Survive the Unthinkable by Tim Larkin

Author:Tim Larkin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale
Published: 2013-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

Injury is independent of technique. All you need is force and a target. You could trip and fall all by yourself and get injured—without being in a hopped-up emotional state, using a technique, or even involving another person. This fact is why technique without injury is only a parlor trick, and injury, regardless of how it occurred (with technique or by accident) will always be more effective. The most artless injury inflicted will always be superior to the fanciest technique used without injuring. You don’t need to learn jiu-jitsu to protect yourself.

All injuries are equal. This is another way of saying that all targets are equal. The best target? The one you just wrecked. All injuries are equal when you know what to do next to take advantage of the fact that you injured the person.

Injured people move in predictable ways. The body responds to injury through the somatic reflex arc (the reflexes processed solely by the spinal cord). These are specific automatic movements triggered by large stimuli (like ruptured testicles). The threshold switch that decides whether or not to reflex is in the spinal cord, not the brain. There is no conscious choice involved, just physics and physiology. These reflexes are injury specific, meaning that a boot to the groin elicits the same basic response in all humans. This means you can predict how he’ll move when you injure him—and be there to take full advantage of it (we’ll discuss this further).

Injured people are helpless. For the short time they are in the throes of their spinal reflex, they cannot stop you from injuring them again and getting away.

Injury begets injury. Because injured people are helpless, beating an injured man is easy work. In this way, then, a broken knee can cause other trauma when the injured person topples to the ground.

Injury trumps strength, speed, and resolve. Is he stronger than you? Not if you have knocked the wind out of him. Is he faster than you? Not with a damaged knee. Is he far more dangerous than you, with scads of training, experience, a gun, and an indomitable iron will? Not if you have successfully targeted and struck him so he is incapacitated from hurting you again.

Anything you do in a violent situation that does not cause an injury is worthless to you. Every time you touch him, you need to interrupt normal functioning. Every time you touch him, you need to make a part of him cease normal functioning. You’re not done until you’re sure he’s not able to come after you.

The answer to every question in a violent conflict is: Injure him, right now.

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