How To Be Certified As A Body Guard
Submitted by: TigerEye
Being a body guard is a strenous and dangerous but rewarding. When you have the desire to protect important people, such as governors or senators, you need to have specialized training. If you want to be a member of the Secret Service, you need even more training. Read on to find out some of the things you will need to do and learn to become a bodyguard.
One of the first things you will need to do is to finish high school successfully. This is a requirement for many things, and being a body guard is no different. If you are a person who thinks ahead and you are still in high school, join the wrestling team for your school. Good grappling skills are always going to come in handy for a body guard.
If you have plans on protecting important government officials, you will need to be able to go through a thorough background check. This means your criminal record must be clean. You may be able to do a background check on yourself online if you are not sure what your police record looks like. Do not do drugs, and do not drive while intoxicated. This will help you to have the right friends and to learn to be a good influence on society.
It may go without saying, but you need to be in top shape physically to be a body guard. Where is that protein powder ? You are going to need to have a special diet to allow you to gain muscle weight to be able to defend against the bad guys. Not many body ( probably none )guards are skinny. Joe Weider has some good classes on gaining muscle weight and his muscle charts are detailed and easy to understand.
You will need a college education if you plan on working as a federal body guard. Four years of college can be supplanted with some decent investigative work experience.
Joining the military to get enough experience is another way to look at it. If you want to train as a police officer this is yet one more way that may get you the experience you need to advance to a better job as a federal body guard.
One of the best systems of martial arts to learn is Aikido. Learning the art of Krav Maga ( disarming armed individuals ) is also going to be of benefit. The form of martial arts you eventually choose will be determined by your character. What suits you should be the deciding factor in the system ( or lack therof ) of self defense and defending others. Being on the offense can be just as important as being on the defensive. Your utlimate goal is to save the life of the one you are defending, not your own.
To look up some information on your future job as a body guard, especially if you want to work for the federal government, go to the USA Jobs site and have a look around. You will be able to find out some salaries and more on what you will be required to know and do to get this job.
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