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Extreme Close Quarters: Elevator Self-Defense Move

What To Do If There’s No Escape?

Confined spaces are all around us. This video demonstrates how an everyday place like an elevator can become a no-holds barred fighting cage in the blink of an eye. One of the keys to successful self-defense training is knowing how to handle a variety of situations. This includes scenarios you may have never thought of before, like in an elevator.

Incapacitate Your Attacker

For the most part, how you handle a fight in a confined space is very similar to any other self-defense situation. Your goal is to end the conflict as quickly as possible by getting in close and using damaging self-defense weapons like knees, elbows, eye gouges, and throat strikes.

The difference is that you can’t quickly escape a confined space. This means that instead of taking an attacker out just long enough to escape, you must keep an attacker incapacitated for as long as the situation dictates. There are a variety of self-defense techniques which can accomplish that goal.

An Important Distinction

Before we dig into the technique in the video there is an important distinction that must be made between control and compliance tactics and self-defense tactics. Don’t let anyone tell you to focus on control tactics only in confined spaces.

True, aside from choking or knocking out an attacker, a confined space will likely require you to control your attacker after he has been taken out. The key is that you only have to control him once he is taken out. You don’t have to use control and compliance tactics from the start.

Control and compliance tactics are great for rowdy brothers-in-law, not for attackers in confined spaces. You’ll notice in the video above Ray disrupts his attacker and takes control of the situation using strikes, not pain compliance move or complex joint locks. Both pain compliance and joint locks work well to keep your attacker incapacitated, but in most life threatening situations they should not be your first instinct.

The video above shows a great combination to use if your attacker grabs you with your back to a wall. This technique comes to you from Ray Ellingsen. If an attacker has you held up against a wall in a tight area this technique can save your skin.

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Breaking It Down

Step 1:

The first thing you want to do is get your hands up to protect your face, while at the same time lowering your center of gravity and driving your knee into the inside of his thigh. This first step and the one that follows are meant to disrupt your attacker’s plans. He didn’t expect to be attacked and that’s exactly what you are doing. You’re not trying to muscle him off you.

Step 2: Next you want to follow up that knee strike with an elbow strike across his face. Hopefully it will put him in some pain, but at the very least it will further disrupt his plans giving you an opening to finish the job.

Step 3: Once you’ve hit him with the elbow strike you next step is to reach your arm up and around his, locking his arm in a joint lock. While you are getting the joint lock you want to grab your attacker by his throat. This throat grab should provide more distraction and pain while you secure the joint lock.

Step 4: You should now have him in a joint lock and be holding his throat. At this point you can take him into a wall or onto the ground.
Depending on his pain tolerance and strength his free arm may be a concern. Taking a tighter grasp on his trachea should neutralize the threat. Wrapping your fingers around his windpipe and squeezing is a great way to keep him from being able to effectively strike with his free arm.

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83 thoughts on “Extreme Close Quarters: Elevator Self-Defense Move”

  4. I liked it but but it takes a little to long for the arm lock l would have follow thru with another elbow down on his head but there are many other things like a knee to the groin instead of the inner thigh just a different approach but very good video

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  6. Yes I like the Vulcan Neck Pinch to finish off. But you need to be careful about Lethal Defences. Did you know the Carotid Choke was used by Aristotle and Galen as a relatively safe form of anaesthesia? Or it can be lethal, as used by the US Marines. There was a guy in Bournemouth, England who murdered his girlfriend this way.

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  8. I love this move,it is similar to a move I was taught before, I like this version better. I had to use this once and fortunately I didn’t hurt the person to bad but he did learn what shouldn’t come out of his mouth. He did have a sore throat for awhile he told me. He speaks more softly nqw.

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  11. I’ll have to share this with my Krav instructor. He may know it already, but I’d like to practice doing it. Cool move!

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  14. Nice, one I used twice was when grabbed was grab back over his arms then drop straight down pulling them forward putting one head into side of a truck and the other time into wall. Rollover on top with knee in the solar plexus to make breathing difficult. Didn’t have to stay on either one due one nockout and one bleeding bad and disoriented. It was a variant of akido move I learned while taking Kenpo.

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  15. Interesting stuff as usual. Don’t think you want to try to replicate the series of moves, but in a more random way. (unless you are able to learn the moves precisely) As mentioned on a previous demo, just increasing your own arsenal is a big plus.

    Cheers,

    Graham from the UK

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  16. It was an impressive move if the attacker makes those exact same moves for it to work. I think a slap upside his head would be an easier and quicker way to start off with to end it.

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  20. I would recommend doing something about that spare left arm, in a similar position if I was the unfortunate attacker I would be using that hand to blind my target. A hammer fist blow to the collarbone on the way to executing the throat hold would remove the left arm as a threat. I would also recommend sweeping the legs to prevent the target from kicking because if that was me going down I would be kicking for ankles and knees.

    So, I would add a hammer punch to the clavicle (collarbone) then a chop to the carotid artery, followed by that beautiful throat chokehold, all the time paying full attention to the aggressor’s legs. Clipping the back of the aggressors head off of the metal handrail would also go a long way to making certain he does not fight back.

    Other than that loose left arm, I love the video and it demonstrates the risk that closed places can present.

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  21. How about doing a video for those of us in wheelchairs? As a retired police officer it would be beneficial to have a couple of debilitating moves to put a jerk on the ground!

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  22. Simple and effective combo that a lot of people could use as a base line at the least. Always good to add ideas/moves that may not be thought of before

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  26. I love it when I watch a technique and can see endless possibilities, the armlock can pop his arm out of his shoulder socket, plenty of openings for attacks and can be used in a multiple attack as you can use the first attacker as a shield.

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  28. Love the idea of a protection plan yES but if you can please some of us that are interested in protective combated moves for those in wheelchairs and scooters due to the FACT that we definitely are target’s in the world to those who are trying to rob us of our Good’s trust me alot of the disabled do get robbed after shopping and I would love to see if you can teach us all how we can try and protect ourselves please keep us in mind and show us demonstration’s also because we too would like a fighting Chance to protect ourselves thank you much appreciated

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