Scaling Force by Rory Miller

Author:Rory Miller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: YMAA Publication Center
Published: 2012-08-27T04:00:00+00:00

LEVEL 4—EMPTY-HAND RESTRAINT/PHYSICAL CONTROL

Level 4 includes a wide variety of techniques that are designed to gain compliance through pain or force compliance through leverage, with a relatively low risk of injury. Even though you are not intending to do lasting harm to the other guy, if you use these techniques in the wrong circumstances, you are very likely to be charged with a crime (e.g., assault, unlawful imprisonment).

The techniques will only stop a fight temporarily at best. Pain points hurt, but that’s all. If the pain does not wilt the attacker, the fight is still on, possibly with more rage thrown into the mix. Joint locks hurt and can either force or prevent movement, but you must either let them go, break the joint, or wait for help to arrive. That may take some time, perhaps a lot of time. If you have someone under control, a break or dislocation requires a whole new level of justification.

Under what circumstances could you show that someone in a lock was still an immediate threat to the degree that serious injury was appropriate? Not a rhetorical question. When we throw these questions out, think them through. In this instance, if you have someone locked up and they draw a knife with the other hand, you betcha a broken joint becomes justified.

As such, Level 4 is appropriate when you are very, very confident that you will prevail. If it turns out to be false confidence and things go sideways, they will go sideways very quickly. By attempting to apply a Level 4 technique, just like at Level 3, you are very close, well within reach of the threat. The very fact that you were sure you could handle it at this level indicates that you will be surprised when you fail.

If you decide to go in at Level 4, be prepared to immediately jump to a higher level if you start taking damage. Do not hesitate.

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