Agreed, though I felt that the question already presupposes that, as he asks which technique we'd use. I was going on the scenario of the average untrained and unarmed assailant coming at me either to grab or punch.gee, if we're not waiting to see what the person does as he approaches, why not a "double tap":jediduel:
I suppose also that I should have asked which art's techniques were permissible. If using iaito techniques, I'd disembowel him, of course.
Daniel