by scramasax57 » Tue Mar 07, 2006 5:02 pm
999? is that the british version of 911?
yatish, if i remember correctly you are a teacher. what age kids do you work with? i like your ideas of using sarcasm to make the would-be combatants feel ridiculous in the early stages, but it seems to me that once the altercation has become at all physical (at first contact) it is always necessary to physcially separate the kids. that's been my experience teaching at yang's, anyway. i don't have to break up fights every day though; luckily we only have to deal with physical confrontations between students very rarely.
stabbing someone with a pen, throwing hot water on them, hitting them with a heavy object, these are all great ways to get sued or possibly land in jail. causing any injury that lasts or leaves a mark, esepcially if you are just breaking up a fight, is going to cost you bigtime. i still feel the best way is quickly knock the wind out of them. there is a very small chance of accidental serious injury (collapsed lung, interfering with rhythm of heart, etc) when striking the solar plexus, but it's a relatively easy way to incapacitate someone if you have trained well. remember you need to incapacitate them, this is your goal not causing pain which will only escalate the problem. if they can't breath, they can't fight. if they can't fight, that gives you time to separate and control the combatants.
aka eric hinds, 2nd stripe
n. andover, ma branch
yang's martial arts association
changchuan, baihe, and xingyi