Hey, you might not think it is manly or cool and that’s fine I guess. Whatever you can do to completely escape from a potentially lethal situation is the ideal. And, of course, keep those same people out of danger when it threatens.Įrgo, the pinnacle of success when it comes to fighting, especially with lethal force in play, is to not do it. If you are a mind-your-own business civilian type, and I mean specifically someone who does not run toward danger without a cause, look for trouble, or stack bad men up like sandbags for a living, your only priority is to keep your ass alive so you can go home to your family and the people that depend on you. In this article, we’ll show you a few foundational techniques to do just that before you get turned into dog food. What you need to do instead is disable the knife by any means necessary and then reduce your attacker’s capability to fight. When the fight is on, escape is usually impossible without stunning or incapacitating your attacker or sacrificing your pound of flesh. All self-defense is high stakes, but defending against a knife-wielding attacker might be the riskiest of all.ĭespite the common advice to “just run away” you probably won’t be able to. Wounds from knives and other stabbing weapons pile up quickly, reducing your ability to fight back while increasing the speed with which you bleed out.
Flashy, stiff, and ritualized procedures won’t cut the mustard before you get cut. Most traditional martial arts techniques for dealing with a knife attack are less than useless. Knives are available anywhere, easy to hide, quick to put into action and extremely effective in close quarters.Ī knife is every bit as lethal as a gun once someone has closed the gap with you, and that part is often something you can count on occurring no matter how hard we try to avoid it.