Okinawan Fighting Art "Ti": Secondary Location

When you begin to feel like you are a tough guy, a warrior, a master of the martial arts or that you have lived a tough life, just take a moment and get some perspective with the following:

I've stopped knives that were coming to disembowel me

I've clawed for my gun while bullets ripped past me

I've dodged as someone tried to put an ax in my skull

I've fought screaming steel and left rubber on the road to avoid death

I've clawed broken glass out of my body after their opening attack failed

I've spit blood and body parts and broke strangle holds before gouging eyes

I've charged into fires, fought through blizzards and run from tornados

I've survived being hunted by gangs, killers and contract killers

The streets were my home, I hunted in the night and was hunted in turn

Please don't brag to me that you're a survivor because someone hit you. And don't tell me how 'tough' you are because of your training. As much as I've been through I know people who have survived much, much worse. - Marc MacYoung

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Secondary Location - Self-protection/Defense

Blog Article/Post Caveat (Read First Please: Click the Link)

Lets start with secondary locations, i.e., when an attacker forces a person to go somewhere of the attackers choice. Stop and think about this one because you can imagine that if they want you somewhere secluded and where they have total and complete control then their goal is to do something to you not very nice and you won’t just receive damage, in my view you are going to suffer a lot and most likely, unless luck is on your side, die.

Self-assessments of your life and lifestyle should pay close attention to things like your lifestyle, i.e., do you like to party a lot; do you tend to do so at places that may be dangerous like a biker bar and your not a biker; you like to go to environments that are simply dangerous during specific times like after dark? Just some, as you probably already know, questions you should answer to assess your exposure and safety/security posture.

Self-assessments also about your profession, i.e., body guard, bouncer, security professional, police, corrections officer and so on down the line. Professions where you are expected to deal with aggressions and violence of all levels, nature and types. If you work in environments and areas that deal with such things or you are required to travel through such areas to get to and form work, play or other reasons.

You have to make choices and if you choose to enter and deal with these things then your self-protection/defense training, practice and skills must deal with how to handle dangers in all those area’s.

Next, you really do have to know and understand, at minimum, violence and criminal concepts as well as social type of concepts toward aggression and violence. If you dont’ know or don’t know you don’t know, thank you Mr. MacYoung for the unk-unk concepts, then how can you train and practice to deal with them if they come up.

One of the most dangerous situations I can think of at the moment is being confronted by a criminal element who then points a gun at you then tells you to either allow him to restrain you somehow or forces you to enter a vehicle to go somewhere with them for apparent nefarious reasons, i.e., to go to a secondary location. Personally, I would never allow someone to tie me up and never ever ever allow them to take me to a secondary location. Remember, that can even be in the location you are in for instance if someone breaks in your home, you are in a secondary location already; you work in a convenience store so the lock the front door then force you into the back behind another door putting space and walls between you and the outside world, secondary location and oh the world of hurt and death you are in.

Here are some rules Alain Burrese recommends:

Remember the rule, never go to another location. In almost every case, things will only be worse for you there.
Example, person pulls up with a gun and demands you get into the vehicle. Sprinting away as fast as you possibly can provides you the best odds of survival.
Home invasions are considered to be secondary locations in that your home isolates you and the attacker from easy detection, etc.

Quotes from this site by Marc MacYoung, a Violence Professional: https://www.nononsenseselfdefense.com/HomeInvasion.htm

“Secondary locations = BAD. Your home is a ready-made secondary location. That's the reason Castle Doctrine, home defense and 'Make My Day' laws' are popular. It's also why home invasion robberies are more common in states that don't have clear laws about defending yourself against home intruders.” - Marc MacYoung

“The good news for most of us is about being targeted. The risk factors for home invasion robbery are:

Drugs (not use, someone in the house is selling or involved in distribution, trafficking or storage.)
Ethnic communities
Small business owners (especially cash intense businesses)
Apartments
Followed home

Follow homes are both the rarest and the most basic form. How does it work? After being seen with money or goods, you pick up a tail somewhere, they wait until you're going into your home, then they bull-rush, pushing you in before you can close and lock your door. In the suburbs a common form of this type is coming through your garage after you've parked. (Do you lock your inside door to the garage? Does it even lock?) Other times they'll wait for you to unload and then ring your doorbell.
Get in the habit of locking your back door when you're not using it and not leaving your garage door open. These are actually how most home invaders gain access. No need to bull-rush if you left a door open for them.
Once the invader is in and has taken over there's nothing stopping him from doing whatever he wants. Why? Because the normal limitations for crime are off the table. He's got isolation, unlimited time and there's no cavalry coming to save you. More than that, if he were caught he'd face kidnapping, armed robbery and aggravated assault charges. The only person who can identify him is you. So tell me again why he should leave you alive? (a single person can be a home invader. But numbers are far more common. … Another safety feature for the invaders is more of them allows them more control over the situation.)
An individual invader is less likely to use the threat of violence as his opening move and more likely to physically attack. His version of gaining immediate control of the situation is to surprise his victim with attacks that stuns and/or renders the victim incapacitated. This is you open your door and are decked or you turn around in your living room and are knocked to the floor. In case you haven't put two and two together break-in rapists and serial killers are almost always an individual.

If these circumstances don't apply, well then your chances of a home invasion happening are pretty slim. Like slim to none and Slim left town. So there's the good news.” - Marc MacYoung

“Your home/apartment is a pre-packaged secondary location. He doesn't need to move you to a place of isolation and privacy, your home is it.” - Marc MacYoung

“Know home invasion is a common tactic with serial killers and serial rapists. Comparatively speaking these events are rare, but when they happen they have a disproportionate percentage.” - Marc MacYoung

“advancing is bad. It's already a dangerous behavior, now it's moving into immediate threat because he's moving into attack range. That's what's going to dictate your response.” - Marc MacYoung

CAVEAT and WARNING: This is not a comprehensive article on secondary locations, it is merely a teaser to inspire you as a martial artist and defense-protection expert to seek out the more comprehensive training program and teacher to lead you toward a fully comprehensive understanding of what is a secondary location and, emphasis here, how to articulate that to the legal system.

For reference and sources and professionals go here: Bibliography (Click the link)