Civilian Tactical Training Association

Bridging The Gap Between Martial Arts, Self-Protection & The Warrior Mindset.

When I look around today, I see fewer and fewer people willing to step forward when things go wrong. The world is filling up with bystanders. When the moment comes, and the situation turns bad, most people take a step back instead of a step in. The vision behind the C-Tac Association is to change that. Our mission is to develop modern warriors. Men and women who are prepared, capable, and willing to move toward the problem when everyone else is looking for a way out. If this sounds like the path you are seeking, then join us.

Alan Baker

Founder Of C-Tac

What Makes C-TAC So Different From Other Self-Defense Programs?

Beyond The Self-Defense Training & Tactics, We Also Teach:

De-Escalation & Soft Control Techniques so fighting is an absolute last resort.

Legal Knowledge & Considerations so you can protect yourself legally in case of an altercation

Shielding Methods From the Keysi Fighting Method to protect yourself under stress

Non-Verbal Cues For Avoiding Attackers and dangerous situations before they arise

Defensive Tactics: In And Around A Vehicle against a wall or seated

Integration with your Every Day Carry (EDC) to blend with your empty hand.

There Are Two Ways To Engage With C-Tac:

Train As A Student, Or You Can Become A Certified Affiliate Instructor

Our Training Partners

The tactical training partners program gives members access to some of the industry’s top training instructors and facilities throughout the United States. Throughout the year, we will select events to attend with our training partners. These events will be open to anyone in the association and allow all attendees to train at an advanced level with these premier training facilities. For an affiliate introduction, please contact the C-Tac staff.

Most martial arts are built for sport with rules, weight classes, and evenly matched opponents. That is great for competition, but it is not how real violence works. C-Tac® is different. This system is built for survival and worst-case scenarios when the threat is bigger, stronger, armed, or not alone. No rules. No referees. No do-overs. Unlike the weekend certification courses flooding the market, C-Tac® is designed to produce high-level instructors and students whose mission is to deliver proven knowledge, pressure-tested training methods, and practical skills that save lives and create more people who will step forward when it matters most.

Designed for performance

This photo shows one of many pressure-tested options for driving an armed aggressor to the ground and transitioning to higher levels of force when the situation demands it. Not just theory or demo-only moves. They are trained, repeatable responses, refined over years of pressure testing by our team and delivered through an instructor cadre that prepares others for high-probability assaults.

In this program, you will study mechanics, sharpen your decision-making, and train until your responses are automatic under pressure. This is not a weekend certification. It is a long-term course of study for serious practitioners, built by high-level martial artists, firearms instructors, and experienced law enforcement operators.

The combatives industry is crowded with feel-good, low-value training that hands out paper after a single weekend. C-Tac is not that program if you are looking for an in-depth skill-building study, join us.

Weaponized Grappling

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The Combat Blueprint

An intelligent outline for studying violent encounters in their totality. The Blueprint holds practitioners accountable to primal fighting environments, including firearms, edged and blunt weapons, striking, hand fighting and pummeling, clinch work, and ground fighting. One of its core purposes is to prevent practitioners from becoming overly systematized by the martial arts, which often imprint belief patterns and assumptions about combat shaped by the art itself rather than real-world violence. By using the Blueprint, training remains grounded in reality and ensures exposure to the full spectrum of tools and conditions that may exist in a violent encounter.

The Sections Of The Combat Blueprint

C-Tac prepares affiliates and students of all ages through physical conditioning and real-world self-defense training built on proven tactics and practical application.

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Designed For Reality

This photo captures one of many pressure-tested options for dealing with an armed aggressor or someone fighting to access your firearm. These are not theory-based ideas or demo-only moves that fall apart under stress. They are trained, repeatable responses that have been refined over years of pressure testing by our team and delivered through an instructor cadre that prepares others for high-probability, real-world assaults.

C-Tac integrates weaponry into all of its curriculum because that is the reality of modern violence. We live in a weapons-first culture. The bad guy is not planning to meet you on equal terms. He is going to show up with an advantage, whether that is a firearm, a blade, multiple attackers, or positional dominance. Your training needs to be built for that reality. C-Tac is designed to hardwire that mindset and skill set into your training environment so you and your students are better prepared for the kind of violence that actually happens, not the kind we wish existed.

EDC Focused

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★★★★★

“I can honestly say that Sifu Alan has over the years consistently impressed my students and myself with an expansion of concepts that forever improved and positively changed our skillset and abilities on the mat and the real world.”

Chris Mize

Founder of Heroes Academy and Gracie Jiu-Jitsu of Birmingham

The C-TAC Online Training Academy

The C-Tac Online Academy is your ultimate resource for all things related to our comprehensive self-defense programs. Gain access to a wealth of valuable materials, including reference videos, instructor manuals, student reference cards, and exclusive footage of Coach Alan teaching various phases of the C-Tac curriculum. Explore the rich content featuring Coach Alan’s training with top protection schools and renowned firearm instructors. Additionally, explore the collection of instructor camps, public seminars, workshops, and camps held throughout the United States. Join the C-Tac Online Instructor University today and elevate your expertise in self-defense.

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Out Of Position Fighting

This photo highlights another core piece of what we do in C-Tac: Dog Boxing and out-of-position fighting. Real violence rarely happens in a perfect stance with clean distance and angles. It happens when you are bent over, smashed into a wall, trapped between seats in a vehicle, tied up in a clinch, or pulled off balance while trying to protect a loved one. Dog Boxing training is built for those ugly moments when your posture is broken, your line of sight is compromised, and you still have to fight, think, and protect your weapons.

In C-Tac, we pressure test these out-of-position scenarios so they become familiar terrain instead of blind spots. You learn to strike, control, and access or deny weapons when you are seated, pinned, kneeling, or twisted in tight spaces. We train repeatable responses that have been refined through years of live drilling and scenario work, not just ideas that look good on video. The goal is simple: when the fight goes crooked, you and your students know how to keep thinking, keep moving, and keep making intelligent decisions in the chaos.

Dog Boxing

★★★★★

“Sifu Alan Baker has boiled down many of these life-enhancing perspectives into a source that shares the knowledge without the life-threatening consequences of attending the warrior’s alma mater of combat.”

MSG (Retired) Randy McElwee

US ARMY SPECIAL FORCES

The Founder

★★★★★

The C-Tac Civilian Tactical Self-Defense Program has taught me to handle almost any potentially life-threatening situation while minimizing the risk of death or serious injury to myself or a would-be attacker. From de-escalating with proper posturing, proper vocal commands, or environmental awareness, to significantly increase my odds of survival if violently attacked. I have never experienced training that compares to the instruction that I have received in the Civilian Tactical Program

Rick Fowler

Owner, Self Defense Solutions

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Tactical Medicine

This photo represents another critical component of C-Tac: tactical medicine. In real-world violence, people get hurt. Sometimes it is you, sometimes it is your partner, sometimes it is a bystander who was never part of the fight. C-Tac does not stop at striking, grappling, and weapon work. We train you to manage the aftermath in those first critical minutes when help is not there yet, and your actions will decide whether someone lives or dies.

Our tactical medicine training focuses on simple, high-value skills that can be performed under stress. Stopping massive bleeding, managing airways, recognizing shock, moving an injured person to safety, and communicating clearly in a chaotic environment. These are not theory-based lectures. They are practical, repeatable interventions refined through constant training and integrated directly into our scenarios. The goal is straightforward: if violence shows up in your world, you are not just a fighter, you are also a capable responder who can stabilize the scene until professional medical help arrives.

Tac Med

Association Includes

Training Events

Once a year we have the C-Tac Training Conference for student level members if they want In-person trainng options.

Student Forum

Members can utilize the online forum to ask questions to the C-tac Instructor team.

Video Academy

Members receive exclusive access to an extensive video archive containing the complete system curriculum, along with past camps, conferences, seminars, private lessons, and a diverse range of informative resources.

Assistance

C-Tac® has a full-time team that is available to assist with your account.

Curriculum

C-Tac® offers comprehensive instructor manuals and student guides to support the effective implementation of your program.

Continued Training

The Tactical Training Partners Program grants affiliates access to leading training instructors and facilities across the US. These exclusive opportunities ensure advanced training opportunities

C-Tac® is designed to answer questions typical Martial Arts systems do not address. In today’s society, you must consider how your actions will be perceived visually and socially. Visually because everywhere you go in today’s society, there is a recording device capturing everything you do. Socially because society’s perception of what you are doing can have a tremendous effect on the legalities of your actions. 

Self-Protection: Be Your Own Bodyguard

In C-Tac, we train Self-Protection the way a professional protection specialist would protect a client, except we teach you how to do it for yourself and the people you are responsible for. This bridges the gap between traditional martial arts and real-world personal security by building trained eyes, smarter awareness, and a protector mindset. You learn to spot risk early through body language and pre-attack indicators, manage proximity and positioning, and move with intention instead of drifting into bad situations.

We run everything through a simple framework: Prevention, Preparation, Response. Prevention encompasses risk assessment and risk-reduction habits. Preparation builds your plans, resources, and on-the-spot “advance work” for everyday life (routes, exits, hard rooms, meet-ups, check-ins). Response focuses on de-escalation, disengagement, evacuation, and, when no other option is available, lawful action.

★★★★★

The C-Tac program will expand your knowledge of the firearm and how to access it under the chaos/stress of an attack, with drills to increase response time. In addition, the way you look at your environment and how you verbally and physically respond to a threat in the street will not only save you but is socially acceptable in today’s society of everyone filming everything that happens to us, including being assaulted.  

Lavonne Martin

Owner, Martin Academy Of Martial Arts


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Benefits of the C-Tac® System

Comprehensive Self-Defense Training:

  • The C-Tac® System offers a holistic approach to personal protection, integrating diverse aspects of self-defense in a single training program so you get a complete training package, eliminating the need for multiple programs or courses and allowing you to focus on your progress in a single system.

Situational Awareness Training:

  • Emphasis on developing and enhancing your observation skills and ability to assess potential threats Increases your safety by allowing you to identify potential dangers and proactively avoid or confront them.

Legal Compliance:

  • The program operates within the legal framework surrounding self-defense and ensures that you can protect yourself effectively without breaking the law, giving you peace of mind and legal protection.

Pre-Fight Social Exchange:

  • Training to navigate pre-fight social exchanges and diffuse conflicts before they escalate helps you prevent potentially dangerous situations and minimize the need for physical confrontation.

Reasonable Force Continuum:

  • A carefully structured force continuum is used to guide responses based on the threat level that helps you apply force proportionately and ethically, maintaining the legality and morality of your actions.

Integrated Firearms and Empty Hand Techniques:

  • The program integrates firearm skills with empty-hand techniques and prepares you to handle diverse self-defense scenarios, whether or not a firearm is involved.

Practical Grappling for the Street:

  • Emphasis on practical grappling techniques specifically tailored for real-life altercations ensures you can effectively protect yourself in a wide range of situations, both standing up and on the ground.

Family Protection:

  • The program teaches strategies and techniques to protect your loved ones and extends the benefits of your training to your family, improving their safety and security.

Defensive Tactics in and Around a Vehicle:

  • The program includes specific training for situations in and around vehicles and equips you with the skills to handle common but often overlooked threats, like carjackings or road rage incidents.

Basic Tactical Medicine:

  • The program incorporates tactical medicine training adn empowers you to handle everyday emergencies, providing essential knowledge and techniques for immediate medical care, potentially saving lives.

Three Phases of Training:

  • C-Tac is broken down into three progressive phases: Basics, Car Phase, and War Phase, which allow for structured and consistent progress, with each phase building upon the skills learned in the previous one.

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