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Omaha and Pepper spray and Bars
depserv:
In his classic book on hand to hand combat, Get Tough!, W.E. Fairbairn says that a box of matches, of the type commonly carried at the time by nicotine addicts, can be crushed in a fist and it will give your fist enough hardness that a blow from it can be lethal. I think the author might have overestimated the amount of power such a small amount of mass can add to a fist, and there are probably better things to do with matches in the kinds of situations he's writing about. But there is some truth in what he says, because even an empty hand can be an effective weapon, and the more weight you add to it the more powerful a blow with it can be. More important though is the feeling of greater confidence something in your hand gives you, because that can be a big factor.
Bars contain weapons that are probably as effective as some of the things you might carry, and you won't get in trouble for having been carrying something designed to be a weapon. Just look around.
Sonicblaze:
I'm not worried about a bar brawl, or faking a limp and using a cane, or skirting the already thin line of what's acceptable concealing a knife. Just was trying to find what the laws were around OC spray and a BAC =) More just want something easily accessible for the walk to the car and while driving home.
Mali:
--- Quote from: Sonicblaze on April 22, 2015, 03:41:12 PM ---I'm not worried about a bar brawl, or faking a limp and using a cane, or skirting the already thin line of what's acceptable concealing a knife. Just was trying to find what the laws were around OC spray and a BAC =) More just want something easily accessible for the walk to the car and while driving home.
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Totally understand you SB. I have found it to be the way of this forum that you ask a question and get the answer as well as a discussion that leads from your question into other topics.
Kendahl:
--- Quote from: depserv on April 22, 2015, 12:46:15 PM ---the author might have overestimated the amount of power such a small amount of mass can add to a fist
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I don't think it's mass that Fairbairn wanted. Rather, something around which to wrap his hand so that his fist would not collapse on impact.
depserv:
--- Quote from: Kendahl on April 23, 2015, 05:12:19 PM ---I don't think it's mass that Fairbairn wanted. Rather, something around which to wrap his hand so that his fist would not collapse on impact.
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Who knows; I can't read his mind. He did say hardness and not mass if I remember right, though it's been years since I read the book. But it's mass that increases the power of a blow with a fist no matter what his meaning was, and the matches don't have much of it.
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