Posted on 04/10/2011 5:31:25 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Zoltan Hites clamped a pair of handcuffs around his wife Christine's wrists, helped her into the trunk of a car parked in a parking garage, slammed the lid and waited for her to escape.
Less than five minutes later, the trunk popped open and Christine climbed out. Doesn't exactly seem like a romantic weekend, but they were learning how to make a quick getaway.
They're not spies-in-training. They're survivalists -- people who are dedicated to being ready for and surviving the worst-case scenarios.
The Hiteses paid about $800 a piece to join a dozen or so other people at a Los Angeles hotel for three-day retreat with onPoint Tactical. Under the supervision of instructor Kevin Reeve, the participants will learn extremely advanced survival skills, such as how to pick a handcuff lock with a bobby pin.
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People used to make fun of “survivalist” in the 1970’s. Why? I have no idea—in grade school we were indoctrinated for years with “air raid drills”. Hell, we never practiced one TORNADO drill—even though we had them, but we sure practiced for the raining down of USSR warheads. Then all of a sudden, if you tried to prepare—like some folks in the 70s, you were a quack.
Now they tell us that “bearded people living in caves and rags on their heads” are gonna get us. But you’re not supposed to be prepped for this too, apparently.
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These guys stealing Bo Gritz`s thunder with his S.P.I.K.E. training
Can you be more explicit?
I have used those things in various other contexts and have always had to cut them to open them. Also: who always has a paper clip on them? For that matter, I haven’t owned a bobby pin, let alone used one in my hair, since perhaps 1960.
I just think these personal security courses _might_ have value for high value potential targets, but I think they are a scam for the average person.
JMO
The little strap is held by a small plastic tab, anything slid in between the tab and the strap catch defeats it, you need to slide the pin, piece of wire, etc, in on top of the strap in the same direction it was slid into the latch on the rough side of the strap. I take them apart and reuse them all the time.
By any chance were blue tarps and coconut oil being used in conjunction with the handcuffs? I’ve heard they can be fun but my wife flat out refused to join in so I turned them down.
Thank you!
ping
Yes - thanks for the tip on the ties. I’ve been in a bind (!) and low on ties, will be nice to try in the future. I have gotten out of cuffs with a paperclip. Not sure if I could remember now 30 years later. But I think it was just a single short bend in the end of the clip that was used as a “key”.
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