Editorials

The Special Combat Reactionary System (SCARS) is the first official hand-to-weapon fighting system of the U.S. Navy SEAL teams. SCARS is now declassified and out on videotape. It's also being taught by its creator, Jerry Peterson, to a limited number of civilians on a once-in-a-blue-moon basis.

Black Belt Magazine

Overall, the curriculum turned out to be more varied than I had expected. During the 40 hours, we practiced hand-to-weapon attacks using padded clubs and knives. Then we went on to study disarms involving rifles and semi-automatic pistols. The same basic SCARS moves and principles always carried over seamlessly to all those ancillary exercises.

Men’s Health Magazine

I WAS ONE OF 33 men who had signed up for a 3-day SCARS® Institute of Combat Sciences camp. SCARS stands for Special Combat Aggressive Reaction Systems. Since 1987, a very small group of instructors in Phoenix has taught SEALs teams, FBI agents, Green Berets, NATO special-forces agents, and private bodyguards how to kill (or very seriously injure) someone who wants to harm them. After selling a few million dollars’ worth of instructional videotapes, the SCARS instructors cautiously decided to try civilian camps in late 1997. There’s now a 3-month waiting list for the course, at up to 5 grand a head.

Maxim Magazine

– Published In German

Black Belt Magazine/Reality Fighting

SCARS is a system that teaches threat elimination using a foundation based in theory and proven in the real world. Devoid of emotional beliefs and mysticism, it is built on three sciences: physics for power, geometry for the structure needed to support that power, and physiology for the control the praactitioner needs over himself and his environment.

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The Conception of SCARS

The Conception of SCARS began in real combat 1968-69 Vietnam. Jerry L. Peterson, then a soldier serving two combat tours in the elite Army Reaction Force of the 173rd Airborne Charlie Company, found that the close combat training he had received was nearly useless against the grim realities of 20th century warfare. He and the soldiers in his unit were forced to learn close combat by trial and error, in a place where error meant death. He was convinced there had to be a better way to train for and successfully execute close combat. The Psychological Development of the Fearless Mind-Set Process. Jerry formulated concepts and theories that applied to human movement and psychological survival under do-or-die conditions. His early analytical and physical techniques worked, giving him the tools to survive numerous combat engagements. Jerry wanted more, he wanted to know why humans would be fearless one day and then frozen in fear the next resulting in death. Mr. Peterson would discover and verify after 20 years of personal research that he had created a process to eliminate fear. This meant the total destruction of fear in the human brain. Not controlling fear with over training or conquering fear with shear will power, he simply removed it from the psyche of the human brain. Accomplishing the first goal of human control, a fearless mind-set, he discovered the mind controlled other human processes that inevitably lead to life or death in a high-risk action.