“My integrated control system has an emphasis on ground control. Time and again, I have observed that this is the area where most Law Enforcement officers need serious additional training.”
In addition to the actual training, One-On-One Control Tactics offers courses and certifications in Women’s Self-Defense, Pepper Spray Use, Baton Use, Handcuff Use, Talon Close Quarter Impact Weapons Use, and Tactics Instruction.
Jimerfield’s qualifications as a self-defense instructor are extensive and impressive – with Judo, Jujitsu and Karate under his belt. “I took the best from each and developed a system that works on the street,” he explained. His expertise in each area had been honed under the guidance of three separate martial artists over a 25-plus-years period – Karate sensei Carl Stuart; Judo sensei Phillip Porter; and Professor Wally Jay, founder of Small Circle Jujitsu. “Training with these great men,” he said, “gave me the opportunity and ability to adapt martial arts for the street.”
As a martial artist, Jimerfield has exhibited proficiency and skill, with multiple inductions into the Martial Arts Hall of Fame and awards received – Master Instructor of the Year, Most Distinguished Master of the Year, and Grand Master of the Year, to name a few accolades. The effectiveness of his system and his academy is evidenced by the awards he has received as Law Enforcement Trainer of the Year, Law Enforcement Defense Tactics Instructor of the Year, and the prestigious Phillip S. Porter Lifetime Achievement Award.
A look at both his life and career sheds light on his intense drive and desire to perform public service. After his 1964 graduation from Crook County High School in Prineville, Oregon, Jimerfield joined the Coast Guard and served two tours in Vietnam, where he served as a 1st Class Boatswains Mate on a ship that provided gunfire support control. After Vietnam, he joined the Intelligence division of the Coast Guard as a Criminal Investigator from 1970 to 1975. “While we were in Vietnam,” he stated, “there were people doing drugs in my unit. I found them on the ship we were on, but nothing ever came of it. When I got back to the States, a friend of mine had been in Intelligence, and we discussed going into Intelligence. Back in Vietnam, one of my seamen was AWOL, and Intelligence contacted me in reference to his drug use. From that, we got into the rest of the people doing drugs, and then it just progressed and I was accepted into Intelligence,” said Jimerfield.
After his five years as Criminal Investigator, Jimerfield joined the Alaska State Troopers and served with them for 16 years. It was during this period that his best friend and partner, Bruce A. Heck, had been killed by the ex-con. “Bruce and I worked together on graveyard shift for 13 years,” he recalled. “He often said that if it were not for me, he probably would have never been an Alaska State Trooper,” a feeling of responsibility which Jimerfield turned into a determination to prevent such future tragedies.
“He was the best backup I could ever have asked for in any situation,” Jimerfield continued. “He was there when I was in trouble and backed me up time and again. I was his field training officer, the best man at his wedding, and I was there when his first child was born. We knew everything about each other. He was [planning] to retire at the same time I did – June 30, 1997.”
The discipline of Jimerfield’s martial arts background certainly helped him to handle that loss and turn it into a positive. A staff instructor within the Alaskan State Department for over six years, he founded One-On-One Control Tactics after retiring from that department. “It is my hope that by teaching and sharing the One-On-One Control Tactics system, other officers will not die in the manner that Bruce did – in a hand-to-hand confrontation with a criminal.”
He continues teaching martial arts in a practical and useful way and to anyone who looks to feel more secure and safer walking or patrolling the streets. What began as a personal loss has now turned into a successful training system and academy with a positive benefit to our society. His obviously successful One-on-One-Control-Tactics springs from his physical skills and his heart.
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