most good people are appalled by
violence because they expect violent
criminal actors to think like they do
friends they don't welcome to today's
act of self-protection lesson I'm your
host John Correa today's video comes to
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this one the woman who's sitting at the
machine has coughed on this other woman
who's in blue and she's angry about that
and so she comes over and just starts
wailing a tune on her apparently the
woman in gray had said hey get these
guys out of here cuz she's gotten angry
cuz the woman had coughed while she was
sitting next to her at the slot machine
and therefore there's all this big
challenge that's coming and she is just
gonna beat the tar out of her and
actually kick her down right there and
when she kicks her she you know all the
bills in her hand come out like sonic
that just got hit and they're gonna grab
up all her money and her cell phone and
she's gonna try to fight for for a
minute but they fight her off and run
off and that's where this one ends she's
terrible stuff all the way around here
tons of lessons for us to think about
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there so first of all I want to think
about de-escalation escape and avoidance
skills you see these guys here they're
having an argument clearly we can see
there's some kind of brewing conflict
here when you see this kind of thing
again she she coughed in their vicinity
and they said oh she's gross or whatever
so she tries to have them kicked out of
the store and they're having this thing
of who's allowed to be here who's in
charge and those kinds of things can't
tell you enough friends I get it you
might be right but that right might get
you into a fight learn the art of
de-escalation escape and avoidance
things like how to win friends and
influence people things like verbal judo
learning how to use your voice and your
mindset to get you out of fights always
incredibly important now then sometimes
you don't get the only vote the bad guy
gets a vote and this woman comes over
and absolutely drills err okay fine you
can't always avoid that first attack but
you've got to recognize when that comes
you've got to have great
emotional fitness to be able to flip the
switch now I think there were the
brewing
you know argument and those kinds of
things she might have been switched on a
little bit ahead of time if she was
smart but in those instances don't turn
your back on threats and have the
emotional fitness to be able to turn it
on and know how to defend yourself this
woman really didn't have either one of
those
now then she gets taken by the hair and
pushed down to the ground we want to
talk about having some ground fighting
skills and some standing grappling
skills yes that takes work yes that's
not always comfortable but it's
important for self defenders to have
because again the bad guy gets a vote in
when the fight starts and where the
fight goes I know a lot of people that
say well I'd never be taken to the
ground all just stuff a takedown that
doesn't always work guys
it's not even stuffing a takedown here
she got grabbed by the hair and pulled
to the ground where your head goes your
body goes and if you don't know how to
fight in those positions you are in big
trouble in that moment especially
knowing how to get up and I think that's
probably this lady's biggest problem she
doesn't know what to do in this instance
the woman has her hair and she doesn't
know how to stop the attacks from coming
nor have the emotional fitness to start
to defend herself so having all of those
I think incredibly important and
probably the biggest thing here now I do
notice that eventually she's going to
try to get up or whatever and get her
phone back friends I think that this is
a bad idea put her in a worse spot as
well finally I do want to say let's
remember the fact that violent criminal
actors simply don't think like us they
don't follow the same set of social
rules that you and I do they will do
what they think is best in the moment to
get whatever it is they want so learning
the art of verbal de-escalation
incredibly important for good people but
knowing how to fight and how to fight
effectively with our tools without in
with just with our hands incredibly
important so then that way we can defend
ourselves if these things come our way
and if we ignore those we will have a
heck of a hard time covering our Aspen
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