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 […]
Restraint Training: Control Phase and Restraint Phase Differences
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Restraint Training: Floor-Based Restraint Controversy
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. In a call to ban prone restraint, a leading mental health charity has suggested that the use of prone restraint is degrading, humiliating and has no place in a civilised modern healthcare system. The charity also linked prone restraint to numerous deaths which […]
Restraint Training: Complex Motor Skills in Control scenarios are just a Pain!
During our 2015 Advanced Control Tactics instructor-level training certification, Coach Tony Torres explained some of his experience and functional, pragmatic ideas about why pain-compliance holds should not be used during the “Control” phase of an incident. We define the “Control Phase” as the early-stage and often rapidly-unfolding physical interaction between subject and intervening staff. It […]
Restraint Training: Claim for injury during realistic training failed
In September 2010, a prison officer attended a one-day control and restraint training course run by the Scottish Prison Service at its Fauldhouse facility in West Lothian. The exercise was a simulated prison riot — full riot gear, metal gates, mock prisoners barricading the doors. She carried a large shield and advanced with her team. […]