Knife defense is impossible;

[Troll Virus]

The defeatist attitude of the title of this thread burns me... Phui! Who in (everything)

It's just the title of the video Tant.

[Thai Bri]

TV, please restrict yourself to training what you know about. I have dealt with hundreds of incidents where someone has been stabbed. They only rarely stopped fighting. To say being cut will put you into shock is as valid as saying banging your head will result in death. Can happen, but rarely does.

And running off is an appalling method. There are so many things wrong with it, including the obvious. Karl Tanswell himself rejects it and does a demo where he gives one student a demo knife and asks the other to run off. Guess who gets caught every time?

And who here would run away if he was with his elderly mother?

Oh yes. You would.

Mike, nope. I don't think that knife defence is impossible. Not at all. But this "cut and you're in shock" thing is just plain wrong in the majority of cases.

[Troll Virus]

TV, please restrict yourself to training what you know about.

If we all did that, then none of us would learn anything.

I have dealt with hundreds of incidents where someone has been stabbed. They only rarely stopped fighting. To say being cut will put you into shock is as valid as saying banging your head will result in death.

I didn't say that, Vunak did.
What I said, was that the cuts were to the forearms, and the radial artery is relevant there.

And running off is an appalling method. There are so many things wrong with it, including the obvious. Karl Tanswell himself rejects it and does a demo where he gives one student a demo knife and asks the other to run off. Guess who gets caught every time?

Which was why I said "first option".
It's only an option if you think you can do it.

And who here would run away if he was with his elderly mother?

Oh yes. You would.

Well she died Feb 19th, so that's not really an issue other than that part of your post is yet one more reason I thionk very little of you.

[Thai Bri]

Using the death of a parent to make a cheap shot to someone on the internet is a reprehensible act.

May she rest in peace.

[Troll Virus]

Using the death of a parent to make a cheap shot to someone on the internet is a reprehensible act.

May she rest in peace.

Your whole style is cheap Thai Bri.

YOU made the comment.
YOU deal with the consequence.

In the meantime, you missed out on posting your reply to various issues and quoted posts.
Why is that?

[Tant01]

finally someone who knows what they are talking about... guy talks sense unlike half the he men on this site! ....

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Is in not your obligation as a student to test the theories and sometimes statements of the authority figure teaching it?

There are far too many survivors of both gunshot wounds and knife attacks to accept the title of this thread as a fact. To do so is pure blindness.

I will not argue that distance is your safest bet but it is not always an option. Chances are good that most of your options will be eliminated by design (intent and timing).

If you accept that it is impossible to defend yourself from a knifer you are already defeated...

[shaolin-warrior]

While I'll agree that being attacked my a knife would be my last choice, right after sharks. I'd like to think that with the right mix of skill, luck and the ability to keep a cool head, I'd be able to survive both. Hope I never have to find out though.

[shaolin-warrior]

On a more serious note to anyone who holds the trust of students, please advise them that empty hand against a blade, or gun, is not an easy tactic. And it is best avoided if at all possible. Jet Lee and jackie chan make it look all to simple.

[Tant01]

On a more serious note to anyone who holds the trust of students, please advise them that empty hand against a blade, or gun, is not an easy tactic. And it is best avoided if at all possible. Jet Lee and jackie chan make it look all to simple.

Why do you suppose I have used the same signature quote since I started here?

This problem of facing weapons is not new... The solution now as always is educating oneself with the tactics and techniques used by those who prey on other people.

[Thai Bri]

In the meantime, you missed out on posting your reply to various issues and quoted posts.
Why is that?

Because you spend your life contradicting yourself.

[Troll Virus]

Because you spend your life contradicting yourself.

I do?
How impractical.

[Tant01]

I do?
How impractical.

Do I?

Save the "I do" for the wedding.

You're trying to get someone to say Vu is full of shit? His silat sucks? He doesn't know what he's talking about?

If it brings anyone a slight idea of what a knife can do I take my hat off to the guy.

If it inspires just one so called "artist" to learn something that saves a life...

His demo has helped.

[Troll Virus]

You're trying to get someone to say Vu is full of shit? His silat sucks? He doesn't know what he's talking about?

Definitely not.

[Tom Yum]

You have to decide - and mean it - that dying at the hands of another is just not an acceptable outcome, and you have to have the resolve to follow through with the very same determination that the passengers of Flight 93 did.

Or like the passengers did to Richard Reid, that POS shoe bomber.

[Tant01]

Impossible indeed...

Definitely not.

Okay, just checking... LOL