I see many women carry a shoulder strap purse with the strap across their torso; i.e. the head and one shoulder goes through the strap and it comes across the torso to the opposite hip. There is a backpack that mimmicks this carrying style called a sling pack.
I have a problem with this - it's extremely easy for someone to reach over the purse-side shoulder, take the strap and pull it across the neck for a choke and restraint. Cover the mouth and you have a quiet, somewhat controlled victim.
Female police officers carry their shoulder-strap bags differently - on the same side shoulder with their arm bent, forearm across the top of the bag, holding the strap at it's connection point to the bag.
My instructor recommends that everyone carry a pack using one shoulder strap only so that no one can use the pack to control you (similar fashion as the purse or grabbing the top of the backpack from behind).
Thoughts?
I have a problem with this - it's extremely easy for someone to reach over the purse-side shoulder, take the strap and pull it across the neck for a choke and restraint. Cover the mouth and you have a quiet, somewhat controlled victim.
Female police officers carry their shoulder-strap bags differently - on the same side shoulder with their arm bent, forearm across the top of the bag, holding the strap at it's connection point to the bag.
My instructor recommends that everyone carry a pack using one shoulder strap only so that no one can use the pack to control you (similar fashion as the purse or grabbing the top of the backpack from behind).
Thoughts?