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This month we'll comment on two videos: one from the Guided Chaos youtube channel and the other a surveillance video capturing a real life self-defense altercation.
The Guided Chaos video shows that it is best not to play around with locks or holds especially against an assailant with serious deadly intent.
This second video shows a robbery attempt. The entire event took less than ten minutes, but for the store employees, it must have seemed like an eternity. Fortunately for the employees, the perpetrator was only armed with a knife. Anyone can play the Monday morning quarterback with videos like these, so I'm not going to say too much. I can't criticize the manager for being the hero. As I mentioned in class, what are you willing to do and what are you prepared to deal with before the spit hits the fan? Will you let a perp go and allow law-enforcement to handle everything or will you do what this manager did? Either way would be all right, although the manager risked his own safety by holding on to the perp. Good for him that the perp didn't have a second knife or even a gun. Using the ideas from the first video, you'll see that it was quite a challenge to try and control the perp. (And for you MMA nuts, what technique did the manager use to control the would-be robber? Hint at 3:33)
December 11, 2007
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all i have to say about the attempted robbery is wow the manger decided he was not going to let this guy get away and toke control of the situation, notice he got the huge knife and could have easily ingured or killed the man but held back and just restrained him till the cops came which was the right thing to do. and the first video the guy could not even grab his arm or anything awsome flow.
ReplyDeleteJust wacthed the vid with the 70 year old guard, man no one needs to help him out, hes one of those old people you just dont step on there front lawn ahha jk, hes probaly very nice.
ReplyDeleteth first vid, it kinda looked like th guys arm was like rubber, i thought it was kool how he could not put a lock on him, if tht guy also put in some punches in, th officer would hav no chance, and th second vid, it was brave of tht manager to defend th store and did wat he did, i personally would hav done th same thing, i bet ya he was trained in some sort of martial arts, which he used in this situation to restrain th suspect
ReplyDeleteThanks for responding so soon! Lt. Col. Al is one of my many instructors in Guided Chaos. I've only flowed with him a couple of times and I was barely able to hit him. And I practically ran into his strikes! For the second vid, I'll simply quote Robert Siciliano, a protective security expert: "If you survived, you did the right thing."
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