Self-Defense Tip 11 Knife Attacks

Real knife attacks vs. martial arts class knife attacks

If you think that knife attacks look anything like those typically seen in martial arts classes — you can be dead wrong.

Real attacks, by people who are familiar with a knife’s properties and true potential, are a blur of short, noncommitted stabs and cuts that are practically impossible to stop.

An attacker, with any idea of what he or she is doing, will overwhelm you with a hail of cuts that will start at the nearest body part and end in a vital target. Within a second you may lose your fingers, have severed tendons of your arms, and be finished with a stab to your eye, or throat, or trunk.

If someone has taught you to block knife cuts and stabs, or to grab a knife-holding hand, you need to see the reality for a change. The video Surviving Edged Weapons by Dennis Anderson and Charles Remsberg shows the reality of edged weapons (knives, screw drivers, forks, glass shards) attacks. YOU MUST SEE IT!

See how prison inmates and knife experts practice knife fighting. See what really works and what doesn’t against a knife attack! See reenactments of actual knife attacks and how they could have been avoided. See officers “slaughtered” in spite of fancy police baton defenses and “killed” (stabbed and slashed) with a knife at distances in which they thought they could draw their guns and were safe.

This intense action-packed 85-minute video features two of the foremost American knife fighting experts: Leo Gaje, Jr. and Dan Inosanto, as well as police officers who survived knife attacks. It is the most useful knife-awareness video ever made. For civilians this video is difficult to purchase, so for your convenience here is its most informative clip posted on YouTube:

Use everyday objects to defend yourself against knife attacks

And below are more videos that expound on the points made in the above one, as well as teach about defending against knife attack (but don’t despair, you can defend yourself against a knife attack by using everyday objects as weapons of opportunity, for example, the Unbreakable® Umbrella):

But don’t despair, you can defend yourself against a knife attack by using Unbreakable® Umbrella.

But don’t despair, you can defend yourself against a knife attack by using Unbreakable® Umbrella.

But do not despair, you can defend yourself against a knife attack by using Unbreakable® Umbrella.

Recommended self-defense tips on defenses against knife attacks:
Self-Defense Tip #69 — Everyday Objects as Weapons of Self-Defense: Rolled-Up Magazine vs. Knife, Part I
Self-Defense Tip #70 — Everyday Objects as Weapons of Self-Defense: Jacket vs. Knife, Part I
Self-Defense Tip #71 — Everyday Objects as Weapons of Self-Defense: Jacket vs. Knife, Part II
Self-Defense Tip #72 — Everyday Objects as Weapons of Self-Defense: Rolled-Up Magazine vs. Knife, Part II
Self-Defense Tip #73 — Everyday Objects as Weapons of Self-Defense: Umbrella vs. Knife
Self-Defense Tip #74 — Everyday Objects as Weapons of Self-Defense: Hit and Grab Easier Than Just Grab Alone
Self-Defense Tip #75 — Everyday Objects as Weapons of Self-Defense: Why Unbreakable® Umbrella?
Self-Defense Tip #98 — Defense Against Knife Attack: Table

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Self-defense tip from Thomas Kurz, co-author of Basic Instincts of Self-Defense and author of Science of Sports Training, Stretching Scientifically, and Flexibility Express.

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