What You Don't Know Can Kill You Quotes

“Or it can be as subtle as to stop what you are doing and– without fear– turn your full attention to someone approaching and say, “That’s close enough. What can I do for you?” Another is while maintaining the boundary pretend you don’t know the answer to the question or have what he asks for.[26] This derails the typical robbery script.”
― Marc MacYoung, What You Don't Know Can Kill You: How Most Self-Defense Training Will Put You into Prison or the Ground

“There are a number of models. The one we like is Rory Miller’s social and asocial violence. It’s quick, easy to remember, and– most importantly– it’s something you can apply in an actual situation.”
― Marc MacYoung, What You Don't Know Can Kill You: How Most Self-Defense Training Will Put You into Prison or the Ground

“The first component of self-defense, “understanding violence”
― Marc MacYoung, What You Don't Know Can Kill You: How Most Self-Defense Training Will Put You into Prison or the Ground

“Entirely too many people mistake confidence for competence.”
― Marc MacYoung, What You Don't Know Can Kill You: How Most Self-Defense Training Will Put You into Prison or the Ground

“The bad news is if someone is charging you, it can take multiple shots before the collective trauma causes him to collapse. In the meantime, he can still potentially close the distance and bury a knife in your chest. That’s known as the “Deadman’s Ten” (when someone fatally wounded can still keep attacking anywhere from ten seconds up to two minutes).”
― Marc MacYoung, What You Don't Know Can Kill You: How Most Self-Defense Training Will Put You into Prison or the Ground

“If you have time to run away, then I submit that you are not in immediate danger of anything and getting the heck out of there should be your answer.”
― Marc MacYoung, What You Don't Know Can Kill You: How Most Self-Defense Training Will Put You into Prison or the Ground

“Deadly force is authorized when there is an immediate and otherwise unavoidable danger of death or grave bodily harm to the innocent.”
― Marc MacYoung, What You Don't Know Can Kill You: How Most Self-Defense Training Will Put You into Prison or the Ground

“You do not want to base your decisions on fear. It sounds like we’re repeating ourselves, but this is a subtle and important distinction. Fear-based decisions are usually bad ones. Think about the emotional decisions you’ve made in your lifetime. How many of those came back to bite you in the butt? It’s normal for fear to be present. Acknowledge it and move on to handle the danger of the situation.”
― Marc MacYoung, What You Don't Know Can Kill You: How Most Self-Defense Training Will Put You into Prison or the Ground

“An immediate threat consists of what is actually happening not what you’re afraid might occur.”
― Marc MacYoung, What You Don't Know Can Kill You: How Most Self-Defense Training Will Put You into Prison or the Ground

“Know that the police are not required to make a statement on an officer-involved shooting for seventy-two hours.”
― Marc MacYoung, What You Don't Know Can Kill You: How Most Self-Defense Training Will Put You into Prison or the Ground

“cover and concealment.”
― Marc MacYoung, What You Don't Know Can Kill You: How Most Self-Defense Training Will Put You into Prison or the Ground

“Here’s a hint about multiple attackers, the guy talking is usually the distraction.”
― Marc MacYoung, What You Don't Know Can Kill You: How Most Self-Defense Training Will Put You into Prison or the Ground

“There’s an old Irish saying: Many a time a man’s mouth broke his nose.”
― Marc MacYoung, What You Don't Know Can Kill You: How Most Self-Defense Training Will Put You into Prison or the Ground

“An example of this is if he tells you “get in the car.” You never go to a secondary location– ever.”
― Marc MacYoung, What You Don't Know Can Kill You: How Most Self-Defense Training Will Put You into Prison or the Ground

“It’s easy to spot the howling, threatening drunk, but a mugger who announces himself with “excuse me” is far more dangerous and harder to spot.”
― Marc MacYoung, What You Don't Know Can Kill You: How Most Self-Defense Training Will Put You into Prison or the Ground

“This is a big concept so let’s spend some time on it. Again, most violence is social in nature. How do you tell? Marc uses the wheelbarrow test. You can put your money, wallet, purse, or car keys (resources) into a wheelbarrow. You cannot put your pride, social status, emotions, feelings of being ‘disrespected,’ or enforcing the way things are ‘round here in a wheelbarrow. If that’s what the conflict is about it’s social. What you can do is climb into the wheelbarrow and sit down. Your physical body is a resource. One you have the right and responsibility to protect from harm. And that by definition is self-defense. You are protecting your body from injury or death– not fighting over an insult or threat to your emotions.”
― Marc MacYoung, What You Don't Know Can Kill You: How Most Self-Defense Training Will Put You into Prison or the Ground

“Rory breaks violence into two main categories, social and asocial.”
― Marc MacYoung, What You Don't Know Can Kill You: How Most Self-Defense Training Will Put You into Prison or the Ground

“People become violent because they want something.”
― Marc MacYoung, What You Don't Know Can Kill You: How Most Self-Defense Training Will Put You into Prison or the Ground

“threat assessment models is AOI (ability opportunity, and intent).”
― Marc MacYoung, What You Don't Know Can Kill You: How Most Self-Defense Training Will Put You into Prison or the Ground

“Especially with higher levels of force, it’s critical you are videoed making your statement and having your attorney present. We won’t go into the whys, but this pre-existing knowledge must be embedded in your statement.”
― Marc MacYoung, What You Don't Know Can Kill You: How Most Self-Defense Training Will Put You into Prison or the Ground

“Como se de se,”
― Marc MacYoung, What You Don't Know Can Kill You: How Most Self-Defense Training Will Put You into Prison or the Ground

“A very good summation is: Self-defense is when you have no other good option. Fighting is when you’re part of the problem. If the cop decides and the prosecutor can sell that you were involved in the creation of circumstances that led to violence, you’re screwed – especially if they’re right.”
― Marc MacYoung, What You Don't Know Can Kill You: How Most Self-Defense Training Will Put You into Prison or the Ground

“Think about self-defense less as what you do and more about what you don’t do.”
― Marc MacYoung, What You Don't Know Can Kill You: How Most Self-Defense Training Will Put You into Prison or the Ground

“A key point about how training differs from education, the class is focused on a specific topic.”
― Marc MacYoung, What You Don't Know Can Kill You: How Most Self-Defense Training Will Put You into Prison or the Ground

“Criminal violence is the largest percentage of so-called self-defense cases lawyers will handle.”
― Marc MacYoung, What You Don't Know Can Kill You: How Most Self-Defense Training Will Put You into Prison or the Ground

“once the machine is put into gear, it must run its course.”
― Marc MacYoung, What You Don't Know Can Kill You: How Most Self-Defense Training Will Put You into Prison or the Ground

“Ours is not a justice system. Ours is a legal system.”
― Marc MacYoung, What You Don't Know Can Kill You: How Most Self-Defense Training Will Put You into Prison or the Ground

“It’s easy to forget, there is a difference between self-defense and training for self-defense. What we are about to say applies to self-defense– not training.”
― Marc MacYoung, What You Don't Know Can Kill You: How Most Self-Defense Training Will Put You into Prison or the Ground