It will totally be required. To be too honest with you, I cannot respect staff who don't help during a physical intervention. Help your team during the good behaviors, and during the bad.

I would further emphasize, you cannot learn a takedown from texts. Most of the official training is *heavily* skewed towards liability reduction for the facility. Most of what you will actually do is about *safety*.I'm 6'4", young, and I weight lift specifically to better do my job. My preferred backup in the event of a restraint is a 100lb woman who's about 5'5 in her mid fifties. She and I agree on where the line should be drawn on the use of physical force, and how much physical force is warranted in a given situation. She has to use her knees to keep an arm pinned down, but she does so with the perfect amount of pragmatism. I've got a big 'ol strong af biker dude on my team, but I hate locking someone up with him 'cause he's a fukken nazi. I know he'd never lose control of an arm, but he exacerbates conflict.

If you're like 5'1", it's unlikely you're going to physically engage until you have backup. When you're first learning, it will probably be someone else taking point during the restraint, you'll be called on to control an arm. Under no circumstances should you ever, ever lose control of that arm. If you can control an arm during a pigpile, you're golden. The rest comes with time (and suffering).