Do you carry pepper spray as part of your defensive toolkit? This guard shows us how it can work to de-escalate a conflict and end a fight, making it a useful part of your Active Self Protection! If you value what we do at ASP, would you consider becoming an ASP Patron Member to support the work it takes to make the narrated videos like these armed robbers getting their just desserts? https://get-asp.com/patron gives the details. Original video of the pepper spray use is available in our Instructor Development Portal: get-asp.com/instructors What does this security officer teach us about defending ourselves using pepper spray? 1. Pepper spray (also called OC or OC spray) can be a very useful defensive tool for non-lethal threats. I carry this one, and it’s nasty stuff: http://amzn.to/1kxJpls. I asked the security guard in this video what he carried, and it is the same Sabre Red (just a different can). It can also be used against you in a fight, so you should know how to defend yourself if you’re sprayed! Take a good course on pepper spray and how to employ it, and as part of that course take a dose yourself so that you know the effect it will have on you and how to fight through it to continue to protect yourself. Want to learn more? There are 7 additional lessons, 3 class starters for instructors, and links to more information about this pepper spray use on our website: https://get-asp.com/h2z0 Attitude. Skills. Plan. (music in the intro and outro courtesy of Bensound at http://www.bensound.com/) Copyright Disclaimer. Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.