About

E.S.C.A.P.E. Instructors are all are practicing emergency services providers with years of street experience and credibility.   Our trainers are versed in a wide variety of self-defense and martial arts disciplines making the development of this program truly unique.
While we are native to the Syracuse, NY area, the E.S.C.A.P.E program has been delivered as far away as California, Texas and Alaska.

Lead Instructors

Shawn Tompkins , EMT-P has spent the past 12 years as a Firefighter and Paramedic in the upstate New York region.  As an avid martial arts participant, he holds black belts in Karate, and is a certified Violent Patient Management instructor under the “Pressure Point Control Tactics” system. Shawn was the driving force behind the ESCAPE Programs’ development and has spent hundreds of hours training fellow emergency responders in self-defense techniques and proper patient control tactics.

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