[Survival Self-Defense] If You Have a Self-Defense Tool... Can You Stab First?

Editor's NoteWhen you cannot escape from an assailant wielding a weapon, you must actively protect your vital organs with your belongings and then flee. If you have a self-defense tool, you can effectively use it to protect yourself and escape. Every Sunday, we will serialize how to properly use self-defense tools and how to protect yourself by striking and quickly running away, demonstrated by Jeon Seong-yong, head instructor of the Korea Arnis Association Self-Defense Center (association president, male in the photo), and instructor Go Gyeong-ah (female in the photo).

The self-defense survival education program aims to temporarily incapacitate the opponent and escape from dangerous situations. It assumes various possible real-life crisis scenarios and focuses on simple and swift techniques to overcome extreme situations, buying a golden time of 10 seconds to increase survival rates by 10%.

Having a proactive defensive will and showing it effectively breaks the opponent’s attacking intent and causes them to make mistakes.

In this edition, we learn how to defend against an opponent’s upper attack using the representative and common self-defense tool, the Kubotan, and how to escape after attacking. Items like mobile phones or pens can also be used similarly to the Kubotan. Of course, when gripping, you must press the upper part of the tool with your thumb to prevent it from slipping out of your hand when stabbing.

1. Hold the Kubotan (or pen, mobile phone) close to the right ear area, protect your chin with your left hand, and step forward with your left foot. The reason for stepping forward with the left foot (for right-handed individuals) is to put weight on the right arm, which is advantageous for defense and attack.

2. When the assailant attacks with a weapon from the upper left, twist your waist counterclockwise while stepping your right foot forward at a 45-degree angle, and defend by striking below the opponent’s right wrist with the edge of your left forearm. Simultaneously, use your right hand holding the Kubotan to strongly stab the inside of the opponent’s elbow. It is important to quickly straighten and bend the elbow in a straight line. However, blocking a weapon attack and stabbing at the same time is not easy without training.

3. After defending against the opponent’s upper attack, bend the right elbow holding the Kubotan and quickly retract it. If the retraction is not swift, you may be attacked by the opponent, so quickly retracting the right elbow toward the left side of the chin is very important.

4. This is the motion of attacking the opponent’s left neck with the Kubotan. Extend your right hand holding the Kubotan straight and strongly attack the opponent’s neck (carotid artery, airway). Even a slight impact to the front of the neck causes severe pain.

5. After defending against the opponent’s upper weapon attack, attack the opponent with the palm of your left hand. Retract the attacking right hand, twist your waist to the right, and strongly push the opponent’s chin upward from below with the palm of your left hand. To put weight into the motion, step forward with your left foot and extend your left palm strongly. Palm strikes can deliver stronger blows than punches and also protect your hand.

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6. This is the motion of consecutively attacking the opponent’s collarbone or neck with the Kubotan or mobile phone. While retracting your left hand, twist your waist to the left and strike the opponent’s collarbone strongly in a straight line like hammering with your right hand holding the Kubotan. If the collarbone is fractured or injured, the opponent becomes combat ineffective. In self-defense, it is effective to attack multiple times continuously to confirm whether the opponent is incapacitated.

7. This is the motion of repeatedly attacking the opponent’s chin with the palm of your left hand. Retract your right hand that attacked the opponent’s collarbone with the Kubotan, twist your waist to the right, and again strongly push the opponent’s chin with your left palm. At this time, stepping forward with your left foot and putting weight into the left palm strike on the opponent’s chin is the key point.

※ If the assailant wielding a weapon is right-handed, you must escape to the opponent’s left side, which is farther from the weapon, to reduce risk as much as possible. All movements in survival self-defense require strength and stamina as a foundation. Consistent strength and stamina training will yield greater effectiveness.

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