CALI COMBAT SYSTEMS

STREET SAFE PROGRAM

Condensed for Real Life

WHAT IS THE STREET SAFE PROGRAM

Not everyone has a lifetime to devote to martial arts. Sifu Paul Vunak understood that. He built the Street Safe Program specifically for people who need real-world fighting capability — fast, reliable, and without years of training to develop it.

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The Street Safe Program is the condensed, civilian-accessible version of the Rapid Assault Tactics curriculum — the same combat system developed by Sifu Paul Vunak for US Navy SEAL Team 6 and subsequently adopted by the FBI, CIA, DEA, and dozens of law enforcement SWAT teams worldwide. Sifu

 

Jeramiah Giehl is a PFS/DOM Full Instructor certified directly by Sifu Paul Vunak and served as Vunak's assistant instructor from 2018 through 2022, teaching his IPTPs as Vunak's health required it. When you train the Street Safe Program at Cali Combat Systems, you receive that curriculum from a direct lineage instructor who was in the room when it was being taught.

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The Street Safe Program gives you the essential tools — the ones that matter most, that work under stress, that require no prior experience or athletic ability — and delivers them in a format you can retain and apply immediately.

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No complicated choreography. No tournament rules. No techniques that require years of daily practice to make work. Just the most effective, immediately applicable self-defense curriculum ever developed, taught by a man who has tested it where it matters.

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THE RETZEV PRINCIPLE: WHY STREET SAFE WORKS

The Street Safe Program is built on one organizing principle: Retzev — the Hebrew word for continuous motion. The concept at the heart of Israeli Krav Maga and the RAT system that says a defender does not wait, does not hesitate, and does not stop until the threat is neutralized.

In a real fight, the person who acts first — decisively, with committed aggression, targeting the most vulnerable points on the human body — wins the vast majority of confrontations regardless of size, strength, or prior training. Street Safe trains you to be that person.

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The Pain-Pressure-Terminate Formula is the operational expression of Retzev:

Pain — create immediate, overwhelming pain response in the opponent using the most accessible, most reliable tools available to the human body. Disrupting the opponent's ability to think, see, or continue.

Pressure — maintain relentless forward pressure that does not allow the opponent to reset, recover, or mount a counter-offense. The Straight Blast. Constant forward momentum. The opponent is always on their heels.

Terminate — end the threat decisively using the most devastating close-range tools: head butts, knee strikes, elbow strikes on three levels, and when necessary — KinaMutai (the biting, eye attack, and pressure point system that makes size and strength irrelevant)

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This formula does not require athleticism. It does not require years of practice. It requires understanding, basic drilling, and the willingness to commit — fully and without hesitation — when the moment demands it.

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THE 8 SIMPLE TOOLS

The foundation of the Street Safe Program is eight tools — selected because they are the most effective, most naturally executed, and most reliable striking weapons available to the human body under the stress of a real confrontation.

1. The Eye Jab (Finger Jab / Biu Gee): Bruce Lee's signature entry tool. A flicking strike to the opponent's eyes that disrupts vision, creates the flinch reflex, and opens the entry for everything that follows. Fast, non-telegraphic, and impossible to ignore. Works regardless of size or strength.

2. The Oblique Kick (Jeet Tek): A thrusting stop kick delivered to the knee, shin, or thigh of the opponent's lead leg — intercepting their movement before they can close distance. Bruce Lee called it one of the most important tools in JKD. It extends your range, damages their base, and creates the entry point.

3. The Scoop Kick: A rising kick delivered to the groin from below — the most universally effective low-line kick available, executed with a natural scooping motion that requires minimal flexibility or training to deliver with devastating effect.

4. The Ear Slap: A simultaneous double-palm strike to both ears — one of the most immediately incapacitating strikes in the human arsenal. Creates an explosive pressure wave that can rupture the eardrums, cause dizziness and disorientation, and instantly interrupt any offensive action. Natural body mechanics. No technique required.

5. The Knee Strike: From the clinch, from close range, from the ground. Straight knee to the groin or midsection; skip knee with body weight added; side knee to the outer thigh. The knee is the most powerful short-range weapon on the human body and the primary tool once Straight Blast forward pressure has closed the distance.

6. The Elbow Strike: The hardest surface on the human body, deployed at close range where punches lose power and lose momentum. Horizontal elbow, diagonal elbow, downward elbow, upward elbow, spike elbow — each covering a different angle and a different target. When the Straight Blast has brought you close, elbows end it.

7. The Head Butt: From clinch range, from ground position, from anywhere the distance is zero. The forehead against the nose, orbital socket, chin, or cheekbone — a bone-on-soft-tissue collision that is always in the defender's favor when properly executed. Requires zero setup. Cannot be blocked from true clinch range.

8. The Bite (KinaMutai): The final and most important tool for situations where all others have failed or been denied: the bite. From the ground, from under mount, from a rear choke, from a bear hug — the bite is always available, requires no setup, and creates an immediate and involuntary physiological response in any attacker regardless of size, strength, training, or pain tolerance. KinaMutai — the Filipino asymmetric grappling system that systematizes biting as a combat tool — is integrated throughout the Street Safe curriculum.

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FIGHTING IN ALL RANGES

Real violence does not stay in one place. It moves. It changes range in seconds. The Street Safe Program prepares you to be effective at every range a real confrontation passes through:

1. JKD Range — The Brim of Fire: The outermost edge of fighting distance — where the opponent cannot reach you with any tool and must move to enter range. This is where the fight begins, and this is where your first tool is deployed: the Eye Jab, the Oblique Kick, the Stop Kick. JKD's principle of interception — hitting the opponent as they commit to enter — operates here. Stay outside the Brim of Fire as long as possible. Use JKD to enter or draw the opponent in on your terms.

2. Kicking Range: The extension of the front leg kick. Where the most powerful tools of the lower body — round kicks, side kicks, push kicks (teep), and the Oblique Kick — are employed. Street Safe kicking is not sport kicking: targets are the knees, shins, groin, and base structure. The goal is not to score — it is to disrupt the opponent's ability to move, close, or generate power.

3. Punching Range: The extension of the jab. Where the hand tools dominate: jab, cross, hook, Eye Jab, backfist, hammer fist. At punching range, the Straight Blast is the primary offensive tool — driving forward relentlessly, pushing the opponent backward, removing their ability to generate power or mount a counter-offense.

4. Trapping Range: The zone between punching and grappling where the most devastating close-range tools become available: head butts, knee strikes, elbow strikes on all levels, arm wrenches and destructions, and the entry into KinaMutai. This is the termination range. If the fight reaches here and the opponent has not already been stopped, this is where it ends.

5. Grappling Range: Most street fights end up on the ground. The Street Safe Program addresses this reality directly — not by building a comprehensive sport grappling game, but by giving you the most immediately effective ground survival tools available: the ability to survive the bottom position, create space using knees and elbows, apply KinaMutai from all positions, and get back to your feet as fast as possible. The ground is the most dangerous place to be in a street fight. Street Safe teaches you to treat it that way.

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WHAT THE STREET SAFE PROGRAM COVERS

The full Street Safe curriculum is delivered across three progressive courses. At Cali Combat Systems, all three are available as standalone workshops, as part of the ongoing CCS Phase Method curriculum, or in private/small group instruction:

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Street Safe 1 — The Foundation 

1. Introduction — the RAT formula and the Street Safe philosophy

2. Trapping — the entry into close-range combat and the shutdown of the opponent's offense

3. The Eight Tools — all eight tools drilled in isolation and combination

4. The Oblique Kick — mechanics, targets, and entry applications

5. The Scoop Kick — mechanics, targets, and combination applications

6. The Ear Slap — mechanics, simultaneous application, and follow-up sequences

7. The Knee Strike — from standing, clinch, and ground positions

8. The Head Butt — from clinch range and ground positions

9. The Elbow Strike — all angles, all levels, all ranges

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Street Safe 2 — Combat Flow 

1. Introduction — connecting the tools across all ranges

2. Four Ranges / Learning Combat Flow — flowing between JKD, kicking, punching, trapping, and grappling ranges without reset

3. The Eight Basic Tools — integration under movement and flow

4. Singular Trapping — one-hand trapping entries into tool combinations

5. Multiple Trapping — two-hand trapping and the shutdown of both of the opponent's arms

6. Arm Wrench — the close-range joint manipulation that creates space and pain compliance simultaneously

7. Foot Sweep — the low-line destabilization that collapses the opponent's base

8. Horizontal Elbow — the most devastating mid-range elbow application

9. Double Temple Strike — simultaneous bilateral strikes to the temporal lobes

10. Head Flips — controlling and redirecting the opponent's head to create openings

11. Joint Manipulation — wrist, elbow, and shoulder locks from trapping range

12. Basic Ground Fighting — the Street Safe ground survival curriculum

13. Improvised Weapons — using everything in the environment as a tool

14. Defang the Snake — attacking the weapon hand before the weapon reaches you

15. Single Stick — defensive and offensive applications against an impact weapon

16. Single Knife — defensive applications against a committed knife attack

17. Double Knife — awareness and defense against the two-blade scenario

18. Weapons Application — integrating all weapon defenses into Combat Flow

19. Weapons Sparring — live drilling under pressure with training weapons

20. Full Contact Sparring — putting it all together under controlled full contact

21. Mass Attack — two-on-one and three-on-one defense using JKD angles and Kali OCR

22. Heavy Weapons — defense against long guns, rifles, and improvised heavy weapons

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Street Safe 3 — Brutal Solutions 

1. Brutal Solutions / Asymmetric Fighting — the tools that exist outside sport martial arts

2. Blades — the edged weapon reality and the response to it

3. Reflexes — drilling the automatic responses that bypass conscious thought

4. Equalizers — the tools that eliminate the size and strength advantage

5. Knife Sparring Drill — live edged weapon defense under training pressure

6. Mass Attacks — advanced multiple opponent management

7. Punching — the fight-tested principles of effective striking under stress

8. Surprise Attacks — responding to ambush without setup time

9. Ground Fighting — the complete ground survival curriculum under stress

10. Biting and Eye Gouging — KinaMutai applied to all ground positions

11. Position 2 / Cross Mount — attacking and surviving from the cross mount position

12. Cross Mount — complete cross mount offense and defense

13. Chokes — surviving and escaping choke applications from all positions

14. Mount — complete mount offense and survival curriculum

15. Biting from the Choke — using KinaMutai to force release of choke applications

16. Eye Gouge — thumb and finger eye attack methodology from all positions

17. Putting It Together — full Combat Flow from any range to any termination

18. Effects of Biting — the physiological and psychological effects, and why it works

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WHO THIS PROGRAM IS FOR

The Person Who Has Never Trained: Street Safe was designed from the beginning for people with zero prior martial arts background. The eight tools are natural extensions of movements the human body already makes. The formula is simple enough to retain under stress after minimal training. This is where you start — and it gives you immediately functional self-defense capability.

The Busy Professional: You have a life. You have responsibilities. You cannot devote ten hours a week to training. Street Safe delivers the maximum return on minimum investment — the tools and the formula that give you genuine self-defense capability without a lifetime commitment to the art.

The Security Professional or Bouncer: The same system trained by SEAL Team 6, adapted for the realities of professional security work: de-escalation first, controlled force application second, and the combatives to handle the situations that neither de-escalation nor controlled force can resolve. Eight years of door work and security experience inform the way Street Safe is taught at CCS — not from a manual, but from the realities of real nightclub, hotel, and corporate security work.

The Martial Artist Who Wants to Pressure-Test: If you have trained in a traditional or sport martial art and want to find out what survives real pressure against a resisting opponent — Street Safe is the framework. The RAT formula has been tested against exactly the opponents that sport martial arts prepare you for: the boxer, the Karate man, the grappler, the JKD man. It works against all of them. Come find out why.

Women and Families: Street Safe is the backbone of the ETGS Women's Self-Defense Program. The same tools, the same formula, the same instructor — with the ETGS curriculum layered on top for the specific attack patterns that women face. See the ETGS page for the women-specific curriculum.

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AVAILABLE FORMATS

Street Safe Workshop — Single Session: A condensed, high-intensity introduction to the Street Safe curriculum covering the eight tools, the RAT formula, and the foundational applications. Ideal for individuals, small groups, corporate environments, community organizations, and schools. No prior experience required. Contact us for scheduling and pricing.

Street Safe Full Course — 3 Sessions: All three Street Safe courses delivered across three dedicated sessions, covering the complete curriculum from foundational tools through brutal solutions. Available privately, in small groups, and for organizational bookings.

IPTP — Intensive Personal Training Program: The two-day, ten-hour intensive that delivers the complete RAT curriculum including all three Street Safe courses plus Ground RAT, Clinch RAT, Weapons RAT, and Military Edged Weapons. Official PFS certification upon completion. $350 per person. Groups of up to six available. See the IPTP page for full details.

Ongoing Group Classes: Street Safe material is integrated into the Phase 1 and Phase 2 CCS Phase Method curriculum. Attending regular group classes gives you progressive, deepening exposure to all three Street Safe courses in the context of the full four-system CCS program.

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ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Sifu Jeramiah Giehl is a PFS/DOM Full Instructor certified directly by Sifu Paul Vunak — the man who developed Rapid Assault Tactics for US Navy SEAL Team 6. He served as Vunak's assistant instructor from 2018 through 2022, stepping in to teach Vunak's IPTPs as Vunak's health required it. He holds additional certifications in Israeli Krav Maga (Master Alain Cohen, 5th Dan, Wingate Institute), ATA/TAC Krav Maga (Grand Master Daniel Longoria), and Warrior Krav Maga (Master Anthony Landgren). He has ten years of professional security and bouncing experience — nightclubs, hotels, corporate environments — and has applied these tools in situations that were not training scenarios.

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The Street Safe Program at Cali Combat Systems is not a recreation of what Sifu Vunak built. It is that curriculum, taught by a man who was in the room when it was being delivered, and who has tested it where it was designed to be tested.

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"Give me two days, and I can turn you into a fully competent street fighter with the same system taught to the Navy SEALs." — Sifu Paul Vunak

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CALL TO ACTION

The intro class is $15. The Street Safe Workshop is available by appointment for individuals and groups. The full IPTP is $350 per person.

There is no barrier between you and the most effective condensed self-defense curriculum ever developed — except making the call.

 

Contact Sifu Jeramiah Giehl, text: 760-575-4389

 

Book your intro class or Street Safe Workshop today.