One of the first principles in obtaining and possessing a weapon is knowing how to use it. Pepper spray is one of the few easily accessible designated weapons that is not only simple to carry and very effective – but only – if you know how to use it properly.
The 7 Secrets To Effectively Using Pepper Spray
Secret #1 – Step To The Outside of Your Opponent’s Face – This first secret is all about positioning. When you spray, take your right foot and step to the outside of your opponent’s right foot, thus moving your body to the outside of his instead of standing directly in front of him. So, when he screams and grabs for his face and momentarily tries to blindly extend his arms out toward you, he will be reaching for air.
Secret #2 – Make Your Follow Up Strikes “Below the Waist And Away from The Face” – When your opponent gets hit with the pepper spray in the face and in the eyes, his eyes lids will be forced shut through an autonomic muscular reflex. He will not be able to open his eyes for several minutes. But now, he has the burning chemicals of the spray on his hands and face.
- You want to avoid striking his face, as you will contaminate your hands. Therefore, since your position is already to the side of him, your follow up strike could be either a knee stomp or a hammer fist to the back of the head.
Secret #3 – Use The Tip of The Metal Cylinder of The Key-Chain Type Pepper Spray As A Follow Up Strike To the Ribs – The container of the spray in and of itself is an expedient weapon. After you spray and move to the side, strike him multiple times in the ribs with the tip of the metal cylinder container of the spray.
Secret #4 – Position Your “Non-Combatant” To The Side And The Back of You – A non-combatant is anyone who cannot be involved in the combat, such as your child or your spouse. Instruct them beforehand that whenever you are in a potential self protection situation where you may have to use your pepper spray, that they position themselves to the left side and in back of you.
Secret #5 – Look For An Object Behind Your Assailant – Then Spray – Ideally, if you can position the altercation such that your opponent is standing in front of a box, crate or the edge of the sidewalk, when you spray and hit, he will fall backward over the object or off the sidewalk that is behind him. When he falls back and onto the ground, follow up with knee stomps or ankle stomps so that you have incapacitated him from getting back up – even though he still can’t see anything.
Secret #6 – Practice Your Pepper Spray Techniques Using “Silly Spray” – You’ve seen that stringy foam that is sprayed from the cans that children use at parties and gatherings. I just call it “silly spray”. Since you can’t practice your techniques with real spray, use this kids party spray as a substitute to validate the effectiveness of your techniques when you practice with a partner.
Secret #7 -Always Spray Your Opponent’s Face With The Wind And Never Against The Wind – You want to avoid spraying into the wind so that the spray doesn’t blow back into your face!
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From Charles Prosper – The Street Fighting Sifu
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Your sifu just taught you secret techniques on how to use nunchakus just like Bruce Lee in “Enter The Dragon.” You still haven’t got the hang of it though because every time you quickly flip the nunchaku from one armpit to the other in a quick cool crisscross movement, you somehow always wind up hitting yourself in the “ding-a-ling”. “Yeow!”
That’s okay because next month, your going to learn how to use the Hanwei Dao sword. Stop! Just stop! I can’t take it anymore!! Have you ever given it a second thought that you will NEVER used these weapons in real modern-day society? One, they are illegal. Two, they are extremely difficult to master. Three, you are not going to carry them around without looking like some paranoid weirdo.
Here are the 3 most popular and totally useless ancient kung fu weapons:
Useless Ancient Weapon #1 – Nunchakus – Nunchakus are so hard to master that it would take hours a day to handle them in a way so that you would not end up bopping yourself in the head. In the street, your opponent would not have to do very much, he could just stand there and watch you to knock yourself repeatedly in the head and the groin until you got tired.
Solution: Modern-Day Weapon Substitute #1 - Sticks And Stones. You are looking for everyday objects that you can use to strike with. Rocks. Bricks. And sticks. In fact, any object you can pick up can become a weapon.
Useless Ancient Weapon #2 – Oriental Swords – I feel silly even having to explain this one for you. Anyway, just imagine the noise your sword would make as it would scrape against the hard wood floor of the post office as you walk in line to buy a stamp.
Solution: Modern-Day Weapon Substitute #2 – A Metal Ball Point Pen Or Car Keys – A fine gold Cross pen (about $30) which is one of the sturdiest metal pens made, can easily serve the same purpose without getting you arrested for carrying a concealed weapon. Car keys could serve the same purpose. The trick lies in how you hold these objects and how you would strike with them were your life in danger. If your life or safety is being threatened as in the case of a would-be rapist who tries to grab you, assuming you are a woman, you could hold either the Cross pen or a long car key between your index finger and your thumb, the same way that you would hold a key to open a door, and make a quick and unexpected jabbing motion to the assailant’s eyes or throat. (Keep in mind, that this type of self defense maneuver should be reserved only in a clear cut life or death survival situation.) You don’t want to go around stabbing the little old lady in the throat at your local supermarket who cuts in front of you in line, who brings 20 items to her shopping cart when the express lane clearly says “7 Items or Less”. When you say weapon, by the very nature of the word we are talking about very serious business. Using a weapon is not to be taken lightly.
Useless Ancient Weapon #3 – Bo Staff – The most popular type of bo staff is called the rokushaku, which a long wooden stick which measures six feet in length. Six feet in length! How are you going to get that thing into a taxi?
Solution – Modern-Day Weapon Substitute #3 – Reduce the length to about 12 inches. A most powerful weapon, when used properly is a tightly rolled up magazine. The striking points are at either end of the the rolled up periodical. If you strike with a brisk upward motion under the attacker’s chin, snapping the head back, in 99 cases out of a 100, this is going to be a knock out blow.
While everyday common objects are not as romantic as, say a sword, well you just look for your sword, and I’ll pick up my rock.
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Charles – We have here online, Norm Bettencourt, self defense and reality based fighting instructor, out of Vancouver, B.C. Canada who is going to help us out with a view that most people don’t even consider in terms of self defense which will be on the 4 reasons why he uses steel toe boots and shoes. Norm, for those people who are not familiar with you and your background, tell us about your experience and your background.
Norm – For sure. I hold a black belt in karate, and I’ve had about 15 years experience in the security industry doing everything from bouncing to bodyguarding to doing other security detail. What I do is I teach people how to protect themselves against modern-day threats of violence. I teach people how to use their environments to take out an attacker. I also teach people the best cheap shots, low blows because anything goes in a street fight. My philosophy is there is not such thing as a dirty fighter only an educated one.
Charles – Now, Norm, I’ve discovered through having dealt with you a little while that you wear steel toe shoes and boots. What are the reasons why you do this?
Norm – Well,
Reason #1 – It Is Unassuming – Nobody actually realizes that the shoes that I wear are actually weapons when I need to protect myself.
Reason #2 – It Hurts When I Kick Somebody – It Hurts Much More Than Would Kicking With A Normal Pair Of Shoes – I have actually dropped large men charging at me by kicking them in the shins and cutting open the flesh of the shin of the attacker, making him weak and hop on that one leg by doing a good shin kick in that area with my steel toe boots on. So, they are powerful, and they make my kicks devastating.
Charles – You turn your toe up, don’t you?
Norm – Yes, when I strike, I curl my toes back when the balls of my feet. You don’t want to keep your toes straight, even when you wear steel toe boots because what can happen is that the steel tip is going to graze onto your toe and that can hurt you.
Reason #3 – It Protects My Feet From Toe Stomps – Individuals Who Have Techniques Like Toe Stomps, Can’t Hurt Me – Also, if I am in a grappling situation and a table falls on my foot, I am better protected.
Reason #4 – It Also Supports The Ankle – The Boots Will Give Me More Support On The Ankle – When I do knee stomps or ankle stomps, the boots give me extra support so that I don’t twist or sprain them as I am stomping when I make impact.
Charles – Are they heavy to walk around with, Norm?
Norm – No, they’re like any other shoe. They look like any other shoe. They are only a tad or a fraction heavier than the average shoe, but they sound like any other shoe, and they look like any other shoe.
Charles – And I hear that you are quite a dancer in those shoes.
Norm – I am. I am. Quite a dancer. (Laugther.)
Charles – (Laugther.) Well, Norm, we thank you again for this interview, and those boots where made for walking. Just keeping on strutting.
Norm – Alright, thanks.
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