ME TRIPLED!


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DEFUSE ANY ONE. ANY TIME. PART 5

So sorry, reader, but the Hammer’s been off doing trainings out west and other places, so the posts have been rare lately. I will try to get a few in before I take off again, this time to Chicago, Cape May and Ocean City, Maryland.

Along those lines, though, each time I trained a team of officers or security personnel it became clearer to them and definitely to me, that many of the problems they encounter could be managed more effectively, more efficiently and with a hell of a lot less energy than they way they had traditionally elected to handle problems involving the use of any kind of force.

Which brings us back to the theme of this and the past four posts – defusing any person or student, anytime, anywhere.

Every time I do any kind of use of force training – be it subject control or self defense – I eventually talk about one of the crucial axioms of my Advanced De-Escalation Techniques (nee Verbal Judo) course.

ME Tripled. Maximum Effectiveness, Maximum Efficiency with a Minimum of Energy.

And, truly, this is what de-escalation skills are all about. Many of the teachers, administrators and security specialists I encounter (in my travels as an Instructor Trainer) frankly, do not have the physical, mental, or, for that matter, emotional conditioning that is required to physically handle or manage really disruptive students. Believe me, the skills and techniques I teach in my DSM (Disruptive Student Management) program are dog shit simple, designed especially for the smallest teacher/security, yet time after time I see the personnel I have been asked to instruct fumble and trip over the techniques, and, in my heart, I know that in a real critical situation where only a teacher/security person who has practiced the skills and actually has committed him or herself to them in an educational environment that also has committed itself to the safety of its students and its security/teaching personnel – a situation I have only encountered once (where the school district acquired Student Control Technique Training for its staff and developed a protocol delineating what security personnel can do in a crisis) – that the people I have been training will fail!

So, long story short, therein lies the critical value of learning and mastering verbal de-escalation skills. After all, 98% of all student control situations can be artfully and effectively managed with good verbal skills.

Next Post: The Heart of De-escalation. The 5-Step Hard Style.

Until Then, please Stay Safe.

Hammer

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