Self-Defense Against Multiple Attackers: Split and Stack Strategy
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Alessandro Padovani of Safer Faster Defense looks at four important factors that will help us when dealing with multiple assailants using the split and stack strategy: angle, distance, speed and accuracy. Alessandro demonstrates how these work against single and multiple assailants in unarmed self-defense and discusses how each skill can be honed in practice. In this video, learn self-defense against multiple attackers.
Let's look at four important factors that will help us in dealing with multiple assailants. We talked about the speed and strategy if you will, what help us there is gonna be angle, distance, speed and accuracy. Let's break it down. We're talking about angle. When we're talking about angle with one, just one opponent. Angling off an attack. We are talking this on. I, the attack comes. I'm angling now, I'm cleaning the line of attack while remaining in closing up distance to the control the limb, or strike the bad guy and defense myself. Right? Now, when I'm talking about multiple assailants the angle is, trying to angle myself in a way that the bad guys are then stack, right? And these allows me to, again, break the fight between, from two on one to one and then one more. Now distance, again, for distance if you're just one-on-one. When I proceeded the attack in, I can either move closer and I stuff, a stuff is attacked by closing in. And I'm in contact, so I can actually apply all the skills that I need to apply. Distance for a multiple assailant situation is actually. Distance, once I angled and I stack him. Distance basically prioritizes my target, right? The closest thread is going to be the most immediate threat. He's an imminent threat, is an immediate threat. So, it prioritizes my focus. He's the guy that's gonna start the attack first, so I can deal with him first and then move to the next. Thank you guys. Now, obviously we have speed now. Speed, the quicker you can apply your skill, obviously, the quicker you're gonna get to safety, right? And that again, comes with practice and, and proper training. What we talk about when speed, like, you wanna use, you wanna be as fast as possible why remain combat accurate. The accurate concept is any strike, whether it is a stab, a splash, palma strike, punch, knee, elbow; that significantly affects the target's ability to present a little threat. Now, if I'm super fast, but I'm not combat accurate, it just becomes flailing. Flailing is obvious not as effective of a, of a tactic. Right? So we wanna stay away from that. When you practice, when you put force effort, when you put gear on; remember, once you start to lose accuracy, dial back down. You want to progress through your training while maintaining combat accuracy. You develop accuracy, on a moving dynamic target, only with practice. And you wanna train in scenario simulation, you wanna train following good role-playing rule. So, that the movement of your partner is realistic and is congruent with how a person would move when you hit them in a certain way. This will help to expose the next natural target and it will be help you to develop an eye coordination and tools to target coordination. In conclusion, remember, maintain an angle, control the distance and your speed and accuracy to stop the threat.
Theory, no solution. Compliant slow motion attackers. He did not solve the problem he talked about a theory and did nothing at combat speed. And more importantly what is his operational experience in such encounters. You need to upgrade your trainers.
I too think it is a good video... Stacking your opponents is the way to go, that is what I trained for when I did TKD in my day... However... both of them are armed... at my age, and considering I would be accompanied by my significant other, I woulds use deadly force unless I see them surrendering their weapons and their pep...
I studied Aikido for many years, as well as combat jujutsu, and one solid useful point of both was Randori training, and that was basically stacking attackers in front of each other to put them in each others way, the most important part was moving, and not allowing yourself to become the central target of several attackers (there is no defense for multiple attackers from several different directions other than movement) and the idea of precise fast and decisive strikes is a very good plan of action without it you're going to have serious problems without taking your attackers out of the fight....video gave good advice...keep training! like they say, you never rise to your expectations, you fall to your training...
if anyone attacks me on the street i will always take it as they mean me bodly harm and will always respond with deadly force. i am almost 60 years old and anyone younger than me is normally faster, stronger than i am.
Part of my self defense strategy has become unarmed defense ,hand-to-hand skills, or simple defense of either using a kubotan or pepper spray. When I was younger I was mugged multiple times. One mugging, by two people, one with a knife, I barely escaped; I utilized a strategy that was really too risky but fortunately by a miracle survived. So do I need a gun-yes!! But for the other muggings good hand skills and the things mentioned above would suffice. The scenario of an assailant coming at me, one who is equal to me in size,etc., and has a knife would be met by me with a gun. If he drops his knife before he reaches me but continues to come at me a gun would not be justified and so good hand skills would be much needed. I especially like that PDN is teaching both and is becoming the place to go for all my self defense needs. The above demonstration may look simple but there is so much there. Things happen so fast that you need to be prepared to move fast. Moving fast means that you really have not much time to think, so practice has to be to the point that you move unconsciously, and do things by habit to be accurate. Something is imminent and needs to be handled first. Using a method-stacking angle- seems like a good way to deal with one threat at a time if possible. The video got me thinking as all PDN videos do.
Part of my self defense strategy has become unarmed defense, hand-to-hand skills, or simple defense of either using a kubotan or pepper spray. When I was younger living in a large city I was mugged multiple times. One mugging, by two people, one with a knife, I barely escaped; I utilized a strategy that was really too risky but fortunately by a miracle survived. So do I need a gun-yes!! But for the other muggings good hand skills sufficed and the things mentioned above would have been a help. The scenario of an one assailant coming at me, and has a knife, would be met by me with a gun. If he drops his knife before he reaches me, but continues to come at me( and he is basically my size), a gun would not be justified and so good hand skills would be much needed. I especially like that PDN is teaching both, unarmed and armed, and is becoming the place to go for all my self defense needs. The above demonstration may look simple but there is so much there. Things happen so fast that you need to be prepared to move fast. Moving fast means that you really have not much time to think, so practice has to be to the point that you move unconsciously, and do things by habit, to be accurate. Something is immediate of the imminent threats and needs to be handled first. Using a method-stacking angle- seems like a good way to deal with one threat at a time, if possible. Also in the above threat he moved in to the assailant. I like this demonstration, it got me thinking, as do many of the PDN videos.