How Does Knife Defense Work? | Kali | Eskrima 

A guy I went to high school with works security at a bar in my home town. A guy followed him home one night and started going at him. He got stabbed several times but managed to knock the guy out with some part off his lawnmower.

​@@wolf3001 What the hecckk? I wanna know what the guy was thinking when he woke up? Or did he DIE by the lawnmower? 😅

@@Red_emp_tion The kid I went to school with is a big guy all I remember is that he told me the guy was mad at him and followed him home from the bar. The guy had a small pocket knife and got him several times my guess is that he was damn lucky it wasn't a bigger knife. He picked up some part from the mower and knocked the guy out and he was arrested. Another friend of a friend was at a bar and got into it with a guy. They both left at different times and the guy came back looking for him. The guy was looking for pay back and attacked the wrong guy from behind and stabbed him in the face not realizing it was the wrong person. I was told he lost an eye.

@@wolf3001 gotcha.. wow crazy story. Thanks!

my only critique is that you are way bigger and stronger than your opponent , thus it looks easier than it might be -- but i do agree your aggressive counter entry method is the only way if you cant egress tout suite

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Yep. Speak truth. You are basically trying to trade less harmful cuts that are more easily treated for more serious injuries.It's much better to have a few shallow cuts on your arms than your face or being stabbed anywhere.

Kali Center once talked about how even if you know how to fight vs a knife (especially if you're unarmed yourself), your best bet is to get some distance and *not* take the fight. Knifes are always dangerous, even if you are far better at fighting than your opponent.

Yeah, just as the other posters above have said, PLUS don't forget tailoring your strategy to your own particular situation. Every 'poison' has its antidote, and being smaller and weaker isn't necessarily a disadvantage. LaoTzu mentions in TaoTeChing, for example, how snakes and scorpions, and birds of prey and other beasts don't harm newborn babies (the famous thing of how wolves can even care for human babies), and so your smaller 'child like' aspect can become a highly manipulative 'tool' in itself - to the point your attacker can feel like they are about to kill an innocent newborn baby - that is, if you can 'master' that aspect of yourself in the 'Zen' way (see Thich Nhat Hanh's teachings on 'inner child', for example). A bigger guy defending against a smaller, weaker yet highly skilled knife attacker can't play this card as easily as you, so you gotta use that to your advantage - train for that for a real street scenario. Play weak, innocent, and YIELD until you have lured your opponent into a very vulnerable place before you do your blitz attack on them. That's really your only hope. It sounds weird, probably, but knife attacks are weird in themselves. Because, as soon as someone draws a knife on you with lethal intent and you are trapped, the situation is already way beyond a normal 'fight'. 1) there is lethal intent, 2) you are lacking a weapon, 3) there's no civil honour in place (that would normally prevent a fighter from using dirty tactics like kicking to groin, for example - a knife itself is VERY 'dirty' and you've gotta get equally sly in your response). As he says in the video, when the knife is out, it's not a skill-based MA situation - it's like they've pulled out their dick - it's that crazy and f'd up. It's something way beyond the normal civil wold, and so your approach needs to be equally 'out of the box' - beyond competitive MMA sparring, or even Street Fighter computer game muscly guys facing off for the honour of their Dojo, or whatever. It's about your very on-going existence, and there's no one size fits all for that level of complexity. It's about yin and Yang and spirituality when a knife is drawn - because all it takes is that hammering thrust to your belly and then you're bleeding to death. It's beyond any dojo - unless that dojo is a Zen temple 😉, perhaps...

Ok. So we're in an elevator. Where am I getting either the chair or the milk crate? I 100% believe in using environmental weapons as a barrier/distance-keeper/attack option against a knife bandit, but they are not always available.

When a stronger armed person is trying to hurt a weaker unarmed person, the best chance for survival is to run. There are countless videos here in RU-vid that show people getting stabbed and dying who could have runaway.

Huh, i suppose that's a good point, most of the time in the forums we always use ourselves as an example, which is not like the average population😅

@@pcap8810 even with the gun, the smart person will get/maintain distance from the threat. Creating distance gives you more time to draw your weapon, and prevent yourself getting stabbed even tho ya shot the guy. (Police do this) And if it isn't legal to carry? Step 1 is still the same! Keep/creat distance. Cheetahs are faster than there prey. But even animals ain't dumb enough to just stand there and get ripped apart. So they run. Simple.

DUH. IF YOU CAN TAKE OFF. If not then don't.

So on that fateful day you just happened to be recovering from a sprained ankle and don't have a firearm (for whatever reason). The nature of knife-defense comes with the inherent threat of harm and the high odds of getting cut...still have to train for it - the eventual disarm may come after enduring 7 or 8 superficial lacerations and 1 or 2 non-organ hitting stabs, BUT just before an arterial cut. Despite your wounds, would the knife-defense training be worth it then?

ive been doing full contact martial arts for 7 years and I find your comment absurd and very hard to believe.

@@mrx2586 that s because you've never been in a knife fight That s not martial art but it's deadly in seconds

@@kevintrumpf4156 all I am going to say to that is there are people who I spar with who if I got in a real fight even if I had a knife I would have absolutely no chance at all against. If I tried to attack these people with a knife they would be in absolutely no danger at all. And I'm not talking about pro fighters here just people who are quite a bit better than me. If a knife is not enough to enable me to even scratch some people let alone kill them why would a 10 year old with nothing more than one week training. have any meaningful chance.

First stab in the ishiatic nerve than cut through the back of the knee

Extremely difficult, yes; impossible, no. Probability of being cut/stabbed - almost certain...but this doesn't mean necessarily being killed or even catastrophically injured.

Wrong! I know lots of people who could easily defend themselves if I attacked them using nothing more than a knife.

Your wrong. I know many people who could easily succeed against me if I tried to attack them with a knife. Frankly if I was ever attacked by an unarmed person who I did not know and I had a knife I would throw the knife away because I know that if that person has even minimal experience of being violent there is a 100% certainly that he will make me drop the knife, have his way with me and then walk away unharmed!