Reality based training - #5

THIS ARTICLE IS NOT FOR KNIFE FIGHTERS. THIS ARTICLE IS ONLY FOR PEOPLE INTERESTED IN SELF-DEFENSE.

How many times can you die?

Answer: Only once

Is learning knife fighting going to help you in self defense?

However, many martial arts still teach their students dueling with STICKS replacing machete, knifes, parangs... AND treating it as self-defense?

Yes, their egos must be huge after "defeating" their "opponents".

Let's cut to the chase - if you are NOT fighting with REAL KNIFES, you are not learning knife fighting. You are just learning wood or plastic fighting (whichever your "knife" is made of)

You may "get" a cut on the other person, the other person would have sacrificed a cut to kill you.

You may have been stabbed 5 times and the other guy 10 times in a "duel", but, both of you HAVE THE SAME OUTCOME, both would be lying down bleeding to death after you "come to your senses".

If you like to read, read this: Lengthy but probably the ONLY knife fighting article you need to read. http://www.nononsenseselfdefense.com/knifedueling.htm#martialartslies

Let's look at some videos.

Myths about knife fighting:
Video


Reality - Try fending off two guys coming at you with full force


This is a good training video - cannot get any more real. You can see that they KNOW they got stab.



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*Self defense is a subset of Martial arts*
*Reality based self defense training cannot always be real, because there may be no one left to train with!* - Me
*Train for what happens most and you will be able to handle most of what happens -- Marc "Animal" MacYoung*