I found this in an article on flight attendents learning self defence.
'The courses provide crews with a greater awareness of threats and how to manage them, said flight attendant Mark Huffman, 43, who joined AirTran last month.
“It’s giving me self-confidence, that if a situation should arise that I might be able to help,” said Huffman, a Milwaukee resident. “For a guy that’s 5 foot 7, 130 pounds – I’ve never been able to fight anybody off.” ’
I wonder if these moves by the airlines are to actually give the flight attendents’ better self-defense skills or just to give them peace of mind in order to do their jobs.
I am all for short-term self defense/survival tactic classes but that article was a joke, take a look at the pictures, everybody playing the good uke, pressure point takedowns and bogus knife defenses, what a load of crap, skipping over the sweet and simple, gross motor strikes/movements, for pc value.
The airports should bring in Peyton Quinn or Kelly Mcann to do the training.
They should just send all of them through BUDS. Of course they wouldn’t have to carry a zodiac above their heads with the rest of their flight crew in it. That would be good for confidence building.
We could convert the old Al Queda training camps to Flight Attendant training camps. Just use the same corriculum the terrorists went through. We know it works 3 out of 4 times and it works on airplanes.
I just had a scarey image pop in my head. Can you picture a bunch of guys sitting arround in a bar and one of them says “Hey man, you really don’t want to mess with that guy over there … he’s a flight attendant”.