Knife Self-Defence

[Wing Woo Gar]

Yeah, pointy sticks are very hard to understand.

Et tu Brute?

 

[marvin8]

Well I agree with the awareness, perception and a bit of luck ideas and yes, control is everything with an added concern, you have to destroy the assailant either by beating, breaking or worse. If someone is trying to kill you, you are left with very little choice.

Learn one handed combinations.

Eskrido de Alcuizar
Buena Park, CA

Yes. At 16:52 of the OP video, Paulo advises to get a Russian tie (2 on 1). At 3:08 of the following video, Trav offers Paulo (aka GN) and Funker Tactical $10,000, if they can put him in a Russian tie 1 time out of 300 normal intensity knife attacks (100/slash, overhand stab, underhand stab).

Travis likes the flow drill below. Travis hooks over the top of a knife attack with one hand, further clears the arm then with the other hand throws the counter cross.

https://imgur.com/a/LywdIdD

FightSmartTrav
Mar 20, 2021

In this video, I respond very directly to Funker Tactical's straw-man argument, and issue a friendly challenge of my own. Will he [Paulo] respond? Not sure... you should ask him...

Paulo can't catch any knife attacks in a "Russian tie." Paulo has not accepted the challenge, although he said he would...

 

[Gyakuto]

Yeah, pointy sticks are very hard to understand.

Sticks? Did you watch the video? Maybe you had a little nap before it got going…

 

[Buka]

agree

Once worked as part of an armed team responsible for picking up and transporting money to banks in a semi-armored vehicle. We were taught, an attacker with a knife can cover a distance of 21 feet (approximately 6.4 meters) in the time it takes for an average person to draw and fire their weapon.

The 21 feet thing is true. Most people are shocked when they first do that drill.

I was part of a heavily armed team safeguarding one hundred and twenty six billion dollars in cash and searching every armored car that entered and left the premises.

I was shocked when I learned how little armored car employees earn.

 

[Holmejr]

These challenges from folks like “fight smart Trav” can be fun, but are meaningless in the grand scope of things. Against a trained knife fighter, your chances for survival plummet. The majority of knife altercations on the street don’t come from a trained knife fighter. Look at all the untrained guys that carry clip folders. Anyway, to catch the knife of an unsuspecting assailant is much easier (not easy) on the street than catching a knife from someone that KNOWS what you are going to do. We do speed drills against the fast thrust and return at random angles, sometimes you can catch, sometimes you can’t, but you STILL defend yourself. We purposely do sneak attacks to unsuspecting students. Street self defense. We practice running attackers at different distances, 21 feet is the rule for law enforcement. It’s amazing how fast a young perpetrator can bridge that distance.

 

[Wing Woo Gar]

The 21 feet thing is true. Most people are shocked when they first do that drill.

I was part of a heavily armed team safeguarding one hundred and twenty six billion dollars in cash and searching every armored car that entered and left the premises.

I was shocked when I learned how little armored car employees earn.

I worked with venomous snakes in the early1990s for $8.25/ hr. One of the more foolish things I’ve done for money in the past. I remember being stoked to work with Rinkhals cobras the first time, putting on the face shield and thinking how lucky I was at the time.

 

[Buka]

I worked with venomous snakes in the early1990s for $8.25/ hr. One of the more foolish things I’ve done for money in the past. I remember being stoked to work with Rinkhals cobras the first time, putting on the face shield and thinking how lucky I was at the time.

Damn! That’s crazy scary.

 

[marvin8]

These challenges from folks like “fight smart Trav” can be fun, but are meaningless in the grand scope of things. Against a trained knife fighter, your chances for survival plummet. The majority of knife altercations on the street don’t come from a trained knife fighter.

The $10k challenge is for doing what Paulo is teaching Jesse in the OP video and does in flow drills. In his own challenge practice video, Paulo cannot get the Russian tie against his own friend. The street is less predictable.

In another video below, Paulo accepts the challenge. In the over 300 comments asking Paulo to stop making excuses and follow through with his word, Paulo replies, "I accepted… I'm actually not teaching any of it." While 3 years later in the OP video, there is a link to Paulo's courses for sale on a new website.

 

[Haruhiko]

Paulo GN Rubio is an exceptional teacher, articulate and sounds so credible too!

"In my mind I wanted to kill you."

I've experienced this on the receiving end in the dojo. It's different to seeing "red". It's almost supernatural. Reminds me of this passage in Kenji Tokitsu's book:

It's as if intent, spirit, and energy can be intuited.

Good video overall, I like Jesse's curiosity about the arts and his humility.

 

[windwalker099]

"There is no fair play, no rules, except one. Kill or be killed"

William E. Fairbairn

He is perhaps best known for designing the famous Fairbairn–Sykes fighting knife, or 'Commando' knife, a stilletto-style fighting dagger used by British Special Forces in the Second World War, and featured in his textbook Scientific Self-Defence Fairbairn also designed the lesser known Smatchet, and collaborated on the design of several other combat knife designs.

Nice to meet you