442 - (FREE) Training diary: Escape abduction
Anti-abduction, anti-sexual assault, grappling, striking, women's safety, child safety
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Scenario: Vehicle abduction
This training example is one common variation of this situation and presented in the context of a larger/ stronger male physically overwhelming a smaller/ weaker female or child by surprise, force, or working with an accomplice to bear-hug them from behind with both arms restrained and then lifting them to forcibly place them in a vehicle.
So the victim is already in the air off their feet and being carried.
Countering the hold with striking
The visualisation generally given here is for a “gross motor” movement by making sprinting actions with the legs in the hopes of hitting any low target available - for an adult female, the shins to the thighs, a child or very small female may be able to even reach the groin of the attacker using this idea.
Create opportunities for escape
The idea is that the disruption and possible pain caused will provide an opportunity for escape by making the attacker either drop you or be forced to adjust their hold of you in such a way that it offers a momentary release that you can exploit.
Improving this idea with training
We need to be careful with establishing associations in the trainee’s mind that may create lesser results.
Visualising sprinting is good as a starting point image as running will be natural as an instinct, easily remembered, and also as a way of chaotically catching and bracing, pushing off other surfaces but is very inefficient as a movement instruction as a good portion of the energy of the legs will be wasted in arcing through the air in front of you.
The part of the foot likely to make the most contact will be the backs of the heels, very painful but also can be improved upon massively to generate far more injurious force.
Wasted effort in a fight for your life!
Once you have quickly mastered this basic move, adapt it to raising the knees and driving the bottom of the heels directly backward and into the attacker’s vulnerable legs in a relentless mule-kicking manner, like backward stamping.
Mule kicking not sprinting.
Try it
Lie on you back and place a kick shield under your legs.
With your arms folded across your chest, try bicycle kicking and note how the back of your heels makes the most contact with the shield.
Now bring your knees up and repeatedly and alternatingly left and right, just drive the bottom of your heels and feet, powerfully and directly back into the shield.
With the knees raised up, the power gluteal muscles can be fully used for extending and even hyperextending the hip joint thus delivering a far more powerful and invading strike.
The energy of the posterior muscle chain is now far better utilised for force and that force will be more efficiently driven into the bastard’s exposed legs than by just sprinting.
More surface area means more chance to hurt him!
You will be using a greater surface area with a larger part of the bottom of the foot rather than just the back of your heels - if you were wearing high heels, these would become edged weapons capable of stabbing as the bottom would be aligned with the attacker and due to the delivery of pounds per square inch may easily penetrate flesh!
Environment
Use your legs for kicking and also to disrupt the attacker’s ability to carry you efficiently via the use of other surfaces.
For instance, to access and place you within the door to a van, an attacker would need to turn and throw you inside if carrying you in this manner.
It would be extremely difficult for him to carry you, turn, and enter the van backward!
Placing you inside forwards or turning to the sides to throw you would present possible opportunities to rebound and push away on the entrance to the vehicle.
The sides of the entrance and even the top and roof space could be driven against by kicking and pushing or isometrically bracing with the legs.
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