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Self-Defense Tip 87 Using Edged Weapons: Straight Razor and Bicycle Spoke

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Edged weapons often used in street attacks: Straight razors and sharpened bicycle spokes This tip continues the topic of edged weapons most often used in street attacks. Today, straight razors and sharpened bicycle spokes. Straight razor: This weapon slashes and is obviously not suitable for stabbing. In skilled hands, a straight razor can disable a […]

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Self-Defense Tip 86 Using Edged Weapons: Knife and Machete

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This tip and the forthcoming one are about general principles of using edged weapons, whether for attack or for self-defense. Unlike blunt weapons, edged weapons require very little force to do great damage. With well-sharpened blades, a touch and press is usually all it takes to leave an unforgettable impression. I write here only about

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Self-Defense Tip 85 Using Flexible Weapons: Garrote

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Garrote: How to make this flexible weapon As you know from the preceding self-defense tip, most flexible weapons are blunt, but the garrote is a flexible weapon that cuts like an edged weapon. It is easy to make in either the common version, with piano wire and metal handles, or the nonmagnetic version, with synthetic-fiber

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Self-Defense Tip 84 Using Flexible Weapons: Nunchaku

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Now a word about flexible weapons. Most flexible weapons are blunt — I know, there are flexible swords and composite weapons consisting of chain and a blade, but the likelihood of encountering one of those is slim. (Then there are piano-wire garrotes, but that’s a topic for another day.) As with nonflexible blunt weapons, flexible

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Self-Defense Tip 83 Using Blunt Weapons

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Blunt weapons in self-defense: How to and how not to use them In this tip I talk about using blunt weapons in self-defense. I will write about other kinds of weapons at another time. Whenever you strike an assailant in self-defense, your strike cannot merely anger the assailant, or worse, amuse him. If you use

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Self-Defense Tip 82 In a Confrontation Don’t, Part III

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When in a confrontation . . . Stay out of assailants’ easy range Don’t be an easy target — don’t get into an easy range. Get out of the way of potential assailants. If you see a bunch of thugs, give them a wide berth. If they move toward you anyway, you will have a

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Self-Defense Tip 81 In a Confrontation Don’t, Part II

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When in a confrontation . . . Warning and talking slows down reaction time Don’t warn — it’s stupid, unless you have your gun drawn and trained on the attacker and you are in a good position. Warning involves talking, so besides revealing intentions and capabilities, it slows down the talker’s reaction time. Instead of

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Self-Defense Tip 80 In a Confrontation Don’t, Part I

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When in a confrontation . . . Move off the line of attack Don’t just stand there — move! Get off the line of a possible attack, like here: Watch also instruction at 2 min 38 sec (triangle footwork) and at 5 min 22 sec (moving to the outside). See also Self-Defense Tip #5 —

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Self-Defense Tip 79 Knives, Push Daggers, and Pencils

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Best fighting grip for a knife, push dagger, and pencil If you viewed the video in my Self-Defense Tip #58 — Tactical Pen vs. an Ordinary Pencil, or “Pay More for Less,” you noticed a peculiar grip I used in the demo. That grip turned an ordinary pencil from a mere bloody annoyance into a

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Self-Defense Tip 78 Don’t Talk to the Police

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A lecture by a law professor and a former defense attorney on why you should not talk to police officers Here I quote one of the many reasons given by the professor why you should not talk to the police (beginning at 20:30 of the video): “Police make mistakes . . . innocently, inadvertently, unintentionally.

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