That's pretty much the long and the short of it.Buck Elliott wrote:Yep... If you fight with knives, you WiLL get cut, or stabbed, or both... Guaranteed !!
A lot can be learned in 5 minutes with a sharpie or a rubber knife or ruler chalked with chalk-line chalk about how good we AREN'T. Most of us aren't quick enough to avoid all contact.Streetstar wrote:Regarding knife fighting ------- give a 12 year old a sharpie , then tell 'em to have at it
This will very crudely tell you how a knife fight will go for you.
There are techniques to be sure, but these take years to master , -- the most practical is the Phillipine method of "de-fanging the snake" --- that is, if you are at arms length, your opponent cant hit your body -- and instead of fatal thrusting strikes, concentrate instead on sweeping gestures across hands, fingers, forearms --- these cripple the ability of the hands to do their dirty work ---
--- as well, the thighs -- if you can reach them , ---well placed cuts here can have predictable results
In the early 80's, after several reports of a peeping tom and one home intrusion in the same area, I helped teach a ladies "self defense" class, more of a home security lecture really, in the small town where I was a cop. Even after the above occurrences a lot of the ladies attending were reluctant to consider using a gun inside their homes, mainly out of concern of injuring one of their children, but had no problems carving up some stranger in their house. What I told them was a simplified version of the above: If they stick it out.. cut it off. Seemed to work out well, except for the perp we arrested a couple of weeks later in the ER seeking treatment after being slashed by a very sharp 10" carving knife in the hands of a very frightened single mom.
Kind of funny...when reading the report the DA called attention to the 7" cut on the suspects back shoulder. My partner at the time, a very old salt, simply said, "Well, I guess he wasn't leaving fast enough to suit her." The DA laughed and said something to the effect that the suspect should be thankful that mom didn't have a machete handy.