Escape: Literally means, “Break free from confinement or control. an act of breaking free from confinement or control. getaway, breakout, jailbreak, bolt, flight, disappearance, vanishing act.”
Control: Literally means, “The power to influence or direct people's behavior or the course of events. Jurisdiction, sway, power, authority, command, dominance, government, mastery, leadership, rule, sovereignty, supremacy, ascendancy; charge, management, direction, supervision, superintendence.
Survival: Literally means, “The state or fact of continuing to live or exist, typically in spite of an accident, ordeal, or difficult circumstances. an object or practice that has continued to exist from an earlier time.”
A quote from a post at the Chiron blog by Rory Miller. I had asked if he could expand on that concept regarding basic self-defense as a model to teach along with things like avoidance, etc. I have a concept that I believe is relevant but would not assume that this perception or perspective was what Mr. Miller meant when he made that statement containing the three levels.
In my perspective escape is a model that comes into play at a variety of levels. I would assume that to avoid circumstances that might escalate to violence is a form of escape. Any action taken in a SD model means to me any action that results in a person escaping a situation and/or circumstances that would result in physical violence and so on. For example, when in a social situation that seems to be escalating into conflict any method of deescalation such as how you control your own monkey brain, how you respond verbally toward an antagonist, and the body language you present could result in deescalation meaning you just escaped violence or at least opened a path to leave - escape or as I used in the Marines, my ability to advance to the rear.
Then to me escape also means a model of actions that allow you to escape the physical actions currently being used against you in a physical encounter, i.e. someone grabs you or throws a haymaker at you or is posturing and yelling and building up toward taking some physical action toward you to break free, etc. An example is someone attacks you so you use such techniques that release the hold on you allowing you to move in a manner that provides you a means to escape. Another is when you find yourself with not escape route so you move and take actions that will open a path or take you right over the top of an adversary as a means to create your own escape route. Finally, if in the fight trying to escape as part of your defense, assuming you could not avoid, evade or escape beforehand, is to use leverage through joint manipulations to provide a means to place an adversary in a position that would allow you to escape.
Finally, as a means of survival all the above are a part of that model. After all, survival of not only an attack but as a part of your SD defense by remaining, as Marc MacYoung states as staying within the SD Square, within those confines that allow you to survive things that happen while in the fight then all those legal, medical and psychological aspects after all is done. Surviving just the fight is of course critical but survival is a lot more because of so many different obstacles and hurdles a fight in SD presents if you are unable to escape and avoid the entire situation.
Now, I am not sure that this would fit with Mr. Miller’s intent but it seems relevant if someone is trying to learn and apply SD to any given situation. I can take this thought a bit further that these three can also be applied to any given conflict at any given level of conflict be it a personal argument between spouses to the argument or discussion with bosses or fellow staff members all the way up to that encounter with either a social monkey or an asocial adversary.
Like most things I am slowly learning that the narrow model of SD often taught within MA tends to focus on the cool stuff and the rest seems to be ignored, discarded or simply missed by those who teach it, learn it and then try to apply it.
What are your thoughts about a model of SD that also focuses on the three levels of escape, control, and survival? Granted, my examples above may not be comprehensive but at least they are idea’s that will benefit in SD. Go along with all the materials that, at a minimum, both Rory Miller and Marc MacYoung have worked so hard to create and provide such as their books (see below bibliography for some recommendations, that there is really no excuse for any SD model to not include the entire spectrum including such atomistic topics as, “Three Levels: Escape, Control, Survival.
Thanks Rory Miller, for todays Chiron blog post: Organization
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