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Gene,

It probably wasn’t her TKD she used, as the description of the fight is that she “started throwing punches.” More likely she was using her boxing or karate training. Older-style (ITF?) TKD...

Indeed. Although it would have been much wiser for him to have given up the phone, it's still quite possible they would have attacked him anyway, just for kicks. He was fortunate, that's for sure. ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRTsabfMTgs&sns=em

IMO this man should be getting more publicity than the scum who carried out the attacks. I haven't heard him mentioned on any of the major news networks.

One or two of the London attackers were...

On a different forum, there are many posters who claim that knives are 'poor weapons because it's easy to take a knife away from someone'. Wrong. Even here, where the Jujutsu(?) guy is clearly the...

Last December, while out on an early morning walk, I tripped on a bump in the street. It caught both of my feet at the same time, and I fell forward fast. I instinctively used a Judo front fall and...

One of my former CLF students told me his adult daughter was assaulted at the beach one evening by an aggressive young homeless man. He grabbed her and pushed her down onto the sand. She was in her...

I wonder if her 'Japanese samurai sword" was actually a Taiji practice jian/gim.

Unfortunately, you're 100% right.

These laws that make defending yourself such a legal hassle are created by lawmakers/moralistic geeks who can afford paid security, and who have never been in...

I have read that UK laws regarding self-defense are especially strict. That was obviously inculcated so deeply into the defender to such a degree that he could have been killed for being so...

That is awesome. Taught the idiot a lesson.

However, I do feel that, rather than just going back into the club, that leaving probably would have been the better option for the women. Not because...

I also guess its general shape would be similar to one of the ends of a 'monk's spade', the end with the half-moon-shaped blade, except of course it wouldn't be a blade.

It sounds like a good...

Back in the '90s, the local paper reported a small story about a woman who successfully defended herself from a burglar in her house. I don't remember all the details, but the gist of the story was,...

Sadly, today a body was found during a search for missing 17-year-old Poway High School student Chelsea King. She disappeared Feb. 25th while jogging in Rancho Bernardo Community Park. John Albert...

I'm reciting this from memory, so forgive my lack of details. But this was a fairly big local story in 2009.

Last year, there was a series of home invasions in the San Diego area in which a...