Chief Instructor
Alexis Dallaire
Alexis (Al-ex-ee) is the founder of Live To Train Tactical, delivering empowering training since 2013. He dedicated his entire professional life to the safety and security of Canadians at home and abroad and delivers training based on over a quarter century's worth of security experience. Alexis had an 18-year career with the Canadian Armed Forces' Infantry, spending 6 of those years seconded to the RCMP, a use of force instructor for CBSA for 10 years as well as contracting and consulting for over 2 dozen government agencies, law enforcement departments and security staff around the world. Alexis is aware of expats' realities, working and travelling throughout South and Central America, North Africa, Europe and SE Asia, delivering security training at Canadian missions in Algiers, Tunis and Jakarta.
Alexis was fortunate to learn a wealth of hard lessons at home and abroad (getting robbed, attacked, mobbed, threatened, followed, scammed, shot at...), making him a "Red Teaming" expert with a drive to constantly innovate TTPs (Tactics, Techniques and Procedures) and training. By playing the role of the “threat” on criminal or Use of Force scenarios, direct action training, Emergency Response Team training, Battle Group exercises and National Level Joint Operations Training exercises, he rigorously challenges security drills, training, protocols and infrastructure in order to improve them for the future. Alexis finds this experience to have exponentially raised his situational awareness skills and his capacity to teach it.
Alexis managed a “fight” lab for a decade and awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for it. Training close quarter combat to soldiers, police and security, sustaining numerous injuries in the process but learning, teaching and testing 2 dozen martial arts and self-defense systems, all to dismiss nearly the totality of its techniques in favour of the application of instinctive and intrinsic human defensive mechanisms. Mechanisms we all have as humans.
This broad experience is why Alexis excels at synergistically combining military and law enforcement concepts to everyday civilian life.
Alexis is a proud Bonus Dad, a husband, a multiple times Pistol Champion, Ironman triathlete, Boston Marathoner, Expedition Adventure Racer, almost vegan, fitness coach, yoga practitioner.
“Understanding the world is a game of perspectives.”
“Ignorance is the root of all evil.”
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