About
Randy LaHaie is a veteran police officer with experience as a patrol officer, detective, SWAT team member and full time use-of-force instructor. He has been studying, training and teaching self defense for over 30 years and is certified in several defensive tactics and personal safety systems.
LaHaie is a fanatical researcher, conducting extensive, ongoing research into the psychology and performance issues of volatile and combative situations. He has attended and presented at numerous seminars and conferences in Canada and the United States and has given expert testimony in court pertaining to self defense, armed encounters and justified force.
LaHaie has trained thousands of private citizens, law enforcement officers and high-risk professionals (security, corrections, investigators, social workers etc.) He has also designed countless training programs and administrative policies explicit to preparing for and resolving aggressive encounters.
Protective Strategies is a training and consulting company providing personal safety, self-defense and subject control training to law enforcement officers, high-risk professionals and private citizens. Randy LaHaie founded it in 1994.
Toughen Up is a more recently evovled aspect of Randy’s business that combines combative training and functional fitness concepts into a unified method to improve your health, enhance your fighint skills and to make you an overall “Tougher” and more resilient person. He author of several “Toughen Up Combative Training Guides” which are built around training methods that develop self-defense skills AND improve your health and functional performance.
