STORM Training Group curriculum is backed by the largest published, peer-reviewed study of its kind, examining more than 2,800 real-world use-of-force incidents across approximately 60 data points per incident.

The research went through the peer-review process and documented significant improvements across virtually every major use-of-force outcome measured, including officer injuries, subject injuries, force tactics, and civil liability.

That matters to us.

Because if we’re going to ask law enforcement agencies to change the way they train their officers, we believe we should be able to show them evidence that the training actually works in the real world.

And since that original study, we’ve continued to see the results replicated.

We’ve seen it in agency data. We’ve seen it in body-camera footage. We’ve heard it from officers and instructors putting these tactics to work every day.

And now we’ve seen the data coming out of Minneapolis since department-wide implementation began in 2024.

Those results are beyond what we could have imagined.

More on that soon.

Evidence-based training. Measurable outcomes.

Better training producing better outcomes in the real world.

08/13/2026

Exhibit A for why your street shoes stay OFF the mats 🤢

The evidence speaks for itself. 🧼🥋

CONTACT TO CUSTODY | GROVELAND, FLORIDATwo nationally recognized law enforcement training organizations. Two days. One m...
08/13/2026

CONTACT TO CUSTODY | GROVELAND, FLORIDA

Two nationally recognized law enforcement training organizations. Two days. One mission: better control, better decision-making, and better outcomes.

STORM Training Group and Officer Survival Series are teaming up for a 2-day collaborative seminar featuring Rob Magao, Tom Menton, and Chad Malmberg.

This course brings together efficient solo-officer arrest and control tactics with STORM’s proven team-based control strategies, giving officers practical, pressure-tested skills they can take directly back to the field.

📍 WOFT Facility | Groveland, Florida
📅 December 10–11, 2026
💰 $499 per student

Train together. Protect together.

Spots are limited. Scan the QR code to register.

08/12/2026

This is what it looks like when training transfers to the field.

The officer whose body camera you’re watching attended our Foundation Instructor Trainer (FIT) course and shared this footage with us of local officers and jail deputies using the STORM Training Group curriculum during a real-world encounter.

The subject was highly agitated, threw his phone to the ground, refused repeated commands to lock down, and continued escalating. When he jumped up and struck the television, officers immediately closed distance and went hands-on.

Watch the teamwork.

Multiple officers secure the upper body and stay tight and connected. The body-worn camera officer clearly communicates that he has the legs, bundles them without lifting, and the team uses our multiple-officer takedown to lower the subject to the ground under control.

Because the officers maintained control of the arms throughout the takedown, they didn’t have to fight to recover arms from underneath the subject. They transitioned directly into team ground control and handcuffing.

No strikes.
No intermediate tools.
No yelling.
No chaos.

Just calm communication, leverage, positioning, and teamwork.

Even while the subject continues resisting, the officers don’t rush. They establish control before introducing handcuffs, present the wrists to the handcuffing officer, check the cuffs for proper fit, double-lock them, and then promptly move the subject out of the prone position.

What stands out most to us is how routine it looks.

Nobody is frantic. Nobody is trying to overpower the subject individually. It looks like a repetition in the training room because everyone understands their role and is working from the same playbook.

The result: the officers stay safe, the subject stays safe, and a highly agitated, actively resisting person is brought under control without a single strike or intermediate tool.

And apparently there was still enough composure left for a critique of the officer’s tight pants and a little shoe-flip on the way out. 😂

This is why we train.

-STORM Training Group.
Better training. Better outcomes.

08/10/2026

Nothing cooler than seeing agencies take the training back home and make it their own. Proud to see STORM in action! 👊

08/07/2026

SV1 aka "THUNDER.”
7 seats. 19 cupholders. Zero confirmed pursuits. 🚨😂

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