Posted: 12/1/2006 3:08:03 PM EDT
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I cannot find a video I saw this year (I think it was Slavic, or a mix with English) on the fallicy of bare-handed against a knife. It showed repeated real world attacks, with a violent attacker with a hidden knife. Something like 14 of 15 students were fatally cut. It ended with several text screens relating world ranked martial arts experts dying against a knife attack. Chilling stuff. Anyone know of it? ETA nm found it |
Can you post a link? |
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I've seen it before. If you are a disbeliever have someone use a marker and you try to "disarm" him or fight him. Or perhaps you underestimate a knife VS a gun under 21ft Try someone with a marker and you with an airsoft. You'd be supprised how many times you get "stabbed". I've seen two types of these videos BTW. Both have the same results. Its been a while so I dont have the links. |
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bare handed vs. knife works great in the movies, though.... my own limited personal experience is that no matter what a billy badass you think you are, it's just not a favorable matchup. His broken nose probably healed up ok, I still sport about 24" of scar on my left arm 20 years later (no fatal or otherwise serious injury though, luckily... he managed to miss all the major arteries). I hit him hard, took the opportunity to haul ass and am probably alive today because of that. |
+1 I always felt during our training that close quarter gun defense was easier than knife. With the gun all you have to watch is the barrel. They can squirm all they want but as long as the barrel is clear you are good to go. The gun also gives you something bigger to grab a hold of. Knife is tough. Its small sharp and hard to grab. Plus, if they struggle you have to watch yourself very carefully. |
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I just took a one day Defensive Folding Knife course this last weekend thru Insights Training (www.insightstraining.com), and it was very interesting. One of the first things they said was "an idiot with a knife is worth 10 years of martial arts training." Thru the drills we did I believe it. We did several excercises that included breaking away from different types of choke holds using folding practice knives. During lunch, the instructors picked up a huge chunk of meat from a grocery nearby and we all took turns with our individual knives to better understand the cutting power these knives are capable of. Towards the end of the class we all had "live" rounds with one of the instructors in their big sumo safety suit. You either started lying on the ground or standing up with your eyes closed until the attack was on. There were times when the "bad guy's" buddy would also join the fight and provide for a disparity of force. One of the instructors dressed in the sumo suit was an off-duty police officer. That was probably the one and only time I'll wrestle/fight a police officer and not go to prison.  Truly a fantastic class that gives you some real insights and perspectives into the power of a folding knife.Moving forward, I will always have a Spyderco Delica on each pocket. |
Plus 1! during our weapons defenses, i always found the pistol and rifle defenses the easiest. knife is the hardest because you have to make sure that when defending that the blade isn't gonna cut something vital. |