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Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes.

Today’s episode was originally, Episode-416- Dealing With Violent Confrontations and was first published on April 14th, 2010.

The following are the original show notes from that episode.

After spending a week with Val Riazanov on systema and Russian martial arts and filming the new DVD series I thought it might be a good day to do a show on dealing with potentially violent confrontations.

Join me today as we discuss…

• Real violence vs. movie violence
• The morals of the criminal, he has none
• Professional = death when it comes to killing
• The first rule is avoiding the confrontation
• If you can’t avoid it focus on deescalation
• If deescalation fails at times controlled retreat is the best option
• You should always appear relaxed and “harmless”
• When you do strike it must be with sufficient force for the situation
• Pressure points are useless in full speed combat, anatomy points are critical
• The “systema strike” – misunderstood and highly effective
• Dealing with an armed opponent takes things to another level
• The knife is the oldest consistently deadly weapon for a reason
• In dealing with an opponent with a gun 1.5-2 meters is “critical distance”

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