Self-Defense Tip #11
Knife attacks

by Thomas Kurz, co-author of Basic Instincts of Self-Defense and author of Stretching Scientifically, Secrets of Stretching, and Science of Sports Training.

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If you think that knife attacks look anything like those typically seen in martial arts classes—you can be dead wrong.

Real attacks, by people who are familiar with a knife's properties and true potential, are a blur of short, noncommitted stabs and cuts that are practically impossible to stop.

An attacker, with any idea of what he or she is doing, will overwhelm you with a hail of cuts that will start at the nearest body part and end in a vital target. Within a second you may lose your fingers, have severed tendons of your arms, and be finished with a stab to your eye, or throat, or trunk.

If someone has taught you to block knife cuts and stabs, or to grab a knife-holding hand, you need to see the reality for a change. The video Surviving Edged Weapons by Dennis Anderson and Charles Remsberg shows the reality of edged weapons (knives, screw drivers, forks, glass shards) attacks. YOU MUST SEE IT!

See how prison inmates and knife experts practice knife fighting. See what really works and what doesn't against a knife attack! See reenactments of actual knife attacks and how they could have been avoided. See officers “slaughtered” in spite of fancy police baton defenses and “killed” (stabbed and slashed) with a knife at distances in which they thought they could draw their guns and were safe.

This intense action-packed 85-minute video features two of the foremost American knife fighting experts: Leo Gaje, Jr. and Dan Inosanto, as well as police officers who survived knife attacks. It is the most useful knife-awareness video ever made. For civilians this video is difficult to purchase, so for your convenience here are its most informative clip posted on YouTube:

And here are more videos that expound on the points made in the above one, as well as teach about defending against knife attack:

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