Torin Hill, Master Instructor

Instructor, Director of Training


Master Instructor Torin Hill began the TORIS organization to categorize the research findings from disparate fields related to human injury, and develop training curricula to use that research for tactical advantage. By recognizing the value of injury biomechanics, sports injury and emergency medicine as empirical data sources, he has refuted historical soft-science and martial mythology—and instituted a paradigm shift from self-defense and fighting to the objective goal of debilitating injury in lethal force settings.


In addition to the requisite training and teaching to become a Master Instructor, Mr. Hill has had direct involvment in the training and examination of 30 Instructors, collaborated in the development and evaluation of 4 Master Instructors, and directly trained law enforcement, military, and civilian sector clients numbering in the thousands—which uniquely qualifies Mr. Hill as an expert in human movement mechanics, as it applies to teaching debilitating injury.


Mr. Hill founded the criteria for written personal accountability and risk management testing in personal lethal force training. He also pioneered both the uniquely-integrated firearms and personal lethal force training and the use of human motion synthesis animation for the prescriptive teaching of debilitating injury and resulting body dynamics that define the TORIS product offering.


The chief editor of Practical Injury: Sites, Mechanisms, and Results and co-author of Human Collision Injuries, Mr. Hill has authored monographs on the Criteria for High-Density Training and co-developed monographs on Striking, Joint-Breaking, and Throwing. He is a principal developer of the distinction between Antisocial Aggression and Asocial Violence in this domain.


Using programs created through TORIS, Mr. Hill has taught members of multifarious Military and Law Enforcement agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of State Diplomatic Security Service, California Highway Patrol, and the US Border Patrol. He created and delivered a presentation entitled: "The Sites of Injuries and Their Effects" to top US Customs and Border Protection personnel, and has taught multiple seminars domestically and internationally: New York, Dallas, Phoenix, Las Vegas, San Diego, Hong Kong, and at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in New Mexico.


Mr. Hill is a NRA Certified Instructor and Range Safety Officer, and currently the Director of Training for the TORIS organization.


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TORIS Research

Due to the serious nature of providing personnel with information on debilitating injury, as it applies to lethal force, TORIS is dedicated to ensuring that the most current scientific information is the foundation upon which all of our curricula are designed. This ensures that personal lethal force curricula are based upon demonstrable scientific fact, which has been directly investigated and evaluated by TORIS as well as by our collaborative partners.Read more…

 

Curriculum Design

Training for lethal force situations prepares operators for the most stressful and highest-risk moments of an entire career. Regardless of the tools used, the training must ingrain the ability to deliver sufficient injury to stop a lethal threat and the judgment to use that ability properly. Firearms are a core portion of an operator’s training, but it is easy to foresee deadly situations where a firearm is difficult or impossible to bring to bear. Unable to draw, a mechanical failure, struggling for control of a weapon…Read more…

Risk Management

With the ad hoc nature of Defensive Tactics (DT) technique selection, most agencies are operating without soundly engineered and medically reviewed DT programs. When instructors are untrained in the associated knowledge of injury mechanisms, scope, and probability, they may fail to communicate the actual risk of serious injury. In addition, there may be liberal use-of-force policies that do not take into account the disguised risk of injury… Read more…

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