If terrorist attacks, a solar flare, or other widespread disaster destroy our nation’s power grid and knock us back to the 1800s, how would we survive? Primitive weapons may be the answer.

by Mark Lawrence, Copyright © SecretsofSurvival.com. All rights reserved.

Spike TV’s “Deadliest Warrior” took a look at warriors and primitive weapons of past centuries in an attempt to determine which weapons and which warriors were the most effective in battle.

Opinions are mixed on just how well this television show actually depicted true weapon and warrior effectiveness in battle. Let’s face it: We can’t know how a ninja and a Spartan are really going to do in battle against one another unless we’re there to see an actual trained ninja (who excels among ninjas) and actual trained Spartan (who excels among Spartans) square off.

Technically both are experts at combat — having trained for many years; the Spartan since childhood, as history records; you can guess that the ninja’s training began early on in life also.

These men have the ability to pick up just about anything and use it as a weapon in combat.

Primitive Combat

Teaching about primitive weapons and which is the most effective in combat doesn’t do us any good unless we first learn the basics of combat — what is commonly referred to as “close quarters combat”.

Your primitive weapon (whether it’s a club, a knife, a dagger, a sword, machete or a spear) can be made 100 times more effective by your ability to move on your feet; in boxing and martial arts this is called footwork.

Your footwork will enhance your weapon’s reach as well as your ability to avoid being struck by an opponent.

Sparring will teach you how to read an opponent, as well as condition you to move or deflect your opponent’s strikes. Sparring will also increase your eye-hand coordination — the more you train and spar and keep your eye on fast movements the slower your opponent’s moves will seem to you in actual combat.

Each of the following weapons from this Top 15 list can be used against both dangerous wildlife and dangerous people, however the bigger the wildlife (such as a grizzly or lion), the more people you’ll need on your side, working as a team, armed with weapons of their own.

Let the Games Begin: The Top 15 Primitive Weapons 

Before We Go Any Further

Disclaimer: You’re on a Christian website and in no way do I advocate using a weapon for anything other than self-defense and for aiding other people who are helpless and / or need help to defend themselves. In other words, when you or your friends, family, or even strangers are being threatened with violence, and “turning the other cheek” simply isn’t an option, that’s the only time to consider using a weapon (or just your hands) to hurt someone else. It should be a last resort. Christ teaches, “blessed are the peacemakers”. So when peace isn’t an option, and escape isn’t an option, you may have to fight.

Also … As a Christian I hold onto the the promised return of Christ, believing as the Apostle Paul did 2,000 years ago that we are in the last days. Today that means we are in the “last days of the last days”. Read more: Are We In the Last Days?.

Rocks

Need a weapon to keep bandits at bay? A large stack of rocks and a place to throw from can be an effective deterrent when you and your group are threatend with danger. A good sized rock thrown at high velocity can even kill a person, if they take a direct hit to the skull; most of the time if you can land a direct hit you’ll simply knock a person down, bleeding and dazed.

The danger of bringing rocks to a fight is that you can also give your opponent the idea to use rocks — if your opponent surrounds your camp and attacks from the darkness, you can become sitting ducks — unable to see them (due to the darkness) but they’re able to see you (due to any lights and torches around your camp). They can then rain down rocks on your camp, possibly striking a number of your defenders.

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