So You Wanna Be The Bodyguard?

Then I started helping out. The politically correct phrase these days is not "bodyguard" but personal protection specialist, executive protection specialist or close protection operative, depending on the place of training and other preferences.

There can be no better time than now, if you want to excel in this field charismatic. Almost all elite soldiers who crowded the market a few years back, went to Afghanistan or Iraq, providing personal protection for corporations or governments of those countries.

Those who do not work there, in the past, and are trying to recover. In fact, you might have a chance down there too. Security companies prefer former Elite soldiers, but some of them are so short of staff, who will take anyone who can handle a gun safely and stay alive in these hostile areas.

If you want to get some training first, be careful. The many so-called schools I promise you the world just to get your money. Do not rely on a single form of training. Take two or more courses from two to three different schools.

Read a lot and not just stick to the hand-outs and bodyguard manuals the schools provide. Read up on terrorism, criminology, psychology, risk / threat analysis, ballistics, social etiquette, advanced driving, first aid / medicine and improvised explosive devices.

You must be physically fit. Be fast and strong. When not reading, get a serious education from a school of martial arts. Preferably a school with a practical approach. Krav Maga, Thai boxing and Wing Tsun are popular with many specialists in personal protection.

Weapons management and recognition is also important. Get some practice on a firing range. Shot of combat should be the preferred method of training.

After graduating from a school of personal protective equipment, take some lessons in business administration and sales. What is above all knowledge, if you can not get a contract or retain a good deal sound? Remember that a positive attitude is the key to all success! Nobody could ever say: I can not! - The same goes for this profession - an approach "can do" get the job done, and customers know it.

This is also true when it comes to staying alive in general. If you fail the first goal of a specialist in personal protection: to avoid a clash with an opponent, fight to win! - Do not stop to think, enough to fight fiercely.

Before you go ahead and start your glorious career is best to clarify things with your family. They'll see much less than they have ever done. The training is probably far and so hard that you will not have power to call home.

But it's an exciting job. One day you may be walking around with a CEO, so that none of he former employees attack. The next day you go to Aruba, protecting some actor and after a week of sun you're back in your city of residence to protect a battered woman to testify against her psychotic ex-spouse. Or you could join the crew in the Middle East protecting corporate executives against mujahedeen and the Taliban.

There are many possibilities. That is, if you can stay focused and keep training / learning, while seeking contracts. You can spend a mere $ 2500 for training security guard, $ 500 on first aid courses and IED and another $ 500 on firearms training. It is expensive to start a career in, so be motivated TOP.

Oh, by the way, when you have done all the above, write your resume!...