Subject: Worst Case Scenario
Date: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 1:23 PM
Hi
Our last rule of The 5 Rules for Surviving Violent Crime is last because it’s
your worst case fallback position after all else has failed – or at least gone
very, very badly.
Imagine this:
You’re at a stop light, at night, in a rental car, in a strange city, trying to
find your way from the airport to your hotel. You’re peering around, squinting
at street signs, maybe you have the interior light on and a map propped up on the
steering wheel.
Basically, you’re a sick or wounded fish shuddering and jerking around giving off
those “animal in distress” vibrations that work so well in the wild to attract
Hammerhead sharks.
There’s a tap on the passenger side window (you didn’t even see him approach
because you were buried in the map). He asks “Need help?” You don’t feel good
about it, but – not wanting to be rude - you roll the window down . . . and get
a gun stuck in your face.
Now he’s in the car the light is green and the car’s moving and you’re telling
him to calm down. In less than 7 seconds you’ve managed to break Rule #1 by not
trusting your instincts, Rule #2 by negotiating instead of resisting immediately,
Rule #3 by heading toward a second location, and Rule #4 by complying when faced
with threat of injury instead of accepting the possibility of injury. Not bad!
Ten minutes later you’re in an abandoned warehouse district. There’re gang tags
on nearly every surface, derelict cars scattered around, and no one in sight.
You pull over and get out, he takes your watch, your laptop and your wallet. He
makes you open the trunk and get your luggage out. You co-operate like a good,
little victim.
Then he tells you to get in the trunk.
At this point, something clicks and your thought process changes. It’s August in
Houston. You’ll last about 45 minutes in that trunk. He might as well have told
you to jump off a cliff.
You get tunnel vision and he begins to raise the gun and you swing at him and you
think you connect but you’re not too sure and there’s a loud noise that seems
strangely like it’s a long way off and your left thigh is burning. There’s a
struggle and then you’re running and now your shoulder burns too. You think he’s
chasing you as you trip and cut your hands and knees on broken glass and you’re
up and running again and you hear a shot but nothing burns this time and now
you’re in a empty lot and your lungs are on fire and you feel blood squishing in
your shoe with every other step.
You look over your shoulder and can’t believe it, the son-of-a-bitch is still
actually chasing you and now you feel a different kind of burning in your calf.
This one has a nice stabbing nuance to it and the analytical part of your mind
informs you your tibia just got shattered by a bullet. But the rest of your mind
and in fact your complete physical being is telling you to RUN!!
At this point, your body has done a few other things for you. It’s night and
your eyes dilated so you can see better. Your blood pressure shot up and
adrenalin got dumped into your system. Heart and lung function just increased.
Your digestive system shut down diverting blood to your muscles – you just got
stronger. Your blood has even gotten thicker so your wounds bleed less. Natural
pain killers – endorphins – course through you so you’re not as distracted by
pain. Your focus is at maximum. Sugar and carbohydrate reserves are released.
Your body wisely figures “you can’t take it with you,” so that major energy dump
just turned you into superman. Your visual perception has altered – this change
is called tachypsychia. You’re seeing things in slow motion now, noticing
details like where to get a handhold on that clump of grass as you move up the
embankment, where to put your feet so you don't slip. You can hear the cars on
the freeway. You can even sense how fast they’re moving and how far apart they
are. And you’re up the embankment and dodging cars and you’re clutching a
traffic sign and you hear a siren.
So what’s Rule #5?
Never, ever give up.
No matter what. Injured, scared to death, exhausted – doesn’t matter. Never,
ever give up. Your body will do as much as it possibly can for you, and if
you're fit and have some practical training, all the better.
My DVD set “Automatic Self-Defense: Defeat Any Attacker; Survive Any Crime” is
finished. It will go off to the copy service this week. It covers everything –
street fighting, the Rules of Survival and how to apply them in specific
scenarios, how to fight a bigger person, multiple attackers, grapplers and ground
fighters. How to get in shape fast. How not to “freeze.” How to sharpen your
edge every day, even years after you watch the DVD, and so much more I’ll need a
page or two on my web site to list it all. If you don’t get it for yourself, get
if for your Aunt Tilly. The material in this set will work for anybody, and the
rules, tactics, and strategies it teaches are the same for everybody – whether
you’re a triple badass or embarrassingly out of shape.
If you want in on the pre-release price of $87.00 plus $6 S&H ($12.00 foreign)
call me by Friday the 17th of this month.
My number is 1-800-920-9746.
After that, I start shipping and the price goes up to $127.00 plus S&H.
Take care,
Rob LaPointe
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