Can You Defend Against The Knife Attack?

We can talk about what you can do against the knife attack. But the reality is when someone attacks you with the knife, he does not do it slowly, he does not attack you once and this is going to change a lot of things. Honestly speaking, when you deal with someone who is about to attack you with a knife, be careful.

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Probably you learn like when someone attacks with a knife, one, move, two, do parry, three, grab the arm and turn, four, strike. How about you cannot parry or you move and parry, but the attacker moves his hand and starts attacking again? How about if the attacker takes the knife in another hand and starts attacking you again?

If there are multiple attackers and someone attacks you with a knife and the other attacker attacks you with a stick. Then what? The real life situation is different and difficult. So there is no one way of dealing with the situation. There are different ways and you can use different tools to make it work for you.

To defend against the knife attack, if you have anything, you can use that to make him confused and get out of there fast. For example, you can use your jacket to strike the attacker. It will not make much damage, but you can get some time to make your next move and do something else. The attacker might get confused or think twice to attack you again.

So what can you do to increase your skills to defend against the knife attack?

You can practice. You can get used to defending knife attack. Well, you might face a new situation in real life. But because of your training, you can develop the skills that you find very useful to face a totally new situation that you have not imagined before.

If you learn a specific way of defending the knife attack and think that it will work in every situation, you should see the reality, my friend. You might change your mind and think the practical way of making your moves for self defense.

Please feel free to let me know your thoughts in the comments below. If you like martial arts and want to learn more about self defense, you can check out some of my recent posts.

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