Good technique, poor tactics In tight quarters, a small guy, with good boxing technique, rushes into a close distance with a bigger guy, a wrestler. Result: The boxer is finished in one move. Your browser does not support JavaScript! JavaScript is needed to display this video player! Lessons on self-defense tactics 1. Don’t fight in […]
Self-Defense Tip 125 Good Technique, Poor Tactics: An Ugly Defeat Read More »
What martial art, or combat sport, is best for fighting? Do you have an answer to the eternal question: What is the best fighting art? Many, if not most, fighting arts are attempts at creating the universally best, the winningest, fighting skills. But yet so many fighting arts exist — if one is the best,
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Don’t guess in self-defense, not about your weapon, not about your skill Below is an example of a guess. View it and then read the rest of this self-defense tip. Review of the Unbreakable® Walking-Stick Umbrella with a Rubber Tip and a Guess on Self-Defense (Coconuts Were Harmed) What nonsense, this taking the rubber tip
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Reviews with good advice from owners of Unbreakable® Umbrellas (one for any model of a walking-stick umbrella and one for any model of a telescopic umbrella) “This is a great alternative for when you are restricted from carrying. You can take this anyplace. Plus, it doubles as a really good umbrella. One thing I would
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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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