WOW!!!!! After watching the 3 videos i"ve com away with 2 things---1-- very educational, 2- there are A LOT of police that need to watch and learn this.....
So much of a de-escalation skillset relies on acurately gauging an unknown aggressors ability and willingness to escalate to violence. Having so little control of the direction it could take makes avoidance an equally critical and considerably more manageable skillset.
An acquaintance of mine, facing a gang in LA said "You're so much younger and stronger than I am. I can't fight you. I'll have to kill you. I'm leaving now." and they let him go. They evidently didn't think he'd be worth it. Your history is faulty. That was a TV program. Alfred Alfred the Great was King of the West Saxons from 871 to c. 886 and King of the Anglo-Saxons from c. 886 until his death in 899. The Viking raids continued well into the 1100s CE. He did cause them to leave his kingdom alone for a while, but he didn't do what you said. I met a very interesting man in Africa who was the son of a Beirut prostitute. He grew up to be a mercenary and when I knew him he trained mercenaries and consulted on various terrorist acts. He could hurt you so quickly and easily. He learned to do that when he was a kid being chased by security forces. He would hurt people as he ran past them and they would impede the cops chasing him. He came to visit me once and we both went down to Alexandria Virginia to visit my sister. She was, at the time, married to an ex-con. Her husband took us out to one fo his favorite places, where they had frequent bar fights (which he enjoyed). As we were sitting at the bar, things started to go violent. I sat at the bar trying to look uninteresting. A big badass biker dude with chains all over him approached my friend confrontationally. My friend said in a quiet voice "go away" and he did. There was just something about this man that said "bad news." I could never do that.
WOW!!!!! After watching the 3 videos i"ve com away with 2 things---1-- very educational, 2- there are A LOT of police that need to watch and learn this.....
Watched all three. Great stuff.
This is such great advice, even outside of a personal safety context.
Excellent, informative video.
So much of a de-escalation skillset relies on acurately gauging an unknown aggressors ability and willingness to escalate to violence.
Having so little control of the direction it could take makes avoidance an equally critical and considerably more manageable skillset.
Amen
An acquaintance of mine, facing a gang in LA said "You're so much younger and stronger than I am. I can't fight you. I'll have to kill you. I'm leaving now." and they let him go. They evidently didn't think he'd be worth it.
Your history is faulty. That was a TV program. Alfred Alfred the Great was King of the West Saxons from 871 to c. 886 and King of the Anglo-Saxons from c. 886 until his death in 899. The Viking raids continued well into the 1100s CE. He did cause them to leave his kingdom alone for a while, but he didn't do what you said.
I met a very interesting man in Africa who was the son of a Beirut prostitute. He grew up to be a mercenary and when I knew him he trained mercenaries and consulted on various terrorist acts. He could hurt you so quickly and easily. He learned to do that when he was a kid being chased by security forces. He would hurt people as he ran past them and they would impede the cops chasing him. He came to visit me once and we both went down to Alexandria Virginia to visit my sister. She was, at the time, married to an ex-con. Her husband took us out to one fo his favorite places, where they had frequent bar fights (which he enjoyed). As we were sitting at the bar, things started to go violent. I sat at the bar trying to look uninteresting. A big badass biker dude with chains all over him approached my friend confrontationally. My friend said in a quiet voice "go away" and he did. There was just something about this man that said "bad news." I could never do that.