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AND CONTROL STRATEGIESWith Loren W. Christensen
"Christensen’s low-keyed, personable presentation makes it seem that he’s teaching just me, one on one."
"His years of teaching experience are obvious. His teaching style makes the material so easy to understand and extremely easy to follow."
From the filthy streets of war-torn Saigon to the crime-ridden underbelly of Portland's infamous skid row, Loren Christensen has been there, holding the "thin blue line." In this groundbreaking dvd production from Paladin Press, Christensen distills more than 44 years of martial arts training and 29 years of law enforcement experience and defensive tactics training into a street-proven system that is efficient, easy to learn and legally defensible.
This DVD set is not a contrived system of new techniques, or a new method of
handcuffing. All techniques conclude in a position where you can apply the
handcuffing method you already use.
It examines those basic techniques taught in most police agencies but get "watered down" (weakened) over the years. Christensen shows you important details for making the joint locks, holds and takedowns you already know more effective, more painful, easier to apply, safer for you, and ultimately safer for the suspect to reduce law suits. Christensen points out common errors and then teaches you multiple but subtle variations, showing you that sometimes adjusting a technique only one inch will dramatically increase its effectiveness.
It examines a large variety of techniques, concepts and principles applicable to the dangerous job of dealing with a resisting suspect. You will learn
how to use the circle to take down even the biggest offenders
striking techniques that maximize pain but minimize injury
excruciating pressure points
how to use your knees to escape from tight spots
hair twisting techniques to affect painful control
the concept of balance
the power of leverage when pain doesn’t work
how to use secondary techniques and critical combative
principles for those times when your first technique fails.
Although designed for law enforcement professionals, this DVD is also an invaluable tool for any jujitsu or aikido practitioner who wants to make his joint-lock techniques street realistic.
For information purposes only. All DVDs are nonreturnable; defective DVDs will be replaced.
Color, approx. 195 min. total.
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Loren Christensen began his law enforcement career in 1967 when he served in the army as a military policeman in the United States and in Vietnam. He joined the Portland, Oregon, Police Bureau in 1972 and retired in 1997. During those years, he specialized in street gangs, defensive tactics, dignitary protection and patrolling the bizarre streets of skid row. He now writes full time and teaches martial arts.
Review
Restraint and Control Strategies
When I first saw the price tag, I groaned inwardly; I was afraid that Paladin Press was going to start gouging its customers the way other companies do when it comes to books and dvds on rare info (like Calibre tends to). However, I was able to justify it like this: Paladin seems to charge according to value, and the dvds of lesser quality have consequently lower price tags. Check out "Killshots" if you don't believe me: execrable in every sense of the word, and only $20, whereas the Jim Grover "Self-Offense" dvd is $65, and worth more than twice that.
Well, I say that Loren Christensen's "Restraint and Control Strategies" fits into the "Self-Offense" category: worth it. Let me tell you why.
The dvd set already assumes a base level of knowledge in police tactics like the armbar, centerlock, etc., but where it really shines is how Loren shows you how to take them and actually make them work. Not just with the kind of "ho-hum, we're in the dojo and you're being a good uke" sense, but in the "Here's a 300-lb crackhead who's been looking for a cop to eat ever since his parole from the Weightlifting Aca- er, Penitentiary" sense. How to do the technique in an attack.
As such, it is truly useful in comparison to other "joint-lock" dvds you might've seen, where you just know that the way they're being done simply won't work. The real highlight was that he showed you how to transition into a cuffing position without giving up the pain from every technique, which is especially helpful. This is all in tape 1. Tape 2 builds on the knowledge already presented and shows you some basic principles on how to make alternate techniques work when the armbar, wrist twist, etc. gets screwed up somehow. I wish he'd spent a little more time on those sections, but my favorite was the lengthy section on pressure point control. I didn't know much about it, figuring it was that kind of mystical kung-fu stuff that George Dillman made popular.Anyhow, Loren Christensen prefaces the whole section by telling you why it might and why it might not work, and then proceeds to show where the points are. They're definitely not things you'll find in a real struggle, I think, but when you need to control someone, Loren's info is dead-on. My partners and I tried 'em out, and some hurt like the dickens. Just imagine taking an ASP point behind the ear. Brr. I give Loren's uke credit for taking all that abuse. Loren also covers things like proper striking, hair grabs, and getting the subject into a good handcuffing position.
Lengthy review sections definitely helped to reinforce the material, as did the slow-motion photography and overhead camera angles. It's clear that they put a lot of work into the production, and it shows in every aspect.
I think Paladin wanted to produce a police tactics dvd that you could watch over and over again and get something new from each time, and they succeeded.
Kuranes, Self-defense Forum