At the present time, the training to evade and avoid a grasp is what is taught. Self-defence techniques to get away from you if you come at me are taught, but for me to attempt to deal with you in a more aggressive fashion, that is not taught today. We have had long and hard debates within our union on whether we wanted to do that, and effective training for you to be proficient in self-defence would take more than a day. It involves recurrent training. It involves many days over the year to be proficient in it. For a flight attendant who's five foot eight to bring down someone of your size, or anyone else's size, you need more than just a one-hour video. I'm using you because you asked the question.
On February 15th, 2011. See this statement in context.