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I thought this was important and relevant to a Muslim's everyday life. After all the violence commited towards us, we should learn one or two points of how to defend ourselves and stay safe.
This article was in the AskMen newsletter this week, and it can be found here
...what Tim Larkin has to say is worth hearing, and if you want to find out more, you can visit his website here.
wasalam alikom
I thought this was important and relevant to a Muslim's everyday life. After all the violence commited towards us, we should learn one or two points of how to defend ourselves and stay safe.
This article was in the AskMen newsletter this week, and it can be found here
Unless you do boxing or martial arts, violence is something that many men don't have to deal with, in fact, most normal guys will try to avoid it at all costs. But what would you do if you were confronted with violence?
AskMen spoke to close-combat and self-defence expert Tim Larkin who thinks that things are getting worse on the streets of Britain. "I went to school in the 80s in London and it was a very safe place mostly, but things have really changed, the knife crime there is just unbelievable."
Tim's company Target Focus Training teaches people how to do defend themselves when confronted with violence. Controversially, he recommends that attack is the best form of defence, regardless of the law, "If I’ve got a guy coming at me with a knife, you think my concern is how much force to use? That’s a recipe for me participating in my own murder. When people talk like that, I know they don’t know anything about violence."
With over 20 years of experience teaching 'kill or be killed' tactics to Special Forces across the world, we thought Tim Larkin was just the man to speak to to find out what you can do if the going gets tough.
While some of these examples are avoidable by using common sense, Tim speaks plainly about how you can deal with them if push turned to shove.
Road Rage
Diffuse It: Road rage is absolutely avoidable. Don’t participate in the avoidable. If you inadvertently cut somebody off -- let them rage -- because where it can go is someplace that can completely change your life. You might think it’s a very simple situation and you’re just going to have a dust-up -- but what if they beat you senseless and kill you? Then why? Over what?
Deal With It: Don't try to protect yourself, or to block, because that doesn’t work. When you watch acts of violence it’s the people that cover up trying to protect themselves that end up getting killed. The people that survive are the people that immediately assess the situation and look for a way to injure the other person. They continue on until the situation is over, and that’s what we teach people to do.
Home Invasion
Diffuse it: There was this home invasion near London not long ago. This guy and his family got tied up by burglars. The guy broke free and got the criminals out of the house. But then he chased one kid down and beat him senseless. Once the burglar was out of the house and gone -- this man's life was no longer in danger, so he should have left it.
Deal With It: The UK law says you could be liable for prosecution if you use excessive force against an intruder. That’s very nice in an a utopian world where they would work, but I will never hobble anyone with that. We’re not talking about situations that you have a choice in -- he’s going stab you whether you want him to or not -- but the law does not recognise that. Ask yourself - Am I in fear for my life? And if you are, then the only thing you can respond with is violence.
Mugging
Diffuse It: Two guys have you jacked up against a wall with knives, where you going to run to? If they’re asking you for your wallet, then communication is happening -- it’s anti-social -- but at least you have dialogue. Make your decision there -- do you want to give them your wallet or phone? That is your decision. If the communication stops -- they stop looking at you and the weapons are coming out -- you're in trouble.
Deal With It: If you think that you’re going to try disarm a guy who’s stabbing like that, you’re crazy. You need to watch prison footage to see how guys use knives to stab people. The only way you're going to stop that guy is by putting an injury on him right away. Punch him in the throat, gouge his eye out, knee his groin, lift him off the gorund and bounce his head off the concrete -- that’s what is going to stop a knife attack.
Brawls
Diffuse It: Want to know how to avoid a pub fight -- stop going to pubs full of idiots. Or leave early. Think: "There’s way too many guys in here, they’ve been drinking for a long time, and there are very few women. It’s time to get the heck out." It’s just using common sense, but people don’t, and that’s when they get in trouble.
Deal With It: Go for one person all the time. The triad of violence for us is penetration, rotation and injury. You’re continually moving and rotating while you’re doing it. Most people don’t know how to deal with multiple attackers and it’s actually not as difficult as people think it is, it’s just education you don’t have. Remember, British commandos in WW2 were given 14 hours of training before they went over the line and were killing people hand to hand. So destruction is a super-easy skill.
...what Tim Larkin has to say is worth hearing, and if you want to find out more, you can visit his website here.
wasalam alikom
