New Paperback format published by New Breed Aug 2006

The objective of this instructional program is to educate the student of Modern day Combatives and to bring to light just some of the ways that an improvised weapon can be employed for Combative use in the extreme circumstances of Self-Preservation; when no other non-physical alternative exists. This work is a combined effort by CQB instructors Lee Morrison & John Deacon in association with each instructor's respective Company; namely I.M.P.A.C.T and Urban Combatives. Contents • Foreword • Introduction • The Combative use of Improvised Weapons • Key Module; • Key sequence • Bunched keys attack • The watch strike • Watch sequence one • Watch sequence two • Using the pen & mobile phone • Attack sequence one: (Mobile phone) • Attack sequence two: (Mobile phone) • Pen & access methods • The appendix draw • The Pikal draw • Biro pen and carry draw • Access & deployment drills • Confined access & deployment • The use of the umbrella & similar shaped items • Use of the environment • Artifice & the deployment of concealed weapons • The tie dagger deception • Ed Sullivan deception one • Ed Sullivan deception two • Flashlight Module • Flash to bash method • Flashlight sequence one: (Sleeve concealment) • Flashlight sequence two: (Belt loop carry) • Flashlight sequence three: (Pocket carry) • Boiling liquid attack • Chin-jab with cup one • Chin-jab with cup two • The use of the beer bottle • The Improvised Billy Jack cosh • Miscellaneous make-shift weapons • Around the home • In the kitchen • In the car • Summary • Home work • Visualisation/physical drill • Further training advice • About the authors An introduction to improvised weapons Under current UK and European law it is a criminal offence to carry a weapon of any description for the purpose of self-defence. While in some parts of Europe they are slightly more lenient on the carry of small folding knives and even OC pepper spray this is certainly not the case for the United Kingdom . However, there are situations, especially if you have the honest belief that your life is in danger, when the use of a weapon may be necessary. In such a situation using a weapon may be the only option that you have in order to survive. In which case an improvised or make shift weapon may be the only answer. Almost any object that you can pick up and hold in your hand can be used as a weapon. Everyday house hold items can be used or converted into formidable, makeshift weapons. Objects not normally thought of as weapons are often close to hand and with quick thinking and a little imagination almost anything can be used in the self-preservation sense. We certainly would not recommend that anyone carries a weapon for combative use, by design. As we have already said such items are illegal in most countries, and it is highly probable that you would end up in more trouble with the law than your attacker would for defending yourself with an illegal weapon. As unfair as this seems the argument always comes up that if you carry such a weapon on your person in a pre-meditated state then you may indeed be looking for trouble and might not have had the said item, for just the sole purpose of self-defence. If this is the view that the courts take on such a matter then it will be considered that you have committed an offence and you can be sure that the law will takes its course. The law clearly identifies a weapon as; any article made or adapted to cause injury to, or incapacitate a person, to destroy or damage property or intended by the person having it with them for such use, whether by them or another person. As we already know; the law does not apply to the criminal factions which means that a would-be assailant could be carrying a weapon (indeed the safest option is to always assume that they are) thus putting you as the potential victim, at a great disadvantage. With that being as it may, we still have the obligation of our own self-protection and that of our loved ones therefore we need to make up this void; and the combative use of an improvised weapon can helps us do just that. Understand that in order to effectively employ any aspect relating to personal Self-Protection; including that of your family, one must effectively vanquish any inner voice of doubt, I can't, or I shouldn't in order to overcome such moral or spiritual conflicts. Such hesitation caused through a divided heart can and will jeopardise your ability to strike back when seconds count and your survivability is at stake. Many of you may find the use of aggressive force and the subject of weapons repugnant but this is the real world, and the true sad fact is that there are people out there who will hurt you and yours. In some cases for no other reason than; they can. Understand that Self-Preservation is necessary, evening up the odds through whatever means available, is necessary. So if shit and fan do meet, you need to be prepared to do what needs to be done in order to keep your quality of life therefore instead of shunning such aggression, try and view it as a possible resource. A resource that, God willing you will never need to employ. But the thinking goes surely it is better to have such ability and never need it, than to need such ability and never have it.

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