I've been in this position literally hundreds of times, but I never considered any of it non-violent. It's violent. I differentiate between things that cause pain and things that cause injury. But any time it's necessary to physically force someone to do something, it's violent.
I would be super cautious about using either of those in a healthcare setting. Because to a layman, there's really no difference between that push and a punch.
Agreed. It's a silly name.
Dr William Paul worked hard to create this corpus of techniques. The context was different from the street or other situations but for sure his goal was toward the training operators in the hospitals. For the people that loves martial arts like me they can find elements from different martial arts ( probably with tai chi emphasis). Prof Paul died in 1989 in the development of his method. About the name of his method like "non violent self defense" probably it reflected a specific historical period where in some area like San Francisco universities or closed places there was this idea of "non violence". It's an idea. I can be wrong
Will double under hooks, or double over hooks be better solution? You control your opponent "peaceful and friendly" take him back to his room.
If you don't want violence, MA is not for you.
You would just take their back if you were on your own. And probably 2 on one russian if there were more of you.
Depends can he still bite you? I'd so then it's probably not a good position to control someone willing to bite.
Your opponent won't be able to bite you this way. You can drag a patient like this backward "peaceful and friendly" to his room.
