Ray Floro’s Dos Manos System for long blunt-impact weapons For self-defense with a cane or an Unbreakable® Walking-Stick Umbrella I recommend Ray Floro’s video course on his Dos Manos System or Two-Handed System for blunt impact weapons (see its video trailer). The course teaches the use of the Unbreakable® Walking-Stick Umbrella and a walking cane […]
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Fighting techniques in contact sports Good techniques cause you no discomfort. An example for strikes and kicks: Your technique is good if you can deliver knockout power without any discomfort on your part. Causing yourself discomfort when practicing and performing a technique is a sure way to an injury — it may take a while,
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Misconceptions on the use of the Unbreakable® Umbrella for personal protection QUESTION: I’m buying 3 umbrellas, one for my 60-year-old mother, one for my 25-year-old and fit sister, and one for myself, 39-year-old man who have been in my fair share of brawls, and have some martial arts training — hoping to be able to
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Clinch in hand-to-hand combat and self-defense In hand-to-hand combat clinches happen. If you don’t know what to do in a clinch you may end up like the casualties in the video below. Your browser does not support JavaScript! JavaScript is needed to display this video player! For useful lessons from this fight see Self-Defense Tip
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Items you may legally carry in New York City, London, and other places with laws modeled on the Soviet and Nazi laws This tip lists items you may get away with carrying in places such as New York City, with totalitarian laws modeled on the Soviet and Nazi laws (both socialist systems). The list is
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Which self-defense system is best against knife attack A reader of Self-Defense Tip # 101, even though knowing my preference for Ray Floro’s knife fighting system stated in that tip and explained in Self-Defense Tip #45, still asked for my opinion on several other systems of defending against knife attacks, namely systems taught by Moni
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Cross armlock or armbar (ude-hishigi-juji-gatame): Preventing errors and overcoming defenses Stand-up grappling happens and it may end in groundwork. If you practice well, your opponent hits the ground first and hard — but even then may need a finishing touch. One of those finishing touches is an armlock (an armbar, ude-hishigi-juji-gatame) that puts your opponent’s
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We like our products be put to good use in a good cause so since government-sponsored gangs began assaulting people in one city, we offer a discount to orders from there. Alas, not all who take advantage of the discount intend to use our Unbreakable® Umbrellas for defending themselves. Some are just bozos like those
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Self-defense weapons and training Many people carry self-defense weapons, lethal, non-lethal, some deniable1 and some not. Few of those people are well-trained in the use of their weapons (including unarmed body parts). As for the rest, I paraphrase Mark Twain’s saying about talent and work2: A weapon without work is worse than useless, thank God.
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What Krav Maga is lacking … but not only Krav Maga First watch a great demo of effective self-defense techniques by Krav Maga instructors from Defense Lab: Now, what is lacking in the above demo and why…. Krav Maga is a military-style self-defense system based on Imre Lichtenfeld’s 1930’s and 1940’s street-fighting and military hand-to-hand
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