I amended my comment above to reflect a change in categorizing. As "social" beings, we move about with our interactions with one another. Within this realm of behavior/life is both, "social" and "anti-social" behavior. We strive to affectively/correctly negotiate within this behavior in society. Completely separate from this realm of everyday life is the "asocial". The "predators". When you find yourself face to face with THIS realm, it's time.
The focus of this DVD series is HOW to effect the injury(s) needed to shut the predator down. Themes used are that of:
Penetration=Driving your body's mass into the space occupied by him.
Rotation=Depending upon the need, moving your mass away from the threat point, or affecting the acceleration of his mass into the ground as you have a limb locked in, resulting in further injury.
Injury=Causing that spinal reflex in him that momentarily takes him out of the fight.
The sequence of those three above can vary, upon your need... but, all three should come into play... and can come into play in a cascading/layered affect as you introduce trauma.
The "weapon" is the brain, control his weapon and the tools in hand lessen in their threat to you. As long as you can find a target on his body, affect injury to that target (intensified with penetration/rotation), look for your next targeted point, continuing to do damage until you realize he's no longer a threat to you, then your survivability is increased. "Tools" in your hand can intensify the trauma you're inflicting, even quickening lethality.
They get into a little bit of weapon retention, baton use, knife use as well... but, strive to bring you to a realization that those are merely tools used by the true weapon, your functioning brain, and the ability to find/attack the next target point on him.
This is all separate from how we navigate within society and the social boundaries. This is beyond the tactics used to meet non-compliance with an elevated level of force/interaction... meant to "talk them down". This is into the realm of: "The hair on the back of your neck has stood up and you KNOW it's time to survive." This is within that realm of "deadly force" is needed, but getting TO your weapon may require too much time... or, you're outnumbered by how many predators you're facing and help is a lifetime away.
I don't know if I can correctly communicate this... but, one way they described it is... you're LIVING within the core of being capable of inflicting extreme violence upon someone, looking for each target point on them as you interact with them... but, THEY have not penetrated the various veils of "going there" with you, so there's no need to unleash on them. You're content to interact with them within society's boundaries at the varied levels (whether their behavior is "social" or "anti-social"). If THEY suddenly leap to that realm of "asocial", you're already looking for your first target point and how you're going to inflict injury.
The next 5 DVDs should be interesting.
The way it's filmed, you can pair up with a partner, listen to each step-by-step instruction of how to inflict the intended injury... your partner is shown HOW to respond (physically) to the act, and this gives you a visual record of what (at a minimum) to look for as you act. You continue to focus on a target point on him and inflict injury until you see the results your visual memory has stored. Each one takes turn being the giver/receiver of damage. You can "pause" and practice as needed, until it becomes an owned execution of movement... and then "resume". They're very careful to stress over and over that the training is very slow and deliberate, to train you to focus on the target. "Technique" is not of concern, we all know how to stomp, drive forward, twist at real time speed and with full force. This is about learning how to use those motions to effectively do injury, so YOU survive. Great care is used during the "own the execution" phase... and the transfer of your body weight (onto where you will stomp) doesn't happen until your partner is already falling down from the touch of the foot to the point above the knee (for example)... or, the slow motion placement of the foot (as if stomping) to the point above the bony protrusion of the ankle as you're breaking the ankle. The cupped hand is touched to the ear in slow motion, then the partner physically repels away from the moment of touching (impact simulation). Your body mass is then taking the place he once occupied and you're finding your next target of opportunity to attack.
