Reality check: Defence against slashing and stabbing with knife

You can't always know when and how someone might be planning to attack you but should be able to respond. That's why we did an experiment to evaluate our chances when confronting slash and stab knife attacks with bare hands.

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[edpiv]

First thing I learned about knife fighting. Don’t get in a knife fight.

[Squirtsock]

I’ve always heard of if u win a knife fight ur badly hurt and in a ambulance and losing blood and ur enemy is in a body bag 😂

[kobusvandenbrink]

And this was an attacker that didn’t even have real intend and power behind his attack, it would have been way worse.

[Habibis_ting]

I went to a knife self defense workshop and the first thing the instructor said is "you gonna get fucked up with a knife either way. Hopefully with this class, you minimise just how much while maximising your chances of survival." Dude said hopefully. That's when I realised there's no clean victory in the street

[StarvingMorlock]

A friend of mine thought he could fight a guy with a knife, he ended up with 22 slashes on his forearms, 13 on his right one and 9 on his left one. 7 lashes on his chest and ribs, and three on his face. He lost mobility on his right hand due to the severity of the slashes, lost a lot of blood, and took 8 months to recover but not completely, he's got lots of scars and during a couple of months he looked so pale because of the blood he lost.

[wea]

it's nice that you highlight the failures, knife fighting is often underestimated

[azazel]

Movie knife fights: zero cuts or lacerations but the enemyxdead
Real life: enemy walks away unscathed and you pretty much salami

[beejwrobel]

I have a background in private security and korean martial arts. So in general you want to maintain at least 7 meters (20ft) between yourself and someone with any melee weapon, particularly edged weapons as they classify as lethal on the use of force continuum. Now that is a minimum distance because that is on average the amount of ground an attacker can cover in the time it takes the brain to process and respond to an incoming attack from an empty hand position. If you have a firearm and are appropriately licensed and trained, that would be the go to, as you're matching lethal force with lethal force. Second best option is to GTFO. Unless you're kitted up to protect against stab and slash attacks, you're going to get seriously fucked up, however, if someone does come at you with a knife, you're much better off taking a cut to the forearm than the chest. Even just having on cut resistant gloves makes a difference. I'm saying that from the perspective of someone who has to respond to and control a situation and doesn't have the option to just run. Honestly for me syringes are worse than a knife. Have had a few junkies pull used fits before and when you know they're +hepc and that a hypodermic needle will go through most cut resist shit, it can be a little confronting.

[idiotwandering]

Remember kids... defense os a losing game, especially with weapons.
Use you dam feet and step around to the side.
Linear movement =death

[headshot]

no matter what ur probably gonna get cut it can be pretty hard to do that (block) successfully but practice makes perfect.

[uttermostvids]

I’d much rather take a few cuts or stabs to my hand than my thorax or stomach

[experimental]

this two are real fighters but if the attacker is just a drunk person holding a knife, I think their is a chance the defender could disarm the attacker, but still no guarantee

[thisiconisactuallygoofysfa]

Almost destroyed his own right leg at the last part with the knife users knife

[my.basement.is.full.]

Bro if some 1 comes at me with a knife n I don’t have a burner on me I’m running

[vegavak]

good thing the other guy with the knife likes to flail his arm while stabbing instead of grabbing the shirt to pull. there is no defense against a knife. you re gonna get cut. where and how much you get cut is up to you.

[unadopted_orphan]

Looked perfect but gotta control the wrist at the end, he woulda got a nasty shank right in the biggest muscle in your body, the thigh, going for the elbow gets the grapple going tho so it’s tough to say which would be better

[MrVireon]

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[brooklynkeith]

Honestly i am suprised at how many people havent commented about correctional facilities or any program where knives and shanks are the only weapons used. Ive been in a few fights with knives and the only solution if you really want to live is to be more violent then the guy with the weapon. In a real fight its messy use any thing as a weapon that you can get your hands on of you cannot run away.

[Punicia]

The only way to win a knife fight is to run

[NovaTherion]

Good demonstration
But let’s be real knife attacks are mostly never up front, they just attack out of nowhere.👎🏼