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self-defense is important.

Things I learned in de-escalation training at work:

-move in to the hold, not away

-shout “NO!” while you’re doing it

Shouting “NO!” when breaking someone’s grip on you also helps because they legit aren’t expecting that.  Startle them.  Make a shit-ton of noise.  “No!” in a commanding tone sort of bypasses your frontal cortex- almost everyone has a knee-jerk reaction to a shouted no, given that when we were little it would often save our stupid asses.  Sometimes it will loosen someone’s hold just because of the psychological power of the word.

Attackers will not expect you to move towards their hold- they anticipate you attempting to pull away.  Moving into their hold throws them mentally off-balance and they will physically relax their grip/their grip will become more relaxed because you are closing the distance .

It’s sort of hard to see what’s going on with the hair pulls here, so here’s the crux of it: If someone grabs your hair, put your hand over theirs, press down, and pull them towards you.  It will force their grip open and allow you to get free without losing a chunk of hair/scalp.  It also puts you in charge of your head movements- they cannot yank you off balance if they aren’t in control anymore.

If they’ve got your clothing in their hold, and it’s not choking you, let them have it.  If your shirt rips, it rips.  (Learned this one the hard way.)  If it’s something like an unzipped hoodie, pull out of the hoodie and leave them holding it while you get the fuck out of there.

Loose jewelry can be a target.  It’ll hurt like a bitch if they get your earring or a necklace.  Do the same I said above- move into the hold, press their hand down against your own body to break their grip.  If it’s an earring, it’ll hurt like a bitch but it’s better to have a ripped earlobe and survive.  Same goes for other body piercings- it’s gonna hurt but if that’s the only thing they have a hold of, sacrifice the piercing, man.  (I know it hurts!  This is why I don’t wear jewelry to work.  Once someone gets you by the earring once, let me tell you, you stop wearing ‘em in a big hurry.)

Quite a few of these holds show the person ducking out of them.  Your natural reaction will be to pull straight away.  If the hold is loose enough, move perpendicular to the hold- go down.  If it is a tight hold, move into it and then down.  If someone’s got you by the throat from behind, move up- pushing more of your body into the hold helps break it- and break that motherfucker’s nose.  The back of your head is hard and noses are not.  Fling your head backwards with as much force as you can. 

When in doubt, BITE THE SHIT OUT OF THEM.  They will jerk away from you.  People do not taste good and for the love of god spit out as much blood as possible and get straight to medical care- if you’ve got an open wound in your mouth, SO MANY DISEASES can transfer.  You’ll want to get onto whatever course of medication is needed to prevent infection.

If YOU are bitten, feed the bite.  Do the same thing- press into the hold, and turn the appendage being bitten into the bite.  This will force their jaw to open enough for you to get loose.   

General information that I did not learn in de-escalation training:

-If you must throw a punch, don’t wrap your thumb under your fingers.  You will break your thumb.

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Rule #3 of Trollhunting- get ‘em in the gronk-nuks.  If your attacker’s a dude, go for the nuts.  Kick them, grab ‘em by the balls.  As hard as you can.  Squish those fuckers.  It is a man’s weak point.  Repeat as much as possible until they are in a crying heap and you are free.

-And don’t forget how Miss Congeniality taught us to SING!  Solar plexus, instep, nose, groin!  Use your pointy edges- elbows, knees, heels, base of your hand, and put as much force into it as physically possible.

Fuck ‘em up, friends.