The Defender: A Covert Defensive Tool

Don’t let the small size fool you; this lit­tle tool can help you out of a jam!

I recently had the oppor­tu­nity to learn how to effec­tively use this device at a train­ing con­fer­ence I was teach­ing at and now I am in the process of becom­ing a cer­ti­fied instruc­tor in the use of it. I plan on teach­ing my police offi­cers and mar­tial arts stu­dents how to use this strange look­ing object to defend them­selves, and in the case of my fel­low police offi­cers, to con­trol the bad guy so that he can go to jail!

What is it? That is what peo­ple will prob­a­bly ask you when they first see the Defender. That is actu­ally an appro­pri­ate ques­tion because at first glance it looks like a cross between a bot­tle opener and a wind­shield scraper (for those who know what that is Hint: you have to live where it snows).

Mas­ter Peter Brusso has quite an inter­est­ing back­ground. He is a Viet Nam Era vet­eran. He is an engi­neer. He is a pri­vate pilot, but the most impor­tant thing is he is a true war­rior. With black belts in many mar­tial arts, real life com­bat expe­ri­ence, and years and years of mar­tial arts teach­ing experience.

Fur­ther­more, his work in the mil­i­tary actu­ally inspired a book which then inspired the movie “The Men Who Stared at Goats.” With all of that said, and given Mas­ter Brusso’s expe­ri­ence fight­ing in the Cam­bo­dian jun­gles and his other real world com­bat expe­ri­ence, in addi­tion to hav­ing an engi­neer­ing degree, he is the per­fect man to invent a rather inno­cent look­ing covert defen­sive device.

The Defender is a piece of plas­tic type mate­r­ial flat but with a unique shape. The edges and sides of the Defender all have spe­cific pur­poses. You can con­trol a per­son with one side, apply pres­sure to vital tar­gets with another side, and strike with many of the sides. The Defender is designed as a less-lethal device; how­ever, if your life was in jeop­ardy you could use it in a more dam­ag­ing man­ner than how it would nor­mally be used.

Unlike other more omi­nous and sin­is­ter look­ing self-defense weapons that would be banned from cer­tain loca­tions, this device, or tool as Mas­ter Brusso refers to it, is quite inno­cent look­ing and will fit into your back pocket or purse. It might not replace hav­ing a firearm when some­one is shoot­ing at you, but in close quar­ters com­bat sce­nar­ios this device could be exactly what you need to defend your­self and live.

I was famil­iar with Mas­ter Brusso and some of his train­ing prod­ucts because I had pur­chased the com­bat Machete video a while ago. I was very impressed with that video and learned quite a bit from it. More­over, it was one of the only, if not the only, video avail­able explain­ing how to use and defend against the machete. Machetes are car­ried all over the world and they are cer­tainly a com­mon tool found where I work as a police offi­cer, South Florida. Look for future arti­cles about other Mas­ter Brusso videos and train­ing courses; he has pro­duced many qual­ity prod­ucts which I am in the process of reviewing.

So for now, Happy New Year! Stay Safe and Always Remem­ber, “If Not Me, Then Who?”

For more infor­ma­tion about the Defender, Peter Brusso, and his other videos and prod­ucts, check the fol­low­ing websites:

http://​www​.pdws​.biz/

http://​www​.anjing​banfa​.com/

http://​www​.youtube​.com/​w​a​t​c​h​?​v​=​r​c​O​5​v​y​b​K​a​d​M​&​a​m​p​;​l​i​s​t​=​U​U​U​X​k​5​x​V​4​_​D​-​e​p​R​1​p​M​_​4​R​y​0​A​&​a​m​p​;​i​n​d​e​x​=​4​3​&​a​m​p​;​f​e​a​t​u​r​e​=​p​lcp

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