Any tips or tricks on breaking up fights and separating people?
Posted on April 29th, 2010 in Making Up and Breaking Up | 12 Comments »
Hey!
was wondering if anyone had any knowledge/tips on breaking up fights either standing or on the ground. Also any nice tricks when 2 people are facing of to help de-escalate the situation or set either person up with an advantage.
Any thoughts would be great!
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You need at least 2 people because you need to restrain both people at the same time. Otherwise the one not being restrained is likely to start beating up on the person you are holding.
I usually just threaten to call the police
just call some elderly looking person inspector sahib and that’s it either the mob will disappear in few second or that person pretending police officer will have to disappear.
Personally, I would leave well-enough alone because it is so easy to get involved/get injured yourself.
It is better to call for help.
Unless someone it literally getting killed, let them roll around and wear themselves out first. It usually only takes 20-30 seconds for most people.
Legally if it is none of your business you can get in trouble for doing this. Now if somebody is actually in danger of getting severly hurt then yes you can, however if it is just two tards who do not know how to fight like the rejects you always see on youtube then best to stay out of it.
Either you could get hurt or hurt one of them, either way not a good situation. Also who started it? If you help the wrong person you could be going for assault. Also when you are trying to pull one off you give the otehr a free shot. If you are at a job like a bouncer that requires it, get some actual training, and don’t look for answers on here. because you will not be able to use anything anyone tells you if you do not train it with resisting opponents.
I also didn’t like the "give someone the advantage statement".
Stay back until they wear themselves out, otherwise you will get hurt.
yes get help. if you don’t know what your doing you can get hurt, if you do know what your doing you can get hurt, either way you should get help.
as for defusing it. my a friend of mine who is not fighter, always steps in with tiring to put them at easy and tells them how much Jesus loves them. i personal have never tried this but he says he seems to successful at it. did i mention he was religions to and carries a bible. he got him self out of a lot of tough situations with those simple little words. it was either they believed him or they thought he was nuts. but in his mind violent’s never solved anything and in the respect he is correct.
1. Step back
2. Grab Popcorn
3. Watch the neanderthals kill each other.
Well I use to be a bouncer and one trick that seemed to always work was buy them a beer. Usually the two are squaring off; I would tell them both get a free beer or get thrown out and go to jail. Your decision. Most people go for the free beer. Then just put them on different sides of the room.
Focus on restraining one specific person, rather than getting in between the two and risk getting injured yourself.
But make sure that once you restrain that person, the other person cannot hit them back anymore. Its not gonna be very wise for you to restrain the person, while their opponent uses them as a punching bag..
you can restrain the person using joint locks or if the fight is really serious, you might have to choke out the other person. BUT BE CAREFUL and release the choke right away once the person is KO’d
Best way is the Garden Hose. No one likes to fight with a stream of ice cold water hitting them in the face. Don’t play favourites though, douse them both.
Downside to this method is that you usually have two pissed off people after you when done properly. I normally start this by saying "break it up or you get the hose." I wait about five seconds and say "you were warned" and thats when they get it.