Breakaway Training

How To Deal With A Situation That Has Become Violent

Personal-Safety-Training.com provide Breakaway Training that allows staff to deal with a physical attack. Whether through challenging behaviour or intent to harm, the response should be swift and the intent always to escape as intact as possible.

What is Breakaway Training and how does it work?

Breakaway Training is designed to allow the service provider to disengage from any situation where a client or service user takes hold, whether grasping a hand or wrist, clothing or hair grab, locks around the body or in the worst case, attempting a strangle or choke. Escape is always the primary objective.

All of the Breakaway & Escape techniques taught are non-interventional. This means that there are no strikes, kicks or punches utilised to disengage. The methodology is designed around principles, rather than techniques. In effect this means that the service provider is not expected to remember 4 or 5 techniques for every possible attempt to lay hands on them, rather there are as number of easy to remember principles involving each type of physical attempt to hold or detain.

The principles taught are not self defence, this is reserved for situations where an attacker is determined to rob, assault or injure with maximum violence, and the response reflects this. The Breakaway Training is designed and taught on the basis that there is a Duty of Care to the service user, and the possible use of contentious and / or damaging responses when reacting to an aggressive client is not the optimum reaction. The fact that the Service Provider and User will probably have a relationship before and after any incident. It is therefore important that the response is not damaging, either physically or mentally, to the long term relationship with the Service User and others who may utilise the facility.

A Fresh Approach

Personal-Safety-Training.com have taken a long hard look at the type of Breakaway Training and the type of response that has been offered in the market, and has taken a completely different approach. Rather than adapt Self Defence, Unarmed Combat or Martial Arts techniques, which are designed to damage the aggressor, P-S-T have designed a new and highly effective series of disengagement methods which are safe, effective and easy to learn and most importantly, to remember.

The result is a series of techniques, based on principles of disengagement, rather than individual techniques to deal with each specific attack. The syllabus is defined by body mechanics, and all of the escapes are simple and compellingly potent in their application and conclusion.

Last Resort

Breakaway is ALWAYS to be considered the last resort, the object of Personal Safety Training is to ensure that challenging behaviours are addressed prior to the situation reaching the point at which a defence against physical aggression is required.

For more information, or to book a Personal Safety Training Seminar, please contact us on 01279 419427, or email from our contact page.