5 Tips That Could Save Your Life In A Real Attack

If you think taking a course in Karate, Taekwondo, or another popular martial art is going to save your life in a situation where you need real self defense, think again.  Martial arts are largely about stylized training moves (thus the “art”) rather than practical fighting. For this reason, the best martial art for self [...]

Real Self Defense Training – Knowing What Is And What Is Not Self Defense Is The First Step!

Learning how to defend yourself is not as easy as many peddlers of self defense books, martial arts videos, and self defense training programs would have you believe. The truth is that, self defense training and the ability to be able to defend yourself against a real-world, violent attacker, is a complex and deep subject. [...]

Self Defense With Words

There are many situations where you will not need to resort to physical attack, verbal self defense can be very powerful and effective in this condition. Verbal self defense uses unconventional techniques to get a calming message across to an attacker and the effects could create a calm sensation to his mind – this is [...]

Pepper Spray as a Non-lethal Self-defense Tool

Unfortunately we live in a day and age where crime rates are soaring in conjunction with the demographic of the single woman. More and more women today are single than in any other generation previous. It is sad and regrettable that as women are getting increasingly independent, they are also at a much higher risk [...]

The Advantages and Disadvantages of Blocking and Striking with The Same Limb for Martial Arts and Self-Defense Practitioners

Blocking and striking with the same leg or arm? What happened to the other weapons we carry as part of our bodies everyday? I have to tell you though I’ve had some good success with this method of counter-attack, but it does have it’s disadvantages as well…. The Advantages and Disadvantages of Blocking and Striking [...]

Weapons For Self Defense

Different types of weapons are available in the market to protect oneself from attackers. The online self defense websites and courses are also there. Night workers, health care personals, social activists, bankers, business personals, women, teenagers, nurses, Medical personals including doctors, etc. must learn some levels of self defense technique to avoid themselves from the [...]

Bullying: is your Kid a Victim?

TV news anchors are reporting this daily. We’ve read the newspaper headlines. We can’t believe it has all come to this. It’s a cause of suicide. Violence and murder. Now we can’t ignore it anymore. It’s bullying! And, it has to be stopped. Make no mistake. If adults were abused in the same [...]

Non-Lethal Weapons: Being Safe with a Keychain Pepper Spray

Pepper spray is a defensive weapon. This means it only influences the perpetrator to allow the person to get away. Upon contact with the skin and eyes, the active ingredient in a pepper spray would have immediate effects. The attacker will cough, wheeze and have difficulty in breathing. Pepper spray can also cause watery eyes [...]

Typical Weapons For Self Defense

Today we’re going to be talking about lots of different martial arts weapons. We’re not going to go through all of them…we’re just going to try to go over the most popular ones that you’ll see and how they were used and what styles they’re used in. Keep in mind these are traditional weapons, and [...]

The Pepper Spray: Self Defense Weapons For All

A very old saying has been observing for millennia that the best defense is a good offense, and while it is usually brought up these days when speaking of sports, there’s no reason why the proverb shouldn’t also apply to topics pertaining to self-defense. Thus it is that pepper spray products are as true [...]

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