Access to Programs you will have unlimited access to your programs for a limited time. Unless you are in SDTS Membership program (Bronze, Gold or Elite) your access will automatically end after the following duration…
Fast Course = 45 days
Aware Course = 30 days
Reality Check = 30 days
Knuckle duster = 30 days
Family Safe = 60 days
Quick Kills = 60 days
One Shot = 60 days
Protection = 60 days
Guardian Police Combatives 60 = days
Guardian Weapon Retention = 60 days
60 minute SD = 60 days
Operation Phoenix = Life access
WW2 Combatives = Life access
Old School = Life access
Police Training Pack = Life access
Refund Policy – we will refund your purchase per the terms of the individual program – however, be advised, you will not be allowed to purchase ANY OTHER PROGRAMS ever again. The reason is simple, there is nothing preventing you from purchasing and refunding multiple programs and moving through the catalog. For example, you could purchase 60 Minute Self Defense, wait 29 days, get a refund and then purchase One Shot Fight Enders…and so forth. Programs and training are given in good faith and the truth is, if you like one program, you will find extreme value in the others.
60 Day Money Back Guarantee applies to only the primary products like the FAST COURSE or the AWARE COURSE. Any add ons including, but not limited to ELITE Weapon Defense or Quick Kills and all other programs have a 30 day money back guarantee. Any trials of the SDTS Programs have a 30 day money back guarantee ONLY on the first monthly installment. After that the user (you) can cancel at any time without any obligation moving forward, but are NOT allowed any refunds.
Why?
It’s simple, any reasonable person should be able to figure out if this is good for them within a month (honestly you should know in the first 10 minutes). Anyone who hangs on for more than 30 days is either being dishonest (trying to get as much as possible for free) or, well…not too bright. Either way, you had MORE than your chance.
Important Note: Any customer will be black listed and banned for life who:
- Takes multiple trials of any program or membership.
- Issues a chargeback on any program.
- Uses extreme profane or inappropriate language on the training platform.
- Is discovered to be convicted of a crime against children, or sexual assault.
- Declines or issues a chargeback on ANY Operation Phoenix payment.
Self Defense Company Hold Harmless and Assumption of Risk
User voluntarily participating in this Activity. User understands that there are risks associated with my participation in this Activity, such as physical and/or psychological injury, pain, suffering, illness, disfigurement, temporary or permanent disability, death or economic loss. These injuries or outcomes may arise from my own or other’s actions, inactions, or negligence, or the condition of the Activity , The Self Defense Company and Instructors. Nonetheless, User assumes all risks of their participation in this Activity, whether known or unknown to them, including travel to and from the Activity.
User agrees to hold the Self Defense Company, it’s owners and Instructors harmless from any and all claims, loss or damage to my personal property, liabilities and costs, including attorney’s fees, as a result of my participation in this Activity, including travel to and from the Activity (including air travel) or any events incidental to this Activity.
By purchasing the user had read this document, and understands it. User understands the legal consequences of purchase and participation, including (a) releasing the the Self Defense Company, its owners and instructors from all liability, (b) waiving their right to sue the District, (c) and assuming all risks of participating in this Activity, including travel to and from the Activity (including air travel) or any events incidental to this Activity.
“If User needs medical treatment as a result of their participation in this Activity, travel to and from the Activity (including air travel), or any events incidental to this Activity, User agrees to be financially responsible for any costs incurred as a result of such treatment. User is aware that the Self Defense Company, owners and instructors does not provide health insurance for me and that they should carry my own health insurance.
CHARGEBACKS – if you issue a chargeback on any program or item, you will be black listed and scrubbed from the database and you will be banned from the Self Defense Company for life.
Self Defense Company Webinars –
All webinars are NON-REFUNDABLE since they are live events and space is limited. If you miss the event you will have full access to the recording for life so the customer is NOT at a loss.
Self Defense Company Online Specialty and Intro Programs (non-recurring charge)
These are one – time charge programs that include but not limited to: Combatives Fast Course, Reality Check, 60 Minute Self Defense, Family Safe, Guardian Weapon Retention, Guardian Police Combatives, Protector:CSI., Knuckle Duster.
You have 30 days to review and enjoy the programs. After 30 days you will have online access for life – no recurring charges. If you require a refund for any reason within the first 30 days please email customerservice@theselfdefenseco.com.
These programs EXPIRE in 30 days. After 30 days you will not be charged again, but you will have to renew your access by placing another purchase or enrolling in an SDTS Membership.
Include your name, email, order number and the specific reason you are requesting a refund.
We will respond and you must confirm your request.
YOU MUST COMMUNICATE using the email with which you registered.
Third party requests (someone other than you) will not be honored.
Allow 5 business days for your refund to be processed.
Operation Phoenix, World War 2 Defendu, Old School Seriers, Police Training Pack expire in one year. After which you will not be charged, however, you will need to renew if you want continues access.
Self Defense Training System Access Memberships
Including, but not limited to: SDTS Bronze, Gold, Elite and Defendu
After the trial period you will automatically be charged. You may cancel for a full refund of your first payment within 30 days of that first charge. After which you may cancel at anytime but you will not be refunded any previous charges regardless whether or not you log in and use the program. This is a training academy – like a gym membership, you may use it as often as you wish.
We provide a service and it’s the customers responsibility to take advantage of that service. It is the same as a cable subscription or gym membership. As long as the consistent service is provided The Self Defense Company has maintained their end of the agreement.
This includes, but not limited to:
Member losing internet access.
Member entering the incorrect email address.
Member getting credit card stolen or lost.
The Self Defense Company offers a 30 day money back guarantee on all of its memberships. If in the first 30 days you wish to cancel, simply email customerservice@theselfdefenseco.com.
Emailing ANY OTHER ADDRESS will not cancel your membership.
If you are canceling because of a technical issue, the Self Defense Company must be allowed 5 business days to solve the problem, if the issue remains unresolved, you will be refunded.
However, if you wish to resume your membership customerservice@theselfdefenseco.com with your name and username OR the email with which you ordered.
Only the person who’s name and email is on the account may cancel or alter the account.
NO THIRD PARTY REQUESTS WILL BE HONORED.
*Attention PAYPAL Customers – If you purchased a program with automatic payments you will need to CANCEL those payments in PayPal directly. The Self Defense Company is not responsible for payments charged by PayPal after your cancelation.
If your credit card/paypal payment declined and you fail to make the next monthly payment you will forfeit any previous payments and your membership will be automatically cancelled after 14 days. You will have several opportunities to make your account current before it is closed. The system will automatically send reminders to the email on file.
The Self Defense Company reserves the right to cancel ANY membership for conduct unbecoming. This can include, but not limited to: harsh language, felony convictions, crimes against children, sex crimes and hate crimes.
Live Training Memberships, Live Intro Lessons and Single Lessons and Lesson Blocks.
You have 30 days to schedule your lesson with your assigned instructor. You may cancel within 48 hours to reschedule. Missed lessons will be rescheduled at the discretion of your Instructor. If you have not heard from your instructor within 5 business days of purchase, email customerservice@theselfdefenseco.com.
Live training memberships are effective 30 days after customer cancels. This means that if they cancel on the 1st of the month they will be charged up until the 30th of the month.
Any chargeback will get you disavowed from the Self Defense Company and you will be blacklisted from the platform.
All content is intellectual property of Damian Ross and The Self Defense Company and can not be downloaded or duplicated without written consent.
Make sure to DOUBLE CHECK YOUR EMAIL on your order.
Your email is linked to your account and incorrectly entered emails will result in your not receiving passwords to log in. The Self Defense Company is not responsible for user error.
Self Defense Company Instructor Program
There is a 30 day refund policy, there will be NO refunds after 30 days. You can cancel the program by emailing your instructor mentor or customerservice@theselfdefenseco.com. It is your responsibility to return any merchandise received back to the Self Defense Company representative. You have 2 weeks (14 days) do do this. If the items are not received, you will not be refunded.
After 30 days you are responsible for making all of the payments. However, if you need to extend time between payments you can up to 30 days. To do this, simply email customerservice@theselfdefenseco.com.
If your account declines and is not rectified in 30 days, you are no longer an instructor in good standing and you forfeit your right to use any of the Self Defense Company name, logo, brand or material and you are no longer considered a Self Defense Company Instructor.
It is your responsibility to get all necessary pictures, bio, affiliate program and set up your social media based on your instructor mentor’s direction. It is your responsibility to set up your initial call with your mentor with in the first 30 days. It is also your responsibility to get your first level certification within the first year of entering the program.
The Instructor Program involves merchandise, training material and considerable expense to set up your website, social media and network. You will have full access to all of the training, information and coaching from the first day.
The Self Defense Company reserves the right to revoke your membership at any time based on poor conduct, such as but not limited to: felony crimes, fraud and anything that would be considered “un becoming” and instructor.
You reserve the right to appeal any decisions. The Instructor program is a license to teach the Self Defense Company curriculum and use it’s resources. It is not a franchise. The Self Defense Company is not responsible for poor performance and financial success. The examples use are not necessarily typical results.
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When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name, email address, credit card information or other details to help you with your experience.
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We may use the information we collect from you when you register, make a purchase, sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website, or use certain other site features in the following ways:
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Wow! Those people really don’t seem to get what you’re teaching. Personally, when my opponent puts their hands up, I prefer to kick the crap out of them below the belt. Dirty move? You bet! Love your stuff Damian!
Yeah…they just need to think about it (I mean really think about it). BTW – no such thing as a dirty move, that’s what we would call a GOOD MOVE.
These people, me too by the way, have no real idea what an actual fight for your life is! I have never had to defend myself, my loved ones either. For these dipshits to say those things leans to there vocabulary, mine too, and their inability to comprehend what it is you are trying to do, nothing! You do however, offer run of the mill folks a way to have a chance in a fight for survival. I also agree with you when you said, “you probably will not feel it, the pain from broken metacarpals, until the fight is over or even the next day. Damian, son of Satan lol!, I cannot afford the program now but really want to take it in the near future. Please let me know how to practice without a partner?
Yours in “defense practices to save lives, not take them!”
Jeff
Jeff. Please email me directly as I would love to connect and give you some insight as to what you can be doing and help you incorporate a game plan with the SDTS
theselfdefensecompany@gmail.com
Hey brother, it is your style, and I am studying it. I think the Cestari system is probably the best demonstration of Tiger Claw I have ever seen. Most Senseis will teach narrow stance techniques to people who want to learn defense. You are right. By the time you reach that point the odds are against you and you will need some high level of ability or advantage to succeed. 100% you have to know how to take the fight to the enemy before you ever need to lean any tricky dicky defenses. Many people don’t understand. They are just looking for a magic pill. Thanks ??
Thanks – but to say it’s “my style” (and I get what you’re saying) seems weird to me since Carl, Charlie Nelson, Yonezuka…even my Football and Wrestling Coaches…all the way back to Fairbairn and O’Neill did the hard work. I just put it together…
I’m going to go on a tangent, here but the REAL reason I developed the SDTS was purely selfish. It was for my own personal training. This can get long, so I apologize.
I met Carl in 1989 after…well it was a good time to meet him. My buddy on Bergen County SWAT told me about a guy who was training cops in the basement of a church. I went and it blew my mind. Trained with him on and off for a few years – the combatives was real simple (as you know) it made sense and didn’t take long to learn.
In 1992 Carl was teaching at my brother’s TKD school and me a few guys were training with Carl as well. He and my brother had a falling out and it wasn’t until 5 years later that I reconnected with Carl and I was shocked at what I discovered.
When I last saw Carl he was a bull – 215 pounds…a brick. Now I see him and he’s 145 pounds. Diabetes and a whole host of other issues had caused his health to go to hell. He later died in 2007.
So here I am, looking at the GREATEST self defense resource on the planet – sitting and, well…posting on the internet. His health was just not good and I wanted to learn as much as possible for my own training purposes. I didn’t have a master plan to launch a company and do all this.
I just wanted to replicated my training based on his experience. That’s when I started Judo, and Carl and I created the syllabus that evolved into the SDTS.
To think at one time I kinda sorta felt the same way…… Just saying….. I am so proud to have changed my perspective. Research, investigate and ask the simple question, what is the essence of self defense and ya just can’t question the likes of Carl Cestari, William Fairbairn, Charles Nelson and yes, Damian Ross! Kudos on taking the hit to get the point across! ???sheepdog
Agreed Bam, we all thought like that – but then we reflected on our life experience and common sense to come to the conclusion that what we’ve been taught…well…was like the game of telephone. At one time it was something and now it’s something different entirely.
Makes you wonder how big the rock these people are living under and I live in a country that has some of the strictest self-defence laws in the English-speaking world. Anyway, I’m off to practice my mind control skills. Stay safe everyone.
THESE PEOPLE ARE TALKING OUT OF THEIR ASS,THEY HAVE NO CLUE ABOUT SELF DEFENSE,AND IF YOUR THE DEVIL, THEN YOUR A HANDSOME ONE AT THAT., THIS WORLD IS FILLED WITH IDIOTS WHO WANT EVERYTHING FREE,YOUR COURSE IS THE BEST OUT THERE!
Damian,
I’ve been too busy and distracted to really get into what I have purchased from you, but I do at least get what you’re trying to teach and say, and my attitude is I’m inclined to think these people either simply don’t pay attention to facts. They just go around with their minds in neutral assuming it functions, and their senses dormant or they are simply a special kind of stupid. Thankfully I have had only a small number of violent encounters because of a dangerous sibling and people of a certain peaceful, loving and tolerant ideology, and thankfully I’m still in one working piece, but I get what you are trying to do even if I haven’t digested all the details, and I applaud you for your handling of these twits who seem to prefer to interact through their emotions rather than their brain and senses. Respect to you Damian! It makes me even more keen to get into what I paid you for.
Hi Ian,
Well I’m glad you made it here…and look, just get in and watch something from time to time, even for a few minutes is actually the best way to learn. Small pieces. Then when you have some time, practice the physical techniques.
…to your point – self defense, martial arts is like religion. People invest a lot of money time and energy – they develop relationships with fellow students and instructors, which can be incredible. I’ve had instructors and coaches that I’ve loved and believed everything they said as gospel because my life depended on it.
So in order to step back and evaluate the content of what you’re learning from people who you love and respect…it’s a hell of a thing.
Before I started with Carl…I thought that way too.
Hi all,
Haven’t been doing this long, and the insight is nothing short of amazing, they way you systematically break everything down into base elements for clarity is awesome. All I have to say in response to these people is they DONT obviously live in the real world and have an abject lack of understanding about what you are teaching. Keep it real.
Ken
Thanks Ken! Look – as Bam just mentioned, there was a time I thought like Sandeep…but then I realized, based on my real life experiences (and literally getting my ass lumped up by a group of guys) that there had to be a better way.
Hello again Damian,
Another keyboard warrior………please keep up all your great work on this forum Damian
Best regards,
Steve (Italy)
Damian, as I mentioned in another email to you I have studied many forms of self defense and Martial Arts like you have. At age 56 I would find it very hard to preform some or most of the techniques I learned over the years. I have used things I learned in Kenpo Karate that ai got my BB in in street fights years ago and they did work very well. But as you have stated most Martial Arts are drilled into you as “defense only” so back in the day when people didn’t KILL YOU during a dust up over a girl or something stupid I found myself waiting for the attack so I could defend myself. That usually lead to me getting smacked in the face and having to fight back half dazed. Now fighting is WAY different now you have no idea WHEN the knife or gun is coming out. You MUST ACT first and in most cases you are going to get hurt. But better to be hurt than dead. These people that attack you have NO IDEA what the real world is unfortunately when they find out it will be too late to help them. Keep up the good work.
Hi Damian, I was a pPolice Officer for over 26 years mostly in London,England, I have since worked in security as a Door Supervisor (Bouncer) and as a Bodyguard, I have worked as a trainer in the industry and am an unusual thing in the world of self defence in that I am a qualified Self Defence Instructor, not a martial artist. I have trained in many Martial Arts and Self defence systems and have been following you for a number of years and purchased a number of your courses. They are to put it succinctly “The real deal” when you are involved in a violent confrontation you need to be the one doing the violence, you need to be doing it simply, effectively and repetitively till you achieve your aim of debilitating the other guy so effectively that he is no longer a threat, is non functional and subdued, dead, or you can escape. I regularly recommend yours and Tim Larkin’s courses to people who operate in the real world dealing with the underbelly of society. Thank you for your endeavors, God’s Blessings to you and yours and all who follow you and Train Honestly.
First of all I am a self defense instructor as well, and if people think you are a murder, retarded, or what ever those idiots said they need to check their selves. Obviously they live in high security areas with silver spoons. For normal people who live in the day to day world. You have to be careful. I totally support you and say your teaching and demonstration are crucial to every day survival! Keep on keeping on brother!
What people don’t realize is YOU DON’T KNOW WHO IS WATCHING YOU. People see you and what you do, where you go. Home, supermarket, mall, work, gym, park, etc. You don’t know who is watching or why they are watching. Could be bad guys, neighbors, homeless, etc. We have to be prepared, even in “good” neighborhoods. Bad guys will make sure they have every advantage.
When I am in an unfamiliar city, it is bad if you see someone more than twice. Take note.
When walking, hold your head up, look at the people, don’t only look at the ground.
Walk purposefully. You have to go somewhere. You have things to do.
When walking and two or more men split up to walk around you. Take note.
If you see a bad guy watching you, make sure he sees you see him. Look at him for a second at least. I usually nod my head slightly or blink, or raise your eyebrows in acknowledgement. This can prevent trouble. He is looking for someone looking at their phone, looking at the store windows, or tall buildings, not paying attention.