Learning how to fight is the optimal means of self-defense. It requires and develops mental toughness and conditioning, key factors in self-defense. You leave it in a drawer, or the pocket of a different jacket. And the physicality lends itself to whatever weapons skills you choose to develop.
However, weapons are an excellent means of self-defense, for women and men. Long guns and shotguns are ideal for home protection, as is a handgun outside the home. In the hands of a trained individual, law permitting, a knife, taser, stungun, or pepper spray/Mace can be formidable means of self-defense.
There are some other women’s self defense weapons that are, well, weirder. Here are three of them.
A Chicken
By some mystery, this one did not happen in Florida, but in Lexington, Kentucky
“I thought I was going to die that night, said the victim, Patricia Leece, 61, to WKYT.
“It happened about 12:30 the other night. Someone came to my doors, banging, screaming and hollering.”
The woman standing there was Ashley Sies. Leece says the 31 year old pushed her way inside, and wrapped her bra around her neck.
“She choked me down and we fought for a good 15 to 20 minutes. Finally I saw one of my chickens on the floor so I picked it up and started bashing her on the head with it,” Leece explained.
After she knocked Sies out, Leece called police.
Investigators say Sies appeared to be on drugs and thought she was being followed when she showed up on Leece’s porch.
Ashley Sies (before)
Ashley Sies (after)
Patricia Leece
The Chicken (it was porcelain)
Takeaway lessons:
#1. Don’t do drugs
#2. In the right hands, a porcelain chicken can be a formidable improvised weapon, so maintain an open mind
#3. Don’t do drugs
South African Dr. Sonnet Ehlers was on call one night four decades ago when a devastated rape victim walked in. Her eyes were lifeless; she was like a breathing corpse.
“She looked at me and said, ‘If only I had teeth down there,’” recalled Ehlers, who was a 20-year-old medical researcher at the time, to Faith Karimi for CNN. “I promised her I’d do something to help people like her one day.”
Forty years later, Rape-aXe was born.
The woman inserts the latex condom like a tampon. Jagged rows of teeth-like hooks line its inside and attach on a man’s penis during penetration, Ehlers said.
Once it lodges, only a doctor can remove it — a procedure Ehlers hopes will be done with authorities on standby to make an arrest.
“It hurts, he cannot pee and walk when it’s on,” she said. “If he tries to remove it, it will clasp even tighter… however, it doesn’t break the skin, and there’s no danger of fluid exposure.”
Ehlers said she sold her house and car to launch the project.
“I consulted engineers, gynecologists and psychologists to help in the design and make sure it was safe,” she said.
“The ideal situation would be for a woman to wear this when she’s going out on some kind of blind date … or to an area she’s not comfortable with,” she said.
Critics say the female condom is not a long-term solution and makes women vulnerable to more violence from men trapped by the device.
It’s also a form of “enslavement,” said Victoria Kajja, a fellow for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the east African country of Uganda. “The fears surrounding the victim, the act of wearing the condom in anticipation of being assaulted all represent enslavement that no woman should be subjected to.”
“It not only presents the victim with a false sense of security, but psychological trauma. It also does not help with the psychological problems that manifest after assaults.”
However, its one advantage is it allows justice to be served, said Kajja.
Critics have accused her of developing a medieval device to fight rape.
“Yes, my device may be a medieval, but it’s for a medieval deed that has been around for decades,” she said. “I believe something’s got to be done … and this will make some men rethink before they assault a woman.”
Kuba Kickz are the invention of Tom Crone, 5th degree black belt in Kodokan Judo, who has been studying judo since 1960. The goal of Kuba Jitsu is to bring judo’s maximum efficiency through minimum effort to the use of uba-Kickz
It is only self defense device designed for your shoes, and fits in the laces of your shoes on top of the tongue. A Quick Kick to the shins could easily surprise your attacker, and stop his assault so you can escape.
This is not a toy! Kuba Kickz has 3 short yawara ends pointing up with pain points on each end to give the force multipliers a fast acting response to the attacker. This covert defense device is rarely noticed and when it is noticed, it looks like a designer shoe.
Kuba Kickz in action:
