Free Pictures Of Self Defense Charts....

Yeah, I am awaring about avoid fighting as best ways. Save yourself from the lawsuit and serious injury (hostipal bills, too). Whenever you smell the "trouble" people and walk away without said anything. If you said something or challage then you ask for it. People might not save you from being beat up badly at all.

I am fan of Ultimate Fighing Championship (UFC) where I enjoyed to see them to fight each other under the strict rules. I knows what different between UFC and reality fighting aka bar brawl - streetfighting. I would choice UFC over bar brawl any time...no, I don't wanna to fight anyway! LOL

- MaxUFC
 
I found a U.S. Air Force manual... one of the best and most easy, visual ones I have seen.... Chapter 4 especially is good stuff for us to read and also the yellow/black tags are good ones to read too as well.

I pray and hope we do not have another 9/11 incident. This will give you a good idea of what our U.S. Armed Forces troops have to face as they go to do their American duty. God Bless the U.S. Troops....
http://www.e-publishing.af.mil/pubfiles/af/10/afman10-100/afman10-100.pdf
 
COMBAT ARTS: A PERSPECTIVE

Combat Arts are of three types:

Traditional Martial Arts have traditional technique and are used in sport & street fighting to overpower and injure the opponent.

Defensive Tactics are used by the Law Enforcement to control, subdue & capture law breakers without causing grevious injury.

Military Martial Arts -Unarmed Combat & Close Quarter Arts have only one aim, to eliminate in the fastest & simplest possible way period.
 
Psychological Problems in Combat Arts

This article refers to common psychological problems encountered by the trainee student while studying combat arts, particularly in contact oriented martial training.

BEGINNERS IDEAS: Wrong Thought:
Once you learn Martial arts, you can knock down any opponent of any size.

Correct Thought:

When you are confronted with a taller, heavier & more aggressive opponent, you are in trouble. Martial arts does not make a superman out of you. After a study of martial arts, and the body's vital points you will understand the probability ratios of you winning better & you will be able to estimate the opponent’s strengths & weaknesses & use this knowledge towards your survival or victory.

BEGINNERS IDEAS: Wrong Thought:
When a student comes to learn any full contact art, he or she is of the impression that Fighting is a magical art, comprised of secret techniques. He feels that once these techniques are learnt & mastered, he can effectively knock out any bully or opponent using these secret techniques!

Correct Thought:

There are no secret techniques. All techniques are correct body responses & specific reactions to a particular attack. or form of assault. These responses are skills which have to be learned by the body at a reflex level, so that they can be reproduced in the advent of an actual attack by the unpredictable opponent.

BEGINNERS IDEAS: Wrong Thought:
Martial arts makes you lose your fear for fighting!

Correct Thought:

Martial arts do not take away your fear. They make you comfortable with it. Fear is a necessary component of human psyche. It is a protective instinct which gears you for a fight or flight. Fear must be used to channelize your action in the appropriate direction. There is a difference between fear & cowardice. Fear can either make u a coward or a hero. It depends upon how you channelize it!

BEGINNERS IDEAS: Wrong Thought:
The Senior student is always going to beat the junior!

Correct Thought:

The senior student is person who has spent more time training than you. Like you, he comes with his set of fighting weaknesses, like say, small frame, excess weight, etc. His journey is about finding a way around his weakness & also in improving his skill.

Many a times superior skill cannot overcome superiority in weight, height, aggression & gender. Females are generally smaller built than males & also more gentler in predisposition, hence less combat ready. Some people are more aggressive & may have greater drive, will power & determination to win. Some people are naturally muscular & possess greater strength, which may enable them to overpower their senior students.

However, the senior student is to be respected, as he possesses superior attributes & qualities. He has endured the tough martial arts journey longer than you & risen to a degree of skill far above yours. He has tided through several injuries, numerous sparring bouts, strenuous physical training & is psychologically more combat mature than you.

So disrespecting the senior is certainly going to slow down your combat progress, as you miss out on benefiting from his combat experience. So, even if you beat the senior, you will not be able to beat his seniority!

BEGINNERS IDEAS: Wrong Thought:
During sparring, the Senior intentionally hurt you to teach you a lesson!

Correct Thought:

As a junior, the psychology of sparring is beyond your ability to grasp, so dont start guessing.

Sparring in the class is generally safe & supervised. The Instructor who is conducting the bout controls the sparring partners. He stops the bout when he thinks you can get injured, as he is more bothered about junior safety than senior, who is combat seasoned. On the contrary, if the junior starts scoring on the senior, your instructor may not stop the bout.

At the same time, there are certain experiences you must have in order to train in full contact combat. These experiences are being handed over to you in a safe & controlled manner, as prescribed, without serious injury.

So you are actually being meted out preferential treatment! So it is wrong to think that you are being intentionally hurt by the senior student.

BEGINNERS IDEAS: Wrong Thought:
I will get the better of my colleague the next time we sparr!

Correct Thought:

You must realize that your colleague is there to help you to put your ideas into action. To see whether your technique works, as most of them will not work on your senior students.

Your colleague gets a punch on you, good. Establish a relationship with him, so as to get comfortable working on techniques & sparring with him. You are both here to learn to fight your future opponents, not to get the better of each other.

BEGINNERS IDEAS: Wrong Thought:
I will correct my colleague in the presence of my instructor

Correct Thought:

In the presence of your Instructor, Never correct your senior student. You will be doing the job of the Instructor at the expense of not concentrating on developing your own technique.

If your colleague makes a mistake & your Instructor is ignoring it, it will be because of a purpose, the correction may not be a priority in the teaching process.

BEGINNERS IDEAS: Wrong Thought:
I will dominate my instructor! - Dominateering and aggressive Talk, Behavior & Attitudes

Correct Thought:

The student tends to dominate his Instructor by speech, gestures or attitudes.

Retort reply (Back answering), contradicting without taking time to understand, or refusing to acknowledge a statement all are speech dominations.

Placing your hands on your hips, Staring constantly, Facing away while being instructed & not acknowledging the Instructors presence are all gesture dominations.

Attitudes like ‘I don’t care for you” & ‘Not following proper respects procedure (like a bowing)’ & not following the orders issued in class are dominatory.

Dominatory attitudes are always noticed not just by your Instructor, but by all your senior students & your Teacher. In the beginning, you are often excused as time is given to you to develop correct attitudes. But later on, dominatory attitudes will make your Instructors lose interest in training you & will offend your Instructors.

BEGINNERS IDEAS: Wrong Thought:
The student who wants to fight with his Teacher & score over him!

Correct Thought:

When you join the training, you have preformed ideas of your Teacher - That he will be serious, hard, tough, loud, stern & reserved in his approach.

However as you train you may find that he is easy going, soft spoken, comfortable with criticism, ignores your errors, & easily approachable. This may make you feel that he is “soft”.

As you train with your Teacher, you may at one point feel that he is not as seasoned as you first thought. This is the time to correct yourself.

Your Teacher has probably put in decades in to training. He must have been in numerous bouts, competition or otherwise. He has faced several challenges & emerged successful to be able to establish his reputation which drew you to learn under him in the first place!

If he is over looking your mistakes, it is because he understands your stage of learning. If he is soft spoken, it is because he does not see the need to portray toughness. If he is comfortable with your criticism, it is because he is patient with your faults & wants to give you enough time to learn. If he is easily approachable, it is because he believes that you have a right over him.

If you punch him, he will probably say ‘Good!’ If you kick him, he may say ‘Wow that was good!’ If you parry his attack, he may say, ‘You are learning fast!’ If you get the better of him, he may say ‘Hey man- You got me- you are great!’ But make no mistake – he has seen it all, done it all. In all probability he is just encouraging you. If he desires, he can show you his superiority with ease, but he will usually refrain from doing it. As he is not here to fight you, but to teach you to fight. And the goals are clear in his mind, at all times.

If you are lucky to spar with him, remember that he will impose no threat to you, but will only want you to give optimum performance. Because, in the arena he has lived in, he has seen much more violence than you can ever imagine. He will have harnessed bullies, controlled rough houses & tamed more aggressive opponents than you can imagine.

So learn while sparring with him, because he is your Teacher – The only man who can help you to change your self in combat! And may be , even in life and death situations because you learned from him.

And therefore, do not mistake his ‘Softness’ for ‘Weakness’.

BEGINNERS IDEAS: Wrong Thought:
I will quit, if I get ego problems!

Correct Thought:

Ego problems are very common in fighting arts. Fighting arts precipitate inherent dominateering ego problems.

When you begin to learn fighting arts, you are very apprehensive of your senior student's prowess, but as you progress, you find that they are all human. They make mistakes, have weaknesses & are not as omnipotent as you first thought.

As you learn, your confidence grows, & there comes a time when you feel that your senior students & Instructors are no big deal & you begin to underestimate them. At this point, you must realize that you are on the wrong track & correct your thinking (as already explained before).

Now, during bouts or during exams, when you are beaten, ridiculed or taken to the height of tiredness, your ego crashes & you suddenly start disliking everyone who has shown you that you are not as good as you would like to believe. Then some students may suddenly want to quit & escape from the class which brings them back to reality.

If this happens, Know that there is only one reality. The reality of Combat – where there is only one opponent, some big horrifying unknown enemy who will cross your path in the future, when destiny decides……. And it is your training Class, your Teacher, your Instructors, your Senior students & your colleagues who stand on your side to train you for that big fight!
 
Caution : Before beginning any physical fitness regimen. Consult your doctor and ask the certified physical training coach on the proper way to do physical excersices.

1. A proper warm up technique involving the spine and knees must be taught over conventional method
(very important before running).

2. Abdominal , knee and spinal exercise should always precede the Cardio Endurance (running) to prevent spondylosis & arthritis.

3. The spine should be exercised as rigorously as the abdomen since both are contralateral muscles. Hence an imbalance can result in damage to the spine.

4. The conventional situp can harm the discs of the neck and the spine and does not cause sufficient work load on the abdominal muscles. This must be replaced by the modern crunch where the lower spine is resting always on the ground.

5. The conventional leg raises do not directly work out the abdominal muscles but the flexors of the hip and thigh. This be replaced by the bent knee leg and hip raise.

6. The oblique muscles of the abdomen are ignored thus increasing the chances of Hernia (i.e the prolapse of the intestines, in between the oblique muscles, into the scrotum). Never exercise to work out the obliques should be taught.

7. Cardiovascular Endurance (running) should always be preceded with a warm up jog of at least half a km to prevent sudden rise of heart rate and blood pressure and to ensure the contraction of all muscle fibres
(with out warming up only a few muscle fiber groups would be actively recruited).

8. Correct technique of running be taught i.e. running on the balls of the feet rather then the heels which tends to jar all the joints encouraging joint degeneration.
(ankle, knee, hip, spine)

9. One must be taught how to deal with first, second and third winds during running caused by (respectively) diaphragmatic fatigue, muscle and joint pains (due to lactic Acidosis of anaerobic training) and cardio Respiratory fatigue. Thus the trainees would be capable of better performance.

10. Strengthening exercise like Conventional Pushup and the Chinup may cause hyper extension of the spine and lead to slipped discs at a later age. The reverse grip behind the neck chinup and the simple Dip must replace the older versions.

11. Plenty of variations of the pushup (Dip) be taught to work out the muscles of the fingers, the forearms, the tricep, brachioradialis, Bicep and pectorals (the chest muscles) which are not well exercise by the conventional pushup.

12. The full squat places a tremendous strain on the anterior cruciate ligament of the knee joint and the discs of the spine. It must be replaced by the modern half squat.

13. The conventional squat does not place sufficient load on the inner thigh and Hamstring muscles. Hence wide squats and the lungs be introduced.

14. For liagmentous strengthening of hip, knee and ankle joints, age old Duck walks, Frog Jumps, Chicken walk, Donkey walk, Monkey walk be taught. It is to be noted that the entire stability of the joint comes only with a good ligament tone.

15. Flexibility and stretching is a grossly neglected part of training. Ideally equal amount of time should be devoted to stretching as to muscle contraction training to prevent muscle tightness and relative Hyper tonia (increase in tone). Tight muscles which are not stretched cause incoordinated and clumsy movement. They also cause Cerebral bombardment and increase anxiety thereby taking away the soldiers composure. One hour of various flexibility exercise be taught everyday after the strength training.

16. A soldier walks and runs all the time thus the lower limb muscles are maximally used. Hence special leg conditioning techniques be taught to bring about greater strength, endurance and coordination in the lower limbs.

17. Most soldiers or servicemen tend to lose muscle bulk and weight during training. Resistance training in the form of weight training be taught to develop isolatory muscle groups (particularly those muscles which are smaller in an individual because of his constitution or heredity need to be developed by training with weights). We must aim to make bulkier soldiers and fitter soldiers to match the size of the enemy counterparts.

18. Cross training, Circuit Training and various types of cardio Endurance Training be introduced.

19. Mental training by positive visualization should be taught over an hours session everyday during the COOL DOWN Session for :

(a) Courage, will power, and determination.

(b) Instilling composure in the face of a life threatening crisis.

(c) Improving Self esteem, self confidence, Discipline and obedience.

These are the major changes that have set in physical training and this is what constitutes the modern day training in Physical fitness for armed forces all over the world.
 
A famous quote

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf" - George Orwell
 
How to react if you get punched in the
face and get rocked by it. It's hard to take a shot to
the head, since it's very painful, but even worse is the
fact that it can knock you out.

What to do if your stunned by a punch to the face

So you find yourself in a violent situation and suddenly
you get rocked by a punch to the face.

Your back is against the wall and you're starting to get
scared.. Here is a pretty simple
move, to get your vision and senses cleared up so you
don't end up taking any more blows to the head.

Immediately after you get punched, lunge in at your
attacker and hook your arms under and through his arm
pits, creating a "clinch."

This will keep him from punching you further and the
time you will use while he is struggling to free his
arms will give you more recovery time, so you don't
get stunned and recieve more brutal blows to the face
or head.

The clinch is an excellent strategy for combating the dizziness
and pain you will experience enough to recover.

The best way obivously would to be not get punched even once in the face or anywhere on your body if you can avoid a punch or a kick then do so... and if you unfortunately get hit in the face or anywhere then the clinch to the arms or to the legs could be a good controlling strategy until you recover then go right for the vital striking point and if the situation is not appropriate then pain compliance techniques may be in order. The more people to restrain and hold down the bad guy, the more safer and the better.

Remember it is best to not get in a fight in the first place for your own safety and if you fear for your life then you have the right to defend your own life. As always stay safe and alert.
 
Here is a short film on bayonet fighting from the U.S. Marine Corps.

The Drill Instructor's name is Lt. Col. A.J. Drexel-Biddle.

The Drill Instructor Biddle has some books and manuals that he has written.

I think you can pretty much get a good idea from the techniques on film of bayonet fighting.

http://www.defendo.com/biddle_bayonet.html
 
I got a very good piece of advice today and wanted to pass it on along to you.....

Don't trust any real life technique that you can't comfortably do in real time with a resisting opponent. When you master the technique in real time you know you can probably use it to defend yourself. Practice and train with real life techniques everyday with a good partner then at home alone practice the real life techniques. Please keep safety in mind and train safely. Thank you and God Bless.....
 
Good Advice, Watch what you are doing in self defense !!!!

Choose Your Weapons Wisely

Description
A couple of guys are fighting in the streets and one of them wants to use a manhole cover as a shield. Problem is he forgets about the big hole he's just uncovered.

http://www.break.com/movies/chooseweapons.html
 
Gun Advice.....Video Clip Crazy !!!!!

See this crazy video clip I found on the internet..... This is what holsters are for.

Kid Shoots Foot During Gun Safety Demo

Description
These kids decided to do a video regarding gun safety for a school project. During a pause in taping the student with the helmet-cam sticks the gun in his pocket. His buddies tell him to take it out and as he does he shoots a hole in his foot.

http://www.break.com/movies/shootsfoot.html
 
The Ten Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Moves Every Cop Should Know
By Brad Parker
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu burst onto the scene in America when a quiet, good-looking Brazilian named Royce Gracie shocked the martial arts world by winning the first Ultimate Fighting Championship in a seemingly effortless fashion.
What the rest of the world didn’t know is that the Gracie family had been developing this art for the past 75 years in Rio de Janiero. What’s become known as Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) proved to be a dominating factor in mixed-martial arts tournaments throughout the 1990s’.
The public safety sector picked up on its success and now agencies such as the FBI, DEA, and LAPD and various elite groups of the military including the Rangers, Delta Force and Marines have included the techniques of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in their curriculum.
"With this you are able to survive long enough for help to get there," says Pat "Hawk" Hardy, long-time law enforcement officer and current assistant district attorney and criminal investigator for Jasper County, Texas. "The thing that makes it great for law enforcement is that it’s easy to learn, you don’t have to be super athletic and it is effective."
Hardy should know what he is talking about – he has 35 years of martial arts experience with a national full-contact karate championship title won in 1975. In 1977 he fought for the world full-contact karate title.
"What I like about Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is that it’s easy to do," he says. "Most of your criminals out there have plenty of time to workout and get strong, a lot more time than you or me with a family and trying to make a honest living."
BJJ Reduces Injuries, Claims
According to Sgt. Greg Dossey of the Los Angeles Police Department, the adoption of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu into its arrest and control curriculum is good for LAPD officers, arrestees and the community. LAPD now has a curriculum that consists of ground techniques based on Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, as well as the traditional joint locks and "pugilistics" or striking techniques.
In the first two years the techniques were introduced, Dossey says there was a 19 percent reduction in injuries to arrestees and a 8.5 percent reduction in injuries to officers. There was a 13 percent reduction in excessive force claims against the department and a nine percent drop in civil actions filed against the city.
He says 6,400 officers have been through the 40-hour program and they receive continuing training three times a month as well as bi-annual divisional training and an annual recertification.
"We don’t try to make them the world’s most skillful grappler," says Dossey, "but we definitely give them enough skills to develop confidence on the ground."
He attributes a 24 percent decrease in the use of force reported in all arrests to that increased officer confidence.
Advantages for Public Safety Personnel
The reality-based techniques and the emphasis on controlling the subject makes Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu perfect for public safety personnel. The techniques put you into a position where your opponent cannot strike you, but you could, if you chose to, strike him. This gives officers and public safety workers an option to increase the escalation of force. The techniques also allow a smaller officer to wear out a larger and more aggressive subject. The techniques do not rely on pressure points for pain compliance. The bulk of the techniques center on joint locks and carotid restraints. This means that the officer does not have to be stronger than the suspect, they only have to be stronger than the suspect’s weakest point – usually his elbow, shoulder, ankle or neck.
The techniques are relatively easy to perform and are quickly picked up by students. In fact, we’ve had students with as little as two training sessions report using the techniques successfully in securing an arrest. The responses of opponents to the techniques and strategy of BJJ practitioners are amazingly predictable, allowing skilled practitioners to appear almost magical in their ability to maneuver the subject.
Many martial artists and defensive tactics instructors tell their students to "never go to the ground" with a subject because of the dangers to be found there. However, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioners aim for the exact opposite outcome – their goal is to almost always take the fight to the ground. Both LAPD statistics and the Gracie family assert that between 65 to 85 percent of altercations eventually end up on the ground anyway. The Gracies have made a career of training to live and feel comfortable in the position which has the greatest probability of occurring. Conversely, when you stand up in an altercation, the variables for you concerning distance, weapons, strikes and movement are theoretically infinite. Unfortunately, the momentum of any fight can be reversed instantly by your opponent when he lands a lucky punch or kick, but on the ground everything slows down and the opponent cannot generate much force behind his strikes.
Here are the ten Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu techniques you should know:
1. The Clinch
The most dangerous distance in any altercation is kicking and punching range. Unfortunately, most social interaction is done within punching range. The BJJ practitioner wants to either be all the way outside of hitting range or all the way inside of hitting range. Therefore, most often the BJJ practitioner will close the distance between himself and the opponent to the clinch, which controls the subject and limits his punching and kicking ability. Often an attacker is surprised when you close with him instead of backing up which is what most people do when attacked.
To safely close the distance into the clinch, you must get your head against the opponent’s chest which puts you inside of his punching range, effectively negating his punches.
 Get your hands up to your forehead with your forearms protecting your face like a train’s cowcatcher. Your fists tightly are locked against your forehead and your elbows are leading forward, protecting your face against a punch.
 Move into your opponent by leading with a leg check or a distracting kick to his leg.
 As you close the distance, sweep your hands out like you are swimming the breast stroke to block both of his biceps on each arm. Trap his arms by hooking your hands over his triceps and using your forearms to control his arms. You have your forehead tight against his chest while hooking over the back of his triceps. By pulling in on his arms and pushing with your head against his chest, you develop isometric tension, which limits his punching and movement.
 Now, complete the clinch by reaching around his back with one arm and moving to that side. For LEOs, move to your gun side. Trap his other arm tightly under your armpit and protect your face by burying it in the biceps of his trapped arm. Pinching your thighs on his leg closest to you limits his ability to turn and knee you to the groin.
Now I have control of the subject with one arm around his waist, which I can secure by holding his belt or clothing. This should be my gun arm. I can release my hold to either protect my sidearm or to draw it as needed. With my other arm I am trapping his arm under my armpit and holding the back of his elbow to hold it and use it as a shield for my own face.
Finally, I am controlling his leg closest to me to limit his movement and to protect against a knee to the groin.
2. The Rear Takedown
Often, the next move from the clinch is the rear takedown, but this takedown can also be effective when used during a standard search with the subject against a wall or vehicle.
 If the suspect begins to resist, clasp him around the waist from behind much like you did in the clinch with your head down to avoid any elbow targeted at your face.
 Move your foot out block his far foot (for example your right foot steps out to the right to block behind his right heel).
 Sit down to drag the suspect to the ground, tripping him over your outstretched leg. He can’t catch his balance because you are blocking his foot from stepping back.
 Roll on top of him for the mount.
3. The Mount
The mount is one of the trademark positions of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. The position allows you to control your opponent with a minimum of effort by using your body weight. Opponents often exhaust themselves trying desperately to escape this position. You also have the advantage of being able to strike your opponent, but they have very little leverage to strike you.
 Sit astride of your opponent’s chest.
 Put both knees on the ground and slide them as high into his armpits as possible.
 Both of your hands should be spread out wide braced on the ground for balance and to counter your opponent’s attempts to roll over. Guard your duty weapon by sliding your gun side hand under the suspect’s arm on that side. Stretch your gun hand high above the suspect’s head to force his arm up and away from your weapon.
 Relax your body and become dead weight on the suspect. You can pin his head to the ground to limit his body movement by pushing your stomach against his face.
4. The Back Mount
This is exactly like the mount with the exception that you are astride the suspect and he is face down. You will find yourself in this highly advantageous position a surprising number of times when you start mounted on an opponent as in #3 above. In their effort to escape, almost everyone rolls onto their stomach. Relax the grip you have with your knees when you are mounted and allow them to roll onto their stomach -- it’s a better position for you to begin cuffing anyway. Wrestlers are especially susceptible to this since they have trained to stay off their backs.
5. The Closed Guard
Conversely, the BJJ practitioner stays on his back to control you with his legs in the closed guard, a position that the Gracies are particularly adept. It is primarily a defensive position, but allows you to control a suspect that has overpowered you.
 When you are on your back, face the opponent and wrap both of your legs around your opponent so that his body is in between your thighs. The higher on his torso you can wrap your legs the better.
 Use your legs to pull the suspect towards you.
 Capture one of his arms by trapping it under your arm and grabbing behind his elbow. For a civilian, this would be the arm he is trying to punch you with, but the LEO will have to secure the arm closest to his own weapon for safety.
 Use your other hand to hold his head down both to limit his ability to sit upright and to guard against his using it to headbutt you. You can either hold the back of his head as pictured above or by the back of the neck. Block his punches to your head with your elbow and punches to your ribs with your elbow and knee.
Hold him here until the cavalry arrives. Be cognizant of your weapon. You can keep him from reaching it by either holding his arm tight under your armpit or using your knee in his bicep to push his arm away from your holster. I don't advocate finishing techniques like cross chokes, box chocks or guillotine chokes that use both of your arms and leave your duty weapon exposed.
6. The Kimura
Used as either a weapon-retention technique or an armlock when you have the suspect in your guard, this move is not named by the Gracies, but many BJJ circles call it the "Kimura" after a Japanese judo champion.
 Grab the wrist of the hand reaching for your holster.
 Unhook your legs and place both feet on the ground.
 Sit up and reach all the way over his shoulder of the arm that you have trapped. You will have to scoot your hips back away from him to have enough room to reach over his shoulder.
 Reach in between his arm and his ribs to grasp the wrist of your arm that has seized the suspect. This grip is sometimes called a "Figure 4".
 Using the leverage of your feet on the ground and the Figure 4 grip you have on his arm, drive his head forward toward the ground as you scoot out to the same side which has the armlock.
 Control the suspect by holding his arm tight to your chest so that it is bent in a shape like an ‘L’. One of your legs will be under the suspect. Place your other leg over him and cross your ankles to keep him from escaping.
Now that you have the suspect controlled and his arm bent behind his back, you have the option of holding him until backup arrives or you can continue to scoot out from under him and begin cuffing him.
7. The Open Guard
If the suspect is too large or too strong to contain in your closed guard, you will need to switch to an open guard to push him back.
 As he sits up to begin punching you, thrust both of your knees into his chest.
 With your head back on the ground and your hands up to protect your face, arch your back and push him back to keep the distance you need to keep from being struck.
If he reaches for your weapon, be prepared to pull him into your closed guard and perform the Kimura noted above.
If he stands up, you might need to switch to an alternate open guard position:
 Put your back on the floor and your feet on his hips, using them to control his distance.
This also works well for someone trying to choke you from the front:
 Trap one or both of his arms that he is using to choke you.
 Place your feet on his hips and pull him forward until his head is even with yours.
 Use your legs to pick him up and flip him over your head. As you get skilled at this throw, you can control the opponent on the way over and roll up onto him in a mount position.
8. The Cross Side
This is another major BJJ position that uses body weight to control the opponent.
 Center your torso over the suspect so that you are sternum to sternum.
 Raise your knees off the ground and stay up on your toes to center more weight on the opponent and to allow you to move with the suspect as he struggles.
 Keep the elbow of your arm closest to his head tucked tightly into his neck or ear to limit his movement. Your forearm should be along the ground perpendicular to his body to provide a brace so you won’t be rolled off.
 Use your other arm (hidden in the photo shown) to hold his wrist or his hip closest to you.
Be aware of your weapon. The accompanying photo shows the officer with his gun side toward the suspect’s head. (All of the photos were shot with the officer on the left for continuity.) It would be preferable to cross side the suspect on the other side so that the officer’s weapon is closest to the suspect’s hip and out of reach of either hand. You can remedy this situation by simply rotating your feet around the suspect's head and moving into the cross side position on the other side of the suspect (with your weapon down at the suspect's hip).
9. The Knee Mount
 Control the suspect by placing your knee into, or your shin across, his stomach.
 Your other foot is planted firmly on the ground away from the suspect’s head.
 Keep your back straight and your head up to prevent being hit in the face.
It is important that you put almost all of your weight onto his stomach. Primarily this is to use your weight to anchor the opponent, but also it is so your pivot point is centered directly over his body. Your other leg simply provides the balance needed to keep from falling. The mistake that most cops make is that they keep too much weight on their foot instead of the knee in the belly. If you don't keep the weight on your knee, he is going to wiggle his hip away from your knee and you are going to lose the knee mount.
If you feel yourself beginning to lose the position, simply push your knee all the way across his stomach and assume the mount position.
10. The Rear Carotid Restraint
This is one of the major submissions used in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. While many police departments are placing severe limitations on the use of carotid restraints, BJJ practitioners have been using them with great success for decades without producing lethal results or even serious injury. The key is to apply the technique correctly.
 Reach deep in front of the suspect towards his stomach, molding your biceps against the side of his neck.
 Bend your arm so that your elbow is pointed straight down and the crook of your elbow is directly below his trachea. This is the key -- the space created by the crook of your elbow protects the subject’s windpipe. There should be no pressure on his trachea.
 Reach up high and grab your own shoulder or simply grasp a handful of your uniform shirt.
 Now your biceps and the inside of your forearm are pressing on the sides of his neck, but there is still no contact made on his windpipe.
 Place your free hand behind his head and use it to push the back of his head forward.
 Push the elbow of your arm that encircles his neck into his chest like you are squeezing it towards his spine. This usually gets your arm under his chin.
 Now shrug your shoulders up. The motion is like you are hanging him.
An incorrect, but often too common, neck restraint puts too much pressure directly on the suspect’s trachea.
 An officer attempts the neck restraint, but doesn’t get his arm deep enough around the suspect’s throat, clasping his hands on the suspect’s shoulder.
 In this position it is most likely that the officer will pull backwards with the muscles of his upper back and arms which draws his forearm directly across the suspect’s trachea.
"In all my years of martial arts and law enforcement, I’ve never seen anything like BJJ," says Hardy. "It is a great equalizer, as important to an officer as having a pistol."
 
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