Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Knife Defense Tactics

I thought this sign was funny.



























Before entering a pretty famous street in Beijing this sign and others like it were posted on an A-Frame.

Even if someone was carrying a weapon why would they reveal it?

And if they did, there was no place to drop the knives and guns off like in the wild west.

According to Police Reports most knife attack survivors, when asked to fill their report, never saw their assailant's weapon nor did they realize they were being stabbed or cut.

Most go to say they thought they were being punched.

Therefore most martial arts schools teach knife defenses all wrong.

Think about it, if you were the attacker bent on killing someone or seriously injuring them, wouldn't you also be very deceptive and sneaky to wait for the perfect opportunity to unleash your attack and be successful with it?

Knowing this makes preparing for a knife attack way more challenging. It's even more difficult to comprehend what goes on inside an attacker's mind and how someone could follow through with something so gruesome.

You only come to realize that if you want to survive a knife attack you have to be as ruthless and unforgiving as they are.

Your life will depend on it.

Your best reaction should always be, avoid any potentially dangerous situations at all costs, think ahead, remove yourself and walk away from any kind of dispute, and weary of anyone stepping into your safety zone.

The problem is you never know what can happen. Who knows what the future holds?

I'm sure the lucky ones who survived a knife attack wished they knew more about dealing with a knife and the ones who lost their life, well I ask myself "What if?"

Would it of made any difference? What if everyone who went to college, men and women, had a mandatory knife defense course to complete?

More and more people are carrying knives, hearing about knife attacks are very common in the newspaper, finding the reports and statistics for your city would shock you.

No approach is fool proof. There is no magic formula but spending some time educating yourself on the subject of knife defense is a very good idea.

There are many courses and DVDs out there on the subject of knife defense.

Here's the first step to what we do and if you like our approach there will be more volumes being released shortly.

Master Yourself,

Sibok M

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