KNIFE VIDEOS

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There is a lot of bad advice being spread around concerning self defense these days.

One of the worst and most dangerous pieces of bad advise is to run when faced with a knife-wielding attacker. The supposed reason for this advise is that it is very difficult to successfully defend yourself against a knife attack without being cut in the process. Ok, that may be true, but "running away from the problem" rarely helps in any situation, especially when you are in imminent danger!

Turning your back to an armed attacker who is standing so close to you that you don't have any chance of getting away is doing nothing! No, you don't have a 100 % chance of surviving uninjured, but if you turn your back to him and do nothing you have a zero percent chance of surviving!"

So what should you do when facing an edged weapon attack?

The real reason why most attempted knife attacks are successful is because the attacker distracts his victim and hides the knife until he's been able to stab him at least once or twice!

That means that a person who has been trained in situational awareness and reading body language to recognize a potential knife attack would have the opportunity to launch a pre-emptive attack upon the knife attacker before he completed drawing his weapon and, if he didn't even have a chance to draw his knife before you took him out, there would have been no difference between taking the would-be knife attacker out and defending yourself against a normal, unarmed opponent!

The bottom line is that a knife attack is always a very bad situation to be in, but to try to run from it is worse, when you know you won't have any chance of surviving that way!

And the sooner you see the attack coming, the better your chances of surviving will be.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dave Hague © Golden Valley Karate 2011