Self-Defense Tip 70 Everyday Objects as Weapons of Self-Defense: Jacket vs. Knife, Part I

In the previous self-defense tip, I have shown how to use a rolled-up glossy magazine to deflect a knife or even knock it from an assailant’s hand.

Jacket, a weapon of opportunity against a knife attack

Today’s self-defense tip is about defending against a knife attack by using a jacket or any suitably substantial piece of clothing. Pay attention: The piece of clothing must have enough weight to move whatever body part of the attacker it hits. A silly slap with something as light as a T-shirt may not do.

The video below shows the basic points of using a jacket to deflect the armed hand, or to ensnare it and the knife, or possibly to knock the knife from an assailant’s hand. The rest you can learn by practicing with a partner. Use a safe training knife.

Jacket vs. Knife, Part I

Having small change, little notebooks, or other such mass-adding objects in pockets helps make the impact more forceful.

A knife defense that begins with a jacket slap at the attacker’s face or the knife hand must end with a disabling disarm — which will be shown in a subsequent self-defense tip.

By the way, a jacket slap at the attacker’s face is a good move in unarmed combat too.

Now if, when attacked by a knife fighter, you had your Unbreakable® Umbrella with you, then your defense would be simpler and safer. Every whack with your Unbreakable® Umbrella has a good chance to be both disarming and disabling. It does not matter whether you strike the armed hand or the unarmed hand, a kneecap, a throat, or an eye orbit, or whether you stab the trunk. The Unbreakable® Umbrella powerfully applied to any hand, wrist, forearm, elbow, or knee, even to the meat of the limbs or the trunk, leaves a “strong and lasting impression.” In good hands, it leaves a bone-crunching, bloody strong impression. . . . For examples, see Self-Defense Tip #75 — Everyday Objects as Weapons of Self-Defense: Why Unbreakable® Umbrella? and Self-Defense Tip #107 — Self-Defense with the Unbreakable® Telescopic Umbrella.

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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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