449 - Grappling the knife: when control is lost... / Conflict/ Aggression / Adrenaline / Flinch response / Boxing
Workshop content and notes. (Paid supporters) Aide-mémoire: Dec '23 week one
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Tuesday 05_12_23 (Open training)
Topics (see supporter section below):
Being assaulted during the interview
Boxing
Grappling and knives
A special End of ‘23 workshop next week
This is our penultimate open workshop of 2023 before a break and then commencing again in Early January. Private workshops will continue.
I’m working on a couple of events starting hopefully in January. As the details are confirmed I will share them here.
Encountering conflict and aggression
Following on from last month’s topics of adrenaline, we’ve moved on to looking at how we respond to a massive hormone dump and what that means in terms of our ways of dealing with conflict and aggression. There are are range of reactions that people can have which differ wildly from person to person depending on certain factors.
As an aside, I have been writing a great deal of material based on this, to be part of a much-delayed book project and I intend to serialise it all in upcoming paid supporter posts.
This subject, as many do, started as a simple list and then became a rabbit hole of thinking as I tried to distill the key ideas from the “research, training, and negative life experience matrix” but this series has finally started to fall into a reasonably logical progression of subjects (even by my standards…) and will post soon for your consideration and also as the only way to finish the project!
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Back to the workshop subject…
Sensing ambush (within the interview situation)
I covered structural changes, ways of standing and speaking that can act as “tells” of an impending assault.
Some are large and overt, others are micro-movements - the same way we can subconsciously register micro-expressions on another person’s face as indicators of internal state and thought processes.
Flinch response
Much has been written in the past about the idea of flinch response and how it can be used defensively when receiving physical aggression.
As my friend Hock Hochheim says of some of this training:
“Never in the field of human combatives training, have so many, paid so much, for so little”!
No doubt upsetting many industry types that have perhaps invested very heavily in the concept that a flinch response can be “trained” even though there are many flinch responses, each linked to a different sense.
Further reading:
Fightin’ Words (Click for Amazon) W. Hochheim / Margaret Eden / Lauric Enterprises, Inc.; Illustrated edition (2017)