DuneViking
Blue Belt
Greetings all,
OK since there were so many knife statements in the thread about " WTF being good for self defense ", here is a proper forum to address them. My opinion, if I get in a fight with a blade weilder, I will probably get cut, period. Minimizing that and using whatever I can, like my head to think, pull off my coat, or belt or whatever is available if possible. Run if I possibly can!!! Our basic knife defense starts with 4 basic knife attacks and how to defend against them. They are : a thrust, a slash, over head and double slash, ie slash & backslash. Please remember folks, these are what we attempt to do, they do not always work, and we almost always get cut a little ( the black rubber knives leave marks) .
Thrust- Run if I possibly can!!! get out of the way, 2 hand block to the opponent's inside, grab onto the wrist and continue in the direction of the block, placing pressure immediately on the opponent's elbow and grabbing the hand to control the wrist joint, then either reversing the direction twisting the forearm at the elbow and wrist sideways, perpendicular to the axis of joint movement or continuing the turn/elbow pressure and adding wrist lock submission to the arm.
Slash- Run if I possibly can!!! get out of the way, then close and block/pin the slashing arm and strike and control the weapon. Watch for attacker to place knife in other hand here-tricky devils.
Overhead- Run if I possibly can!!! get out of the way, usually stepping slightly to side, high X block and wrist grab then using attackers momentum and controling the strike, continue the arc of the overhead placing the blade point deep into the top of his thigh.
Double slash- Run if I possibly can!!! see slash above, close after the second (or 3rd) . Hope that answers the Q from the Kenpo artist- its a start . . .:viking3:
OK since there were so many knife statements in the thread about " WTF being good for self defense ", here is a proper forum to address them. My opinion, if I get in a fight with a blade weilder, I will probably get cut, period. Minimizing that and using whatever I can, like my head to think, pull off my coat, or belt or whatever is available if possible. Run if I possibly can!!! Our basic knife defense starts with 4 basic knife attacks and how to defend against them. They are : a thrust, a slash, over head and double slash, ie slash & backslash. Please remember folks, these are what we attempt to do, they do not always work, and we almost always get cut a little ( the black rubber knives leave marks) .
Thrust- Run if I possibly can!!! get out of the way, 2 hand block to the opponent's inside, grab onto the wrist and continue in the direction of the block, placing pressure immediately on the opponent's elbow and grabbing the hand to control the wrist joint, then either reversing the direction twisting the forearm at the elbow and wrist sideways, perpendicular to the axis of joint movement or continuing the turn/elbow pressure and adding wrist lock submission to the arm.
Slash- Run if I possibly can!!! get out of the way, then close and block/pin the slashing arm and strike and control the weapon. Watch for attacker to place knife in other hand here-tricky devils.
Overhead- Run if I possibly can!!! get out of the way, usually stepping slightly to side, high X block and wrist grab then using attackers momentum and controling the strike, continue the arc of the overhead placing the blade point deep into the top of his thigh.
Double slash- Run if I possibly can!!! see slash above, close after the second (or 3rd) . Hope that answers the Q from the Kenpo artist- its a start . . .:viking3: