”Defense” or ”security” have no meaning without reference to a threat vector.
Defense against bears, snakes, mafia hitmen, muggers, home invaders, terrorists, and hooligans will all have different needs and therefore different ”best” tools.
High strength pepper spray will do the job against all of those. Unless you’re being stalked by some kind of mind controlled Lachesis Muta or something
Tear gas spray. Not pepper, but tear gas. It kicks the ever loving shit out of pepper spray. Get someone in the body or face and they will be screaming, crying, on the ground, in a puddle of tears and phlegm that will make them gag and cough so hard that they might die, literally.
On a purely mechanical level, if you were to be living in some kind of legal vacuum without consequence, a good knife. A Gerber Mk 2, or a decent combat folder like one of the Spydercos.
In a country where you will be punished for not wanting to die, a 1000+ lumen flashlight, peppergas fogger, extendable baton, one of the ones the police use that won't crush like a car antenna when you use it.
In a shitty nannystate like Australia or Britain, you're pretty much fricked. Defending yourself with any weapon, improvised or not, will put you in jail and the police will ask your mugger if he wants to press charges, and the courts will provide him with a lawyer.
The best you can to in that case is buy a heavy bag and train, if you can't find a decent martial arts or boxing place, and hope the mugger or rapist's lawyer doesn't use the KARATE KILLER defence, and paint you as some kind of vigilante living weapon, crippling and torturing poor hard working burglars just trying to steal a loaf of bread to feed their staving babies.
Not with sufficient training.
There are an infinity of martial arts and CQC styles that teach the knife, but there's also a huge amount of utter shit.
Generally anyone teaching Filipino Martial Arts who is actually Filipino is going to know their shit.
There are some decent books and videos I could link, but I won't.
learn to fight
jujutsu/judo/wrestling to grapple
boxing/karate/savate/muay thai to strike
Judo and boxing are enough. That'll beat everything else out there if you become competent at both.
A good strong walking stick is an idea, with a little kendo or escrima training you can really ruin a guy's whole day.
Not with sufficient training.
There are an infinity of martial arts and CQC styles that teach the knife, but there's also a huge amount of utter shit.
Generally anyone teaching Filipino Martial Arts who is actually Filipino is going to know their shit.
There are some decent books and videos I could link, but I won't.
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Judo and boxing are enough. That'll beat everything else out there if you become competent at both.
A good strong walking stick is an idea, with a little kendo or escrima training you can really ruin a guy's whole day.
If you know how to fight, motorcycle gloves with hardened knuckles can do some serious damage. Used to do Karate and muay thai, now just MMA. always keep a pair of these bad boys in my glove box "to keep my hands warm from the cold steering wheel".
The one that ruled supreme until fire arms. $200-300 can get you a decent sword, although you'll have to hone it a bit out of the box for full effect.
For example, the Hanwei production swords are cheap, but you can still hack through a 2 x 4 and then some against the grain, or a good deal more with the grain, more if you're putting your all into it and sharpen the thing well.
Yup, modern steel and production technology should give you the ability to hew the limbs off of unarmoured knaves or cleave them near in twain when you smite them with the edge of the sword, regardless of the varies styles ye choose.
You will have to explain why you are carrying a 5 foot long great sword though, I suppose.
I used pocket sand I found on the ground once in a schoolyard fight with a much bigger kid. Can confirm that it is effective.
Black person cried and couldn't even identify me to the teacher who came over to help him.
Wasp spray, extreme chemical irritant, available almost everywhere, common household item, sprays a stream u 10-20ft, can be turned from less lethal to lethal with a cigarette lighter.
For training: Muay thai + grappling of some kind
For your vehicle: glass breaking pen, heavy flashlight
For your home: baseball bat, heavy stones. There was a video of varg on his yt channel where he was explaining how you can just throw a fricking rock at someone and he was blasting through plywood
Bat with a sock on it. A decoy wallet. Not stopping your car when someone who is obviously a carjacker approaches. A gun is going to be your best defense against someone that actually wants to hurt you instead of just trying to take your stuff.
>a decoy wallet
I have been thinking about constructing a fake wallet with a black powder charge set to detonate when a thief opens it. Of course it is illegal as frick and carries a more severe risk of blowing my thigh off, but I find the idea intriguing from a purely misanthropisthic point of view.
nunchucks
Pepper gas spray
Umbrella
A spear point, double edged boot knife.
Firearm
”Defense” or ”security” have no meaning without reference to a threat vector.
Defense against bears, snakes, mafia hitmen, muggers, home invaders, terrorists, and hooligans will all have different needs and therefore different ”best” tools.
people
Time, environment, laws, limiting factors (weight, size, training, etc.)…
your mom
High strength pepper spray will do the job against all of those. Unless you’re being stalked by some kind of mind controlled Lachesis Muta or something
>threat vector
We don't live in a Tom Clancy novel larper.
claymore
Gaijin Wrangru Five Tao-sand!
ya muddah's nasty ASS
Tear gas spray. Not pepper, but tear gas. It kicks the ever loving shit out of pepper spray. Get someone in the body or face and they will be screaming, crying, on the ground, in a puddle of tears and phlegm that will make them gag and cough so hard that they might die, literally.
On a purely mechanical level, if you were to be living in some kind of legal vacuum without consequence, a good knife. A Gerber Mk 2, or a decent combat folder like one of the Spydercos.
In a country where you will be punished for not wanting to die, a 1000+ lumen flashlight, peppergas fogger, extendable baton, one of the ones the police use that won't crush like a car antenna when you use it.
In a shitty nannystate like Australia or Britain, you're pretty much fricked. Defending yourself with any weapon, improvised or not, will put you in jail and the police will ask your mugger if he wants to press charges, and the courts will provide him with a lawyer.
The best you can to in that case is buy a heavy bag and train, if you can't find a decent martial arts or boxing place, and hope the mugger or rapist's lawyer doesn't use the KARATE KILLER defence, and paint you as some kind of vigilante living weapon, crippling and torturing poor hard working burglars just trying to steal a loaf of bread to feed their staving babies.
on a purely mechanical level defending yourself with a knife is how you get stabbed with your own knife (by yourself, not by the other guy)
Not with sufficient training.
There are an infinity of martial arts and CQC styles that teach the knife, but there's also a huge amount of utter shit.
Generally anyone teaching Filipino Martial Arts who is actually Filipino is going to know their shit.
There are some decent books and videos I could link, but I won't.
Judo and boxing are enough. That'll beat everything else out there if you become competent at both.
A good strong walking stick is an idea, with a little kendo or escrima training you can really ruin a guy's whole day.
I already knew everything you wrote but it still blackpilled me nonetheless
learn to fight
jujutsu/judo/wrestling to grapple
boxing/karate/savate/muay thai to strike
If you know how to fight, motorcycle gloves with hardened knuckles can do some serious damage. Used to do Karate and muay thai, now just MMA. always keep a pair of these bad boys in my glove box "to keep my hands warm from the cold steering wheel".
What about when I get old and I'm no longer physically fit enough to fight?
a bomb
The one that ruled supreme until fire arms. $200-300 can get you a decent sword, although you'll have to hone it a bit out of the box for full effect.
For example, the Hanwei production swords are cheap, but you can still hack through a 2 x 4 and then some against the grain, or a good deal more with the grain, more if you're putting your all into it and sharpen the thing well.
Yup, modern steel and production technology should give you the ability to hew the limbs off of unarmoured knaves or cleave them near in twain when you smite them with the edge of the sword, regardless of the varies styles ye choose.
You will have to explain why you are carrying a 5 foot long great sword though, I suppose.
A powerful taser.
Improvised artillery. No one starts shit if they know you can start selling their neighborhood.
thats a good idea actually
>you can start selling their neighborhood.
Frick you and frick gentrification boomer
test tube filled with cum
stick
Pocket Sand
Sha-sha
I used pocket sand I found on the ground once in a schoolyard fight with a much bigger kid. Can confirm that it is effective.
Black person cried and couldn't even identify me to the teacher who came over to help him.
Tossing explosives
As long as it works.
You call tossing sticks of dynamite a martial art?
picrel or muh dick
Wasp spray, extreme chemical irritant, available almost everywhere, common household item, sprays a stream u 10-20ft, can be turned from less lethal to lethal with a cigarette lighter.
>can be turned from less lethal to lethal with a cigarette lighter.
This is some video game shit my homie
I actually just saw a news story where a woman chased off three armed home invaders by setting one on fire with a can of Raid.
I mean, it worked for Solid Snake AND James Bond, and in Critters.
there are none, anything short of a gun is worse than no weapon whatsoever. knives are actually worse than nothing statistically.
That chart doesn't include nuclear weapons for some reason.
Pipe bomb
Trunk monkey with firearm
under a bureaucratic technicality, black powder guns
t. Pirate
Fire legs
For training: Muay thai + grappling of some kind
For your vehicle: glass breaking pen, heavy flashlight
For your home: baseball bat, heavy stones. There was a video of varg on his yt channel where he was explaining how you can just throw a fricking rock at someone and he was blasting through plywood
Best self defense against rape is swallowing or anal insertion of razor blades
Firearm
I’m pretty good with a Bo staff
Bad breath
Bat with a sock on it. A decoy wallet. Not stopping your car when someone who is obviously a carjacker approaches. A gun is going to be your best defense against someone that actually wants to hurt you instead of just trying to take your stuff.
>a decoy wallet
I have been thinking about constructing a fake wallet with a black powder charge set to detonate when a thief opens it. Of course it is illegal as frick and carries a more severe risk of blowing my thigh off, but I find the idea intriguing from a purely misanthropisthic point of view.
A really bright flashlight.
500m sprint