Clearly there are some very good reasons why protective intelligence, situational awareness, and tactical skill are universally recognized as essential to providing effective protection. However, regardless of how accurate and timely your protective intelligence is, how high a level of situational awareness you are capable of achieving and sustaining, or how tactically and technically proficient you may be with firearms, edged weapons, impact weapons, or even vehicles, success or failure for the protection practitioner is most often predicated upon the decisions they make, particularly in the eyes of the Principal. While it may not be spelled out in one’s job description, the very nature of protection work implies that one must be able make sound decisions in highly stressful situations and very dynamic environments.
VDI Team Recognition
It is always both humbling and an honor to have our team recognized for the passion and dedication that goes into everything we do. Even after 11 years, several hundred courses, and several thousand students trained, it is the value that our students find in our training that drives us (pun intended) to be the […]
Why Would You Go There?!
Like many in the protection profession, I have often been asked by others why it is that I had traveled, or would be traveling to, some far off place with a dangerous reputation. But I must admit to being somewhat surprised recently when that very question was posed to me by an executive protection provider, […]
Another Jaunt Through Karjackistan
It’s a Pleasure and an Honor – to have worked this week with the latest group of security professionals to successfully complete VDI’s Protective/Evasive Driving Course. This time around, 20 students from 3 countries and 7 states joined us for the three day jaunt through Karjackistan. Collectively, they represent several multi-national corporations, a Non-Governmental Organization, […]
VDI & Glen Edmunds Performance Driving School – Committed to Excellence
When conducting a VDI Instructor-level Vehicle Dynamics and Exercise Design program, within 10 minutes of the first day we mention that math is the foundation of the program and pass out calculators. It is not long after the calculators are distributed that students will express their concern that math is not exactly a subject they […]





