Testimonials/Contact
Custom Defense Programs
"We will develop a specially tailored program, specific to your business, personal, and organizational needs. In addition to consultation, we can provide one-on-one or group training, in many different areas of defense education."~Edward Alberto/ President
Testimonials:
"We appreciate Mr. Alberto's commitment to helping us maintain the highest level of training standards during our 2008 Monadnock Expandable Baton program. Without hesitation, I would recommend S.E.I.G.E. to any law enforcement agency interested in self defense training."~Robert Burns, Monroe County Probation
"One of the biggest challenges with training police officers in defensive tactics is attempting to connect the exercises, information, and techniques as close to an actual police use of force situation as possible. Preparing officers for an actual use of force event is a demanding task when utilizing a controlled training environment. Officer Alberto and his instructors have developed a practical lesson plan which mirrors in application to an actual street encounter. The delivery of this lesson plan better prepared our officers for a use of force encounter requiring our police baton. We documented our officers’ reactions prior to the training and compared to their post training reaction and found a marked improvement in response to the threat. While officers are not always thrilled about reporting to in-service training, their critiques were overwhelmingly positive as they requested “more of this type of training”.
I would highly recommend Officer Alberto to any police agency interested in dynamic, “outside the box” training in areas of self defense. It became immediately obvious to me that we had hit upon a very successful training program and trainer."
~Gerald L. Pickering, Webster Police Chief
"Mandala Douglas Marcaida has been involved in the promotion and research of the Filipino Martial Arts for several years. I have seen his skills as a practitioner as well as an instructor increase exponentially over the decades. He has been involved in training the elite Force Recon Marines of the Philippines, Special Action Force, and the Anti-terrorist Division of the Aviation Safety Group of the Philippine National Police. Doug has been a welcomed guest instructor for the Marine Interoperability Exercises/Joint Military Training between the Philippine Marines and the US Marines, known as the Balikatan. He truly has a vast repository of knowledge regarding Edged and Impact weapons. I have a great trust in his ability to dissect and disseminate relevant information for the purpose of growth for those who study from him. Doug's skills in analysis and problem solving have elevated him to be an Instructor’s instructor."
~Guro Jun DeLeon, Founder of Kali DeLeon
"It has been my pleasure to have invited Doug Marcaida to do joint internships with our Force Recon Marines in edged and impact weapons, as well as hand to hand combatives because of his extensive knowledge and experience in Pekiti Tirsia Kali. As a Senior Master Instructor of the Pekiti Tirsia Kali combat system, his ability to teach these combatives to our Marines has always been a very welcome addition to our training. As a veteran of the US Air Force, his professionalism and dedication to sharing his understanding of the very best of the Filipino Martial Arts is loud and clear. We're always looking forward to more training sessions with him.
I highly recommend him for anyone or any unit that needs excellent instruction in the combat skills of Pekiti Tirsia Kali."
~Colonel William "Dragon Balls" Cardel,
Philippine Marines Force Reconnaissance Battalion Commander