Mastering Crisis & Conflict: Ellis Amdur On De-Escalation, Martial Arts, & The Psychology Of Anger
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Ellis Amdur joins the podcast to discuss his unique approach to verbal de-escalation, conflict resolution, and more. Ellis is a crisis intervention specialist with more than 50 years of traditional Japanese martial arts experience. He has published various books on martial arts, crisis intervention, hostage negotiation, and fiction – including Words of Power: A Guide for Ordinary People to Calm and De-Escalate Aggressive Individuals.
With a background in karate, aikido, judo, Muay Thai, and xingyiquan, Ellis is an expert in the study of 'internal strength' paradigms. Using his diverse knowledge of martial arts, he has provided training for competitive grappling practitioners and law enforcement professionals alike.
Are there proven strategies to de-escalate aggressive anger? How can we use verbal control tactics to manage the behaviors of enraged people? Tune in now to hear Ellis's unique perspective on this complex topic…
In this episode, we cover:
- How martial arts play into de-escalation and handling aggressive people.
- Proven methods to deal with someone who is an obvious aggressor.
- The ways that most aggression manifests itself.
- The difference between angry and enraged people.
To learn more about Ellis and his ongoing work as the creator of Edgework Methodology, click here now!
Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: http://apple.co/30PvU9
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| 0:35.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Fighting Genius Podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | I have a great guest today. |
| 0:43.0 | Author, he's a writer, an American practitioner of martial arts, and a crisis intervention trainer. |
| 0:49.0 | He's published a number of books on martial arts and on crisis intervention, hostage negotiation, and also |
| 0:55.2 | some fiction. |
| 0:56.2 | I was, I recently ran across some of his work on de-escalation of situations where you're involved |
| 1:01.6 | with someone who is, you who's getting angry or an angry or maybe they're in a state of rage. |
| 1:06.0 | So I went through his book called Words of Power recently. It was really great. |
| 1:10.0 | So I was looking forward to speaking to him. So here he is and welcome Ellis. Thanks for coming. |
| 1:14.6 | Thank you very much. Yeah, well if you would tell us about your background. Were you like an angry young man and you learned about these techniques to be calmer or what does it look like for you? |
| 1:24.4 | Well yeah I was a combination of an angry young man and tended to lose my fights and I was brought up |
| 1:30.6 | and unfortunately it's become topical once again I was brought up in a |
| 1:33.7 | community that was redlined against Jews and blacks and my family was a |
| 1:38.3 | Jewish family that lived outside the red line but the school system was good and among the Jewish kids in my age group I was somehow |
| 1:46.6 | appointed to be the defender of the faith and so when there was a problem when there, you know, I was the one who was sort of |
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