This Video Lesson is derived from Marc MacYoung’s post: The Biggest Pre-Attack Indicator Of Them All “Except unlike the other guy (who is a complete asshole), your monkey will tell you YOUR behavior is perfectly justified and warranted. This is particularly ironic because in the classic game of ‘escalato,’ your monkey is going to raise the … [Read more…]
COMMENT by Erik Kondo Many social violence dominated Monkey Dances can be very intense. Each combatant is working very hard to assert his or her dominance. Despite landing and receiving wide variety of multiple blows/strikes, the combatants emerge relatively undamaged from the encounter. Some reasons for this happening are: 1. It is hard … [Read more…]
COMMENT by Erik Kondo One of the important concepts of social violence is that it can be categorized also by intensity and magnitude of violence. These videos are examples of low level Monkey Dance based social violence. In these videos, the participants use violence as a method of communication. The unsaid … [Read more…]
COMMENT by Erik Kondo This video graphically illustrates the nature of asocial violence. The victim is dehumanized by the predator. The attack is asymmetric (man vs. woman). The predator ambushes the tenant from behind and uses brutal means to incapacitate his victim. The predator is not a lowly motivated attacker that is easily disrupted … [Read more…]
COMMENT by Erik Kondo Here we see Asocial Resource Violence. The perpetrator is actively looking for a victim. He wants the resource (purse). He doesn’t care about the victim (victim de-humanized). He doesn’t attack the first person he sees with a purse. He attacks the first person he sees with a purse that he THINKS … [Read more…]
COMMENT by Erik Kondo The above videos illustrate violence used as a tool to obtain a resource in these cases purse/wallet/cash. The victim is “dehumanized” by the attacker. The attacker uses surprise and overwhelming force to take what he wants. In terms of Marc’s Five Stages of Violent Crime, the POSITIONING and … [Read more…]
This video exemplifies: COMMENT by Erik Kondo 1. Effective use of the head butt for personal protection. Whether or not this method led to legal consequences is unknown. 2. Initially, the woman uses the Visual & Verbal Fence to ward off her aggressor. When these methods fails, she quickly escalates to the Physical Fence in … [Read more…]
This video illustrates: COMMENT by Erik Kondo 1. The target is momentarily frozen by the unexpected attack. The freeze is a natural response. It takes her a few moments, but she is able to start fighting back. She gains momentum and is able to force her attacker to retreat. 2. The attacker failed to finish … [Read more…]
. Strike Induced Freeze