This is kind of cool. Stand up for a second.
Here's what I want you to do: put it on my forehead,
so it's on my forehead right now. Pull the trigger.
You were fuckin' wrong, there's a bullet in there. Don't play around with guns, seriously.
Cock the hammer again. So watch this, I'm going to put my hands up here—
so I turn around, he puts a gun in my face. Is this a congruous position
with my hands? What's congruous?
If a guy stuck a gun in your face, would he expect you to put your hands up in fear?
Yeah. He wouldn't expect this, right?
So if I turn around and there's a gun there and I go, "Whoa, dude, you fuckin' scared the shit outta me."
Do you see how close my hands are? But that's behaviorally sound
so we call this a non-violent posture.
The non-violent posture principle is based on this trojan-horse theory that I like to share.
Trojan-horse theory is this, real simple:
Remember the trojan-horse myth? Wooden horse, warriors inside.
So when I look at you and I'm going, "What's this wooden horse doing here?"
I don't want to ever see the warrior inside.
Never betray the element of surprise, so you never want the bad guy
—so stick the gun in my face.
And I'm like, "Put the fuckin' gun down, I'm a trained fuckin' assassin."
That might get you shot in the face right away. So this is congruous
behavior. This only works if the bad guy has made the first
mistake. What's the first mistake?
He didn't kill you. And some people go, "He didn't shoot you." No, he didn't kill you.
Because people can still fight when they're shot.
What's the next mistake he made?
He started talking. Those who talk can usually be persuaded to walk.
Now, maybe you can talk the guy down like the Atlanta thing.
But I want you to check this out: So, we did this here, where I had
you pull the trigger, right? Now what I want you to do
is I want you to pull the trigger when I move.
And everyone be real quiet, pull the trigger when I move.
You're a fast athlete, pull the trigger when I move.
Get ready.
You see how slow I'm fucking going?
Pull the trigger when I move.
If I went like this here, shot one off here, now I just broke his finger,
I'm in his face, whatever I have to do, it's right there.
Watch this. You were a lot faster that time but it still missed, right?
All he's doing as an athlete is going, "Fucking Blauer, I'm going to get him
this time." But what he's not doing,
is—re-cock it.
Do you think it hit me there? No. So it's this sort of thing. Now you're
a mugger so what are you going to ask me for?
Give me your wallet. Did it even fire yet?
It didn't fuckin' fire yet. Because while he's going,
"Give me your wallet"—now check this out.
You're going to fire when I move but now you're abducting me, you want to take me and bring me
to that office there.
Get your ass back there!
Shot goes off here. Dave, what happens if I grab a pistol and a shot goes off?
It's not cycling ... (inaudible) ... and you won't get cut.
Even if you've got a good grip on it—we've tested this—people freak out, you don't have to go to a range and do this, but if
you grab that gun and a shot goes off, you just jammed the gun.
It's now inoperable. But that doesn't even matter.
Ernie and Bert jump in here, now let's say—Don't fire.
Give me some command. Get back there. So I do this
—don't fire. Now turn and point it towards me.
So what I'm doing—and eventually I'm going to go two hands—
point it towards me. So let's break this down here for
body mechanics. The weakest muscles in this kinetic chain
here are the rear delts.
Every movement I'm doing—all you've got to remember is this—
you know the question mark, what should I do now? And you've got that lightbulb? Follow the lightbulb.
You guys get the visual there?
It's like you're trying to turn an angle here and watch what I'm going to do. Watch this, turn it towards me.
If I try to do this, if this was like Dave Lipson or Jeremy or somebody, I might be like whoa!
But check this out, as hard as you can, drive into my throat.
So I just follow the shape of either a question mark—and I can swing him around here.
because I'm attacking the rear delts.
It doesn't matter. Jeremy, come in here.
You're way bigger. So get a good grip on it.
So we're locked over here—drive into my face.
You see how it went up? Drive into my face. It goes up.
Now, I need to be doing this—boom! I just did a mountain climber to his nuts.
We get caught in here—front rack, right?
Gouge his eyes, bite his hand,
reach for the seatbelt, you just got to start going crazy. But the movements
that we're doing here are things you all can do. You can
watch this shit—people do this, people have done this in fights.
And they've never trained with me, they never did a class because what I'm doing is saying, hey,
bite the guy, don't be in front of the hole.
Get fuckin' pissed. Indignation is my favorite word in our
courses. We make people write that down—indignation. Because
you'll hear in some self-defense circles you've got to get angry.
Every time I've gotten angry it costs me something, right?
Indignation is something different. Indignation is that moment where I go, "How dare you."
"How dare you come into my life and (inaudible) crime scene, how dare you
try to rape me, how dare you do this to my kids."