Archive for the ‘Offensive Weapons Training’ Category

Kendo: The Way of the Sword

Kendo is a very pop­u­lar mar­tial art involv­ing the prac­ti­tion­ers using sim­u­lated swords which are called shi­nais, to bat­tle each other in matches which are meant to repli­cate an actual sword fight between Samu­rai warriors.

How­ever, there is much more going on dur­ing prac­tice than meets the eye. Kendo teaches dis­ci­pline, coor­di­na­tion, bal­ance, focus, and self-enlightenment. These skills are use­ful in the mod­ern day world we live in.

Southard Combat System: Reality Based Self Defense!

Tony Southard is a unique man. He has been a full con­tact pro­fes­sional fighter, a body­guard for celebri­ties, a mar­tial arts instruc­tor, a police instruc­tor, a mil­i­tary instruc­tor, a Karate Grand­mas­ter, and a chap­lain! This North Car­olina based mar­tial arts expert and trainer is a man you should know. Many law enforce­ment offi­cers, police recruits, and mil­i­tary oper­a­tors already know Mr. Southard very well. He fre­quently teaches the local police and mil­i­tary personnel.

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!

SIRT Pistols: 21st Century Reality Based Firearms Training

SIRT Pis­tols: 21^st Cen­tury Real­ity Based Firearms Training

Want to take your firearms train­ing up a notch? What about your real­ity based self-defense train­ing? Well, here is the way to do it. SIRT (Shot Indi­cat­ing Reset­ting Trigger) pistols are the ONLY read­ily avail­able and afford­able train­ing devices which allow for imme­di­ate visual feed­back to the user allow­ing for imme­di­ate self-correction.

Remington’s New Nitro Mag ™ 887: An Alternative to Imported Tactical Shotguns

Rem­ing­ton Arms has a long his­tory of man­u­fac­tur­ing shot­guns for law enforce­ment and mil­i­tary appli­ca­tions but until recently the most pop­u­lar model, the Rem­ing­ton 870 12 gauge pump-action shot­gun, was a con­verted hunt­ing shot­gun with a shorter bar­rel and a few tac­ti­cal upgrades. Now, please do not mis­un­der­stand me, the 870 is a fine shot­gun that is highly reli­able and will last a life­time, even in unfor­giv­ing envi­ron­ments. I have owned a Rem­ing­ton 870 shot­gun, which I have used for police patrol and tac­ti­cal duties, for over 25 years. I have also been a Rem­ing­ton armorer since 1995; there­fore, I am very famil­iar with, and fond of, Rem­ing­ton shot­guns, espe­cially the 870.

Arm Yourself With the Ultimate Weapon

I’m often asked “What pro­tec­tion tool should I arm myself with?” After a few qual­i­fy­ing ques­tions I might answer: a Kub­otan key chain, a Comtech Stinger II, a Tanto fold­ing knife, OC Spray, a Glock 21, Saiga 12 or Ak-47. What I really want to say, even though many peo­ple are not open to it is; You should always arm your­self with the ulti­mate weapon: AWARENESS.

No Warning or Wounding Shots

One of my read­ers recently told me about a case where a women fired a “warn­ing shot” at a would be attacker who may have had a knife and is now being threat­ened with arrest by the police. Appar­ently, the would be attacker was scared away by the warn­ing shot. Although the warn­ing shot tac­tic seems to have worked in this instance, warn­ing shots in gen­eral are a very bad idea. Let’s exam­ine why.

The Cold Steel Ti-Lite Tactical Folding Knives

The Cold Steel TI-LITE line of tac­ti­cal fold­ing knives evoke the sleek speed and rebel­lious lines of the clas­sic 1950’s-styled switch­blade, like the one used by Clint East­wood in the orig­i­nal “Dirty Harry” film. Unlike most switch­blades how­ever, the 4″ ver­sions are legal to carry nearly every­where within the United States. They fea­ture Japan­ese made AUS 8A stain­less steel blades with a bead blast fin­ish, razor sharp edges and sturdy, nee­dle sharp points. The CNC milled han­dles are forged from super tough 7075 Alu­minum bil­lets and are given an attrac­tive bead blast sur­face and fin­ished with a pro­tec­tive EDP (Elec­tric Dis­charge Plat­ing) coat­ing. There’s also two less expen­sive ver­sions made with super tough Zytel han­dles. For max­i­mum strength and safety, the Ti-Lites are equipped with a patent pend­ing, stain­less steel leaf spring lock, proven, in tests, to hold 130 lbs.

Be Safe With a Comtech Stinger II

The COMTECH STINGER II is a per­sonal pro­tec­tion key­chain device devel­oped by edged weapons expert James Keat­ing. It’s an impact tool based on the design of the push dag­ger. It’s designed to act as a force mul­ti­plier, greatly enhanc­ing the effec­tive­ness of your punch­ing abil­ity. The stinger itself is made of a solid piece of high qual­ity plas­tic that comes in sev­eral dif­fer­ent col­ors. You hold it in between your fore­fin­ger and mid­dle fin­ger with the round “stinger” part pro­trud­ing out like a sin­gle brass knuckle. It’s impor­tant to fully enclose it with your thumb, form­ing a solid fist. It looks like a lit­tle kid’s toy, so no one would ever think of using it as a weapon against you.

The Most Important Type of Weapons Training

When I first began my Nin­jutsu train­ing twenty four years ago, there was a lot of empha­sis on learn­ing how to fight with old school Japan­ese weapons or pro­tec­tion tools. We trained with long staffs and swords as well as throw­ing stars and spikes.

It was fun pre­tend­ing to be Ninja and Samu­rai war­riors but what I really wanted was Real­ity Based Self Defense train­ing. I dis­cussed this with my teacher and he said that through train­ing in his­tor­i­cal based pro­tec­tion tools we were actu­ally being trained in mod­ern day real­ity based self defense. He went on to explain that there was FIVE PROTECTION TOOL CATEGORIES; impact, edged, flex­i­ble, pro­jec­tile and com­bi­na­tions of the first four. He then said that any tool that we would deploy to defend our­selves has to fit into one of the five cat­e­gories and that we will use the same body dynam­ics to use any of the pro­tec­tion tools. We wouldn’t have to learn dif­fer­ent pos­tures or striking/cutting meth­ods for each dif­fer­ent tool. I began to see the wis­dom in this.What my teacher was doing was train­ing us to USE ANYTHING AS A PROTECTION TOOL.