With over 45 years of experience across multiple martial arts disciplines, Alan Baker is a globally recognized instructor specializing in self-defense, combat science, and tactical application. He is the founder of the C-Tac® System and the creator of the Combat Blueprint, both of which have been implemented by law enforcement agencies, SWAT teams, private security professionals, and civilian self-protection students across the country. Alan has trained extensively under legendary martial arts masters, including Guro Dan Inosanto, Pedro Sauer, andErik Paulson. He holds a 4th Degree Black Belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under Professor Pedro Sauer, is a Full Instructor in Combat Submission Wrestling under Erik Paulson, and a Senior Instructor in both Filipino Kali and Jeet Kune Do under Guro Dan Inosanto. His teaching combines real-world practicality with principle-based training, offering participants skills that are immediately applicable, regardless of experience level.
Training Event Options
We offer fully customizable training experiences designed to meet your specific goals and environment. Programs can range from a focused 2-hour workshop to multi-day events lasting up to 7 days, with layered instruction across multiple topics.
Every seminar is built around your needs. We design the curriculum specifically for your team, your objectives, and the realities of your environment.
Our training serves a wide range of audiences, including martial arts academies, protection agents and security teams, law enforcement and military units, corporate leadership groups, and small business teams.
Topics can include self-defense, personal protection, active threat response, weapons-based training, and more. Whether your focus is skill development, team performance, or real-world application, we deliver training that is practical, relevant, and immediately usable.
Topic Options
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) is a grappling art focused on control, positioning, and submissions, using leverage and technique to handle larger opponents, especially on the ground.
Submission Wrestling
Submission Wrestling is a no-gi grappling style that blends takedowns, clinch control, and ground fighting, using positional control, chokes, and joint locks to dominate and submit an opponent.
C-Tac Self Defense
C-Tac is a modern self-protection system built for real-world violence, combining awareness, de-escalation, legal use-of-force concepts, and pressure-tested defensive tactics, including weapons integration, vehicle tactics, and practical street grappling.
Filipino Martial Arts
Filipino Kali is a weapon-based martial art that teaches stick, blade, and empty-hand fighting through angles, footwork, timing, and flow, with a focus on practical skills that translate across tools and ranges.
Warriors Path
Qigong methods, & internal skill development. It’s a focused collection built to refine how the human machine operates from the inside out. develop joint opening & structural alignment, breath, & energetic training.
Keysi Fighting Method
Keysi Fighting Method is a close-quarters self-defense system focused on shielding, aggressive counterattacks, and controlling an opponent in chaotic, high-stress situations, especially in tight spaces.
Thai Boxing
Thai Boxing (Muay Thai) is a striking art built on powerful punches, kicks, knees, and elbows, combined with clinch control to overwhelm an opponent at close and long range.
Legacy Jeet Kune Do
Jeet Kune Do is a principle-based fighting approach that emphasizes simplicity, directness, and adaptability, blending tools from multiple arts to solve real-world problems efficiently.
Pekiti Tirsia Kali
Pekiti-Tirsia Kali is a Filipino martial art known for its blade-focused tactics, teaching efficient footwork, angles, and close-quarters entries to control and finish violent encounters quickly.
Protection Response Tactics
The Protection Response Tactics® system equips professional bodyguards with the necessary tools to respond effectively in such scenarios.
Vehicle Defensive Tactics
Training covers threats that occur inside a vehicle, including aggressive passengers seated beside or behind you, as well as attacks through open windows and doors.
Armed Grappling
Traditional grappling programs often overlook the realities of weapons. This C-Tac material fills that gap with a practical, scenario-driven curriculum built for real-world encounters.
Gun Disarm & Retention
The C-Tac Gun Retention program is a principles-based course designed specifically for law enforcement officers. At its core is an understanding of timing.
Chinese Boxing
Chinese boxing is a practical stand-up striking approach from Chinese martial arts. It focuses on structure, centerline control, trapping, short power, and efficient footwork, using punches, palms, elbows, low kicks, and clinch work.
Built For You
Out team can build an event curriculum and deliver it based on your needs and goals.
Organizations We’ve Trained
Experienced This Before?
You want to add new systems or training programs to your academy, but you don’t know how to do so or have a source of instruction.
You’re ready to focus your training on real-world self-defense, but everything available seems centered around sport and competition.
It’s challenging to find an instructor who truly understands your goals and tailors the training to suit your needs and goals.
You’re looking for someone with a broad enough training background that they don’t just offer “One system fits all” options.
You want to bring someone into your academy who is a professional and understands the business side of training.
You recognize the ever-changing world around you and understand the importance of practical, effective solutions.
You deserve self-defense training that actually works. We can help.
Coach Alan offers a structured seminar process to introduce new training methods, provide fresh insights, or help you seamlessly implement entire systems into your business.
Meet ALAN BAKER
Alan Baker is a globally recognized martial arts and self-defense instructor with over 46 years of continuous training and more than three decades of professional teaching experience. His background spans multiple martial arts systems, giving him a rare, well-rounded perspective across striking, grappling, weapons, and real-world personal protection.
Alan has deep experience in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, Judo, Combat Submission Wrestling and Catch Wrestling, Jeet Kune Do, Thai Boxing, Chinese Boxing, Burmese Boxing, Wing Chun Kung Fu and Shaolin-influenced Kung Fu, Filipino Kali, Indonesian Silat, MMA, and the Keysi Fighting Method. That multi-system foundation shapes his teaching style and is what makes his seminars different: he doesn’t just show techniques, he teaches the mechanics, timing, positioning, and tactics that make those techniques work under pressure, especially against larger, stronger, or more aggressive opponents.
✓ Multiple trainng options
✓ Schedule a year in advance
Known for his engaging and structured approach, He offers specialized curriculums in…
firearms, bladed weaponry, and close-quarters combatives, integrating these into both standing and ground-based environments. If you’re an academy owner looking to add a new martial arts system or expand your adult training programs, Alan can help you implement fully developed systems with structured curriculums designed to increase retention and elevate student engagement. His specialty lies in bringing the self-defense and combatives perspective to academies that want to evolve beyond sport-based training models.
Looking to add additional arts to your academy?
Sifu Alan can help, he has helped Academies add systems and methods to their schedules for well over 30 year, and he has the background to help you do it as well. Just get in touch with and we can discuss the options.
We can schedule training events on Alan’s Schedule up to a year in advance. (Deposit Required) – To get started in the process, you must reach out to our Operations Director Jennifer Wood. She can take you through the process and get you set up in the instructor program, just click below to send her an email.
Jennifer is the Operations Director, responsible for overall operations, scheduling, and booking.
DESIGNED FOR YOU
Sifu Alan doesn’t simply repeat or recycle martial arts material. One of his greatest strengths, built through decades of diverse experience, is the ability to step outside of traditional systems and design training specifically around your environment, your needs, and your goals.
What he builds is not a borrowed system or a one-size-fits-all approach. It is tailored for you. It becomes your system.
That level of customization requires a deep and broad background across multiple disciplines, something that sets Alan apart. It is also one of the key reasons he works so effectively with protection professionals and law enforcement teams, where training must align with real-world demands.
The same approach can be applied to you. The result is training that is not only effective, but uniquely yours.
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