How to get out of hand-cuffs

There’s a great thread on the forums regarding escaping handcuffs. Member ’subneural’ tipped us off on an awesome video by Brian Brushwood over at Scam School. Side note: I was actually in an early episode of the show and spent a good amount of time getting drunk with Brian at the shoot and love his stuff. The video is extremely informative showing you the inner workings of the standard Smith & Wesson handcuffs that 80% of the police in the world carry and how to escape from them.

When Sean and I took the Urban Escape and Evasion class handcuffs were an integral part of the class and we spent a lot of time practicing various methods of escape. Sean did a quick video that shows how easy it is to get out of those things. That is if they aren’t very good at cuffing you. A properly trained person can cuff you in a way that’s nearly impossible to get out of. Which is exactly how I was cuffed in the van during our field test and required a little help from my friends to get out. And one very important thing that we learned in class is that even if you can escape from your cuffs the cops don’t think it’s very funny at all when you hand them back to them…

Check out the videos after the jump!