CRICKET DEFENSIVE SEMINAR....

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I think that is rather easy make seminars about defensive use of big folders, but it should be time now to make a seminar about Cricket, Dragonfly or even Ladybug defensive use, and it should be thought for women or old people, that are the real urban crime targets. C'mon knife teachers: think about it and do som'thing good!
I couldn't attend 'cause I live in Europe, but I surely buy the tape!!

EX ALTO FULGOR
 
Even though I am not a woman or an elderly person, I do live and go to school in a rather shady part of St. Louis. I only like to carry my cricket on some days. I would like to know how to defend myself with it (even though, the blade shape really only lends itself to slashing). That would be cool. I would also like to hear how other spydies could be used in a pinch. Someone told me that they used a mariner as a defensive tool before. Anyone know anything about this?
Matt
 
If it has a sharp edge it can cut!! It is not the tool in your hand but the ability to use it, and where to cut with it that is more important. The blade does not need to be long to disable your attackers movement. Bram Frank's Common Sense Self Defence tapes are good for showing biomechanical cutting. Thomas Lehmann the CSSD European Director also does demo's using the above mentioned biomechanical techniques with a Cricket. If you apply the right concepts they should translate to any blade you happen to have with you. I think the most important thing is to deploy whatever blade you have quickly so that it can be used. No point in any knife if you can't access it fast enough to be of any use!!

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Some women from our dojo carry a cricket in their bra.
The idea of a defensive knife is obvious since they can draw it if someone rips off their shirts.
If it is possible under stress and panic to use fine motor skills the idea to fight goes like this:

1. Thumb and index finger grab the cricket by the hole and pull it out of the bra.
2. Throw the handle down to open the blade.
3. Grab handle with lower 2 or 3 fingers
4. Place index finger on back of blade
5. Everything you will touch with your "finger" will be cut by the blade.
6. Since your body always knows where your finger is, you know where the blade is.

Thank god, no one I know ever had to use this technique.

Dirk
 
I too have come across this. I know at least two women who carry a Cricket in their bra!! I also know one or two women that could conceal a large bowie in the same place but that's another story
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"There is no reality, only perception"
 
Here's a knife that was designed for for "finger indexing" cutting:

http://www.olfa.com/Products.asp?C=4&P=116

Available at fine crafts and better hardware stores. For less than 2 bucks you get the definitive retractable claw knife.

I've got this on a keyring avec Comtech Stinger and Photon light. At hands to the side position, holding the Stinger, the Olfa Touch Knife (suspended on keyring by the smallest split ring) falls right between thumb and index finger...all ready for poke or pull in a parking lot situation.
 
Whatever happened to the Leatherman Micra defensive page?

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