A New Scenario for You To Practice
I don't know about you, but I am always looking for realistic scenarios to practice. The way to be really prepared is to become accustomed to how you'd react in a bunch of different situations.
Your means to the end is to practice scenarios that could happen to you.
Would you like another good one to add to your collection of practice situations?
Look at Eric's contrbution on knife-fighting consideratrions ..... Knife Fighting and Syringes
Does it give you any ideas?
The bad guy has an infected syringe. You are the target. Action!
For practice purposes, you have to devise a safe way to simulate an infected syringe:
Eric's scenario is a good one -- after all, it really happened.
I am not bound by history, to practice this scenario just as it occurred.
If you decide to practice for this situation, why not make it more difficult on yourself ...
2) Have the bad guy approach from the side and slightly to your back. Force yourself to use peripheral vision. You turn and WHAMO -- the criminal is right there!
3) Practice on a driveway, or maybe on a small front lawn. If you step off the driveway or get forced off the lawn ... you have just dropped to your death 500 feet below. Not really, but Steve Golden used to have us pretend that his 14 ft. square of cement in front of his garage was the rooftop of a high-rise building. If you stepped onto dirt or grass, you pretended that you just fell off the edge of the rooftop.
Does the attacker have to squirt you from touching distance with the play syringe, to have it count as infecting you.
Does a scrape with the end of the pencil count as infecting?
How will you both agree to end the encounter? Tapping out? Full control with a wrist lock? (The lock called Ground Control in "Wrist Locks: From Protecting Yourself to Becoming an Expert" feels right for this situation.)
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