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A display of mastery over an armed assailant. I keep asking myself if I would react fast enough to shoot this guy in the face, and I don't think I would. This guy is so fast. The hunter becomes the hunted.
oh no, he took the gun from me, must lay down in pain and give up.
It's either that or get shot in the face. That gun is ready to fire as soon as its taken away from him. I'd at least let him get close to me and try the same thing, but odds are, that's a mistake he would not make.
I understand these are "demonstrational" clips, ie. this is the correct move and/or form you'd want to use in these particular situations. But I want to see clips of when the assailant just doesn't stand there and "take" the demonstration. In other words, if this were real life, the other guy would be fighting tooth and nail to get back control of the gun. Where are those videos? And what moves do you then have prepared if the assailant does this, or that?
If you can, find clips of this guy: Tony Blauer (http://tonyblauer.com/). Back in the day when mixed martial arts was pretty much unheard of he was advocating realistic training and calling BS on stuff like this. I had a few of his VHS tapes where he showed "attempted" knife and gun disarms. I say attempted because in his vids he always had the guy fight back realistically. He made a point of not having guys just stand there dumbly while he took the weapon. I really liked his training style. My brother and I learned a lot from imitating him by doing simulated knife-disarms (wearing white T-shirts and using red markers to simulate the knife). We mostly learned that chances are high you're going to get cut in the disarm attempt if the opponent fights back. The key is to make sure you're aware of where the blade is and keeping it away from vital organs.
Upvote for the earslap in this vid. I got to feel first-hand how effective it is, especially when both ears are boxed simultaneously.
Rex Kwon Do is a self-defense system developed over two years fighting in the octogon. Break the wrist and walk away.
Good for fighting tyrannosaurus rexes
They work good on people who are angry uncontrolled and all around not trained attackers.
They do work in barfights, because drunks are easy to give a beating to.
Ill reiterate this, these techniques work, because they have been around since the samurai. The advent of the gun nullified the need to train regularly in this sort of fighting because it keeps your enemy at a distance (Last Samurai). But the same principles behind hand to hand and weapons can be used with firearms.
Haiuchi(mutual destruction - any one speaks Japanese please tell me if that's the right word) still happens even with firearms. The majority of the shootouts that took place in wild west were done up close with hands on gun and tussling.
We could argue all day about this, and we could go this way, that way. But no one in this world can prove to me that they can be sure that they can kick any one's ass in a situation akin to this. We cannot be certain that we will prevail, that is the main reason martial artists say try to run away.
But if the victim will fight them then that person had better fight them with every ounce of life they have in them, because it comes down to life and death.
To all of you^ who are saying something about what the "bad guy" is doing wrong: No one ever said criminals were smart.
Let's talk about what the "expert" is doing wrong then. The most important step about a close range gun disarm is to remove yourself from the line of fire. He stands with shoulders squared throughout most of the disarms.
He also moves his hands very slowly toward the gun and then makes a snap-movement. If someone is holding me at gunpoint, I wouldn't bet on them waiting to see what I was going to do as I gradually moved my arms into position to grab the gun.
Here's a better technique. http://www.videosift.com/video/Krav-Maga-gun-disarm-from-Human-Weapon
Anyways, neat video.
A better learning technique would be to start from a relaxed position with arms down by your side. This is a more natural stance for the beginning of an encounter. You start as soon as possible, for example when the attacker oders you to put your hands up. This gives you more time to move before the attackers notices that something is wrong.
One other very important point that most instructors forget is made in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V6LWQZjYRk
Since I'm no expert, I'll believe the more experienced folks, but it doesn't take much to make a cocked gun go off--just a teeny bit more force on the trigger--I've definitely had one go off before I intended to aiming down the range because I just twitched a little bit. The gun doesn't necessarily need to be pointed so that the bullet would hit his head either, even a few inches off and the blast would disable him.
If it's that or immediate death, which I'm sure is part of the introduction to this video, sure give it a try. A 1% chance of pulling it off is worth it. It just strikes me as one of those things that looks cool and makes good videos, and not a bad thing to practice if you're likely to be held at gunpoint in this manner, but a longshot. Also I bet the 'holding people at gunpoint' training videos teach you to maintain a bit of distance.
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Upvote for the earslap in this vid. I got to feel first-hand how effective it is, especially when both ears are boxed simultaneously.
I remember we called it a Thunderclap in school. Man, the kids were cruel.