FUNCTIONAL EDGE SYSTEM

Subject profiling and behaviours, including staff physical skill proficiency levels

Risk assessment of staff and surroundings, maintaining suitable training for specific operational skillsets, to ensure injury avoidance

Differentiation between the control phase and restraint phase

Recognition of the risks of sudden death during restraint, including positional asphyxia and excited delirium

Recommended approach positions, and methods to gain control fast

Dealing with assault behaviours during the control phase, typically over-hook and under-hook with extended or compressed frames

Restraint techniques including floor stabilisation, team tactics and punch protection

An explanation of the Nine Attitudes Model, and how this relates to dealing with self-protection

Tackling an assault, including fluid instinctive and continuous pressure drills

The use of the explosive shrug, extended and compressed protective behaviours

Dealing with bear hugs, headlocks, haymaker punches and tackles

Mental model training, which means recognising the pre-indicators of assault

How to apply natural defence mechanisms effectively, such as palms, forearms and elbows

An explanation of dealing with the paradox of a mass assault: more numbers mean more fists, but attackers can get into each other’s way

Identification of archetypes within the mass attack group, which helps to create successful exit strategies

Drills to enable recognition of adequate safe zoning to reduce personal risk

Basic and fluid framing drills to reduce any impact from a mass assault

Multiple assailant and chaos habituation training

Weaponise your natural instincts to take a proactive stance when dealing with the dangers of a mass attack

Issues in dealing with an edged weapon (the 5 paradoxes)

Suitable risk management, together with a good understanding of the duty of care to yourself and others

Understanding of reasonable force, as outlined in common and criminal law, in a knife assault

The mechanics of blade usage and the mitigation of damage

Use of physical skills, including the blade as a weapon of intimidation, the blade in motion, the concealed blade, and the compound assault with a blade

After-action issues, including basic first aid, PTSD, legal issues, and hospitalisation