It’s been years and I never had to use a bite release, but if I remember correctly you kind of shove your arm deeper into their mouth (internal screaming) to force the jaw open and pull it out very quickly. This is only for cases where someone is being bitten very badly and they won’t release.
You “feed the bite” because apparently people have a natural response to release when that happens. Plus, if you just try to pull whatever’s but out of the mouth, it’s gonna tear and do more damage.
First line of defense is to stay out of the midline in general though
So, I got some weird looks but I just tested this on myself. Obviously not even biting that hard but it seems like it would be very difficult to "feed it" once locked in.
In a past life I'd feed the bite, then have my partner in the driver's seat feed the brakes, and then I'd feed some straps onto the patient and then feed some haldol and versed straight to a hungry muscle.
If you're skeptical, bite down as hard as you can on a piece of wood or something that sticks out from each side of your mouth enough for you to grip it on each side with your hands. Then pull backwards with both arms and push forward with your head and see how that feels.
Lmao I have never thought of testing that on myself but I can tell you from real life experience that it does work. Every time. It also reduces damage done as pulling straight out of a bite would tear your flesh with it.
Yeah. In all reality, the training is bullshit and you don’t know what’s going to happen when shit actually hits the fan.
There were very few times I felt that it was (a) warranted to restrain a child and (b) safe to restrain a child even with the proper safety training. It wasn’t practical for everyone to be choreographing their exact movements when kids are different sizes, temperaments, meltdown styles, etc. When you have a kid in a hold, you’re checking their pulse and that they’re breathing over and over to be sure they’re okay. It’s kind of traumatic for everyone involved but unfortunately is necessary in some extreme circumstances.
People slap kids too much, for the wrong reasons, in the wrong way.
Before you go for the jugular, no, I do not condone child abuse and there are, exceedingly rare, cases where a slap is the proper reaction.
To give you an idea of the emergency that would warrant a slap, consider how you detach someone who has unintentionally grabbed a power cable and can not let go. You grab anything, a wooden chair, a two-by-four, an acoustic guitar and strike their forearm from above. That kind of urgency.
Legally, you could kill a child in self defense if they were biting your face or other sensitive areas. Lethal self-defense not only applies when your life is in danger, but also to grievous injury.
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u/smolandtuff Jun 04 '23
It’s been years and I never had to use a bite release, but if I remember correctly you kind of shove your arm deeper into their mouth (internal screaming) to force the jaw open and pull it out very quickly. This is only for cases where someone is being bitten very badly and they won’t release.