It is summertime and crime is rising — lowlifes are out and about, and you need to arm yourself as best as you can.
I have already written about such everyday objects as pencils and credit cards being weapons of opportunity, for defense or for attack.
This self-defense tip, and a few others that will follow it, are about using everyday objects primarily in defense. I will show only the basic points of using these objects as weapons. The rest you can learn by practicing with a partner.
Rolled-up magazine, a weapon of opportunity against a knife attack
Note: The above video is not about the tactic of using a rolled-up magazine to defend yourself against a knife. Its purpose is only to show that a strong whack with a rolled-up magazine at even the serrated edge of a knife still leaves you with a usable weapon, albeit not for many more whacks.
A knife defense that begins with a magazine whack at the knife itself or at the knife-holding hand must end with a disabling disarm — which will be shown in a subsequent self-defense tip.
By the way, a strike at the attacker’s eyes or a poke to the throat or abdomen is a good move in unarmed fighting too. The poke has to be timed with the attacker’s inhalation.
Now if, when attacked by a knife fighter, you had your Unbreakable® Umbrella with you, then your defense would be simpler and safer. Every whack with your Unbreakable® Umbrella has a good chance to be both disarming and disabling. It does not matter whether you strike the armed hand or the unarmed hand, a kneecap, a throat, or an eye orbit, or whether you stab the trunk. The Unbreakable® Umbrella powerfully applied to any hand, wrist, forearm, elbow, or knee, even to the meat of the limbs or the trunk, leaves a “strong and lasting impression.” And, unlike a rolled-up magazine, it can leave those impressions over and over and over. . . . For examples, see Self-Defense Tip #75 — Everyday Objects as Weapons of Self-Defense: Why Unbreakable® Umbrella? and Self-Defense Tip #107 — Self-Defense with the Unbreakable® Telescopic Umbrella.
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Applying any of the techniques mentioned above is your sole responsibility.
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Self-defense tip from Thomas Kurz, co-author of Basic Instincts of Self-Defense and author of Science of Sports Training, Stretching Scientifically, and Flexibility Express.
Self-Defense Moves
To learn how your natural reactions can instantly defeat any unarmed attack, see the video Basic Instincts of Self-Defense.
Defend Against Weapons
To learn how the typical street weapons (club, knife, razor) are used by an experienced streetfighter and how to practice with them, see the video Self-Defense: Tools of Attack — Club, Hatchet, Blackjack, Knife, Straight Razor.
Mental Toughness
To learn mental techniques that let you calmly face any threat and act rationally in the heat of a fight, click here.
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