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AS3 Research Library

Years of research on defensive driving, security protocols, and protective driving techniques.

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A security professional sweeping a flashlight beam across one part of a dark parking garage while a hidden human figure waits unseen in the shadows, illustrating 'what you see is all there is'.
Human Performance & TrainingExecutive Protection

What Was Removed

WYSIATI became trust your gut. OODA became act fast. Why the popular versions of situational awareness training dropped the part that mattered most.

Pablo Ortiz-Monasterio
A black SUV stopped on a narrow railed highway on-ramp at dusk, a sedan blocking the path ahead with doors open and shadowy figures emerging.
Executive ProtectionVehicle Safety

The Physics of Escape: Why the Viral Ambush Video Is Not Your Training Manual

The viral ambush escape worked on physics most vehicles cannot repeat. Why ramming usually fails, why your car betrays you, and when surrender wins.

Pablo Ortiz-Monasterio
A security professional drilling between cones on an empty track at dawn, focused and athletic, illustrating deliberate practice.
Human Performance & TrainingExecutive Protection

Mastering the Art of Security: Training for Expertise and Consistent Performance

Expertise is not 10,000 random hours. Here is how deliberate practice, the right skills, and measurement build security training that actually holds up.

Pablo Ortiz-Monasterio
A close-protection security driver in a suit crouched beside a black executive SUV in a dim parking structure, inspecting the rear wheel and undercarriage with a flashlight during a pre-departure check.
Vehicle SafetyExecutive Protection

Maintenance, selection, and inspection -How to do them correctly?

Why protection teams skip vehicle inspections, the five sabotage tactics to look for, and the habits that keep a principal safe in and around the car.

Pablo Ortiz-Monasterio
A close-protection team running a pre-departure check at dawn beside a black executive SUV, one reviewing a checklist on a tablet while another inspects the vehicle.
Executive ProtectionHuman Performance & Training

The Value of The Checklists in Executive Protection.

From surgery to aviation, checklists cut catastrophic errors. Here is why executive protection teams need them more than experience, and how to use them.

Pablo Ortiz-Monasterio
A close-protection security driver at the wheel of a black executive sedan at night, alert and checking the mirror, with a principal passenger silhouetted in the back seat.
Executive ProtectionDriver Training

Changing Paradigms

Security driving is one specialty within executive protection, not the whole job. Here is what a real security driver does, and why it matters.

Pablo Ortiz-Monasterio

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