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Self-Defence Expert Teaches What To Do If Grabbed From Behind, And It Goes Viral
Key as a weapon is considered ridiculous.
Simple self-defense tips can assist if you’re ever in a situation where someone grabs you from behind. Imagine you’re on your usual outing when suddenly, out of nowhere, someone who’s been stalking you grabs you from behind.
What are you going to do? James Griffiths, a self-defense expert, and personal trainer has the perfect approach to escape the above scenario. James is the Wild Training Gym’s owner in High Wycombe, and he claims to squat and push hips into a perpetrator is the most effective way to escape.
James Griffiths, a self-defense expert, claims to squat and push hips into a perpetrator is the most effective way to escape.
Instead of using the hammer method recently proposed by Makeup Artist Fae, James says a person who’s attacked from behind should drop hips in a low squat and an easy point to hit the perpetrator either with an elbow or nearby weapon before getting away. He continued that women shouldn’t use the key trick, explaining that an attacker can easily pick them up and throw them to the floor, so a jab from a key is unlikely to be effective.
Makeup Artist Fae went viral after suggesting a key trick, but James says a jab is unlikely to be effective.
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Speaking exclusively to Daily Mail, James, who equally shared a video with the news agency, said: “This is a dangerous thing to talk about, and frankly, the video and key concept, in general, won’t work. These scenarios are too sterile and don’t translate to real attacks in any way. If I grab you from behind, I’m going to lift you and throw you on the floor unless you drop your hips. You pushing a blunt key one inch into my leg is going to be like shooting a BB gun at a train, especially when adrenalin is running high.”
“You pushing a blunt key one inch into my leg is going to be like shooting a BB gun at a train, especially when adrenalin is running high.”
“It terrifies me that someone could be influenced by this sort of thing. Fights last 12 seconds before you are gassed out at an extreme level, and lots of attacks take 2-8 seconds and can be life-threatening. No one should think a weak punch or slash of a key is a realistic option. An open palm strike will hurt more and be more likely to stop an attack. Teaching a key jab or anything that doesn’t initially deal with the real threat when grabbed from behind, which is the threat of being lifted and thrown to the floor is dangerous.”
Women have been sharing safety tips online, and they surfaced amid fears of attacks on lone women in the United Kingdom following Sarah Everard’s death. On the other hand, the self-defense practitioner of getting Licenced, Madiha Adil, also told Daily Mail that learning self-defense and using ‘your voice’ when being attacked is the best way forward.
