To have authority over another or others, is to be positioned between them and God as the one that they are to respect, obey, and even trust above themselves.  Yes.  The people who allow us to hold authority over them choose to place us above themselves with obedience that will even go against their own choices.  When we receive or earn authority, we shouldn't feel stronger, more important, more accomplished, or better than the ones who we hold authority over.  We should feel the weight of responsibility on our shoulders accompanied by haunting thoughts of betraying the trust of those who we hold authority over by someday screwing up something that they maybe shouldn't have trusted us with.  We should fear betraying their trust more than they fear our authority.  It would be the only decent way to feel about it.  

 

As an authority we must always keep ourselves grounded with the truth that reminds us that the only true reason we have authority over them is because they allow us to.  They give us dominance over them as long as we don't cross the line that they visually draw in the sand, silently in their mind.   The same line drawn by many under our authority that are all in different places for each of them.  Places that we have no idea about meaning that any person under our authority could someday without warning, spontaneously decide that we have crossed their line.  Then they will be free to decide how they are going to pay us back for our transgression without our permission, or possibly even our knowing.  And it will be at that exact moment, ...that they will have the authority over us.

 

Whether it is fear, patience, hope, tolerance, comfort, ignorance, or even love, that convinces one human to allow another human to hold dominance over him or her, may remain a mystery.  But we must never be mindless to the fact that we can soon cross their lines of allowance when we continuously confirm to them through our abuse, that we do not belong in the position between them and their God.  Allowing an event of this magnitude to fester during our watch would be an Epic failure!  And the only thing that could make it worse than the failure alone would be what these people would demand from us as retribution for the time that they followed us.  Combined emotions of people who all have reached this point will disrupt and poison the harmony of mankind with distrust, unhappiness, anger, bias, and loss of self- assurance.   The mindless mistreatments of an authority towards his or her subjects can foul the air for everyone, including the innocents.  ESPECIALLY the innocents.  This is why we must view the act of holding authority over another as a sacred, delicate duty that we are grateful to handle to the best of our abilities. 

 

KEEP IT ON THE FEET promotes and nurtures de-escalation through confidence and character.  The primary duty of law enforcement and security is combat.  When violence is introduced, law enforcement and security are EXPECTED to respond IMMEDIATLY and WIN without hesitation or complaint.  It is the most important part of the job that can have the biggest influence over many lives in just seconds.   And any officer or agent who is not properly trained with confidence supportive skills is going to be nervous, afraid, emotional, inaccurate, hesitant, unbalanced, stressed, egotistical, dishonest and possibly hateful.  That's because the officer who can't trust his combat abilities in combat will always be afraid for himself first, during altercations.  He could never have the ability to protect anyone else because he would always be looking to protect himself first.  He would be in a constant, losing situation that harms and covertly weakens the positions of all that he holds authority over.  We must NEVER allow ourselves to become a person who values holding authority over someone more than their life.  

 

When we honor our position of authority with humbleness, enthusiasm, vigilance, and consideration, the duty becomes different.  We view the people under our authority as missions to be cared for instead of a nuisance to avoid.  And when we KNOW we can defend ourselves we no longer are restricted by or have to navigate within the parameters of fear.  Our self-assurance will cloak us like armor allowing us to truly feel comfortable enough to experience true calm.  True calm brings peace which refreshes our thoughts, aligns our emotions, and resets our tolerance.  Confidence allows us to feel safe enough to get comfortable.  And when we're comfortable we are kinder to the people around us.  Especially those who we hold authority over.  How we treat others begins with how we treat ourselves.  And we will never be righteous if we allow our self to hold authority over someone who we know we should not be over.   We will feel unworthy because we know we are.  The coexistence of that truth and lie within our daily thoughts will slowly become poison.  Poison for our self confidence. 

 

KEEP IT ON THE FEET is here to help re-connect the bond between law enforcement/security and citizens.  The bond where citizens feel safe and happy when they see a cop, and when a cop feels proud to be seen and grateful to serve.  KTF arms officer with reliable, hard core MMA defense skills that they can easily execute when needed, along with confidence, comfort, and calm that extends from knowing that he truly can rely on himself for his own personal safety, as well as others.  This allows the officer to be comfortable and nice instead of nervous and triggered.  Combative confidence is probably the most relaxing thing that a man can feel.  This is where de-escalation begins.  Before the approach.

 

KTF teaches that de-escalation begins as soon as you realize that you are about to come into contact with another individual.  Especially if the contact is going to consist of something that he does not want to be contacted about such as an interview or arrest.  KTF teaches officers to consider this possibility and to predict all that could possibly go wrong BEFORE attempting to make an approach.  Then KTF teaches officers to position themselves with distance or obstacles where they are totally safe, or at a combat advantage.  These protocols nurture self-trust which free the officer to feel comfortable feeling and presenting himself calmly.

 

KTF initiates preventive measures that #1. discourage trouble making thoughts. #2. position officers out of a subject's range to harm him.  #3. positions officer to have the combat advantage in case something does occur.  KTF stands strong to righteously lead the way in hand-to-hand street combatives, proudly using only the top effective techniques that were tested and proven superior in real fights, inside the ring, the cage, and outside on the streets.