CrossFit - Hand Position with Tony Blauer

Dave had his hands out here for a second. What's interesting about, you know, this position is that it leaves too much gap up the middle. And so the simple, simple way to protect yourself is always have your hands in front of your shoulders. So if your hands are in front of his shoulders, if I draw a straight line out in front of his shoulders, if I try to grab Dave in the throat, I'm going to end up indexing or touching one of his hands. So that will trigger this flinch response that we're going to get to, right? So close your eyes and stay loose. When I grab you, all I want you to do is just kind of just react to the grab just by pushing away or closing your hands. You see how that negated me getting in there where. Now get your hands out a little bit wider where they were. Now when I grab you, you see how late that is. Now, if he's too narrow, because a lot of guys will do this, they go too narrow and the person can come around too. So if I'm in here, close your eyes. So it's this magic position right in front of your shoulders. So close your eyes. When you feel me grab you again, move naturally to that. So now from here, Dave kind of froze there. He didn't know what he was doing. So when you feel me, if you feel me in the outside of your arms, your body's naturally going to kind of open up. If it's on the inside of your arms, you did that perfectly. So when you feel me come around, just kind of flinch into my hands, you see that he's got an opportunity to get to the inside there and start doing things. So what we're talking about is this natural behavioral response. The Good Samaritan is going to be standing like this. Jeremy's moving toward. Towards me, and I'm in position here. If he goes to choke me, whatever he does to choke me, your hands are going to push away danger. We see that all over the world. You don't have to train with us to learn that. What you have to do is figure out, what am I going to do with that response, that survival response afterwards?