This past week I had an opportunity to work with my good friend GM Bram Frank and assist him as he taught a group of security officers in Clearwater, FL
at the S2 Institute. That gave me an chance to see and work with Bram's newest CRMIPT 2 rescue hand-held tool. In the above photo you can see the original CRMIPT that is about inches in length and the new magnum size at about 6.5 inches.
Honestly folks the magnum is more to my liking because of it's increased size and fit. Even at the standard size it is very effective and is a great tool for security people to have while on duty because it can be used to punch through glass and the hook configuration at the heel of the tool is a cloth, rope, seatbelt and wire cutter. It can not be used to cut flesh, making it as near a perfect non-lethal tool as can be created for use by a security or police officer.
Several of my former students and current associates carry the standard CRMIPT when they are on duty in the security business and 2 have actually used the tool in self-defense situations at bars to control a belligerent patron and escort those individual from the business place without inflecting any serious injuries to the people being removed. The CRMIPT 2 would have made the job even easier.
The training sessions were conducted under GM Bram's standard curriculum "Perspectives of Modular" instructors guide which I have worked with several times over the past 15 years in both Buffalo and NYC training sessions. GM Bram was "training the trainers" who will go back to their respective job sites and introduce the CRMIPT concepts to their fellow officers in the coming weeks and months.
The basic concepts of usage are based on Modern Arnis stick striking angles as taught by the late Professor Remy Presas, consisting of angles 1-4-12
(the open position), 2-3-12 (the closed position) and the 1- 2 - 2 (mixed position). The instruction also includes using and defending against strikes and/or
punches in a high line as well as a low line levels. An additional element is the use of some Small Circle Jiu-jitsu concepts from the late GM Wally Jay.
Of particular importance to some folks is the fact that the CRMIPT (both standard and magnum models) are designed and used in a non-lethal manner as impact and locking hand held tools. Although modeled on an earlier tactical folding knife design that GM Bram named "The Gunting", the blade of the CRMIPT does not have a honed cutting edge, instead it is serrated to increase the gripping power for locking a limb if the blade is opened in a confrontation. Most of the self-defense usages of the CRMIPT are based on the earlier knife and have been retained, the key concept behind the tactical folder was that it has 3 possible functions, impacting, locking and as a last resort cutting. The CRMIPT totally eliminates that third option, making it an excellent choice for security officers and their employers in terms of liability and lawsuits.
Our training sessions went very well. Our students were serious, professional people and they absorbed the lessons with a balanced blending of humor, laughter and a willingness to listen, question and learn. Make no mistake about it, when working with the CRMIPT you will be tweaked and pinched in a manner that most martial artists, security and police officers have not experience before in their profession training. This is quite simply a case of steel being placed on flesh and bone. Steel wins! The joint locks applied with the CRMIPT are stronger. more painful and far more difficult to resist then when applied by a human hand. It didn't take a second or third lock for any of our students to fully understand the power of steel against their body parts. Control and compliance comes immediately when the CRMIPT is used to assist the officer in controlling a disruptive individual.
I have been a fan of the CRMIPT for quite some time and strongly recommend it as an operational tool for most security officers in their job situations.
Respectfully submitted,
Jerome Barber, Ed. D.
PS: Thanks Bram for giving me an opportunity to get out of that damned 'NE icebox' for a week.
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