Crisis prevention

I learned today how to escape a variety of grabs and choke holds, as well as a way to get people to let go when they're pulling your hair.

Unfortunately, the information is trademarked. And given the fact that any one of you might succumb someday to the urge to choke me or pull my hair, I'm not going to make this information available.

I did, however, show a couple moves to S2 this evening. She very quickly learned how to get out of being choked. She was duly impressed by the ease and effectiveness of the release.

And let me tell you something, the move works very well. I know because I got choked rather good in class today and still managed to get out of it. It seems I was paired up with the only other woman in the room inclined to box. She was a lithe, African-American woman in her 30s and is, let's say, someone with a lot of street cred. (I mean that as a compliment.)

She was prone to hopping and bobbing and weaving during our exercises. We used a few tight grabs to simulate the experience of someone a little freaked out, and were happy to see the releases all worked well under pressure. Of course, it was rather silly of me to say, It's OK. You can go ahead and choke me, to a woman who had been bobbing and weaving and throwing some fairly wound-up punches.

To say the least, it is a respectable release move. Same goes for dealing with someone who's grabbing you by your hair. If you want me to show it to you, I will. But only after I've seen your criminal background check and decided whether Dirty Harry would trust you or not.