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Apr 182010

Karen Abby asked:

It is impossible today to turn on the TV and not hear about yet another personal attack. It doesn’t matter where you live, your local news channel, newspaper and radio has stories every day of some innocent community member being accosted in some way.

As a result, alarms are being bought at an astounding rate. Purchases of guns are rapidly rising. But, what if you don’t want a gun and/or can’t afford an alarm system? What other options are available? There are a lot of options available. There is a wide variety of affordable self-defense weapons to be found.

Recently, more and more self-defense tools and weapons have become available. Affordable self-defense weapons are more accessible than ever before. There are many choices available. There are tasers that come in various sizes and voltages. There are stun guns that are disguised as cell phones. There is pepper spray in containers that range from canisters to guns.

I remember an unfortunate incident during my college days when I had an encounter with a robber. I was on the bus talking with a friend on my cell phone when a man sat down beside me. “No worries,” I said to myself because the man looked well mannered and harmless.

After a few minutes, while threatening me with a knife he quietly demanded my cell phone. Scared to death, I instinctively gave it to him. He made his way off the bus swiftly while I was left in tears.

If I could turn back time I should have invested in a personal safety alarm to protect me from threats.

With an ear splitting alarm, any aggressor would surely be discouraged to pursue his attacks and frightened with the attention the handy personal panic security alarm brought.

Women and children are luckier nowadays because a personal protection alarm is available at very affordable prices and model selections.

There are clever key chain alarms with lights, child guard remote monitor kit, and personal alarm with flashlight to name a few of these amazing products.

If you don’t have a personal security alarm yet surely you’ll find something that will fit your needs and preferences.

Before you start to look for your personal attack alarm.

It is important to do some research to find affordable self-defense weapons. Find out how they work. Decide which ones would be the best for you. Which ones will be the most efficient, effective and at the same time, the most simple for you to use? You will be surprised at the amount of choices you have at an affordable price.

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Self-Defense Training - 4 Ways to Use Your Keys As Self-Defense Weapons

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Jun 092007

Jeffrey Miller asked:

If you are truly trying to master the art of self defense, then you must be able to use anything as a weapon. This article discusses several ways that you can use your keys as a tool for self protection.

But, first-things-first – you must begin by avoiding or ignoring the dangerous strategy of placing the keys between your fingers! I’ve discussed this in other articles, but suffice it say for our purposes here that, whoever came up with this logic, was never in a real fight where he had to attempt to use his own strategy!

There are, however, several simple but highly effective tactics where your keys can be used to control the fight and/or cause a significant amount of damage. The following 4 strategies are offered as a means of helping you to expand, not only the number of techniques in your skill set, but to assist you in developing the advanced skill of strategic thinking.

1) Stabbing and slashing. Instead of trying to fight with, and get your keys between your fingers under the pressure and stress of an attack, simply hold a single key the same way you would to use it in a lock. This really is the most natural, and therefor the strongest grip.

From here, the stabbing, ripping, and scraping/cutting damage you create will be much more powerful and debilitating than with the key sliding around between your fingers and digging into the webbing of your hand with each stroke!

2) Distracting. Using this strategy, you can do everything from showing the keys and threatening to throw them at him, to simply dropping them to draw his attention away from what he was doing. The key is to do something that opens a hole in his defenses so that you can enter.

3) “Sight-Removing.” This involves tossing the keys into his face to shut down his vision. He will either close his eyes, or turn away momentarily to protect himself from the pieces of metal bouncing off of his face! You can then, as in the “distracting” strategy above, take advantage of his momentary disability, and either attack or escape to safety.

4) Flailing, Regardless of whether your keys are on a single ring, or attached to something else – like a Kubotan, self defense keychain – you can wait until he is close enough before flailing the keys at the sensitive areas of his face, neck, and exposed skin areas.

The key to success with weapons is to be able to use them in ways that the opponent has never seen before. While this makes your training more challenging, just keep in mind that, if you try anything that you assailant has seen and prepared for, you will have a more difficult time defeating him. As the saying goes, “If it’s easily thought of, he’s thought of it too.”

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Defend Yourself - Using Everyday Items As Self-Defense Weapons

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Jan 182007

Jeffrey Miller asked:

Do you want to be able to defend yourself against a real world, brutal attacker who’s coming at you with all he’s got? Do you recognize that, unlike a sport karate contest, your assailant will probably be bigger, stronger, and maybe even better armed than you?

In this article, I want to look at some of the everyday items you might have on-hand, or find just laying around, that you can use in your own self defense. If you’re serious about learning the critical lessons that will save your life and limb where it matters most – on the street – then you must be able to see anything and everything as a potential weapon and aid.

Here is a list of 5 common items that you can press into use as self defense weapons in an attack situation.

1) Pen – One of the best “hidden” weapons to carry – especially in today’s world of “false-security” – is a sturdy, ball-point pen. Techniques using a pen include stabbing, poking, snagging, pinching, and even crushing pressure across the smaller bones and joints of your assailants fingers. It’s important to train with cheaper, plastic pens as well. This will teach you how to adapt your grip and still apply many of the same techniques listed above.

2) Keys – You know, if I had a buck for every time someone told me about the “best way to hold keys” that some karate guy showed them, I could have bought that Lamborgini that I really want! Let me just say that, it’s hard enough to get your keys in the right place between your fingers as these so-called self defense masters claim – and that’s when you’re calm and safe. Trying to do the same thing when some nutball is coming at you or wrestling you to the ground is…well…stupid!

The best way to hold your keys is the same way you normally do when you’re going to start your car or open your front door. This is both strong and “natural.” In this position, you can gouge, stab, and slash at your attacker’s eyes, face, and exposed skin.

3) Belt – Many potential weapons that you can use to defend yourself are often so obvious that they are virtually invisible. Unless you train yourself to look at things differently, AND you program yourself to look for them, you won’t be able to use them, even when they’re “on you!”

This is true of the above items, and it’s also true of belts, neckties, and even luggage and purse straps. These flexible weapons are made even more effective when they have a weight – like a beavy buckel – on the end. Parrying, snaring, whipping, and other such techniques allow you to turn the tables on an unsuspecting attacker who chose the wrong victim – YOU – as his target!

4) Credit card – Small, thin items like credit and debit cards, drink coasters, and the like can be pressed into use as cutting, slashing weapons. They can also, with sufficient training and practice, be thrown at your assailant’s face as distracting weapons – just like the Ninja’s shuriken, ‘throwing star.’

5) Mechanics drop light – It’s important if you to master the ability to defend yourself, that you see everything and anything as a potential aid in your defense. And, while you might not be a mechanic, and therefor not have access to this specific item, there are other, similar, everyday items that you do.

Remember, one of the skills that separate a true master or self defense expert, from everybody else, is his or her ability to recognize weapons and aids that create a distinct advantage over the attacker. But, more than the ability to recognize these items, you must take the time to learn how to use them effectively, and against the right targets.

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