• Greddan@feddit.org
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    20 hours ago

    Just gonna take this opportunity to recommend Solovair, the original makers of Dr. Martens. Still around, still making excellent steel-toe boots, still great for kicking Nazis in the stomach and groin.

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      6 hours ago

      Solovair are great. My wife has a pair of their vegan Chesea boots-- she says they’re wonderfully comfortable and she’s had them for about ten years with no sign of wear.

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      12 hours ago

      How well do they preform on the snap kick to knee cap with follow though shin scrape foot stomp?

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        6 hours ago

        Use a low side kick just below the knee joint instead, and hit perpendicular to the way the knee hinges. That’s highly effective at doing bad things to knee tendons. And if you do the shin scrape/foot stomp part, keep standing on their foot afterward. Extra points if you then use your own knee as leverage to hyperextend their trapped leg and tip them over.

        Source: I’ve actually used that in a street situation and it works well. It doesn’t require great precision. And when I ran off, the attacker was unable to chase me.