No your right no argument but against a thug with no knife experience just an attitude and possably drugged up you might have it as your last line of defenece if you cant do anything eles.
I know one Silat expert who used to say, "If your opponent has a knife, take 10 years off of your martial arts training. If he has training, take more off."
Well i used to think this till i saw youtube a few days ago, Now you have to treat every situation with a veiw its a good chance they are highly trained wich in turn has moved street violence to another level.
There's some really great stuff on youtube. There's also some colossal stinkers.
Now you can assusme every thug is carrying a blade.
You should have always assumed that. It's hardly a new thing.
they are tought to knock the knife out by hitting the flat side of the blade with power. Knowing this now it is easy for the attacker to anticipate this movement and turn the blade and pull back up ready for a stab. 2 moves the defender is dead.
Don't worry about that. First off, knocking the blade aside by the flat, empty handed, is idiotic. Second off, the defense suggested is lame. Third, it is pretty intuitively simple to kill an unarmed person with a knife and the knowledge for how to do so has been around as long as knives have. Heck, if you want an easy primer, look at "Put 'em down, Take 'em out" and that book is, literally, an antique. And that's just "modern" books.
I would take out his sight with sand or some form of obstruction, Even though a rock or 10 a stand up sprinkler a garden steak a stick in the face use a garbage bin to trip or even a lid as a sheild anything to get away.
Look, improvised weapons are great when you can't access an actual, purpose built, weapon in defense. But that's all they are:
IMPROVISED. An improvised weapon is shoehorning a non-weapon item into a role it was never intended for and will always be less effective at performing than a item designed specifically for that purpose. Yes, a "Marksalot" magic marker can make an improvised Kopo, but it's less rigid, and far more fragile than an actual Kopo. Same goes for any improvised weapon. And I recently heard a rather interesting account of what happened to one idiot who thought a trash can lid made a useful shield. I think he was probably able to walk again, but the "aftermath" was left out of the story related to me.
Im basiclly a self taught bar fist knuckle boxer and used to train with mates old school way just take the knocks. I have no fear of walking though a set to get close my first move without weapons is to get in past the power zone and to close for anyone to take a good swing my size and weight pretty well over powers in most cases. Yes ive been beat down and i except that.
I can respect that. If true, it means that you can lay a beat down, unarmed, one-on-one, against 50% of the martial artists I've met. But being a Bar Brawler, even a fair-to-midlin self trained one, cannot prepare for knife assaults any more than half (or more!) of the crap I've seen in the "genuine martial arts training" does.
Ive had one knife attack from a like 13-14 year old kid once that was all ive had to do with knives, I managed to sway him out of it. i don't even remember how he wasn't sure about what he was doing and i give him a chance to change his mind and i would leave him alone. I think he pulled it with out thinking.
So you talked your way out of getting stabbed. This is wise. Even a pre-teen kid like this can be death on wheels if he has a knife and you're unarmed.
Always give the attacker an out in this case don't make them feel comitted
If possible, yeah. No argument about that.
This to me is real self defence Not Martial arts but very effective ways to keep from someone getting the better of you.
Im not that confident that no one will attack me with all the crystal meth and new drugs out ther you just don't know whats around the corner.
Dude, this isn't new at all. Drugs which can (either in isolation or in combination with others) lower inhibitions, increase pain tolerance, raise aggression, and decrease perception of personal injury are old, old hat. Heck, simple alcohol fits the bill without including thinks like cocaine, barbiturates, and historic "patent medicines."
I don't even like the citys because of this. Who want's to live life with an eye looking out the back every where they go. Im not scarred just cautious i lived on the streets for some time when i was young and im not getting stuck by some prick full of drugs, That is not my destiny. Cheers
Modern First World cities are a thousand times safer now than they were 100 years ago. But, yeah, still dangerous in the right circumstances.
Peace favor your sword,
Kirk