I have seen a lot of real life or death fights with bladed weapons vs chair. Almost every case, the person with the chair survived. Even with longer weapons like a machete, and the chair was garbage and fell apart, the person still only sustained one injury to the hand, and that happened before he grabbed the chair. Maybe I should practice chair combat, haha.
Honestly this is probably one of the better ways to prevent a stabbing (besides running) if you're around a light chair. Biggest problem with a knife attack is very few things will stop them from reaching you. You will be cut. At least the chair keeps them almost a metre away.
After all the strange and often unbalanced fights featured on this channel, like polearms vs. swords, or swords vs. unarmed, it's really quite surprising that chair vs. knife turns out to be the first one where one side dominates so completely the other can't get a single hit in during all the rounds. Also, love how the chair guy's adapting his kendo skills: that sense of distance, timing, and of course, that footwork. And charging in with the fumikomi (stomp), to really put the whole body's energy into those quick jabs with the leg,... he really did basically invent the chair martial art.
Years ago there was some skinheads (4v1) beating the shit out of a dude at our local market. My dad was out front with my mom while it was happening, and he picked up a metal chair and threw it over his head at them. They had a knife even and my dad was able to grab it and throw it away. But yeah that chair was tactically important for sure, but it also helps that my dad is an athletic giant.
Chair is a good tool for self-defence. First, you can hit/knock back the attacker. Also, you may disarm the knifer by rotating the chair. The most essential is that chair is commonand you can easily find everywhere
Seems legit but would the outcome be any different if the height difference was in the attacker's favour? Think this needs testing for scientific purposes 😂
Man the chair I’m sitting in rn is an old Victorian chair 😂 this thing is so heavy if I could even use it for defense, I’d feel bad for whomever’s needing to be hit by it 🤣 it weighs about 42 lbs
for me it really depends on the chair. I'm not very strong, so if I had to use plastic chair, that's okay, but if I had to use for example chair from my school, which is made from metal and wood, I would rather use my bare hands, because it would lower my mobility and reaction speed. Not to mention it would be likely in school and in that case it would be better to use backpack and use space by going around desk and such.
Excellent demonstration, love that you used a plastic chair as well, just drives the point home clearly about how effectively a chair works in self defense, not just vs a knife.
It might work in sparring but when someone really meant to kill u with a knife… hard to say if it works..but of course havin a chair it better than bare handed when shit happens😂
nice work. hum how about cutting the fingers as a goal instead of main body hits? that is what I would aim for but that said chairs is not bad as a emergency defensive tool.
@@Satsaru hum seems to me he was focused on getting behind the chair and hit the vitals. but I may as well not been that focused so I missed that. kind of reminds me of a story. once there was a fight in a bar. the police interviewed a boxer a wrestler and a child. the boxer said they where boxing, the wrestler said they where wrestling the child said they did both.
@@CarnisChampion yeah, it only happened a few times the first time he grabbed the chair. Second time he definitely could have hit his hands if he wanted to.
Thanks for the video. The idea of jabbing the attacker with the chair legs to knock him down is good. I'm glad that it's effective. I also liked when the defender twisted the chair and was able to whip the attacker to the side.
One thing I'm curious about is if the chair would be even more effective if the guy using it was on the offensive instead of defensive - if they used it to try and push in against the knife wielder instead of just trying to back up.
It can't do much damage honestly. If you have the chair it is to make distance, and get a chance to flee or something. It can clearly protect you suprisingly well. But it won't do a ton to your opponent. It can maybe break a mose but that plastic chair certainly not. I can't imagine too bad of wounds. The chair guy only needs to make one mistake before he is dead.
If you can get ahold of a folding chair, you can also pinch the attacker! 🤣 If you have ever been pinch by a folding chair, you know what mean. 🤣🤣🤣 Great video!
Yeah the environment would change everything, especially if it’s a small room with loads of crap on the floor or around. Also the different designs of chair would play into it a lot. Some will be lighter, some will be heavier but hit harder. Some will have more potential defence applications than others aswell
Now I'm half tempted to take of these chairs and pad them with foam and use them as a larp weapon. I wonder if that was what the SCA people did for that bar fight scene they did.
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Love the smile on chair guys face, like nope you can not touch me here. :) As attacker, I think the way is rush legs for double leg down, fake high go low for take down and than use knife, but I know you are not train for that and surrounding is not ideal to try this.
