{"id":1038,"date":"2012-10-11T09:59:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T09:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fightfast.com\/blog\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2020-04-07T16:27:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T16:27:42","slug":"what-if-you-were-attacked-in-an-elevator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/11\/what-if-you-were-attacked-in-an-elevator\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme Close Quarters: Elevator Self-Defense Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"blog\">\n<h4 id=\"top-header\">What To Do If There's No Escape?<\/h4>\nConfined spaces are all around us. This video demonstrates how an everyday place like an elevator can become a no-holds barred fighting cage in the blink of an eye. One of the keys to successful self-defense training is knowing how to handle a variety of situations. This includes scenarios you may have never thought of before, like in an elevator.<!--more-->\n\n[dfads params='groups=292&amp;limit=1&amp;orderby=random']\n<div class=\"flex-video\" style=\"float:none!important;margin: 0, 0, 1rem, 0!important\">\n  <iframe width=\"1365\" height=\"947\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q8zC4JQXR4o\" style=\"border:0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"small-12 medium-10 medium-centered large-6 large-centered columns\">\n\t[dfads params='groups=290&amp;limit=1&amp;orderby=random']<\/div>\n<h4>Incapacitate Your Attacker<\/h4>\nFor the most part, how you handle a fight in a confined space is very similar to any other self-defense situation. Your goal is to end the conflict as quickly as possible by getting in close and using damaging self-defense weapons like knees, elbows, eye gouges, and throat strikes.\n\nThe difference is that you can't quickly escape a confined space. This means that instead of taking an attacker out just long enough to escape, you must keep an attacker incapacitated for as long as the situation dictates. There are a variety of self-defense techniques which can accomplish that goal.\n\n[dfads params='groups=292&amp;limit=1&amp;orderby=random']\n<h4>An Important Distinction<\/h4>\nBefore we dig into the technique in the video there is an important distinction that must be made between control and compliance tactics and self-defense tactics. Don't let anyone tell you to focus on control tactics only in confined spaces.\n\nTrue, aside from choking or knocking out an attacker, a confined space will likely require you to control your attacker after he has been taken out. The key is that <strong>you only have to control him once he is taken out<\/strong>. You don't have to use control and compliance tactics from the start.\n\nControl and compliance tactics are great for rowdy brothers-in-law, not for attackers in confined spaces. You'll notice in the video above Ray disrupts his attacker and takes control of the situation using strikes, not pain compliance move or complex joint locks. Both pain compliance and joint locks work well to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fightfast.com\/nbcv\/MO\/ntbt-k.php?utm_campaign=MASDS&amp;utm_medium=post&amp;utm_source=blog&amp;utm_content=RayElevatorMove_10-11-12&amp;utm_term=existing-list\">keep your attacker incapacitated<\/a>, but in most life threatening situations they should not be your first instinct.\n\nThe video above shows a great combination to use if your attacker grabs you with your back to a wall. This technique comes to you from Ray Ellingsen. If an attacker has you held up against a wall in a tight area this technique can save your skin.\n<div class=\"small-12 medium-10 medium-centered large-6 large-centered columns\">\n\t[dfads params='groups=290&amp;limit=1&amp;orderby=random']<\/div>\n<h4>Breaking It Down<\/h4>\n<h5 class=\"red\" style=\"text-shadow: none;font-weight:bold;\">Step 1:<\/h5>\nThe first thing you want to do is get your hands up to protect your face, while at the same time lowering your center of gravity and driving your knee into the inside of his thigh. This first step and the one that follows are meant to disrupt your attacker's plans. <strong>He didn't expect to be attacked<\/strong> and that's exactly what you are doing. You're not trying to muscle him off you.\n<div class=\"row\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1em;\">\n<div class=\"small-12 medium-6 medium-centered large-4 large-centered columns align-to-p img\">\n\t  <img src=\"https:\/\/www.fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/knee-strike.jpg\" width=\"100%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<span class=\"red\" style=\"text-shadow: none;font-weight:bold;\">Step 2:<\/span> Next you want to follow up that knee strike with an elbow strike across his face. Hopefully it will put him in some pain, but at the very least it will further disrupt his plans giving you an opening to finish the job.\n<div class=\"row\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1em;\">\n<div class=\"small-12 medium-6 medium-centered large-4 large-centered columns align-to-p img\">\n\t  <img src=\"https:\/\/www.fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/elbow-strike.jpg\" width=\"100%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<span class=\"red\" style=\"text-shadow: none;font-weight:bold;\">Step 3:<\/span> Once you've hit him with the elbow strike you next step is to reach your arm up and around his, locking his arm in a joint lock. While you are getting the joint lock you want to grab your attacker by his throat. This throat grab should provide more distraction and pain while you secure the joint lock.\n<div class=\"row\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1em;\">\n<div class=\"small-12 medium-6 medium-centered large-4 large-centered columns align-to-p img\">\n\t  <img src=\"https:\/\/www.fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/throat-grab.jpg\" width=\"100%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<span class=\"red\" style=\"text-shadow: none;font-weight:bold;\">Step 4:<\/span> You should now have him in a joint lock and be holding his throat. At this point you can take him into a wall or onto the ground.\nDepending on his pain tolerance and strength his free arm may be a concern. Taking a tighter grasp on his trachea should neutralize the threat. Wrapping your fingers around his windpipe and squeezing is a great way to keep him from being able to effectively strike with his free arm.\n<div class=\"row\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1em;\">\n<div class=\"small-12 medium-6 medium-centered large-4 large-centered columns align-to-p img\">\n\t  <img src=\"https:\/\/www.fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/takedown.jpg\" width=\"100%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"read-more-link\">\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fightfast.com\/nbcv\/ASD\/ntbt-k.php?utm_campaign=LTHPK&amp;utm_medium=post&amp;utm_source=blog&amp;utm_content=RayElevatorMove_10-11-12&amp;utm_term=existing-list\">Click here for more close quarters combat training by Ray Ellingsen!<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What To Do If There&#8217;s No Escape? Confined spaces are all around us. This video demonstrates how an everyday place like an elevator can become a no-holds barred fighting cage in the blink of an eye. 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