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Best Way To Use Pepper Spray
Personal safety is a top priority and pepper spray can help. As a personal protection product, pepper spray is used to deter a physical attacker. Knowing how to properly use it will aide in your self defense should the need arise. Protect yourself by learning how to use pepper spray with the simple steps below.
One of the most important things to remember is that when you are under attack that you cannot lose control. You have to try to remain as calm as possible throughout the attack. Make sure that you carry your pepper spray in an easy to locate place so you are not wasting precious time searching for it. Having a small canister of Pepper spray on a keychain is very convenient. Get in the habit that when you are walking to your car at night, or in any vulnerable situation, that your pepper spray is out and ready to be used should someone approach you and makes you feel threatened.
Your canister of pepper spray should always be used when it is being held in an upright position. The way they are designed it is pretty easy to avoid turning it upside down or sideways. One of the things to put some time into practicing is the release of the safety switch or also known as the actuator. Holding the canister upright you simply slide the switch over with your thumb. Easy to do and will come naturally if you have practiced doing it.
Now, point the canister towards the attackers face and press the release button to spray him. It does not happen often but you should be aware that if there is a strong wind the pepper spray could blow back into your face. Not good. When you spray with your right hand bring your left hand up to protect your face. This will help you to avoid getting hit with the spray.
When you use pepper spray it is designed to be used in the face of an attacker. You need to be sure that you hold down the button of the spray canister and use it liberally in their face. You will not blind the person permanently but you will disable them for up to 30 minutes, which will give you plenty of time to flee.
If for some reason you don't have a clear shot at his face just try to spray as close as possible to it. Ingesting the pepper spray will throw him into a fit of choking and coughing. Try to make sure you make contact with bare skin. It will help the effectiveness of disabling him. Try to get it into his eyes, his nose, his mouth and then make your escape.
Practice, practice, practice! We all know that it is much easier to accomplish something if we have practiced doing it. The actions just flow naturally without any thought. The same fact holds true for using pepper spray. Practice getting it out, aiming it and spraying it (without actually spraying it). When the time comes for actually needing it you will use it correctly and make your escape.
You should know how to use pepper spray and be well versed with it. The better you are with it then the more effective it will be when you aim for your target.
About the Author Find out how using Pepper Spray effectively can save your life. Find out more about self defense sprays by visiting Jim's website, www.YourGreatestProtection.com
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