Okay, now that you have successfully accomplished Step 1 and 2, you have deflected, so you did not get shot, you have controlled the weapon. At this point we need to emphasis a key principle of our system and that is the concept of the infinite and shrinking danger circle of a gun.
Okay to illustrate this concept, we are going to use a knife, as an example to demonstrate. You can see that as he swings that blade, he makes in a line, okay, an arc, that’s know as the danger circle. I don't want to be on that knife, do I? I don't want to be on that point, on this point of this arc, here is where I am going to be in trouble. The only place that's safe for me to be is outside of this knife circle or inside. Okay, I don't want to be on this.
Now let's go back to the gun and talk about the difference. Here is the start of that circle, that danger circle. With a gun it's starts here at the muzzle and goes out forever, in theory, okay. We use the term, infinite danger circle of a gun. It's not really infinite because as you know the forces of gravity eventually will cause a bullet to drop to the ground. But for handgun disarming purposes, it's important that you understand that the only place you can be, where you are safe, is inside of this circle. Okay, you cannot be on it, you cannot be outside of it; the only place you can be where you potentially will be safe is inside of the circle.
So every time you do a disarm it looks like this. You have successfully, for the moment, accomplished Step 1 - you did not get shot. But any time that you spend on or outside of this danger circle of the gun means that you are increasing the potential that at some point that muzzle will come back on to you. Either you will cross it or your gunman, in struggling, will bring it back and you will be on or outside of that danger circle. So may be you saw that when we were showing you Step 1 and Step 2 - the deflection; for instance, you didn't see me, expect when I talked about what not to do, stand out here and hold the gun with one hand, where I was outside of the circle. What you saw me doing, instead, was this. Okay, in all cases I probably stepped where I was inside of the circle. When we did this the techniques is high and we did this. I was probably looking at you, always, form the inside of the circle.
When we did the easy high form here we stepped here. I will grab was like this, wasn't it? The grab was like this, the grab was like that. Okay, the grab might have been like this, but in all cases I was inside of this danger circle that is very, very important. Now, I mentioned that it is shrinking because what is your attacker going to do if you just do this? You are outside of the line, you didn't get shot but what is he going to do, what are you going to do? He is going to pull that gun to him. Even if you have managed to hang on to it, you are going to be outside the circle and you are always going to be chasing and he is always going to be trying to push that thing on to you and he is going to use his other hand, he may use it on the gun to turn it on to you.
Every second you spend on or outside of the circle increases your chances of failing in this disarm. You will get shot. So this is very important. Every time you practice Step 1 and Step 2, not getting shot and controlling the weapon. You should find yourself in the position where you are inside the circle. And that's a good way to practice this, evaluate. Every time you do one and two and you find yourself here freeze, stop. Take a look at your positions; make sure you are inside the circle. Now, I mentioned it can shrink and that's because right now his arm is locked out here. Now I am on it, slightly inside of this. But he is going to step back and he is going to pull that gun to him so that circle is going to shrink.
Okay, that’s why the closer you get, the better. From here, this is better; so that when he steps back and pulls the gun to him, it's much easier for you to maintain your position inside the circle, very, very important. This is a critical element that is missing form most handgun disarms. This works, temporarily, and you need to keep in mind that as you go through practicing these disarms that your attacker is going to fight back, what would you do? If you had a gun and somebody tried to take it from you. You would fight back, you pull it to you, you would do everything you could to maintain control of that weapon, and your attacker is going to do the same thing.
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