About

- TIM PIPES

Bio: Tim Pipes is a full-time law enforcement professional, currently employed by a mid-sized West-Central Texas City Department as a Detective assigned to the agency's Major Crimes Bureau. Coach Tim began his law enforcement career in 1993 and his experience ranges from undercover narcotics, street crimes, and patrol/field training officer, to 11 years on the SWAT team and SWAT competition team, and now 8 years on the homicide unit. Coach Tim has studied many different martial arts and combatives systems and styles, and began teaching combatives and defensive tactics to law enforcement in 2001. Since then, Coach Tim developed into a frequent instructor for combatives/DT, police emergency/pursuit driving, patrol tactics, mechanics of arrest, firearms, fitness, CrossFit, SWAT tactics, and OC/chemical and impact munitions/distraction devices for Police, SWAT, and the US Department of State. He was owner and head coach of CrossFit Benedictus in Abilene, TX for five years and now owns WarriorFit Athlete LLC. He has literally traveled around the world teaching as part of mobile training teams, instructing CrossFit Specialty seminars in Striking and SPEAR/Defense for one of the most elite fitness companies in the world, as well as SPEAR/Personal Defense Readiness courses for Blauer Tactical, one of the most trusted self-defense companies in the world. Coach Tim contributed an article about CrossFit SPEAR/Defense for the CrossFit Journal that was published in January 2016 entitled "Defense Never Rests."

CERTIFICATIONS & QUALIFICATIONS:

A MESSAGE FROM COACH TIM:

"You know... the realities are upon us:

Viable personal defense skills are the single greatest skills that you could ever possess and hope to never have to use.

TRUE self-defense.

You have found the Big Country's BEST firearms & self-defense training available.

And the BEST training that I can offer you after 30 years of professional experience dealing directly with human violence + 22 years of teaching, coaching, and instructing combatives and fitness for Law Enforcement, SWAT, Military/DOS, and civilians alike.

As a personal defense specialist AND an experienced instructor and coach, it is my goal to help make YOU better and safer.

...through fitness/functional movement, awareness, fear management, and personal defense skills including detection/deescalation/weaponless strategies for safety and close-quarters protection, and firearms. Learn to be your own bodyguard!

Register for a course ASAP to continue your preparation."

Camp Barkeley

OUR GUN TRAINING FACILITY

Camp Barkeley once was a large United States Army training installation during World War II, and now is being used for multiple other great causes in Abilene, Texas.