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self-defense weapon on the street or home, we're gonna give you the number one option that you should do if you're trying to protect yourself
Man or woman and
This is something that
when my daughter went to college I
Investigated cuz I wanted the best thing that she could have and this is it so we're gonna get into it
But we're gonna talk about how this works, yeah, we're gonna get into the different options
You know cuz there are other options besides the one we're gonna show today
But we're gonna tell you why
We still think this is the best one
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Alright so first Brad
Why don't you give your background?
So we these people know that you're qualified to talk about this subject. Right as you know we are physical therapists
We have had this channel for years
But on occasion a topic like this comes up in the news or something where I've had
17 years studying the martial arts and when I got to my second degree
test, he's a second degree black belt, I emphasized my studies into self-defense, and I actually
organized and taught
professionals
Classes for people, typically women actually it was all women and I did groups and I did free ones as well
But for a number of years, I did that so in order to be effective
I studied on this topic from the professionals from actually I got a lot of information from police officers
One from Milwaukee where I got a lot of information from, which I'm going into in the next video and one from
Chicago where they really get into a lot of this
Oh, it's a big issue, right so I feel confident with this information
I do want to mention your book too Brad, now this has nothing to do with self-defense. This is just more for stretching and preparing
Staying injury-free. Well just read the title it's exactly what it is
"Martial Arts Manual for Stretching, Strengthening, and Treatment of Common Injuries" so it's training, how to be a good marshal artist
It's great for instructors. Yeah, it's down below
Go ahead and get it if you're into that field so okay, so what is the best self-defense?
I'm gonna have to ask you Brad cuz I have no idea
Well the first thing you know people'll say to take some martial arts, you know learn to defend yourself learn how to punch kick
What are the like the most vulnerable sites - you're gonna strike?
Well, those are all good things, but I can tell you from 17 years
you're not going to learn it in a 10 minute video, it will take years of a lot of practice repetition repetition and then
anybody, they'll tell you if you get in a conflict, chances are you're going to get hurt
Yeah, so you want to avoid the conflict, so hand to hand especially if you're a smaller person or maybe a little more elderly
There's so many factors, so the next thing other people are saying I'll get a nine-millimeter pistol well
You know that's true. It's gonna be a good self-defense tool
You know and in a lot of states in the United States
They are legal you can conceal carry etc, but you really know how to handle them,
You just don't learn how to use it and shoot it at the range once and learn, you have to go
repeatedly at least once a month and feel very comfortable
With that, well there are so many issues. I mean are you even comfortable in shooting somebody
Do you want a gun around your house with children, I mean, the list goes on and on.
So that one's probably not the best, the next one is mace or pepper spray
And I'm thinking you know that's not a bad idea
And that's what I had gotten for my daughters, some pepper spray
The problem that could be with that is number one you have to be accurate with it
And there's a certain distance that it's no longer accurate, if it's dark
It's kind of hard to see where you're spraying
So that brings us on to what what I got for my daughter after studying this and that is
A simple tool like a flashlight, but it's not just any flashlight. You need to get a tactical they're called a tactical flashlight
In the military is where these originally started as my understanding, and they're very bright
You need to have a lanyard on it, so if you drop it. You don't lose it
That's gonna go on your wrist, got to be a good lanyard.
Well, actually the name of this one is Brad, I'm gonna
They have a whole bunch of them, there's a lot of them. This is the M1X Striker
and we'll put a link down below so you can see it
I don't remember how much it was to be honest with you. Yeah. Yeah, I think they're between 50 and 70 dollars depending on where you get it
It's not a cheap buy, but they're well-built, they're sealed, they got o ring seals, if you're in the water
They're gonna hold up well to that
atmosphere and they're all aluminum. They're built well that will just
The button is on the back here
You okay, Lonnie?
Yeah
I think I've got this set on the brightest setting, now these the distance you can be quite a ways away
and if you get it in their eyes
They're gonna see white lights now with this what I did is I took a pair of sunglasses
And I shined it up against the wall, and I looked at it
And it was too bright
Okay, and just today
I took my sunglasses on and I very quickly went on and off with it into my eyes
It doesn't hurt painful, but it hurts your eyes
And I kept seeing these white lights a couple minutes afterwards, so the idea is someone's coming up upon you
And you flash them and probably stay flashing and
he's gonna be blinded or she's gonna be blinded.
You know if you cannot see, you're in a pretty good position to get out of there, okay, I wonder if it would blind a dog?
No, seriously. If a dog was coming at you
Maybe it's a stupid thing to say, no it's not, but the one thing that's really critical
First of all you have to know how to use it. It's got different settings
And you want to set it so it's at the brightest
So you have to be comfortable with it, and I'm gonna talk about how to hold it, and how to turn it on and whatnot
But you need to be confident with it and confident in yourself
Sure, so you know and I'm talking to people if you're raising children
They're at that age where you want them to know how to defend themselves, you have to teach them
That nobody has the right to touch them
Which, everyone doesn't know that, particularly people in power, you know a teacher,
You know a politician, a priest. Yeah, you have to know that nobody has the right to touch you and you have the right, under any circumstance
You have the right to stop it
with as much force is necessary to stop it. Okay. That's really critical to teach that to your children
I think the other thing Brad which we mentioned in another video about not getting groped is about
posture and that if you're walking along like you know like this mozzie wowsy the world hates me
That's what I I saw. I was reading one article where a criminal was saying
We call that the Vic walk, victim walk and we know that's someone we're gonna target, right easy prey
You want to have confidence and walk
Like you know where you're going, you have to have you have your head up, be aware
You're not just looking at one spot or looking at the tall buildings if you're in the big city
But you're looking around, you're aware of your surroundings
and you look like you know where you're going and you do, because you don't want to look like a tourist which is also somebody's
that's gonna be a victim, the other thing about confidence with your children
This is one of the things I did with my daughter. Lonnie you got to focus on this, this is kind of cool
I got her for this for Christmas, which wasn't a big deal for Christmas present in her mind
But can you can see a little kitty looking into the mirror and in the mirror
There's actually a tiger, so what does it say? What matters most is how you see yourself
So every day, this is right at her mirror where she combed her hair, it was there for
Seven years so every day she looked at this whether or not she knew she was reading it or not
You know if you look at the psychology
Hopefully that's a little message, and I think when she played basketball on defense
She was pretty aggressive, so I don't know if that was coming out
but in a self defense situation
This has to instinctively come in, that you're confident yourself. You know if you got a fly shot
You can put it in someone's eyes and take care of business
Brad the other point, are you gonna point out these sharp edges?
Yeah, exactly, there's more to the light than just a light right, so now
We're gonna get into you have confidence. You have to know how to use it
Walking like you know where you're going, posture
How you present yourself, being aware and
then with this you have it like this now my daughter when she has hers she has it in her backpack and
She keeps it in her bag when she's with the group. If she's by herself she pulls it out
She puts it on her wrist, and then you hold it like this
You don't want to advertise that you've got a tactical flashlight, you hold it like this
It's out of the way. It's ready to be used. There is a thumb button here, okay, and now this one
I don't want to go through the details because each light's a little bit different but on
this one
I push it on once and it's on the brightest setting, if you want to use it to change a tire, you got a flat tire
you don't want it that bright. They're gonna blind your eyes
You can push it once, there's a button on the side
that'll change, that's not too bad as a lighting in there and I can
go brighter and brighter, and then it go back down, and it has a strobe too, right yep, and that's a nice thing about this is
it's got a strobe, you're gonna blind Lonnie here!
But that's a half a click so you have to get comfortable with how to use your light, so you could practice with it
The next thing is you have the lanyard on, it's in this position. Where do you keep your hands when you're walking with it?
Here. You don't keep it down here because if someone's out in front of you
You got to go from here to here. It's a lot of times. If you come up on somebody
I mean you can walk like this until you come up on somebody, right or if you're concerned, if you're an area
you gotta use your
sixth sense, if something doesn't seem right about that person or the area you're in this position you want to be able to protect yourself
you want to have the light ready to go on and point
The other thing is if someone strikes you, you can protect your head,
Okay, the other thing is if you look at and I gotta go close with this Lonnie
This makes this a tactical flashlight. There is edges on the front of this.
You're probably too close Brad
Good, okay, so you see these edges? Okay? There's five of them
They're not razor sharp, but they're adequate and they're very strong
The hand is like this you're ready to turn it on and it gives you a good position to strike
And you're gonna strike to a boney surface
particularly the face around the eyes or to the eyes
You don't mess around and think oh I'm gonna strike someone
In the chest or the arm in a muscular area cause it's not gonna hurt
It's not gonna do anything it must strike to the eyes or to the that's all boney around here
And that is gonna really cause some blood flow to come out, which is gonna get into the person's eyes
Gives you a chance to get away between being blinded and painful
When I taught my classes
I enforced, this is an imminent danger you are in danger
You have the right to protect yourself and all these tactics sound really nasty
But that's what it takes, and you don't mess around. What I like about it Brad
Is let's say someone's come upon you and you make somewhat of a mistake
He really wasn't even attacking you just flash them. I mean it's not like you maced them, right
You know what I mean?
sure
Exactly, so it's kind of a nice option in that regard that it doesn't, the other thing I do want to mention in
the event that there is a problem and
someone's there
You're flashing them, and you're running, you're not being quiet
You have to use your self-defense of being vocal
People can hear if you're in a room or you're in a quiet area in an alley or whatever it could be
There are people that can hear you in windows and whatnot and you're gonna
Yell very loud and the word you're going to use to get people's attention is I can't say it here loud because we've got
In this facility, is fire, when people hear the word fire
They want to find out what's going on, if they just hear you're screaming or screaming help
They don't know if they want to get involved, some people are not gonna want to get involved because
they don't want to get hurt. They don't want to get involved
You know that type of thing, but when they hear fire, they're like is that gonna affect me?
So I'm gonna look out and then the more people that come out obviously the more the criminal is not gonna wanna be, and the criminal
realizes that too and they don't want crowds, right exactly, they want to have
their way with the situation, in the way they want it
They wanna be alone, exactly so use the light, use your voice, and use the tactics we just talked about. Now
we've got another video coming up in about a week or so and that's gonna tell you how to get in a parking lot or
If you're in a house how there's a real simple technique to keep yourself safe, this helps as well
And I call it the friendly wall technique, so learn about that coming up, nice very good. Thanks Brad
This is a very valuable video. Great, thank you, be safe.
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