| The simple Kubotan can deliver awesome striking | | | | Kubotans are often legal to carry on college |
| power. | | | | campuses where a stun gun or pepper spray |
| It looks like an eclectic key fob, however there | | | | may not be, and are a great alternative when |
| are individuals trained to use these in unexpected | | | | school rules won't allow you to carry a more hard |
| ways. For the novice the kubotan can be held in | | | | core defensive weapon. Women, more often |
| the fist and used effectively to swing keys | | | | being the victims of violent crimes on campus can |
| attached to one end to deliver a devastating | | | | quickly learn defensive striking and tactics with a |
| strike to the eyes or face. Held in the closed fist | | | | Kubotan. Having one with you if you are attacked |
| it can support the bones of the hand for straight | | | | is vastly superior to having nothing but your |
| closed-fist punches. Further it can be held in the | | | | hands, though, if one is skilled in say the art of |
| same fashion to deliver hammer-fist blows for | | | | Krav Maga, bare hands are just fine. |
| point-end strikes to sensitive areas like elbows, | | | | One of my favorite things about a Kubotan is |
| knees and wrist joints or any bones close to the | | | | that many people have no clue it is anything other |
| surface. Pretty much any place you strike with | | | | than a large key chain fob for the myopic to |
| the end of the kubotan is going to hurt. For this | | | | locate their keys, and most persons of bad intent |
| reason it is an excellent defensive weapon to | | | | never expect to be hit with it if they attack. If I |
| carry on your keys and have with you at all | | | | had to choose one defensive weapon to carry, it |
| times. | | | | would be the simple kubotan. It can be held in a |
| There are those who are highly trained to use | | | | non-threatening manner that attracts no attention |
| this plain looking fighting tool. For instance in the | | | | yet is 100% ready for combat at all times when |
| art of Kali, (Filipino knife fighting) the kubotan is | | | | held correctly. I carry other forms of self defense |
| used like the handle of a knife or the end of a | | | | but my kubotan is always with me! I have been in |
| fighting stick, just below the handle. The lower | | | | situations on more than one occasion where I felt |
| portion of a knife handle can be quickly | | | | I needed a weapon to make it home safely and |
| manipulated for a wrist lock and take-down of an | | | | felt confident walking with only a kubotan. With |
| attacker, so can the lower portion of a fighting | | | | practice you can disable an attacker as quickly as |
| stick. Short kubotans are carried when a stick is | | | | with pepper spray. The only down side is it |
| not practical and a knife is not an option. Strikes, | | | | involves full contact self defense, but it offers a |
| wrist locks and wrist-lock take-downs can be | | | | measure of leverage as a force multiplier that is |
| achieved with extreme speed by a Kali expert | | | | hard to get with any other small weapon. A |
| with a Kubotan and the same tactics can be | | | | device that you can carry with you at all times |
| learned by a novice with only a little focused | | | | without drawing attention. |
| training. | | | | |