Growing Threat Training Series
Real-World Safety, Awareness, and Defensive Preparedness for Instructors, Parents, and Students
Introduction
The Growing Threat Training Series is a collection of free educational resources created for martial arts school owners, instructors, and community leaders. Each guide in this series addresses today’s most serious safety concerns — providing practical, scenario-based training tools that help you educate your students and protect your community.
Designed by Tracy Lee Thomas, a veteran, strategist, and lifelong instructor, this series teaches modern personal safety through the G.E.A.R. Method: Guard, Evacuate, Avoid, Resist. These principles are simple to understand, easy to teach, and effective in real-world situations.
All guides below are free to download and may be used for instructor training, student education, workshops, or community outreach.
Implement This Training In Your Schools
Martial arts school owners around the country are using the Growing Threat Training Series to:
Increase retention
Add real-world safety curriculum
Host parent workshops
Run profitable community seminars
Build authority in their local market
Strengthen their leadership program
Provide modern safety training families are searching for
We provide step-by-step implementation guides so instructors can teach confidently and effectively.
THE GROWING THREAT SERIES –
COMPLETE COLLECTION
Real World Danger Awareness
Growing Threat Series
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Bullying & Social Aggression
Growing Threat Series
Identifying early warning signs, emotional manipulation patterns, and intervention strategies.
Edged Weapon & Gun Defense
Growing Threat Series
Distance management, early recognition, survival strategies for bladed threats. Civilian decision-making under firearm threat pressure, using G.E.A.R.
THE G.E.A.R. METHOD
A Universal Survival Framework
Guard
Stay aware, stay alert, and maintain active situational awareness. Most threats can be avoided early when students understand how to identify environmental risks and behavioral warning signs.
Evacuate
Time is never on your side. If escape is possible, students should learn to break contact immediately, create distance, and move toward safety without hesitation.
Avoid
If evacuation isn’t possible, take strategic avoidance measures — using barriers, angles, positioning, concealment, and misdirection to reduce exposure to danger.
Resist
When no other option remains, resistance becomes a survival decision. This step includes last-resort defensive actions designed to disrupt, disarm, or break away long enough to escape.
This method gives instructors a consistent framework for teaching modern defensive readiness across all age groups.
About The Author:
Tracy Lee Thomas
Veteran. Entrepreneur. Strategic Leader.
Tracy Lee Thomas is a U.S. Navy veteran, lifelong martial artist, business strategist, and published author. His Growing Threat Series was created to help martial arts school owners teach skills that matter in the real world—not just in training environments.
With decades of experience developing national programs, running schools, leading organizations, and writing instructional material, Tracy created this series to meet the needs of modern families who want relevant, practical safety education.
How Form A Strategy Supports Implementation
FAS helps martial arts schools turn these books into:
Curriculum modules
Mat chats / character lessons
Instructor certification material
Teen leadership training
Parent-focused workshops
Public safety seminars
Enrollment and retention tools
We provide step-by-step implementation guides so instructors can teach confidently and effectively.