Frag Out! Magazine
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...at the beginning of the year, by courtesy of Andrea Micheli, I have been handed over a Luminox Tactical Pen, i.e. a tactical ball pen with Swiss timepiece manufacturer logo on the side. Nicely wrapped in the black box, it presents really respectable. You can even say, elegant. luminox tactical Pen – nowadays everything is tactical, even a ball pen, but to be honest, it is worth mentioning from where originates an idea of the gadgets of this type. In a straight line today's tactical ball pen is a descend- ant of a yawara (also called a "bone breaker"), Japanese weapon which is simply a straight stick (usually but sometimes mushroom-shaped). It has served mainly to enforce punch impact against an opponent and to attack on sensitive areas. It was pop- ularized in 1940's thanks to police officer Frank a. Matsuyama. A kubotan is a derivative from a yawara, i.e. "slightly thinner stick" without any fringes. It can be worn even as a key chain since it on aver- age has not more than 15cm length and a diameter up to approx. 1.2cm. It can made of metal, plastic or simply of wood. The kubotan has been de- veloped by sensei soke takayuki Kubota, who is simultaneously an author of the self-defense tech- niques taught in the Gōsoku-ryū Karate School. The kubotan was patented in 1979 (renewed 7 years ago), but the same name is used to describe the whole family of the similar objects. The kubotan is used to hit, press and execute lever- ages on the vital points of the human body (e.g. so- lar plexus, ribs, spine, shanks, writs, nasal bridge, etc.). If we wear it as a key chain so we use to increase impact of punch. From the above mentioned results that to the yawara/ kubotan we can include, inter alia, such kinds of the "tactical ball pens", which we could perform the tech- niques such as using the original tools of the Japanese karate masters. www.fragoutmag.com