today in lovely Costa Rica it looks an
awful lot like Houston
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hi friends welcome to today's lesson
here at active Self Protection I'm your
host John Korea today's video comes to
us from Patel de San Carlos in Costa
Rica though you would be forgiven if you
thought it was in Houston Texas now more
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helping a customer here and if you go
watch the original he's been helping him
for about a minute just you know
answering questions about features on
stuff so now the guy is going to start
digging in his backpack and what you're
going to see here is he's going to make
a furtive gesture there a glance around
and then he's going to pull a gun on the
clerk now the the clerk tries to give
him his cell phone the guy's like nah
man I don't want your cell phone
whatever and talks to him a little bit I
don't have any information about what he
said but now what he wants apparently is
this cell phone that is sitting here he
didn't want the clerks he wanted the
demo phone there and so he's gonna try
to pry it out from the security feature
put his gun down to do so pick his gun
back up and run off clerk wasn't hurt
and we get to think about some
significant lessons here so a question
for you out of today's video would you
have taken the opportunity to try to
stop the guy or was just letting him
have it the right answer I think at
least we got to get the heck out of the
danger zone let's think about lessons
first things first again I've worked in
retail for a number of years you want to
help a customer you also want to pay
attention to your world and know when a
customer might turn into an attacker and
in particular here he's digging into his
backpack and now he starts with a clue
so so he gives you an a idea here that
bad things are coming because he's not
looking at what he's getting out of his
bag now he's looking around to see if
there are any Witnesses or those kinds
of things and your answer here in my
opinion is either to get way away from
the guy in other words you see that
happen and take a couple big steps back
so that you've got some space to get the
heck out of there or get real close as
he's doing that so as it starts to come
out of the bag you can stuff that draw
from the bag and go from there if you
have to now this worked out for him here
so success is a wonderful deodorant not
worried about that now notice here that
our bad guy puts the gun right up to him
and our clear kind of Paws at it we see
that all the time oh man and people kind
of touch it keep that away from me
that'll bite me like a snake now if you
wanted to do a disarm here he actually
has the opportunity because we talk
about that plus one of distance being
the prerequisite in order to get
anything done and the bad guy's actually
given that to him here by putting his
gun hand closest to him and the gun in
proximity so now if he wanted to the 5Ds
show up right so we deflect dominate
distract disarm disable that's what we
see work in actual gun fights in actual
disarms all the time but instead okay
I'm gonna comply man do whatever you
want now this one's interesting to me
because you see the guy here it's like
okay man you want my cell phone he's
like no I don't want your cell phone I
want this other one so it seems like
this is like a thief with a conscience I
guess a little bit that he's not trying
to victimize the clerk he's just trying
to steal the cell phone from the company
or whatever I don't think it's any
morally better that he's stealing from
the company than from the clerk but
that's a clue to the clerk that he
doesn't mean him any ill now what I
would strongly encourage all of us to do
in these particular cases is that that
in that case you think okay the guy
doesn't really want anything to do with
me so instead what I would really
encourage you to do is get the heck out
of the danger zone just get out of there
as fast as you possibly can so then that
way you are out of the danger zone
instead he kind of sticks around here
now I know I want to talk just a little
bit about this idea of course that he
has Put the gun down but I want you to
notice that our purp here has put
himself between the gun that he just put
down in the clerk so we see in a lot of
cases when a perk puts a gun down in
order to pick stuff up that you can grab
that gun and turn the tables on them in
this particular case I think that would
have been a very bad idea because I
think that the perp still has a definite
control over the gun and our clerk is
not going to be able to get that control
so knowing that nope wrong answer that
would be what Craig Douglas would call a
timing error trying to do that and so we
want to stay away from that worked out
in this case okay fine man you want to
steal stuff take this stuff I'm not
willing to fight you for it I don't have
anything else I would strongly recommend
you do your best to get out of the
danger zone know when your opportunities
are if you want to use them to cover
your asp