We are born with basic survival instincts which are intended to keep us alive. These reactions are unconscious acts that occur automatically. When you harness the power of your body’s natural response to a threat and combine it with a simple gross motor skills based self defense technique, your odds of coming out on top rise dramatically.
The first step to surviving an armed assault is to blend your natural flinch into a technique designed to catch the suspect’s arm that holds the weapon. It does not matter if the suspect is armed with a firearm, edged weapon or blunt instrument; if he cannot wield the weapon effectively he cannot kill you with it.
Catching the suspect’s arm is much easier than trying to catch his hand. The arm is large, so it moves much slower than the hand. There are many different ways to “catch” the suspect’s arm. I suggest you experiment with a partner holding a training knife (or rolled up magazine) and practice intercepting and catching his arm.
To learn more about the startle flinch reaction, read Tony Blauer’s article:
The Universal Flinch Theory: A picture of reality
This is part 2 in a 4 part series called Surviving an Armed Attack: Catch, Control, and Neutralize.
- Part 1: Surviving an Armed Attack: Catch, Control, and Neutralize
- Part 2: Surviving an Armed Attack: Catch
- Part 3: Surviving an Armed Attack: Control
- Part 4: Surviving an Armed Attack: Neutralize
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