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==Johnny Lee Smith==

==Johnny Lee Smith==

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”’Johnny Lee Smith”’ is an American law-enforcement defensive tactics instructor, curriculum developer, and martial arts instructor. He is the founder of ”’Strategic Self-Defense and Gunfighting Tactics (SSGT)”’, a training organization that provides defensive tactics and instructor-development programs for sworn law-enforcement personnel and security professionals in the United States.

”’Johnny Lee Smith”’ is an American law-enforcement defensive tactics instructor, curriculum developer, and martial arts instructor. He is the founder of ”’Strategic Self-Defense and Gunfighting Tactics (SSGT)”’, a training organization that provides defensive tactics and programs for sworn law-enforcement personnel and security professionals in the United States.

Smith has worked with state, local, and federal agencies on defensive tactics training, use-of-force instruction, and instructor certification, and has served as an expert consultant and witness in use-of-force matters.

Smith has worked with state, local, and federal agencies on defensive tactics training, use-of-force instruction, and instructor certification, and has served as an expert consultant and witness in use-of-force matters.

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Johnny Lee Smith is an American law-enforcement defensive tactics instructor, curriculum developer, and martial arts instructor. He is the founder of Strategic Self-Defense and Gunfighting Tactics (SSGT), a training organization that provides defensive tactics and firearms programs for sworn law-enforcement personnel and security professionals in the United States.

Smith has worked with state, local, and federal agencies on defensive tactics training, use-of-force instruction, and instructor certification, and has served as an expert consultant and witness in use-of-force matters.

Smith attended the University of North Alabama and Wallace State College between 1987 and 1991.

Smith began developing defensive tactics curricula for criminal justice professionals in the late 1990s. In 1998, he founded Strategic Self-Defense and Gunfighting Tactics (SSGT), which later became a mandated or approved component of law-enforcement training programs in multiple states.

In 2003, SSGT defensive tactics instruction became a required component of basic training curricula for all state and regional law-enforcement academies in Alabama under the Alabama Peace Officers’ Standards and Training Commission. Smith was certified as a Specialized Instructor by the same commission that year.

Smith has held instructor certifications from multiple state training authorities, including the Mississippi Peace Officers’ Standards and Training Commission and the Alaska Police Standards Council. He has also served as an adjunct instructor at the Regional Counterdrug Training Academy in Meridian, Mississippi.

In 2014, Alabama police academies were required to deliver a standardized number of training hours using Smith’s Vanguard defensive tactics programs. Smith has also developed defensive tactics programs for private-sector security organizations, including a corporate security training program for The Home Depot.

In 2020, Smith was retained by a national law firm as an expert consultant on use-of-force matters. He has served as an expert witness in use-of-force cases in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.

In 2024, Smith was retained by the Tennessee Corrections Institute to develop a statewide defensive tactics program for correctional officers.

Smith developed the Vanguard Level One and Vanguard Level Two defensive tactics programs as instructor-level curricula for law-enforcement training environments. The programs are designed to provide structured technique selection, instructional sequencing, and standardized presentation methods for academy and in-service training.

The Vanguard programs are taught through certified instructor courses and are used by law-enforcement agencies and academies across multiple U.S. states.

Smith has studied Gracie/Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu since the early 1990s. He trained extensively under Rickson Gracie and Carlos Machado and was promoted to sixth-degree black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under Machado in 2025.

Smith is also a black belt in Kobayashi Shorin Ryu and Tang Soo Do Moo Duk Kwan. In 1996, he founded Triad Martial Arts, Inc., a martial arts academy based in Alabama.

He has coached and instructed competitors who have participated in national and international martial arts competitions.

In the 1990s, Smith appeared in several film and television productions, including the television series WMAC Masters, where he portrayed the character “Tiger Claw.” He also worked in supporting and choreography roles in feature films, including Batman & Robin (1997) and Body Snatchers (1993)

In 2023, Smith received the John Edgar Hoover Memorial Gold Medal for Distinguished Public Service.

Smith is a co-inventor of the Gun Lasso, a firearm stabilizing device developed beginning in 2012.

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