Even small knicks or pierce wounds with knives tend to be more effective psychological deterrents than other forms of non-lethal tactics in a hand to hand combat situation.
That being said, not everyone is psychologically prepared to stick or cut another mammal,
let alone another human being,
with a knife unless they have been pushed to the point of their lizard brain kicking into pure survival mode.
And my comments above do not mean to address how much force or how much restraint to use in a knife scenario for self-defense.
Spending some time field dressing animals as part of the hunting process can be instructive from an anatomy, cutting, slashing, and even mentally regarding one’s relationship to the idea of carrying a knife for potential self-defense application.
I’m not saying that training with a knife should stop there.
But, understanding how a knife works on mammal skin, muscle, the various organs, and joint joinings is I think useful instruction in its own way regarding part of the self-defense application being considered.
When I have done live knife disarming training with markers or shock knives,
I have not been terribly impressed with the official Gracie knife disarming techniques performance in those situations in preference to other tactics…but maybe I have been doing them wrong.
I will also state that participating in a knife disarming drill when the other guy is free to switch hands or do shanking techniques is a good group exercise to demonstrate that having a higher belt (including black belts) might not really mean as much as the popular media would like to imply, regardless of which martial art you practice.
I do not really advocate any knife disarming techniques unless no other option is available.
Stab them in the ass.
It is an old gangsters trick to send people a message without killing them.
[QUOTE=Mr. Machette;2856219]That particular series was beyond overkill.
He didn’t just dissable the attacker. He proceeded to field dress and butcher it’s corpse.
I wish that statement was an exageration. It is not.
[/QUOTE]
Lol…