Testimonials from People like you!

The most compelling aspect of my training is the credible instruction I receive on how the brain works. Have you ever thought about what it would be like to definitely know how your mind and body work together? Imagine being around men with the same drive and desire that you have to be the best you can be. Picture in your mind the best instructors in the world pushing you to be the best you can be. This is the training you will receive with the Knights of SCARS and nowhere else.

If you were to receive the experience of a lifetime in 30 hours, imagine what an achievement of 600 hours would feel like for a member of the Knights of SCARS. An ordinary, everyday man like me turns into an extraordinary man. The complete experience you will enjoy with us cannot be described in a few words. Most men only dream about how special their lives are, but very few men bond themselves through discipline, sacrifice, time, pain and tragedy like the men I have come to know as the Knights of SCARS.

Samuel Daisy - 5th Order & Board of Regents Member, Kentucky US

Video Testimonial from Mr. Kniseley

Written Testimonial from Mr. Taylor

"Why I started SCARS"

While I’ve always had a passing interest in the martial arts, it has not been something that I have ever actively pursued. I had tried Tae Kwan Do for a semester in college and tried out Aikido when living in Scandinavia, but had never achieved a colored belt and had no interest in doing so. I didn’t pursue these or any other martial arts because while I admired the spiritual, artistic and sporting natures of them as well as the great history of their development, my engineering and business sides just couldn’t accept that it was necessary to put in years of training to perfect a set of techniques that had limited application in the real world.

So, it was with a bit of skepticism that I first read about SCARS. Two things stood out about SCARS that drew my interest. The first was that it was a system based on science of human manipulation rather than art. The second was that the system claimed to remove fear. That was enough to motivate me to order the first training videos to check out SCARS.

From the start the system made sense to me. It stripped away all the superfluous and artistic elements and focused purely on manipulating the fixed set of mental and physical human variables necessary to achieve your goal. It literally provided a user manual for controlling the human mind and body, both yours and others.

When the SCARS Institute of Combat Sciences first started offering SCARS training to civilians in 1997 I jumped at the chance to actually apply the system. That first 4-day Level 1 training camp was the most mentally and physically demanding experience of my life, as well as the most rewarding. At the end of it I was exhausted, battered, bruised, sore and...

 

Video Testimonial from Mr. Howell

Written Testimonial from Mr. DeMatteo

"What SCARS Training and the Knights SCARS Mean to Me"

A little background: I am a husband and father. As I write this, I have been working for a major corporation for 29 years. I started my career in the entry-level position working in a maintenance crew and rose through the ranks to my present position of Electrical Maintenance Foreman. My current job responsibilities require me to not only be a technical expert in electrical power and lighting system in industrial plants, but to directly supervise workers installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting those systems. I mention this only so you will know that I am a “regular” guy who like most, wants only the best for his family.

Back in 1989, just before I reached my 30th birthday, I decided to begin martial arts training. My goal was to become proficient in the martial arts to develop the confidence that I could protect myself and my family against physical attacks and to be able to go anywhere without any fear that I would get my butt kicked. I looked into various martial arts and decided upon the local American Taekwondo Association school. I chose them because they had the most well rounded training program. There was a balance between hand and foot techniques and offered training in other areas such as pressure point control tactics, joint locks and throws, ground-fighting and weapons such as escrima sticks, nun chucks, bo staff, etc. I trained regularly and progressed up through the ranks eventually becoming a 5th degree black belt, certified instructor, and owner of my own martial arts school. I also branched out into other types of martial arts training such as Krav Maga earning a “Phase A” instructor certification in this fighting system. During that time I was moderately successful in competitions winning several bronze metals throughout the years at the American Taekwondo Association’s World Championships. I was consistently ranked in the top four of my competition division at all of the black belt degrees that I earned from 1st through 5th degree. I was well regarded among my peers as a good instructor and martial artist. Yet, despite all my training and accomplishments, I had not realized my goal of knowing that I had the skill to protect myself and my family against all attacks or my goal of driving fear out of my life.

That’s when I discovered SCARS training...