Disengagement Escape from a Hair Grab

This short video is aimed at staff in care settings and shows one strategy to try and cover up to protect yourself from a punch from the attackers free hand, one escape from hair grab technique is also showed.

[@mwathani1]

Awesome, very grateful for this uploads as i am a support worker in a mental health unit and just started my training. It's just four days and really intense with so many different techniques that my head was spinning trying to recall every step so, thank you sir very much.

[@pmva5822]

Hi CM I am pleased you found the techniques useful. I do find that much of the training in the care sector is over complex, or delivered in a less than straightforward way. Regards Patrick

[@williamtomlinson994]

I've worked in care for over ten years, you've successfully instructed carers to lose their hair. If anyone takes heed of your fake training and gets hurt, you will be directly responsible.

[@cabbage0dusk]

I had MAPA training and these are the same techniques which I were taught?

[@hope4ourfallen]

A very painful adjustment to this technique is to interlace your own fingers and press their fist firmly into the top of your skull..When done properly it creates Far More Pain on Their finger joints then it does your head.. You have to press hard..But the second joint from the tip of their fingers will suffer much greater pain than the person grabbed will..You must press hard though.. Try grabbing a towel or something, and put your hand on a table with knuckles up & palm side down(like how hair grab is done) then have a friend push down on your first with some weight to see how the technique works..The 2nd finger joints are the ones that will feel it. When done properly...Try with a loose fist first to get the technique. Then it will become easier to perform on even a clenched grip, once ya know what your trying to achieve❤️ Hope that can help anyone 🙂

[@pmva5822]

Hi Thank you for your helpful comments, I must admit I am sceptical as to the effectiveness of any of these techniques but they are often what are taught on NHS courses and that is predominantly my audience. I think it better to fix the hand to your head to minimise further trauma, protect your face as best as possible and pull the alarm for help. Other than that its reasonable force a pinch and twist of the flesh under the assailants arm or a prod in the throat (not strike) to cause a coughing reflex then escape.

[@JamesMMcCann]

Never interlace your fingers, it makes it easier to break one or dislocate one.

[@JamesMMcCann]

This won't work if the person grabbing your hair has the ability to move. Right hand grabs their wrist, your left hand whacks their elbow. That's whacks, as in hits, not pushes against, or applies pressure, but whacks!, the elbow joint.

[@pmva5822]

Agree James but it is part of a particular syllabus for staff working in mental health hospitals.

[@JamesMMcCann]

@@pmva5822 I know, I didn't mean to attack or insult you personally. If any offence was taken I apologise. My friend has just renewed his SIA badge, and what they are teaching now is genuinely going to get people seriously hurt if not killed. I'm putting together a report, based on my experiences as a bouncer and self-defence instructor, along with ONS data, to present to the SIA because honestly someone has to make them see sense.

[@pmva5822]

@@JamesMMcCann Hi James absolutely no offence taken. I feel a little false putting some of that stuff on line knowing it won't work. However lock down had just happened and many Nursing agency staff who rely on me for their PMVA renewals couldn't renew. It was an attempt to help them during lockdown. I hope you get somewhere with the SIA. Regards Patrick

[@JamesMMcCann]

@@pmva5822 Cool. A friend of mine teaches, and he's said that he teaches what the SIA want taught, but then off the record teaches what will actually work. Just a shame that there are people out there who don't know any better who will get themselves, or others, hurt.

[@TheRobbie40]

So it’s not fit for purpose then. Why teach it?

[@TheRobbie40]

Why are you letting the person grab your hair? The demo should start long before being grabbed. You want your students to create a mental blueprint of the pre- contact behaviours that occur way before being grabbed, that way you will help speed up the victims reaction time which is a critical point of learning. Action vs reaction time principles.