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In addition to writing posts for this blog I also write articles that are published on other website on topics related to street self defense and martial arts in general. This helps me to promote the Street Fiughting Techniques blog as well as to earn a bit of extra income. One of the websites which I have been publishing a quite a lot of content on recently is hubpages, and I thought visitors to this site might be interested in a coupleof the articles which I have published there: Martial Arts Agility Training and Martial Arts Strength Training.

I do also write articles on other topics, so just in case you are interested here is what I think are a couple of my best ones:  How To Make Your Own iPhone Apps and Best Gift Baskets for Men. Hope you like them.

You can learn a lot about how to defend yourself in a street fight by watching videos of people actually doing that. OnlineFightVideo.com have just added a street fighting videos section to its regularly updated blog featuring the best fight videos. Unlike many other sites that have this kind of thing the videos which get included are all hand picked for quality, and all of the videos in this new section feature demonstrations of real martial arts and self defense skill rather than just clueless thugs going at each other, so you really should be able to learn somthing from them. Its still new so there aren’t many videos there yet, but the site is still well worth a look

I recently signed up to a website called HubPages that lets you create your own pages on any subject you like and I have been getting quite into it, so here are a couple of the pages that I created which I though readers of this blog might be interested to take a look at: How To win A Fight Againnst Multiple Opponents and Pressure Point Fighting

Although I would definitely advise against carrying a knife around with you just in case you need it to defend yourself there are nevertheless times when you are in a very dangerous situation and need a weapon to defend yourself, and often at these times a knife is the best choice.

If you do pick up a blade then there are two things which need to be at the forefront of your mind. Firstly you should remember that once a weapon is brought into a situation you are in danger from it as well as anyone else. Many, many people end up getting seriously hurt by their own weapon. Secondly, once you decide to arm yourself you are taking on a greater responsibility for what happens. If you a scared and lash out with a knife and end up killing someone who was perhaps just pushing you around a bit and hadn’t tried to seriously hurt you then you could easily find yourself in prison for manslaughter.

My best tip for combating both of these problems is to use a reverse grip. This basically means that instead of holding it with the blade poining upwards or outwards, you hold it so that the blade runs down the outside of your forearm, pointing towards your elbow. This makes it very difficult for anyone to grab hold of either the knife itself or your wrist, which obviously makes it much harder for them to wrestle the knife off you and use it against you. With this reverse grip it is also easier for you to use the handle of the knife to strike with what is almost an ordinary punch. This is more damaging and painful than an ordinary punch and may well be enough to show an attacker that you mean business and stop them in their tracks, but stops short of causing a potentially lethal injury.

For more advanced techniques check out my earlier post on special forces knife training

No time to write a post today I’m afraid, but I do have something that might interest you. One of the reasons I don’t have time is cos I’ve been working on a new subdomain to one of my other sites featuring the best free martial arts and fighting games for you to play online, so why not go and play a few games there instead!