Luke Corazza, MA, MEd
Instructor, Director of Instructional Design
Luke Corazza has demonstrated an ongoing interest in developing effective curricula through his career in education and lethal force instruction. He currently teaches mathematics at a California distinguished high school in San Diego California where he works to create interdisciplinary curriculum at the high school level. This position was the natural evolution of his graduate work at the University of California at San Diego— where Mr. Corazza earned master's degrees in both mathematics and education. During this time, he researched the effects of small group composition on outcomes in a constructivist setting.
Mr. Corazza’s work in graduate school had direct impact on his work in the field of lethal force. After earning an Instructor credential in 2004, he has since been the primary teacher for two additional Instructors, trained numerous intermediate level students, and a large continuum of civilian students. In response to the lack of unit-based and objective-driven learning, as codified in most available martial arts programs, Mr. Corazza has worked to develop a systematic educational approach to lethal force.
Mr. Corraza is the Director of Instructional Design for TORIS, supported by Associate Director Viatcheslav M. Popovsky, PhD.
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…