ABSTRACT
What is the key to success in using personal weapons (i.e., punches, kicks, elbow strikes, etc.)? What makes a personal weapon strike effective or ineffective? The answer is your ability to generate power with the strike. If you strike someone and it doesn’t land with enough force to hurt or, at a minimum, distract the aggressive resister, then you just wasted your time throwing the strike. Even worse, you opened yourself up to a counterstrike. Every time you use a personal weapon, it must land with all of the power you are capable of generating. And the power you generate must be sufficient to have a significant impact on the aggressive resister.
