Being significantly lighter than most of the population makes you realize how important leverage and technique are. Luckily I have friends and coworkers like @larryperreira to troubleshoot ideas and give honest feedback about whether something works or not.
Part 1 of us messing around with a technique that @renergracie shared a few weeks ago that addressed what can be done when the prone person begins reaching for their waistband.
Takeaways:
-Although this technique was not meant to control the prone person’s ability to get up, using your shin to pin the upper arm after the knee pivot provided much more control compared to shin across the forearm.
-Using the pointy part of the elbow as a pivot point/fulcrum provided a lot of leverage and incentive for the bottom person to bring their far arm out.
-Using your arms as wedges near the far elbow to prevent the prone person’s arm from coming out was effective.
-In part 2 we tried to work this technique with training pistols, and disengaging once the suspect begins reaching resulted in the officer getting shot first every time. Staying in the mix and fighting for control of the pistol was generally way better than disengaging. The opposite was true for knives. The hard part is you can’t predict which one it will be.
-Everything works and everything fails.
-Even though our department provides more on duty training time that most places, we should have much more time on the clock to train.
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