Grab and Stab: How to practice defenses for when it’s too late for good options. First, a bit of know-how for speeding up teaching (and learning) techniques Every technique has key phases that make it or break it. To speed up learning any technique, learn these key phases one after another, beginning with each phase’s […]
Self-Defense Tip 138 Grab and Stab: How to Practice Defenses Read More »
Technique may trump raw strength. But focus on technique directs your attention inward — on how you move and what you feel — so not outward, not on how your opponent moves. Tactics trump technique. Effectiveness of your tactics depends on your reading your opponent, so your attention must be focused outward, on the opponent,
Self-Defense Tip 137 Tactics Trump Technique Read More »
When you look at a target — an object you intend to act upon — your mind, without your awareness, is gathering and processing info about the target and preparing a program of the action (what and how to move). If you look at the wrong spot, or too late, or too briefly, the program
Self-Defense Tip 136 What to Focus Your Eyes on in a Confrontation Read More »
Every Tool Is a Weapon If You Hold It Right. Yes, every tool is a weapon if you hold it right, but if you hold it wrong, it is a liability. To hold it right, you have to draw it right, and to draw it right, you have to carry it right. How to Carry
Self-Defense Tip 135 How to Carry and Draw the Weapons You Carry Read More »
This self-defense tip expands the subject I wrote about in Self-Defense Tip 102 — Improvised Weapons: Keys. It is about weapons of opportunity, improvised weapons, and homemade weapons, and shows video demos of using two ingenious homemade weapons. It is good to know how to make and use these common weapons, the better to guard
Self-Defense Tip 134 Homemade Weapons, Improvised Weapons, and Weapons of Opportunity Read More »
The best expandable batons and how to use them Pros and cons of four different expandable batons from three best brands (ASP, ESP, Peacekeeper Products International), and how best to use each baton — all in one video by Burton Richardson, the president of Jeet Kune Do Unlimited/MMA For The Street. Watch it, it is
Self-Defense Tip 133 On the Use of Expandable Batons and Collapsible Umbrellas Read More »
Do you know that with the GPS switched off, your smartphone’s location still can be tracked? Usually, every few minutes a cell phone pings cell towers, which are used to triangulate the phone’s location. Do you know that the data on your smartphone may be remotely changed (think planted evidence)? Your phone, with access to
Self-Defense Tip 132 Your Phone, Their Spy Read More »
Why not “tactical,” or “security,” or “self-defense”? None of our products was or is named “Tactical” this or “Tactical” that, or “Security” this or that. Our umbrellas are named “Unbreakable® Umbrella,” our blinding and disorienting flashlight was named “The NTOI® Key Ring Flashlight,” not “Tactical Key Ring Flashlight.” Such names are to give you something
Self-Defense Tip 131 Why Not “Tactical”? Read More »
Real-life examples of use of force in self-defense Watch the two below videos of real-life examples of self-defense, from surveillance cameras. Defenders in both assaults did the right thing, but … it is not just what they did, but how. So, watch and then think, which defender’s lawyer will have a more difficult job? Las
Self-Defense Tip 130 Must-Knows for Use of Force in Self-Defense Read More »
Kicking vs. knife Watch and learn: Kicks vs. Knife — Officers of Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) stab a man to death Ah, the stupidity of kicking without a good tactical setup, and on slippery ground too…. You see, a good tactical setup for your attack (which could be a defense), is such that your
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