R.A.D. Systems
23305 Hwy 16
Denham Springs, LA 70726
Voice: (225) 791-4430
Fax: (225) 791-4431
Hours: 10am-3pm Central

R.A.D. Systems: Founder Larry Nadeau

Lawrence N. Nadeau is an honorably discharged United States Marine, who served as a military police officer from July 4, 1980 to July 4, 1984. Upon leaving the Marine Corp. Larry entered the civilian law enforcement profession, working in the Virginia state university police system for five years, and then served for many years as a sworn police officer in the city of Poquoson, Virginia until March of 1998. While with the Poquoson City Police Department, he served as the Department Training Office and Field Training Coordinator in addition to his patrol duties. In 1989 Larry founded Rape Aggression Defense (R.A.D.) Systems and served as the organizations Executive Director until June of 1998, when he turned organization management over to four of his senior female Staff Instructors. Today R.A.D. is a nationally recognized alliance of self-defense educators dedicated to enhancing defensive options for women and children, while developing their abilities to manage aggressive and violent behavior. R.A.D. is the largest organization of its kind and it is the only such organization or program ever endorsed by the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA). Larry now serves the Executive Board of R.A.D. Systems as the Director of Instructional Development, where he continues to guide and oversee all system Staff Instructors, Instructor Trainers and active R.A.D. Instructors within the alliance. Larry's self defense philosophies have been taught at over one thousand colleges, universities, city, county and parish police departments nationwide and in Canada, in addition to being taught at numerous sexual assault resource centers. While still the Executive Director of R.A.D. Systems, Larry formed a panel of experts to assist him in the development of the radKIDS System. This program has certified hundreds of Instructors in the United States and Canada, who teach children from 5-10 years of age and their parents, safety and awareness strategies.

Larry was the first male Executive Board Member of the American Women's Self Defense Association (AWSDA) from 1992 to 1995, and now serves on the Advisory Board of the National Self Defense Institute (NSDI) located in Miami Beach, Florida. He is also the Director of Training for NSDI, which is a non-profit organization dedicated to sharing awareness information about personal safety and self-defense.

Larry holds a 3rd Degree Black Belt from the International Hapkido Karate Association (IHKA), given to him by 9th Degree Grand Master Lee Jung Bai of Seoul, Korea, who personally trained him in the martial art of Hapkido.

Larry is a nationally recognized police defensive tactics instructor and has been one of the few instructors responsible for teaching Instructor Certification Courses for the Commonwealth of Virginia from 1989 to 2001. In addition Larry was an Adjunct Instructor for the International Training Division of Heckler and Koch (HK) located in Sterling, Virginia from 1996 to 2001. With his professional ally, Gary T. Klugiewicz, Larry designed and taught the RedMan Simulation Certification programs for HK and RedMan Training Gear from 1996 to 2001.

Larry was also a member of the RedMan Advisory Board (1995 - 2001) and remains a consultant to Macho Products, Inc. who manufactures RedMan police training gear and martial arts training equipment. His design input and testing refinements resulted in the worlds' first manufacturer produced self-defense training suit, which was in turn called the R.A.D. Systems Aggressor. This suit became, without modification, the Enhanced RedMan Suit for police survival oriented defensive tactics training.

The American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers (ASLET) appointed Larry as a Regional Director in 1993 where he spearheads the promotion of quality law enforcement training in the mid Atlantic and nationally until 2000. Larry was an ASLET Staff Instructor from 1994 - 2000, teaching in conferences and seminars around the country. He has been published in numerous law enforcement magazines, journals and newsletters, and has been featured in SWAT magazine, The Campus Law Enforcement Journal, Law Enforcement Trainer magazine and The Police Marksman magazine. Larry has also appeared on the Law Enforcement Television Network (LETN) over twelve (12) times with regard to police defensive tactics, self-defense and simulation training methods. He is a frequent presenter at state, national and international training forums, and he has been the guest speaker at numerous professional and awareness oriented functions.

As a result of streamlining his professional endeavors in 2000-2001, Larry was able to introduce the much anticipated R.A.D. FOR MEN Program in the March of 2001, which was the culmination of many years of research and refinement. Resisting Aggression with Defense, for Men is the "brother" program of the ground breaking and highly acclaimed Rape Aggression Defense Program for Women.

Larry currently teaches self defense and police tactics upon request as a consultant, through the National Academy of Defense Education, (formerly the Tidewater Academy of Self-Defense) which is currently located in Poquoson, Virginia. He is the author of numerous training manuals which are a concise summary of the police defensive tactics and self-defense philosophies he has learned, developed and refined over the last twenty-one (21) years (1980-2001).