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Self-Defense Tip 134 Homemade Weapons, Improvised Weapons, and Weapons of Opportunity

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 […]

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Self-Defense Tip 128 Review of Ray Floro’s Essential Umbrella Cane System

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Raymond “Ray” Floro instructs the U.S. Special Forces, Korean Special Forces, SWAT teams, Australian Police, New Zealand Police, and various Tactical Response Groups. You will learn from Ray a versatile and complete method of effective defense against edged weapons, blunt weapons, and empty-hand attacks. Recently Ray Floro released a new course, Dos Manos System –

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Self-Defense Tip 127 What Videos Teach to Stop Knife Attacks Using a Telescopic Umbrella

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What videos will teach me how to defend myself and disarm attackers with weapons, such as knives A customer’s question: What videos will teach me how to defend myself using the short telescopic umbrella? I mean, including disarming attackers with weapons, such as knives. My answer: For teachable people, watching the video Self-Defense Tools of

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Self-Defense Tip 126 When Seconds Count: Tactical Preparedness

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Man, monitored constantly by up to 30 police officers, stabbed seven people The man, who stabbed seven people in a New Zealand supermarket, was being monitored constantly by up to 30 officers who tracked his every move in the weeks leading up to the attack. He was followed by police officers to the supermarket, and

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Self-Defense Tip 117 What Weapons Can You Legally Carry Everywhere

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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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Self-Defense Tip 102 Improvised Weapons: Keys

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Improvised weapons vs. weapons of opportunity Google “improvised weapons” and you will find instructions on how to use ordinary keys in self-defense, so this is why I titled this tip the way I did. Nevertheless, to me a bunch of keys is not an improvised weapon but rather a weapon of opportunity. To me keys

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Self-Defense Tip 98 Defense Against Knife Attack: Table

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Table, a weapon of opportunity against a knife Always be ready to use all available weapons. . . This video is a comment on one of clips from the video Surviving Edged Weapons posted in Self-Defense Tip #11 — Knife Attacks. The video shows using a table as an obstacle, to slow down the attacker,

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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 75 Everyday Objects as Weapons of Self-Defense: Why Unbreakable® Umbrella?

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Why Unbreakable® Umbrella for self-defense rather than a Kubotan keychain or a tactical pen? Why have I decided to produce Unbreakable® Umbrellas for Never-Thought-of-It LLC rather than Kubotan-like keychains or tactical pens? Here are my reasons: 1. An umbrella is longer than a Kubotan or a pen, so you can hit your attacker from a

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Self-Defense Tip 74 Everyday Objects as Weapons of Self-Defense: Hit and Grab Easier Than Just Grab Alone

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Strike an attacker before attempting to disarm him/her, strike with any weapon of opportunity! Having an “arm extender” in a physical altercation is better than being empty-handed. Even if your arm extender is such that striking with it won’t disable the attacker (a rolled-up magazine or a piece of clothing, for example), you can use

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