Personal Protective Measures Weekend Seminar
Schedule
Fri, 14 Nov, 2025 at 06:00 pm to Sun, 16 Nov, 2025 at 05:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
4437 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60640 | Chicago, IL
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Personal Protective Measures (PPM) is a modern self-defense curriculum with a foundation in traditional Japanese Martial Arts combined with lessons from modern military, security, and intelligence contexts. Students will spend a combined 12 hours proceeding from understanding the survival mindset, working out of ground fighting, grabs, and chokes, followed by defense against blunt and edged weapons, firearms, and multiple attackers, ending with a practical exam.Dates & Times :
Friday, November 14th : 6:00 - 8:00pm - Main Floor
Saturday, November 15th : 11:30am - 5:00pm - Rookery Floor
Sunday, November 16th : 11:30am - 5:00pm - Rookery Floor
Price : $150 for the weekend
Required Gear : Street clothes or active training clothing. Bring water & snacks, as there will be no lunch breaks.
About the Instructors :
Phillip Legare is a Dai-Shihan in the Bujinkan and founder of the Bujinkan Taka Seigi Dojo, currently headquartered in Hawaii. He holds additional black belts in SiLum Kung Fu and KuKenpodo. His Japanese martial arts training started in 1977 and continues to the present. In the 80s, he worked with a small team of Marines to establish a new close combat system for the Marine Corps, called LINE. He was awarded Menkyo Kaiden (master license) in Shinkengata from Soke Hatsumi in 1995. He graduated from the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center's Federal Agent/Criminal Investigator program in 1996. He then started teaching protection training to DoD and other government agencies from 1996 until his retirement from DoD in 2018.
He also founded Sentinel International, a security and protection training company, to provide effective personal protective measures (PPM) training to the general public. PPM is a composite of his many years training in martial arts, military combatives, and Officer Safety and Survival, but the foundation of PPM is budo taijutsu.
Arlando F. Sanders-Dai Shihan is dojo-cho (or "head of dojo") of the Bujinkan Martial Arts Tuscaloosa Dojo( a Taka-Seigi sponsored dojo). He is a warrior, combat veteran, law enforcement officer, and has studied and taught martial arts for more than 20 years. He has advanced to Dan rankings in the arts of Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu, Aikido, Hapkido, and Taekwondo. Arlando has lived and trained in Japan with 34th generation Soke (grandmaster) Dr. Masaaki Hatsumi, head of the Bujinkan Dojo, and his top Shihan both in Japan and across the United States. Arlando Sanders heads the Bujinkan Martial Arts Tuscaloosa Dojo under the sponsorship of Shihan (teacher of enlightened warrior ways) Phillip Legare, Dojocho of the Bujinkan Taka-Seigi Dojo (Guardian Hawk Justice School) and has trained in Alabama since 1999.
Please reach out to us at [email protected] for any comments, questions, or concerns.
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Where is it happening?
4437 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60640Event Location & Nearby Stays:
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