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Fear the Blade! Defense Against Knife Attack

It is amazing that, while most who are attacked with an edged weapon survive, it is still the one violent attack that tends to scare people the most.  There are several possible reasons for this…among them: amount of VISIBLE injury (i.e. slasher film effect), close range of the attack (personal space is instinctive) or viciousness of attacker.  But, in spite of this almost

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Kobudo: Traditional Weapons in a Modern World

In a world of guns, bombs and chemical warfare it is very difficult to imagine an item such as a wooden stick or even a knife being considered a formidable weapon.  But, in the proper, well trained hands, a traditional weapon (like those of the art of Kobudo) can be very effective indeed in face-to-face

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