It’s very unsafe I was sxually asaulted & catcalled a ton And also what sabre product ? they have a lot
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It’s very unsafe I was sxually asaulted & catcalled a ton And also what sabre product ? they have a lot
How to force yoursself to fight if your are in or about to be in freeze? There has to be some saw, anyway. Ill do anything i cant view myself as human if i cant train that out.
Looking for recommendation for something for my 16 year old daughter as she’s driving to places by herself. Alarm? pepper spray? knife? others? thanks
I saw a Reel today showing a guy demo a (Battlbox) bracelet breaking car windows. I already have a carbide-tipped Leatherman. In an emergency where a window needs to be broken to evacuate, I'm wondering if this type of bracelet would be as effective, as it's far more discreet. Would this work on laminated, as well as tempered glass?
Hi guys there is a group of 10 dogs here. Normally they were here around 6 am but today i saw them around 9pm so i guess we can confront some time
I got pepper spray and i am considering takibg a bear spray. Would they be enough?
And, can they make circle around me? This possibility scares me Since i am not an anime character and i might act inattentive
Unfortunately I’m visiting London for business shortly, and I may have to walk in the centre in the evening after dark. Any suggestions for a knife resistant undergarment/shirt that can be worn under a dress shirt and suit without being noticeable? I don’t know anything about these sorts of things. What should I search for?
I don’t need the best protection- after all, the chances are still low and I’ll certainly keep as far away from anything dangerous as possible. But with random attacks not uncommon and over 100 stabbings a day, I’ll like to be better safe than sorry if there’s something I can wear under a suit without it being to revealing.
I (male) would like to get my middle school-aged son some basic lessons in self-defense. Defending takes downs, grappling, basic striking, etc. I’d love to be able to take a course with him. After an initial course, we could discuss more advanced classes.
Where might we find courses such as this? I think BJJ is a very strong martial art, but we are not looking to learn and master submissions, etc.
I wondered about kickboxing but not sure that would address takedowns, etc.
I wondered if local PDs might offer classes. I know they offer such courses for women. Do they have similar classes for men?
I’m essentially looking for how to defend oneself from a physical assault. Basic hand to hand combat. Etc.
Any suggestions and/or info welcome!
I want to make a diy self defense spray that I can put into a good quality, small pocket sized and effective spray bottle that’s made out of household or easy to access ingredients or spices. I live in Canada so I’m not allowed to protect myself but I’d rather be able to protect myself and deal with the consequences than not be able to protect myself. What are your suggestions?
In a few months I will be teaching a light self defense "class" to a group of boys ages 10 to 14. And I am looking for some materials to use as a curriculum and teaching aid. I have training in martial arts, self defense, and security but I have never actually taught a class before.
It's not going to be a class with a focus on how to fight. The focus is mainly on awareness, avoidance, and how to best prevent getting hurt. Fairly basic stuff the actual fighting aspect is mostly out of the scope for the class.
I would appreciate the help.
As someone who lives in a sketchy rundown area, I do find myself always on edge. Since Canada doesn't allow the usage of Guns, Pepperspray, Butterfly Knives. What can I carry that could be used as self defense?
Given a situation in which you are not seriously injured, and your life is not in danger... Suppose someone attacks you and then leaves. You took the hit... Now what? Do you just let it go? How likely are you to pursue this person and try to resolve the situation. Yes, I know you can always just back off and report the assault to the authorities. But this is unlikely to result in justice, and they'd just get away with it.
Im 5,11 170 rn at 14 and i keep hearing im victim weight online so im wondering what i should get to. Ive kickboxed and lifted since i was 10 so im not worried about if im in a fight i just wanna get big enough i wont ever have to get in a fight.
I’ve used it and it’s pretty awesome! I just think it makes more sense than some pussy little bottle of pepper spray. Like I’d honestly choose this over a gun in some scenarios. Thoughts?
Hey everyone
I was wondering if anyone used Perskindol Spray as Self Defense. I am travelling around and am not allowed to bring peppar spray in every country i will go to. Last time i went travelling i got harassed three times by men. So i am super aware now. I am also thinking of bringing a loud device. Sorry don‘t know what its called.
Any other tipps for female travelers in self defense? Thank you!
I’ve seen so much conflicting information on this topic so I’m wondering if anybody has an answer
I’ve been taking self defense training seriously for the last couple years. Most of my training has been with firearms and situational awareness. I do pistol training a few times a week and am getting ready to start my first season of competitive shooting (USPSA). Basically, I’m very competent with a gun, and feel very confident in my abilities to detect a potential threat and be proactive about it. HOWEVER, I’ve got absolutely zero abilities to defend myself in hand to hand/ weaponless combat. I’ve lost a lot of weight in the last year, but previously treated my size almost as a disability so just discounted learning any sort of martial art, but now that I’ve lost a lot of weight and improved my cardio/ flexibility I think it is feasible to add a MA discipline. It will mostly be an additional activity to help keep me fit, but adding one that has practical benefits and could be useful in a self defense situation would be cool. The two I am considering are BJJ and Krav Maga. Just curious if someone could compare the two for me and help me pick whichever might be better for me purposes.
I’m not looking to replace my weapon/ non lethal (pom spray) and will still practice preventative measures for SD encounters. For a lot of people learning a martial art as a self defense measure would take too much work and isn’t necessarily feasible. But I figure since I’m looking for some sort of fitness activity and can’t stand traditional organized sports, working toward a practical defense discipline isn’t a bad place to start. Thanks in advance.
I wanna learn different techniques with my fiancé, but we don’t have a lot of money to spare for classes or anything. Are YouTube tutorials reliable for guiding us to train together?
Lets say you meet a old man who is twice your age.
He holds your hands and starts shouting at you to give him some negligible amount of money . He is a stranger, you have never met before. He refuses to let go till you have given him this amount.
You have money on you and the amount he is asking is barely 5% of what you have in your purse.
Would you hit him?
Or would you give him some money to get out of the situation.
In the hipotetic scenario you're minding your own business and someone attacks you out of the blue, how would you defend yourselves? This is something pretty unexpected and it can come from anyone, anhtime and anywhere (RNCs, sucker punches, etc) it almost happens to me when a guy who was walking the oposite direction as me showed me his fists, i was checking him with the corner of my eye and ready with my OC spray inside my pocket. I know prevention is everything and avoiding danger is the #1 rule but sometimes streets are too narrow to mantain a safe distance from suspicious people. Any idea of how would you approach situations like these?
I should have trained when I was younger. I feel young. Chronic pain makes you a victim. Truly. I’ve had close calls with people in public who noticed that I’m “off”. I stopped talking to the public which feels really good to do and a smart move. But I’m angry at the chronic pain itself and the energy that some people give off to people they think are off. Again, I wish this happened to me when I was younger. Life can be sick
Or, I don’t train.
But I have been friendly with a guy who has a very upbeat attitude at the store I get my vitamins from and he does Muay Tai and he told me he would help me
You can kill yourself or train. It’s up to you
Terrifying experience when I was attacked by a dog as a kid while walking to school
I was about 8-9 years old and was walking to school with my older sister who was only 2 years older than me. Then I stood still to get my dime chocolate and eat it. As I was opening my chocolate bar, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, I get jumped by a dog from behind. It was a husky I believe.
Now my sister was far ahead, and when she saw it happen, she ran away to school scared. I was all alone. The dog’s owner wasn’t around, and I was in a sort of a park where no cars had access to, so no cars driving by to save me, and nobody else was there at the park to save me either as it was in the early morning. I had to fight the dog myself.
When it jumped me, I fell to the ground and there I am lying on the floor. Then the dog rushed at me again, but I kept kicking it in the face while lying on my back with both my legs while screaming and crying, it felt HORRIBLE. You can’t imagine what such an intense situation felt like as such a young boy. My heart was pounding out of my chest.
It kept lunging and lunging, but every time it did, I kicked it in the face with both of my feet. And eventually one of my boots flew off from all the kicking, but I never got bit because I kept resisting, I kept fighting. Every time it lunged at me, I kicked it in the face. Now this was going on for a long time, can’t remember how long, but it felt very long, well over 30 seconds. Luckily I was never bit with my tactic of spamming kicks in its face.
Eventually, the owner came and retrieved her dog by making it come over to her. I got up while crying on the same spot where I fought, and there she was standing with her dog beside her. She never said a word to me. She just stood there with her dog. I can’t remember much of what she looked like, but I still have a figure of her in my head — short haired, thin, maybe fit, had a cap on, and was probably in her 30’s.
Then I kept on walking to school with teardrops all the way. Don’t remember if I ever took my chocolate bar back. When I talked to my sister again in school, she said was she was scared and ran to school, but she never ever told a teacher that I was attacked when she reached the school. That’s fucking insane. Like imagine I wasn’t so brave and couldn’t fight back that dog before the owner came, I coulda been mauled to death. Hate my sister for that, and she’s always been narcissistic like this even as we grew up, only caring about herself.
And I even told my teacher, but she didn’t seem to care that much. She never contacted my parents or the school, almost like she didn’t believe me. But I still do wonder why that dog owner did nothing. It was such a long time ago that I don’t know if I have hatred for her — no responsibility, didn’t check on me, didn’t even say a word. I still wonder why.
I’m 18 now and I hope you guys can learn from my terrifying experience and maybe share it with your kids and teach them and other people what to do if this happens to them. It can save them. My instincts just took over and saved me.
I literally can't face anyone in a street fight and if I do I'll probably get beat up in a matter of seconds.
That's why I've been really thinking of hitting the gym daily specifically for that purpose.
I heard from some classmates that it's excellent for improving self-defense and fighting experience.
Is that true or does it have nothing to do with self-defense?
They are lying on the ground and you kick them in the head like a soccer ball from the throat with one kick?
Is that good to do when they fall down or will that kill them?
Ps. I've never done this but always wondered how much damage it would do.
I’ve reached a braking point. My upstairs neighbors dog has peaked my anxiety by continuously attempting to attack me upon exiting and entering my apartment (downstairs basement apt) I’ve reported to animal control and it has lead to significant problems including rent increases. I’m at the point where I don’t know if I need to try xylitol. Spreading an entire pound or two around my six foot walk space to create a makeshift barrier or if I need to equip bear spray… needless to say I’m not in a position to move right away and the more I involve authorities, the more difficult things get. Is there something like cayenne pepper I can put down or something I can do without getting too extreme? Needless to say I can have their dog taken but it will only result in more issues for me. Any tips or advice is appreciated
Martial arts should be a given if you wanna have confidence that if you did get into an altercation your good. However if your a man the single best thing you can do is lift and build a physique that makes you intimidating to avoid any trouble in the first place and give you confidence. No trained fighter is gonna pick a fight with anyone and untrained people wont pick a fight with someone they dont think they can beat. Your 20x more likely to get into a fight being under 160 lbs
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I recently was walking in a dark side street, about a block away from a main street, and a homeless guy started walking about a foot behind me and started calling me slurs and then at one point saying "what do you think I'm going to kill you?". I was unarmed, but started walking more quickly (maybe I should've ran?) and ignoring him. Luckily once I got into the main street with other people the guy eventually backed off, although he was still following me for like another block even on the main street, so this guy definitely was crazy or on drugs or drunk.
I'm a guy, taller and also more muscular than the homeless guy, so I could probably take him on in a fist fight. But I didn't want to strike him since I didn't know if he had a weapon of any kind.
I was thinking of either 1) telling him to back the fuck off in a threatening voice, 2) running into the main street, 3) turning around and either punch or shove him.
The other scenario running through my mind was, what if the guy made physical contact with me first in anyway, such as shoving me or grabbing me from the back, do I at that point turn around and punch him? I feel like if he initiates physical contact, then I have no choice at that point but to fight back physically.
I want to do martial arts once a week but I’ve heard if it’s done twice a week it’s the only way to grasp the techniques from class to class. Is this true? I’m just learning practical martial arts so I don’t care about belt levels. Thank you for your advice!
i tried looking online but the only thing i find is where the attacker has a knive, so this is pretty much my last try.
its pretty muhc if i can defent myself with a knive against a person whos bigger and much stronger then me with a knive, then i have nothing els to defent myself, and i know that i would die in a fight.
I just moved to a new house and its going to be a couple of weeks before I can go get a gun.
What would be the best garage tools to keep by my bed incase somebody breaks in and tried tk beat me up before then?
I have
hammer
hatchet
shovel
small shovel with T handle
24inch rebar with a dull cone shaped point on one end.
Weedeater
Leafblower
Chainsaw
Various crowbars
Throwing rocks
Rope with a weight to swing
2x4 with nails
Blowtorch
Pepperspray.
Context - I’ve (25M) had two labrum surgeries on my left shoulder (pitcher in college). At this point it’s relatively fragile and prone to tendonitis/more tears. That said I’m an active person trying to find a way to become less useless when walking downtown with my girlfriend at night time.
Im not anti gun/pepper spray , but again id like an alternative to make it harder for someone to be a threat.
My question would there be any martial art options i could learn that i could get by without relying/using my left arm? Are gyms willing to teach someone with that kind of restriction?
Let me know! Thank you
My daughter is a college sophomore who drives to class in a typical safe college town. I guess she and her friends are freaking themselves out because she wants to keep some sort of self defense tools in her car. She forwarded me some links to some cheap ($50-ish) stun guns on Amazon and I'm skeptical of their utility. I'm thinking maybe just a pepper spray mounted to the dash or something might be more useful?
Comments? What is the most recommended self defense tool for women to keep in their cars?
You are being tailgated by an aggressive driver. They have the opportunity to pass you, but they don't, they just keep following you. What do you do?
Never been in a fight before, im not looking for a fight but im in a position where I feel like i need to learn to defend myself. Im 5'3 female, not particularly strong, is there anything you guys can tell me that'll help me hold my own in a situation where id need to defend myself?
Nothing dangerous or hard to learn please, ive never taken a class, never even thrown a real punch. Just like if you guys could point me to a YouTube channel or something where I can learn something or give me some tips thatd be great, thank you <3
Hey. Can i win a guy in a street fight who is bigger than me, but shorter? I am 6'3 and around 125lbs, he is like 5'9 and around 155lbs or so. What should i do in the fight preferably? Im just preparing for a possible self defence scenario.
I can't really afford to take a self defense class right now, but I just got out of an ab*sive relationship and I want to learn some self defense because I feel really unsafe sometimes now due to my PTSD from it. I am willing to self-study until I can take a class, but I have seen the really bad self defense videos online before where they advise you to do insane things that definitely wouldn't work. I want to make sure that I would be watching legit videos that can teach some self defense techniques, so I figured I would ask about that here.
I am plus sized too, so I worry about situations where I could get attacked and wouldn't be able to run away because I will probably be slower than most attackers :/. Lastly, I worry that since my CPTSD is really bad, that I would try very extreme things that could escalate a confrontation. Basically, I worry that I would overcompensate for my lack of training by doing something crazy that would make an attacker escalate.
Side note: I am in therapy, so don't worry about the CPTSD, I am working through it and have great support. I just think that learning some self defense techniques would help me feel more secure and even empowered.
Edit: Just to clarify, I mean unarmed self defense.
After years of thinking about it, I finally signed up for martial arts/self-defense classes. The gym I joined seems great—they offer self-defense, kickboxing, boxing, and other styles.
Since I wasn’t sure which path to commit to, I told them I just wanted to start with self-defense. I’ve been training for about 2 weeks now (around 6 classes total).
Recently, I stepped into the ring for some light boxing. The format was simple: one round defense, one round offense, for about 8 rounds. Honestly, I felt like a punching bag. My partner wasn’t going hard on me at all—he slowed down, gave me constant feedback, and even explained what I was doing wrong.
But here’s the thing: even when I knew what I was supposed to do, my brain just froze when the punches came at me. I couldn’t dodge in time, even though he said he was going at 50%. It felt like my reactions just didn’t exist.
I’m 36 years old and really just want to learn how to defend myself. I’ve dabbled in martial arts before (a couple months here and there, maybe 3 different times, last attempt was 6 years ago). This is the first time I’m sticking with it consistently. I also haven’t worked out in years, so I know it’ll take time.
My question is for anyone who’s been through this stage:
Did you also feel like your reflexes were nonexistent at the beginning?
How long did it take before things “clicked” and you could actually react?
What helped you make progress?
I’m not discouraged—I’m actually enjoying it and finally have the time and money to do it. But I’d really love to hear other people’s experiences.
Hi, After years of thinking about it, I finally signed up for martial arts/self-defense classes. The gym I joined seems great—they offer self-defense, kickboxing, boxing, and other styles.
Since I wasn’t sure which path to commit to, I told them I just wanted to start with self-defense. I’ve been training for about 2 weeks now (around 6 classes total).
Recently, I stepped into the ring for some light boxing. The format was simple: one round defense, one round offense, for about 8 rounds. Honestly, I felt like a punching bag. My partner wasn’t going hard on me at all—he slowed down, gave me constant feedback, and even explained what I was doing wrong.
But here’s the thing: even when I knew what I was supposed to do, my brain just froze when the punches came at me. I couldn’t dodge in time, even though he said he was going at 50%. It felt like my reactions just didn’t exist.
I’m 36 years old and really just want to learn how to defend myself. I’ve dabbled in martial arts before (a couple months here and there, maybe 3 different times, last attempt was 6 years ago). This is the first time I’m sticking with it consistently. I also haven’t worked out in years, so I know it’ll take time.
My question is for anyone who’s been through this stage:
Did you also feel like your reflexes were nonexistent at the beginning?
How long did it take before things “clicked” and you could actually react?
What helped you make progress?
I’m not discouraged—I’m actually enjoying it and finally have the time and money to do it. But I’d really love to hear other people’s experiences.
I'd like to get a Grimburg Gavle for security where I work. can't use any kind of spray because it could hurt animals at the location (and ruin a lot of product). not being able to keep the grimsburg loaded is a concern. does anyone know if it would be possible to have the co2 canister 'loosely' in the gun, ready to 'pop' quickly so it can be used almost immediately? seems as though they have an edge over the pistelles. is there another way to keep the grimsburgs almost 'ready to go?' or is there a non-lethal gun that's better than the grimsburg or the pistelle, one that I somehow missed in my searches? for work it would have to be a pistol or something similarly small that can fit in a desk drawer, it can't be a rifle. thanks for any advice sent my way!