With knife defensive. If they really want to use a knife on you, you probably won’t even see it coming. The fear involved is going to be even greater than what we have been talking about up till now. Dealing with a knife attacker is never going to be easy. Remember if you can get out of the situation by complying with the assailant then it is probably a good idea to do just that. However if you do get physically involved with a knife attacker, remember you are very likely to get cut, if you go into the situation thinking you won’t get cut, you more likely end up dead, or if you are lucky, in hospital.
At the first sight of blood, you are going to panic or at least hesitate momentarily. Something you can’t afford to do in any fight let alone when there’s a blade involved. So remember you might get cut in a knife fight, but if it is couple of slice to nicks to the arms against the knife embedded to the hilt in your gut, which one you are going to choose.
When dealing with an attack involving a knife or any edge weapon. The prospective defender has to embrace an almost inevitable hazard. He or she will get cut. Self-defense is all about damage limitation, and this is never more evident than we are dealing with an attacker armed with an edged weapon. Therefore, after accepting that they will get cut, the defender has less of a chance of freezing at the sight that there are wounds, and work fighting for their life.
So the situation you have got now with the knife threat to the neck, a knife threat to the neck. And let’s enter the mind of the attacker. And what he is dealing with is literally that, he’s expecting you to do with everything he asked of you because he has got that knife to you on there. Now he is going to be looking either at that knife or in your face. So his vision is literally this head and shoulder circle here that is all he is looking at, that is what he is concentrating, this head and shoulder circle here.
So if you bring your hands up now, you will be bringing them into the line of vision okay. So if you try anything now, at best that knife is going to be around a bit harder and he is going to threaten you with that a little bit harder. Okay so you are going to keep your hands down for a start. The second problem we have got is there's a hand on your shoulder here. Okay so if you try to use this arm here, he is going to feel that happening and you have got the same problem.
So what we are going to do is from the arms being down, you are going to use the arm that is on the knife side. The hand comes up on the inside. You drive it down, get a hold of that arm, keep a hold of that arm, get it away through your arm, down on that knife there.
As soon as you have got that, as soon as that is away from your neck and you have got a hold of that arm, you can bring your other arm into play now, okay and you get that blows in. Those blows, hit as hard as you can, this guy has got a knife at your neck, you’ve got to hit him hard, you got to punish him for that. Okay let’s start again. This is here, this hand is up here and the knife is to your neck. This is the one you got to deal with, keep hold of it, keep control of it, keep that knife away from you. As soon as you have got control of it, those blows can come in, you can start hitting, getting him off balance, get him disoriented. Keep control of that knife. Right through, down on your knife all the time, do what you like with your knees and elbows, or with your other arm. Just get the job done and get out of there. Let’s do that a few more time okay.
Control the knife arm, get the blows in, hit him hard, do what you got to do and get away. Knife got to the neck, and dealing with the knife is never going to be easy, the key thing you can control that knife up and you do what you got to do, get away. Now if the situation is slightly different and he has got a knife to your throat but the hand is on the opposite shoulder then you are free to use that opposite hand there.
Okay so again exactly the same way bring it up from below, getting control of the knife arm, wide down on it, keeping it away from you throughout okay and immediately striking with whatever you are comfortable with. So the knife’s to the throat, opposite hand coming across, right down, strike with whatever you are comfortable with until he either drops the knife or you are able to get away. So once more, knife to the throat, hand up, right down, controlling that knife arm throughout and do whatever you need to do to get away.
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