549 - (FREE TO READ) 27 seconds: Machete and knife/ Four vs Two (VIDEO)
Training diary notes from UK fast food battle
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Above: “The Combat Space” involving eight individuals in various roles.
Notes on viewing:
Firstly, before I add some notes I made while watching, it may surprise readers to know that the music used in the video below doesn’t come from my own personal selection…
The two individuals at the beginning represent what is now the lowest strata of British society: the worker - selfishly hogging much needed space that will soon be required by two opposing hunting groups for self expression.However, one of the two rival groups has made the error of embarking on tracking game with inferior numbers.
0.30 - Move aside! This space is being commandeered for more important work. The first two new visitors enter the frame, one over the counter and the second, a moment later, through the entrance to the till area. So they were either chased into the shop or spotted while there.
Above: 0.33 - Despite the pressing need for the workspace for more important business, this worker still has the audacity to think to lock the till and exit, thereby wilfully avoiding paying due tax funds to the honoured guests should they wish to collect them.
Numbers and weapons
The video shows two workers, two targets and at least four visible hunters.
The target on the floor is unarmed and then armed by the end of the video.
The four hunters bring the following:
A machete (ineffectually used in a stand over position and blocked target access by gang member). He actually manages to disarm himself at one point leaving the floor target a weapon.
A machete (ineffectually used by leaning across a counter and waving to make cutting attempts):
A knife (very effective from stand over position):
Blunt force via stamping. (The knife holder is the most determined with this tactic but seems more focused on knife use, the second member seems to be trying to get in a stamp to be seen to participate and then flee). Neither of these offers much real damage.
Time:
The total length of attack from staff reaction to hunters fleeing is 27 seconds. That’s an average stab wound every 1.35 seconds of the total encounter.
Or a potential injury approximately every 0.9 seconds of the total encounter time, if you include the ineffective machete attempts.
Total blade attack/ contact time was approximately 14 seconds.
The most effective weapon seen in this confined space was the knife.
A minimum of 20 reverse grip stabs can be counted.
A minimum of 10 hacking and slashing attacks can be counted.
Knife stabs outnumber machete contacts by a ratio of two to one.
The lack of space for multiple hunter access to target is the main factor here, but the knife is also quicker with a shorter arc.
Stab wound sites are the upper back (neck) and both shoulders due to the turning of the target. Unknown injuries outcome from the length of video and total lack of information, though there’s possible lung, heart and bleed out risks from these wounds as well as life changing injury.
1.00 - what looks like the first target peers round the food shelves to check on his partner.
Defence
1- Using objects
In terms of defence offered by the recipients of this attack, if we rewind the video to about 0.37, we see a thought to use the fallen fan as a shield against the stand over knife threat but this gets pushed aside and then the downed target is pinned as the stabbing begins.
2 - Kicking
He is pinned and turned by his clothing while being stabbed, this is very difficult now to defend against, more relentless kicking against the stabber’s legs may have created some extra space to go to stand, but he was by this time being attacked from behind too, so that direction was blocked for him.
3 - Create/ find barriers
The initial decision to try and get behind the counter is a clear one. It would seem that the “disagreement” began with the two targets cut off from exiting the main entrance while standing in the larger customer area as the four entered. Here the numerical numbers of their opposites had advantage, as did the space for the larger arc of the machetes.
Moving to the confined area behind the till offered both a barrier which can be seen to work versus the longer blades, but also a way of funnelling the advance of the larger numbers and in theory making managing them more likely. This isn’t the case though when you’re flat on your ass and tangled in a power lead for a fan with your trousers down.
4 - Attacker resolve
Not all attackers in a group will have the same levels of motivation.
Time and the lack of resolve by the four attackers would seem to be the main saving grace here as only one of them seems to be the main force bringer, with the others along for the ride, and the ticking clock spurred them to run away.
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