So today I was running a track workout in spikes and when I finished up I changed into my regular trainers. As I was walking back to my car, I carried a track shoe with spikes in each hand, and then I saw a group of 3 thuggish looking teenagers staring at me. The situation did not escalate, but it dawned on me that track spikes would have doubled up as a serious weapon for self defense.
Anybody ever have to use their spikes for self defense? Surely someone on this board has a story about it.
Seems like the kind of weapon that would be just enough to really piss a violent person off but wouldn't be enough to stop them. Like shooting a bear with a slingshot.
Harry Kooter wrote:
Seems like the kind of weapon that would be just enough to really piss a violent person off but wouldn't be enough to stop them. Like shooting a bear with a slingshot.
Not if you have those half-inch spikes in. Whapping a guy upside the head with that can do some damage, and can REALLY hurt!
Very true. I could just see some skinny runner trying to defend himself from a thug with some 1/16ths and getting the crap kicked out of him though. The halfs would be quite effective though.
Maybe so, but wouldn't a minimalist be ideologically bound to use the shorties? Actually I guess a true, hardcore minimalist would slap the assailant with ballet slippers, but with such perfect form it'd still get the job done.
Self-defense? No, but I've thought about it. Usually I just hurt myself with my spikes (on accident) more than in a combat situation.
it would only work if the spikes were on your feet.
giving a good round house to someone, with those babies on, even with no spikes and just rubber, would suck balls.
with spikes? holy smokes batman. You'd rip their face off.
I love peeps wrote:
it would only work if the spikes were on your feet.
giving a good round house to someone, with those babies on, even with no spikes and just rubber, would suck balls.
with spikes? holy smokes batman. You'd rip their face off.
when you roundhouse kick someone you use the top of your foot
true, but the spikes should get caught in there somewhere.
honestly, in a fight, I've never heard of such as thing as a perfect kick. Have you? I'm not talking about some ultimate fighting B/S.
Also, if you've ever kicked someone in the head seriously you'd know their head literally gives way, and when your foot comes across, scraping their face with spikes is almost a given.
however, i'd prefer sprinter spikes not distance spikes.
Once in HS, my friend and I were walking home from track practice. We were going through the woods when we saw a bear! I stopped to put my track spikes on. My friend asked, "What are you doing? You're never going to outrun a bear.
I said, "I don't have to outrun the bear, I only have to outrun YOU!
I smacked a frat boy with mine.