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Originally Posted by blackshield
My advice would be to have some realistic knife defence in your training - it is the most common weapon you will face, and not knowing how to deal with it could be fatal... with that in mind my pointers would be:
1) get hold of the knife bearing limb, and don't let go!
2)use a cover/guard that covers both high and low targets (like the 'dog catcher')
3) expect to get cut - but try to limit where you will get cut
5)limit yourself to gross movements, ie - nothing fancy that requires too much dexterity.
6) whenever you feel confident in your ability to defend from a knife do a 'marker pen' drill - and it should bring you back to reality with a crash!
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Osu,
A point I would like to add to that....
a)When facing up for the (knife)fight, you need to modify your normal guard so that your palms are facing inward, this gives you the ability to to block knife srtrikes without exposing the insides of your forearms(where sum majorartoies are)....not a pretty situation
b) forget striking the guy...your first objective is to control that weapon!
Also, this is a life or possible death situation, and the odds are not in your favour, so
unless you have done knife defence drills over and over and over again...get the hell out of there!!!
A good knife defence will usually involve a takedown with the grabbing of the knife arm..... your not in a good situation, if you just grab at the knife arm and start wrestling around with the guy!
your best bet...
Run!
If you cant run, get anything u can between you and the attacker, e.g pick up a chair,...or anything resembling a bat....be creative....you should try and use this defensive object to manuvoure yourself into a postion where you can run.
Ask your instructor to run a class on it, then practice ALOT!
