Corporate Defense

[ewallace]

Delta Airlines has announced that it will offer self defence training to it's flight personel in light of the attacks last year.

If you were in a position where you felt that some type of self defence training was necessary for the safety of your employees, and you needed to get them all up to speed in a very short amount of time, how would you go about training them? For instance, would you hire an outside training firm such as Crucible Security Specialists? Or maybe take elements of your own style that you feel are the most effective given the elements that make up your employees work environment (ie: confined work space, large corporate building...etc). How would you approach this if it were your employees at risk?

[Godzilla]

I am starting a business to do this in Long Island/NYC.

I will concentrate on close range self defense.

Defense against shoulder grabs, collar grabs, arm grabs, chokes from behind and in front, bear hugs and headlocks. I will also teach punching and kicking to vital points and throw in a few pressure points.

I would encourage everyone to do the same to make a bit of side money! There should be plenty of business for all of us – especially in NY – there’s a million companies there.

Truly,
Godzilla

[Highlander]

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"So we're agreed then - the first thing we have to do is make a lot of money!"

Sorry, I borrowed that from Jaz.

But seriously, I would tailor the training to each work environment. For instance, I don't think I would recommend running to the fight crew of a plane being hi-jacked. Also, the training should be done in their place of work. They should learn to use their environment and not have it work against them. Also, it would be important that they understand that this is specialized training to help keep them safe at work and is not going to make them the baddest person on the street.

Developing training for specific environments is an art unto itself. Good luck in you venture and take good notes on what you learn from the experience. It could be the foundation for a book or at least a series of articles.