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 Translated to English

“We teach you highly intelligent behavior on a man to man basis,” says our instructor Jerry Peterson, “but if you’re not brave enough to attack the attacker, you can not implement this knowledge.  Fear and doubt equal disaster.  But if you know how to take action, the fear disappears.”

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.