Have you got the Bottle for a Fight?

            This is an interesting device. One part of me wants to point out that for emergency self defence use a standard bottle cap will be more than adequate. The “sip-nipple” type caps will concentrate the force on a smaller area.

 

            On the other hand, this product does raise  the user’s awareness that a bottle in hand can be used for defensive purposes against an aggressor. There is also a nagging part of my mind that insists this thing might be adaptable to applications other than just on bottles.

            I see quite a few joggers carrying bottles such as these.

 

            The hand grip and the fact that they tend to be carried in hand rather than worn on a belt gives them good defensive potential and I wonder how many joggers are aware of this fact.

            Even without a fancy cap and design a bottle of water can be a good weapon. Water is incompressible and has weight. A filled half litre bottle will add an extra pound to your strike, which can be concentrated into the small hard area of the cap using the Kongo techniques in my book. The surface of the bottle can fend off a knife edge. It may damage the bottle but may buy you enough time to escape. A bottle can also be used as a missile to distract a foe long enough to counter attack or escape.

Kama twirling

            Distant decades ago, eager for knowledge of martial arts I brought a set of four books in a deal by a mail order company. Three of them on Chin-na and Shuriken I still have on my shelf. The forth was called “Kusari-gama” and was not as expected.

           Rather than being about the weight and chain weapon familiar to me it was about twirling Kama by means of a butt-loop, rebounding it from the shoulders, ribs and thighs. I couldn't see how you ensured the blades arrrived point first, but did think it might have been an interesting thing to try with a nightstick. The book now goes for a hefty amount of money, and if I recall it was one of those publications rich on photos but thin on information.
           Here is a video I found of some of these techniques.

Fight against Junk!

            Changing my homepage from what I wanted it to be is not going to make me try your product. Quite the opposite.

            Trying to installing Google Chrome and Toolbar when I update something else will not encourage me to use it.

            I never buy anything from an unsolicited email. I do not buy anything from cold callers on principle. I encourage everyone reading to do the same and perhaps this whole obnoxious industry will wither and die.

            Sending me junk mail will not achieve anything positive. You are just wasting trees. Sending me a pension plan for the over-50s when I was only 43 ensures that I will never, ever deal with that company (Sun Life), ever! Junk mail with prepaid envelopes does offer some amusement. If you send them back the company has to pay, I believe. Stuff your prepaid envelope with any other junk mail you got. I am sure the man trying to sell you overpriced aluminium windows needs a pension plan.

Get in the Car

I’m trying to keep up the tradition of posting something a little more light-hearted and irrelevant on a Friday.

 

“Get in the Car!”

“I won’t fit in the car….”