Self-Defense Against a Handgun to the Mid-Section

Video Transcript

"Tres Tew here; I'm an instructor at Yeshua's Ryu Martial Arts and on behalf of Expert Village, we are going to be going over handgun self defense. A situation that you'll often encounter is an attacker holding the gun at your midsection, okay. What you want to do is if you've practiced the drills is, simply turn to the side and catch the pistol right here. Now, once the line of fire is outside of your body, you are going to strike, punch to the face or the throat, and then at the same time, roll the hand back this way. From here, you are going to elbow and at the same time, wrap around to here. Now, I have completely disarmed him at this point and I've also got him in a headlock. I want to keep the gun away from this hand right here, so I'm just going to push back and hold him at gunpoint, okay. At this point, you can call the police or direct someone else to call the police. Again, we'll go over that. Push it out of the way, strike, wrist lock here (this forces him to release, see how his fingers are right here), elbow, wrap around. And when you have the gun, you simply push and you are back here and ready, holding him at gunpoint. You've eliminated the threat of the gun. You can direct someone to call the police, or direct him, whichever way would be safest. "