Instructor Biographies: 

Jon Edwards has over 22 years of experience training in both armed and unarmed Combatives, including both high school and college Wrestling, Law Enforcement Defensive Tactics, and Taijutsu.  He has been a Police Officer for 14 years throughout the Omaha metro area.  Mr. Edwards holds Instructor certifications in numerous fields including Pressure Points and Control Techniques (PPCT), Firearms, DARE, and Advanced CPTED.  He is currently the full time Defensive Tactics Coordinator for OPD, training new recruits and veteran police officers techniques to effectively protect themselves from violent suspects as well as control resistive arrestees.  He is also a member of the Omaha Police Department’s SWAT team.  Finally, he is also the lead Black belt Instructor in the Taijutsu Academy program at Nebraska Academy of Martial Arts.   

Kimberly Woolery has over 27 years of experience training in various martial arts and has been an Omaha Police Officer for over 11 years.  Ms. Woolery is a 5th Degree Black belt in Taekwondo as well as a 2nd Degree Black belt in Hap Ki Do. She has also been the Owner and Chief Instructor at Nebraska Academy of Martial Arts for over 15 years.  During her tenure as a Police Officer, she has held a broad range of positions including Uniform patrol, Investigations, as well as Staff Instructor at the Police Academy.  She holds Instructor certifications in Pressure Points and Control Techniques (PPCT) as well as Criminal Countermeasures, which is a Women’s Self Defense Program.  She has several thousand hours of instructional experience, amongst a diverse group of students.

Both Mr. Edwards and Ms. Woolery have been recognized as nationally certified Law Enforcement Instructors through the FBI’s Instructor Development Course.  They both understand and strive to instruct their students utilizing all three learning modalities, in order to effectively teach every member of their audience.

Rates:

Our basic pricing is $35 per person for a 2 hour block of instruction with a minimum of 20 students, which includes 2 Instructors.  Additional fees may include facility use fees, equipment use fees, or additional Instructor fees, depending on the number of students.  As stated earlier, each class is customized to the needs of the student group, which requires further information from the customer to calculate exact pricing. 

Conclusion:

If your group is interested in attending Real World Self Defense training to learn simple, yet effective strategies to develop a predetermined response to a threat stimulus, contact us for a meeting.  We would be happy to meet with you and develop a specific training plan customized to the needs of your group.  Our number one goal is to teach the student what they want to learn by means of open discussion, Instructor demonstration, and hands-on practice.  Come and learn from all of our experience as Police Officers and Martial Artists. 

Please contact Jon Edwards at (402) 677-0658 today to set up a consultation. 

We are an affiliate of Nebraska Academy of Martial Arts, located at 3600 N. 90th Street Omaha, NE 68134

J&K Combat Strategies is different from other “Self Defense” companies out there because we teach hands on techniques, which have proven to work time and time again.  We are real Police Officers, who happen to be real Martial Artists as well.  We strive to customize each class to address the needs or requests of the students, which we will determine in advance.  Typically, we will teach only five strategies in a class, so the student can truly learn and maintain the ability to have a predetermined response to a threat stimulus.