I was present at a discussion when someone asked an expert/instructor in martial arts what type of attitude one should project if one should find themselves in a less than savory neighborhood. He had the preconceived notion that he should come off, as a highly trained individual puffing out his chest, so nobody would mess with him. The instructor told him, that he himself when in a potentially dangerous situation, both starts talking to himself and answering himself in a loud voice projecting the image he is missing a few marbles. He said this tended to disarm people more, who would often go out of their way to avoid him, even the ones who might seek him harm. Pete

A favorite civil weapon of mine is a bike chain (thick aircraft cable) with a padlock attached to one side. The thing is legal everrywhere and can be used with lethal effect. The aircraft cable coils itself tight by itself and if you use a good lock you can't dammage the lock.
You can get them on airplanes too.

If it is legal in your country they've come out with an improved tazer. It fires a "rubideium"(SP!) laser at the person and the electricty follows the laser's path to the target (they were tested in Tokyo where they guided lightning strikes along them). The electricity is freq modulated to boot making it about 10x more powerful then a standard tazer. The Prototype had a range of about 4ft (which is still out of most close combat range). Unlike the air taser it doesn't use barbs to fire into the person (making it a one shot deal). There is also a lesser version that was just released that sprays a conductive spray at they target (but the spray runs out). The new version can taser multiple people for something like 30 minutes straight due to the freq mod that uses far less current. Nasty crowd control applications because it only takes 1 second to put someone out for 15-20 minutes unlike the taser that take about 10 seconds to do the same thing.

Isn't the future grand?

-NIM

links please?

http://www.selfdefenseforums.com/forums/ http://www.donrearic.com http://alliancemartialarts.com/tactical.html this should be of help.

Sorry, evidently neither the spray nor laser channeled tasers are currently available to the general public. The only article I could find on either in the public domain was

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_783659.html?menu=

and

http://www.jaycor.com/eme/watcan.htm


The only site I found on the laser channeled taser was

http://www.hsvt.org/Defensenews.html

The prototype looked very much like a phaser from Star Trek (the beam). Trekkies everywhere will want their own. Brings out the kid in me.


-NIM