But what happens when you’re not the one with the self defense weapon?

What happens when your opponent has, say, a club, a bat, or a tire iron, and he holds his “self defense” weapon in both hands to push you off as if he were some sort of riot cop?

At best, you may take a few inconsequential blows, but the club in front of your opponent serves like the bumper of a car, moving you back without hurting him.

It also forms a barrier through which you can’t fight, and that’s why he’s using it.

If you’re not careful, you could take a brutal blow to the face from the length of the club.

There IS something you can do, however…

You Can Pull A Weapons Reversal!

With a self defense weapon reversal, the odds turn in your favor because the weapon is in YOUR hands. Follow these steps:

Self Defense Weapon Reversal, Step One:

As he comes forward with the club held before him, go over or under with one of your arms, diving down between his body and the club.

Self Defense Weapon Reversal, Step Two:

Swing your arm up in a circular motion in front of your body (so if you use your right arm, it would circle in a clockwise direction) and come under his arm anywhere between his wrist and elbow to get the right leverage.

Self Defense Weapon Reversal, Step Three:

As you continue this motion, the leverage will be so great that he HAS to let go.

At this point, you can strip that bat right out of his hands.

Once you do, not only is he off balance, but you will notice that the club should actually end up smack in your own hand!

You might have been tempted to think that a self-defense weapon held before the body isn’t much of a threat, but as we’ve just seen, it certainly can be.

An impact weapon does not have to be swung in order to hurt you.

Self-defense for your opponent is assault for you, because he wants to go home unhurt just like you do.

The difference is that he doesn’t mind hurting you to get what he wants.

A self-defense weapon is a force multiplier… but you want to make sure YOU are the one doing the multiplying.

Poor guy didn’t have a chance.

His friends couldn’t even help him because the gangbangers kept them away in “riot police style” with baseball bats.

Too bad they didn’t know this…

How To Disarm A Baseball Bat

Which threat do you feel is the most dangerous in a real street fight?

• Knife attack?
• Handgun?
• Baseball bat?
• Multiple attackers?

Well, there’s not a one of them that I’d like to face on a Friday night out with my family, but the “trick answer” is…

…The Attack You Don’t See!

When your brain is locked into “ultra-adrenaline” mode, one of the primary limitations you’ll experience is tunnel-vision where your senses don’t pick up on cues outside of the immediate threat you’re dealing with.  Primarily I’m talking about the “pre-fight” stage where you have someone “woofing” on your or threatening you in some way.

Your brain is trying to deal with…

• “Is he going to hit me?”
• “Should I hit him?”
• “What’s he going to do?”
• “Are other people watching me?”
• “Is my wife/kid/companion safe?”

And in this stage of bewilderment and guesswork, you’re not able to see any of that signs of attack that may already be headed your way.

• The unseen hand in the coat pocket that’s feeling for a trigger.
• The unseen clenched fist that’s gearing up for a haymaker.
• The unseen thugs coming up behind you to increase your attacker’s odds.
• The unseen tire iron that was just pulled out of the trunk of the car to the side of you.
• The unseen razor blade hidden in the palm of a hand.

But How Can Your Prepare For An Attack You Can’t See?

It’s not easy. The brain isn’t easily re-programmed after eons of biological programming.

However, here’s a “self defense training exercise” to help you prepare for the “unseen” street attack…

A couple times a day, when you’re out in public and talking to someone (like a store clerk, postal worker, co-worker, etc.), make a mental note of just these 3 things:

1. The number of rings on both their hands
2. The activity that the person to their immediate left and right is doing
3. Any activity happening immediately behind you.

It only takes a few seconds to accomplish all of these tasks and if you do it right, using your peripheral vision and conscious listening, the person you’re talking to won’t even know you’re paying attention to anything other than him or her.

Doing this exercise just a couple times a day will train you to be more aware in one-on-one contact of taking notice of what’s in someone’s hands and the activity in a 360 degree circle around you.

As a practiced skill, this is a truly powerful self defense technique because it helps you make a faster, more effective strike decision while hopefully lessening your chances of being surprised by an unseen attack.