@natetrahan helping me pressure test my equipment and competency at our station. I first met Nate when he was helping as a skate coach at one of the @bellevueskatepark camps. He’s headed off to college in a few weeks (on a full academic scholarship! 👏🏽) and I was very lucky to get a super fun training session in before that. Nate always gives me great feedback and he is familiar with how to release the retentions of my holster so it was good to see if the gear and skills held up.
The wrist / biceps control I got at the beginning is a great way to control one arm and it also limits a person’s access to the waistband. Even though Nate is grabbing my taser I knew from previous pressure testing that he could not unholster it by just pulling. I’m very lucky to have the luxury of making mistakes and learning when it doesn’t count for real, and maybe you can learn something by watching this too.
Some people advocate against going to the ground altogether due to the accessibility of the tools from close quarters. The ground however provides the best amount of control you can have over another person. It limits mobility and neutralizes size and strength as much as is realistically possible. At the end of the day, no matter what new technology or tool gets invented to assist with controlling someone, at some point we still have to close the distance and engage.
Becoming more comfortable in uncomfortable positions (especially on the bottom) is important because things can go wrong, and knowing the limitations (while wearing all of the gear) of what can be done and what you can do beforehand will only help. 🙏🏽🤙🏽 #police #jiujitsu #selfdefense #graciesurvivaltactics #outreach #aloha #makeadidderence #recruiting #trainweeklyorfightweakly #aiea #oahugrown