Table of Contents

• Contents • Introduction • Guns • Small arms: pistols and semi automatics • Snipers and rifles • Range and suitability • Defending yourself against a gun attack: minimising your exposure • Knives • How to hold a knife • Defending yourself with a knife • Not letting your knife be used against you • Knife moves • Throwing knives • Harpoons • Daggers and short swords • Long blades, jagged blades • Flick knives, pen knives • Dodging a knife attack. Deflecting knife blows. • Clubs, Truncheons and Bats • Holding positions – using a mace, a staff • Directing the blow • Morning Star and other spiked clubs • CS gas and stun grenades • Using gas and grenades without endangering yourself • The chemical risks • What to do if you are exposed to the gas • Knuckle Dusters, Bullwhips & Martial Arts Weapons • Learning to use nunchaku sticks, chigiriki chain, stirrup-like Tekko and other martial • arts weapons • Bullwhips, Boomerangs and Bolas • Defending yourself • Glossary

About the Author

Martin J Dougherty is a Master Level Assessor with the Self-Defence Federation, holding black belts in two styles of Ju-Jitsu as well as self-defence. His martial arts career has encompassed ju-jitsu, kickboxing and self-defence as well as military combative systems. Martin has written books on a variety of subjects including self-defence and warfare in addition to his work in the defence and security industry, where he is an expert on weapon systems and asymmetric conflict. He is author of Small Arms: From the Civil War to the Present Day, Warriors of the World: The Ancient Warrior, Weapons and Fighting Techniques of the Medieval Warrior, The Art of Self Defense, and SAS and Elite Forces Guide to Extreme Unarmed Combat..