About Tier One


Tier One Tactics provides strategic and tactical fundamentals our military Special Operations and intelligence community utilizes to prepare, evade, escape, and defend.

Our online courses or in-person training instructs how to defend against an assailant entering your home, covert personal protection, long-term survival preparedness, anti-kidnapping, anti-human trafficking, international travel safety, restraint escapes, counter-surveillance, vehicular and on-foot escape and evasion, battle-tested self-defense, and more.

Matt Estridge is a retired Counter-Terrorism Agent and Tactics Instructor who conducted covert missions throughout the world. The primary mission was to re-take unconventional hostile environments utilizing small team tactics. Matt was mentored by, teammates of, and instructed with veterans from the best of our military special operations unit, including tier one groups (i.e. DELTA) and the intelligence community (CIA SAD).

Tier One Tactics staff are special operations veterans, counter-terrorism agents, and federal agents. Staff members have the highest certifications and awards. Most importantly, they live by a code of actionable evidence. Action needs no words and is the best evidence of expertise.