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Don't ask me how: I don't know!

Perhaps some Expert can tell me? Perhaps YOU can?

My hobby ' obsession actually ' is the Martial Arts. In which I hold a 4th Dan Black Belt.

Though these days (after forty years) I'm really into Personal Protection using self-defense weapons.

Once upon a time ' many years ago ' it was Speed, Skill, Panache.

These days it's all about SURVIVAL ' on the street, in the Park, indeed even in the house and the bedroom.

Using weapons.

The Mugger has Youth, Hostility Aggression on his side. Perhaps Drugs and the desperate need for money to buy them.

I have (only) my legal survival weapons ' the Walking Stick, the Umbrella and - the Sjambok. That 42' long South African 'whip' much used by their police in crowd control.

The ONLY way I would be able to survive a street mugging (or Park rape-attempt, if I were a woman) is by the use of a powerful, drastic but non-lethal ' Weapon. But a legally permitted one, not on any prohibited police or Home Office list.

Forget about the Martial Arts as such. They are of absolutely no use whatsoever in self defence life survival situations. Unless you are a 4th Dan Black Belt, when the whole situation takes on a different aspect, and the Mugger will find himself at very grave risk.

But to get to that level takes ten years (and more!) of constant fully dedicated hard training. If you are sixteen years old, fit and dead keen, I encourage you ' I really do ' to join a club, work hard and Get There!

But if you are Past It, too late, too stiff, too old for all that kind of thing, the ONLY chance you have of surviving a mugging is to defend yourself ' ATTACK, actually!!! ' with a legally permissible weapon.

I use the Sjambok.

So what's all this about Achievement?

What's all this about 'Perhaps some Expert can tell me? Perhaps YOU can?'

Google has two facilities: Worldwide, and UK.

Do a Google (UK) search on 'sjambok'

And then on Google (worldwide) search on 'sjambok', and look in the page 1 listing, No 7, I think).

There ' Achievement!

But I don't know how.

Perhaps YOU can tell me!

Please advise me - How do I do the same with my other books?