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Reality Based Training Association Advisory Board

The RBTA has become associated with some of the best, brightest and most dedicated individuals throughout the years of its growth and development. One of the founding principles of the RBTA is to reach out to others as a means to developing cohesive training standards and procedures within the realm of realistic training methodologies. Because Reality Based Training is as much art as it is science, the RBTA works with a wide range of individuals and organizations in order to bring together the top training minds in the various fields that touch all of the Seven Survivals concepts. Since the ultimate goal of the RBTA is to optimize human performance in the protective and combative arts, it is necessary to blend together training concepts and methodologies geared towards ensuring maximum training benefit from the various disciplines. 
The RBTA endeavors to grow and develop its associations in the fields of Police, Military, Emergency Services and Civilian Security. We are currently in the process of building three initial Advisory Boards. These are RBT Training Standards and Policies Advisory Board, Industry and Technology Advisory Board, and the Civilian RBT Advisory Board.
 

 

RBT Training Standards and Policies Advisory Board

This Advisory Board is primarily concerned with ensuring best practices for RBT training standards. Topics of interest within this board are RBT Policies, Terminology, Facilitator Certification and Standards, Role Player Training and Certification, Training Participant Certification, Course Development, and Psychomotor Concerns as they pertain to training. Advisory Board members are chosen for this group based on their experience in their respective fields as they pertain to the above subject matter.

Industry and Technology Advisory Board

This Advisory Board addresses areas of concern with technologies and industries that are either specifically developed for RBT or may otherwise cross over boundaries between conventional training and dynamic simulation. For instance ammunition and targetry are often used within the conventional training circles but can also find purpose within the realm of realistic simulations. The danger occurs when conventional technologies are inappropriately or mistakenly utilized within less than conventional settings. This group will include Ammunition, Targetry, Firearms, Intermediate Weapons, Video Simulation Systems, Personal Protective Gear, AirSoft and LASER Systems.

Civilian RBT Advisory Board

In many ways, the civilian community is far ahead of the institutional world when it comes to combative simulation. The number of people who are immersed in video games, paint ball, AirSoft and role playing fantasies in the civilian world dwarf those in the institutional community. Reality Based Training certainly has its place in preparation for critical incidents, but many of the technologies utilized by the institutional community have been restricted from use in the civilian community. While there is beginning to be a loosening on this hold on technologies, the civilian training world faces identical problems and worse in the utilization of tools and training concepts associated with dynamic simulations. Much like the Training and Standards requirements for the institutional communities, this Advisory Board is concerned with the development of Standard of Excellence and the Certification of trainers and training centers offering RBT opportunities to the civilian world.