Training for Restraint:: things to avoid (#6) escorts on aircraft
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. The accompanying photo to this post comes from a restraint-related death of a deportee which happened in 1999 in Germany. The man who died was called Aamir Agheeb, a Sudanese national who died during an aircraft restraint on a Lufthansa flight (news story). […]
Training for Restraint:: Things to avoid doing #5
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. The technique being demonstrated in the picture accompanying this post is promoted as a way for controlling violent patients in a hospital setting. Unfortunately, it is potentially a deadly restraint — and its use might go far beyond control and extend to culpable […]
Training for Restraint:: Things to avoid doing #4
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. The accompanying images in this post show something that has been referred to as a “Therapeutic Floor Hold” in some training materials. It constitutes, in our view, inappropriate restraint. The (usually) vulnerable person being restrained is first taken to the floor — often […]
Training for Restraint:: Things to avoid doing #3
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. The image accompanying this post was apparently taken in 1907 of the City of London Police learning or demonstrating restraint techniques. They are clearly wearing jackets which suggest that there may have been input from some Japanese martial arts into the restraint techniques […]
Training for Restraint:: Things to avoid doing #1
A Restraint Procedure Under Scrutiny This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. This image was first published in an article about the types of physical restraint practices being carried out on children in schools in the USA. What it reveals is worth examining closely — because there are a large […]