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Biography of  Professor Lawrence Sloan:

TIMELINE:
Lawrence Sloan has been a martial artist for over 52 years after earning his 1st Degree in Okinawan Goju Ryu karate in 1973 from Sensei Paul Tsumura.  In 1976, He met GM Remy A. Presas in Fresno, California at the school owned by Jerry Greathouse and studied Modern Arnis. He followed Professor Presas up and down the West coast for over three years, learning and developing the American Arnis Association in 1978. He was one of the first groups of students that Professor Presas introduced Modern Arnis to in the US.  In 1981, Lawrencce Sloan was ranked to Sandan (3rd Degree Black Belt) by the American Arnis Assn. He was recognized as the System Head/Punong Lakan (5th degree) of the American Arnis Defensive Tactics System by the USKA under Robert Trias in 1985. In 1986 Professor Sloan brought Grand Master Presas to Iowa to put on a seminar.

In 2021 he was awarded the title of "Kyoshi" by the UKKS, by Soke Angelito (Bobby) Barongan, three time Hall of Fame Inductee and in 2025, Professor Sloan was inducted into the Warriors Legacy Hall of Fame.

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HISTORY:
Together with American Arnis fellow founders, Sensei's Dan Rideaux (Chinese Sanda) and Jim Power (Shotokan), they began working with law enforcement and putting on optimization seminars for officers in California.  In the mid-seventies, criminals had begun learning and using martial arts to defeat traditional law enforcement techniques. The optimized seminars helped teach officers the weak points in using their techniques against trained martial artists and designed solutions to make their traditional techniques more effective. 

The seminars also helped them adapt the techniques to make them more difficult to defeat.  This led to the development of the DTACT System (Defensive Tactics and Control Techniques) in 1978, using open hand, impact, and bladed weapons. The courses combined Filipino martial arts, PPC (Pressure Point Control/Pain Compliance), with baton and side handle baton for defensive and control techniques.
Professor Sloan has trained local, state, and federal agents, security agencies, and tribal law enforcement and security in Defensive Tactics And Control Techniques and ROE (Rules of Engagement), as well as provided personal protection for business executives, politicians, celebrities, and the arguably rich and famous. Professor Sloan has also provided expert witness services for security concerns for Native American tribes and casinos.

As a security specialist since 1983, Professor Sloan has worked with security agencies and provided security services to corporations such as; Armstrong Tire and Rubber, Swift Packing, UPS, Pella Windows, Barilla USA, and contracted with Federal agencies to protect critical structures for the Union Pacific Railroad, National Animal Disease Labs, TSA recruiting and training, and airline food service companies, etc.