sometimes an environmental weapon is the
best choice you've got
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hi everybody welcome to today's lesson
here at active self protection i'm your
host john korea
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in the store here when this guy comes
around and threatens him with a knife
and says he wants the money in the till
so he's gonna tell the clerk hey open
the tail for me gonna see the clerk here
okay man i don't have any problems
whatever now he is going to turn and
start to open the till and when the bad
guy is going to put his knife up against
the neck of the clerk clerk holds onto
it with his other hand and decides no
i'm going to fight this guy because he's
going to hurt me so then as the guy's
fighting him he is going to start
grabbing bottles of i think that's soda
pop and start christening this guy the
ss dummy robber and just get after him
and those bottles are not the movie
props man those had to hurt like crazy
and after he gets him with several of
them he gives him an entire six pack of
of rc cola there and then he's gonna get
away a ways now watch our robber here
start to kind of stumble out you can see
he still has that knife in his hand and
now our clerk's gonna come over and give
him a couple of more smacks with a like
a stick or something like that until the
robber throws this thing at him and now
you're gonna watch the robber kind of
like holy cow man that hurt a lot where
he's all woozy and unstable on his feet
and when he tries to leave watch what
goes down here he's gonna toss that
bottle and then end up as he is trying
to walk out going now i'm just gonna
take a nap right here and that's
apparently where police found him and
took him into custody man i love his
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perspective of this clerk right here
when our attacker comes at him and shows
him the knife in this case that knife
showing is an intimidation factor so
he's using it as an intimidation tool
threatening to hurt him with it but
recognize where the clerk is here the
clerk is stuck behind the counter which
is very quickly going to become a
liability form because as soon as our
attacker comes around the counter now it
prevents his escape he can't escape out
to his right uh to the top of the screen
because that's blocked off they do that
on purpose so people can't get back
there around the clerk or whatever so
he's in a very bad spot here yeah he
might have been able to scramble over
the counter or something like that but
very difficult so recognize when you're
in these places listen i can't retreat
from here so i better have some other
options one of the options is simply to
comply and the clerk does a pretty good
job of that initially and i would like
to notice something that the clerk does
very well he did reach out with his left
hand and grab the right wrist of the
perp or the right arm but notice his
hand position here he is open handed and
he's showing his palms and and so he's
coming at this from a very submissive
posture and this is good body language
even if you plan to resist showing this
submissive body language again fingers
splayed palms out open to your attacker
gives them a sense of ease and it cloaks
your intent so you are then concealing
your intent you're not just concealing a
tool or whatever but concealing your
intent this is very good and this is
purposeful compliance now watch what
goes down here is he is going to you
know decide okay i'm going to get into
the tail and now our attacker is going
to try to put the knife up against his
neck and this is where our decision
process is going to happen because again
if you're going to practice the 5ds plus
one if you're going to try to take a
weapon away from an armed attacker and
you're not armed yourself then you have
to practice the five d's plus one the
plus one that makes everything else go
the the marker of all of it is distance
you've got to start from the right
distance where you can get both hands on
the on the tool the arm with the tool
the hand with the tool otherwise you are
going to get beat up and so the bad guy
actually closes the distance which lets
our our good guy get his hand on there
and then he finally realizes oh no i
need to get two hands on there so that's
what we start talking about you notice
here he got it closed the distance then
he deflected pushed the knife away from
him now dominated notice now he has two
hands on the knife hand and that is
incredibly important so we have closed
the distance then we have deflected it
away from us so it can't hurt us now we
have dominated then we're going to have
to distract disarm and disable that is
the order of operations that we see work
in real life knife disarms real life gun
disarms again and again and again on the
channel so now that he is dominated now
he's got to distract now it's a very
interesting distract in this particular
case and i think that it's actually a
dangerous one because our clerk took a
hand off of the knife hand in order to
get a hold of an environmental weapon
very dangerous to do unless you have
real dominance over that tool if you
feel like nope i've got such dominance
over this hand and over this knife and
got him in such a good spot that my body
weight's holding him that i can grab
something then okay fine and that is
exactly what he's going to do here start
bonking him in the head because what's
the number one way to distract injure
him and cause him pain injury him and
causing pain and he will stop thinking
about holding onto that tool or holding
on to you and give you a chance to
escape and that's exactly what our clerk
does here again he christens him the ss
dumb robber and and just oh my gosh you
guys you gotta understand these are not
hollywood bottles that break really
easily those are concussion inducing
hits on his head right there so i think
incredibly important for us to see that
and then i love the fact that he gets
away here now listen escape the danger
zone escape as fast as you possibly can
and and i really think the clerk would
have been well suited here to just keep
on running just get the heck away from
the guy whatever else he does go for it
because there's nothing in that store
that's worth dying for even if it's your
store even if it is the one that that's
your money that's going to come out he's
going to steal your product or whatever
get to a safer place and and you know
call police and go from there instead i
think he does make a mistake here in
coming back i get it but what's the
point here that he's going to come he's
just going to punish this guy a little
bit more he's probably not going to get
him to put the knife down probably not
going to get him to to you know give up
and instead the guy tosses stuff here so
better off instead just let him go
get the heck out of there and then let
the cops figure it out now also i want
to notice a couple things here that this
robber is out of the fight he is
absolutely loopy from the beating that
he has taken and yet he's still on his
feet for quite a while yet he still was
a threat for a little bit of time and so
recognize a human body can be remarkably
resilient and you may have to fight a
pretty good fight i think having some
empty handed skills is an important part
of covering your asp