Flight attendents learn self defence

[Mojo]

I found this in an article on flight attendents learning self defence.

'The courses provide crews with a greater awareness of threats and how to manage them, said flight attendant Mark Huffman, 43, who joined AirTran last month.

"It's giving me self-confidence, that if a situation should arise that I might be able to help," said Huffman, a Milwaukee resident. "For a guy that's 5 foot 7, 130 pounds -- I've never been able to fight anybody off." '

I feel much safer now !!!
LOL !!



http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/02/14/in.flight.fighting.ap/index.html

[ewallace]

I wonder if these moves by the airlines are to actually give the flight attendents' better self-defense skills or just to give them peace of mind in order to do their jobs.

[Badger]

selfdefense seminar (http://www.carlosmachado.com/seminars/fightbackamerica/index.html)

[ewallace]

I'd have to believe that the environment that FAs work in would be favorable to that style of fighting. At least it is free.

[Black Jack]

I am all for short-term self defense/survival tactic classes but that article was a joke, take a look at the pictures, everybody playing the good uke, pressure point takedowns and bogus knife defenses, what a load of crap, skipping over the sweet and simple, gross motor strikes/movements, for pc value.

The airports should bring in Peyton Quinn or Kelly Mcann to do the training.

[Badger]

RMCAT (http://www.rmcat.com/)

[ewallace]

Just to clear up my response I was referring to the link to C. Machado's free self defense offer.

[kungfuyou]

They have something like that here in Sacramento, Cali. They teach self defense to PASSANGERS! How to disarm someone with a gun or knife.

I don't know about you, but this is scaring more to fly than the terrorists themselves!! LOL

[ewallace]

They should just send all of them through BUDS. Of course they wouldn't have to carry a zodiac above their heads with the rest of their flight crew in it. That would be good for confidence building.

[Highlander]

We could convert the old Al Queda training camps to Flight Attendant training camps. Just use the same corriculum the terrorists went through. We know it works 3 out of 4 times and it works on airplanes.

I just had a scarey image pop in my head. Can you picture a bunch of guys sitting arround in a bar and one of them says "Hey man, you really don't want to mess with that guy over there .... he's a flight attendant".

[ewallace]

God help you if you slip and call him a "stew"