Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "Moment mum saves her five-year-old son from kidnappers - BBC News" video.

  1. Kids get abducted by strangers at a rate of just 1 in 1.5 million kids. If you REALLY want to keep your kids alive, watch your partners - they are by far the greater danger.
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  2. There's ZERO chance this was just a random child abduction by a stranger. They're INCREDIBLY rare, and nobody would be so dumb to do it in broad daylight in front of the potential mother.
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  3.  @Off-Grid  Unless your martial arts school has a specific kids vs adults program, they will have almost no chance. Check.
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  4.  @Off-Grid  "anything is better than nothing" No, that's absolutely not true. A child badly taught develops a false sense of confidence, unrealistic expectations, and is likely to freeze under stress. The first defence move ANY child should learn is "don't put yourself in risky situations." The second is, "run.". Third is "attract attention." A child has virtually zero chance against an adult in a fight, so you need to teach them to fight dirty, and to put aside their natural respect for adults and their desire to fight fair.
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  5. This looked like a partner abduction, not a random stranger.
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  6. ​ @Off-Grid  Not only are you 100% wrong about the confidence thing - bullies and kidnappers absolutely DO target women and kids who look like they won't fight back - soft targets, but that wasn't what I was talking about in any case. I knew a woman who took up karate and after a few months she said "I feel so much more confident now I know how to defend myself. I used to walk around that wood after work at night, but now I feel safe to walk through it." That's exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about. Looking at your channel you have two adorable daughters - don't just trust that their ma club is teaching them sensible skills - double check - are they taught to use their nails, attack the eyes, throat and groin, stamp on the foot, be noisy, be a hard target. You appear to live away from mainstreet; that's a long way from help if needed. Do you teach your girls cotinuous situational awareness? What weapons could they use? How would they use them? Where could they escape to, how could they use the environment to their advantage? Are they aware that the vast majority of rape happens with people they know? They're a little young maybe, but never too young to start talking about assertiveness. I love that you have gone off-grid. What a wonderful way to disconnect from the madness. Here's hoping that your family will never need these skills. But as Bruce Lee once said, "Better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener in a war."
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  7. It was probably the kid's estranged father.
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