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I'm Bob Schrupp physical therapist, Brad Heineck physical therapist, together we are the most famous physical therapists on the internet
In our opinion of course Bob. Best self-defense technique in a home or parking lot
Underground right, oh parking ramp there you go.
Don't worry about it, it happens to me, too
Okay, so this is a story I want to tell everyone
There's a 12 year old girl
her and her mother took a self-defense class from me, by the way, I
Was a second degree black belt for 17 years, and I was in martial arts for 17 years
I was only a second degree for about five years, but I taught self-defense to this twelve-year-old girl and her mother were part of the class
This technique we're going to go through today in this video I taught them and
It was just a week later that girl had gone home after school
Her parents were gone, the door was open on the house
she was scared like who's in the house, and we talked about these situations in class and
She used this technique that we're gonna go through to keep herself safe and getting hold of her mother actually is
What she did so we're gonna, cliffhanger!
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So anyways what I want to talk about is this self defense, very common situation you're in
Either could be an office your home a parking ramp an enclosed area where there's an exit okay?
There's always a door to get in and out of a room oftentimes two sometimes three
But you're in it. You're almost trapped, and you need to get out of there
It's a situation where let's say you're working late at night in your office you hear somebody in the office
And you know no one's supposed to be there, okay in this situation a 12 year-old girl comes home to the house
The door's open she knows no one's home from work, she's scared
There's no direct threat yet, but maybe something's going on and we need to be safe
Okay, the wisest thing for her to do by the way would not to have gone in the house and gone to a neighbor's but
In the fact that she did go in the house
She did the right thing, she did live in a rural area, so they didn't have neighbors
It was a wooded area
She was kind of stuck wasn't she, or the other place is a parking ramp
You come out from the store or maybe from the bar or whatever it may be
Your car's by yourself or a few cars and you hear someone
Or you're really suspicious that you're not in there by yourself
How are you going to get to the safe exit or to your car safely?
Shall we go on? Let's go on. Do you want to demonstrate here? First thing I'm gonna recommend
Have something to protect yourself and I'm gonna have it right here
I think a tactical flashlight is probably one of the best defense
Weapons you can have and we just did a video on why, so you can, it was entitled
"Single best self-defense weapon on the street or home" and so you
If you want to look up that title, it'll go into detail why I think this is such a good device to have
We may go into more of it at the end of the video today.
Okay, so what we're gonna do is this is called the friendly wall technique.
Obviously we don't have the ideal situation here, so we made up a mock wall here
This is gonna be a wall in this room. Let's say this is a parking ramp. Okay. It's large of course
I'm walking out to my car, my car's in this direction. I need to get around that corner to get to my car
It's very quiet and all of a sudden I hear someone, some noise, and it's like this is not safe
I don't feel comfortable here
I need to get over here to the exit, the safe exit for me
Is around this corner to my car and also there's an exit to get out to the public area that way as well
Pay attention to your intuition and your sixth sense, that's
Exactly right if the hairs on the back here next stand up you respect that
And you just pay attention to it, your body's telling you something
So if I'm in the middle of an open room whether it's in a parking ramp or in your office
You have to be aware of your surroundings, and not just what's in front of you
But what's behind you because that's a lot more dangerous than what's in front of you because you can't see it
No eyes behind your head
So we need to eliminate the threat from behind us, what we don't know
So that's where the friendly wall comes in, you know a wall is not gonna attack you, it's not gonna grab ahold of you
It's not gonna do anything to you, so you use the friendly wall and you back up against the wall
And now I only have a 180 degrees for surveillance, okay the next thing you're gonna do
is you're gonna put your hands up in this position because of the tactical flashlight
If you don't have the flashlight
You're gonna do that anyways
Because if someone is going to come around this corner and strike you or grab you, if your hands are here
You're in a good position to protect your head and face because there are a number of targets you want to protect
So this is a position you're going to be in, against the wall you're gonna be very aware of what's going on around you
This is the part, this wall is friendly
Don't stand there yet Bob, Oh
Remember I need to get over here to the safe exit or to your car, this wall is not friendly because you have no idea
If there's anybody there, you've heard somebody, you're pretty sure someone's in this area
And that could be the unfriendly wall, so I'm here, I know I have to get to my safe exit
So Bob is gonna be the bad guy
So how am I going to get around this wall or discover if that wall is safe or friendly?
Okay, I'm gonna show the improper way to do it first. Okay. Let's say I'm coming up here
Unfriendly wall, I gotta find out if it's friendly or not. I'm gonna poke my head around there
Obviously particularly if I have a head of hair and that person grabs my hair, pulls you down, you're completely vulnerable
for an attack, full out assault
And you're very vulnerable to being injured or attacked or assaulted so you're not going to check that wall out
By looking around in a tight corner. This is where
The light comes in really handy
Here, I'm up to that corner, when I get within two or three yards
My hands are gonna be up and I'm gonna circle around
And if I see someone there if you got the light you're gonna shine, I'm not gonna shine at Bob's eyes
This is not fun to get in your eyes, but I'm gonna shine towards his belly
You're gonna shine it
Even if that person is not going to assault you, you haven't done anything to them, they're going to see dots. Yeah
These lights are pretty bright, and that's what they're made for
You just see like the camera, lights out
That's what happens, and it goes away after a minute or two
But there's no reason anybody should be doing that anyways
They shouldn't be here, if they're there and they're friendly, they gotta learn they shouldn't do that
So this is gonna help, so they won't get hurt
But you it gives you time,
On the other hand if that person comes after you you're going to use the light, shine it right into their eyes
Now nice thing about a tactical flashlight
You're gonna hold it like this. You don't hold a tactical flashlight like this, you can point well with this
But it doesn't work well, if you hold it here it's very convenient and these edges
These edges, they're not razor sharp, but they're plenty sharp
to cause damage
Particularly you're gonna strike to the person's face, right towards their eyes because you need to be safe
and you're gonna be very serious about what you're doing and
That strike if it does not hit the eyes, it's gonna hit the bone or the forehead
It's gonna open up the skin and then blood will go over the eyes
So they got the white flash from the light plus they got blood into their eyes.
They're gonna be ineffective, they
got a world of hurt, right you're gonna be able to run get away and while you're running
Or if you were not able to strike you need to get attention to you
you're gonna start yelling very loud and
A really nice word that gets attention to anybody that can hear you is they use the word fire
because people all want to know if there's a fire around they're gonna come looking, because the fire is gonna affect them, but if
You yell help they may go I'm not gonna
I'm gonna run the other way, if you're not a hero
But if you yell fire
They're gonna come there to see if there's fire cause I could be hurt by the fire, and the attacker knows that
They do not want that, they don't want people there
They don't a crowd, they want to have this a one-on-one situation
So once again the friendly wall technique you find the friendly wall if the wall's not friendly because you cannot see it, you
Need to approach it with some distance, your hands up with your light ready to
Use it okay, and if there's nobody there, let's say what you heard was nothing, you're safe
It's no big deal
You get to your car, and you drive out and life is good
But it's very important that you take that sixth sense
When something's not right, or even if you're walking down the street
If you're holding on to this no one can really tell you have it. No, it's fine
If someone's coming at the sidewalk the other way and you're out there by yourself, your hands are going to be up you're going to be ready
To use your light in a "flash" of a second, and if there's nothing going on
No harm no foul. It seems like this is a heck of a way to live
That you're going to be scared all the time
but unfortunately
This is the life ofthe world we live in and it's not this all the time
It's when you're in those situations where your sixth sense is saying something's not right here, respect it
Yeah, and be prepared. You know and the other thing about these lights, this light
You can vary the intensity so you can use it as a flashlight,
You can use it to find something underneath the furniture, and you know if your car gets a flat tire.
Or trying to find your car
It just works in a dark dark area. It's a great tool, so we're gonna have this in our favorite
Yeah down in our Amazon link down below so you can go ahead
They're not cheap. It's somewhere around fifty or seventy dollars, but they're built very well
M1X Strikers this one that we got, but there's a whole bunch of them
Yeah, well it's a different model same manufacturer. They're built well. They have oring seals, you can drop it in water
It's gonna continue to work. They're just a wonderful light, so they're waterproof. So you can be out in the rain
Oh, yeah, yeah, there's no problem with getting these wet, so good product very good. Be safe and be healthy. Thanks.
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