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One of the best Yawara made today. Designed by DHD to look like a flashlight, so no one will ever know you have a weapon.

"Length 5-3/8 x diameter 1-1/4 Material: Aircraft aluminum body.Includes: Belt loop holster. Your Yawara comes in Black or for $5.00 extra you can have your own custom color.

With your paid order you will receive a free e-book sent to your e-mail on the many ways to use your Yawara. For example, a chart of the pressure points of the human body, strikes, and many other useful techniques that will keep you safe! ...............................................Practitioner may prefer striking techniques, utilizing the ends of the Yawara for painful blows to soft tissue areas or disabling blows to an opponent's vital points. The shin, hip bone, collarbone, ankle, and kneecap are all desirable targets. A sharp crack to a bony area will prompt an assailant to discontinue his attack. A harder, well placed blow can easily break bones--especially if the force of the blow is not diminished by clothing. Yawara strikes are most effective at medium range such as when an assailant reaches out to grab or push his victim. The extending limb can be disabled with a quick, snapping strike. The tactic also works against a punch or kick. When the opponent attacks, move away and meet his technique with a quick flick of the Yawara. the blow does not have to be perfect; since the nerves are so close to the surface of most bony areas, even a glancing blow will inflict enough pain to make your attacker regret his actions. If an attacker has already managed to grab onto an individual, he or she can break the hold by pressing or poking the Yawara into whatever target presents itself. Although one's movements are restricted when caught in a headlock, bear hug, or choke, jamming the tip into whatever part of the attacker's anatomy that you can reach. "There are no wrong movements; make a technique work from the position you find yourself in.A hard thrust with the Yawara to the kidneys, ribs, or sternum can devastate an attacker and damage internal organs. Since there are such a wide variety of ways to use the Yawara, there is no one correct way to hold the weapon. Different strikes require different grips and much depends upon an individual's personal preferences. "If you're pinned from behind, you might want to hold it like an ice pick to stab backwards. For those proficient in martial arts that emphasize grappling and joint locks, the Yawara provides added leverage. Wrist locks, arm bars, come-alongs, chokes, and leg locks. The Yawara can be used to dig into the wrist or elbow joint. Similarly, a captured leg can immobilized with grinding pressure to the ankle or knee. In life threatening circumstances, the Yawara can intensify choking techniques and, if need be, crush an assailant's trachea. Indeed, nearly all joint locking techniques common to Taijutsu, Jujitsu, and Aiki-Jutsu, become easier to apply with the Yawara. The weapon's rigidity makes it much more resistant to an opponent's efforts to power out a hold or lock. Obviously, a fundamental knowledge of anatomy and the body's lever points are necessary to make these techniques work-with or without a Yawara. However, for those who have such a knowledge, the Yawara reinforces these techniques and makes them more disabling. The Yawara is also valuable for snagging limbs before or after applying a striking technique. By holding the weapon with several inches protruding, you can hook a part of the attacker's body with the Yawara and then follow up with an immediate strike. You can reverse the process and strike first, hooking the neck or wrist to control the opponent's balance. In effect, the Yawara enables an individual to literally lasso a foe's head, forcing it downward, backward, or to the side. A person's body will follow in the same direction that his head is being jerked, thereby making him extremely vulnerable to any number of finishing techniques. Make no mistake, the Yawara is not a magic wand. But it is one of the few conceivable martial arts weapons that is legal and entirely unregulated. Even for those in the martial arts and law enforcement communities who recognize its potential, the Yawara does not invoke the unsavory connotations and legal difficulties of many other edged and impact weapons. Although it requires a modest amount of training to develop competence, in your hands the Yawara truly becomes a fistful of power.

The DTD Yawara in action!

A special thanks goes to my best friend William Weaver for posing as my attacker and Debbie Hicks for taking the photos.