They Invaded Your Home and You Need to Survive: How to Fight with a Knife

By Al Case

Somebody breaking into your home, pulling you out of a car, threatening your family...this is a worst case scenario. Mind you, I am not telling you how to commit mayhem here, I just want you to live. Before I continue, I recommend you look into a serious martial arts school to pursue this subject.

These are deadly times. If the police report in your weekly newsmag, filled with drug dealers and robberies, doesn't scare you, then the general shape of the world should. Talk of terrorist attacks in major cities, stories of civil unrest and riots, these are realities that we may someday have to face.

If somebody pulls a bladed weapon and comes at you to start knife fighting, you have to be aware that there are three potential movements that you have to face. There is the obvious poke and cut. Then there is the not so obvious stroke with the butt of the weapon.

First thing, get out of there. Run, and run loudly. Screaming rape is a good thing.

Second, grab something, anything, and wave it violently. Maybe you don't know how to use it, but once the mugger knows he isn't going to get your money and your life for free, he might bug out. Seriously, I knew a fellow who was jumped by a gang of kids, and he chased them down the street by waving a kitchen plate at them!

Third, even a piece of clothing can aid in your knife defense. If you can slip out of your jacket and whip it around your arm, you have protection. If you can your belt out of the loops you can use it for a whip, and snap the thing towards his eyes.

Third, you're up against the wall, there is nowhere to hide...what do you do? First, remember that he has to get to you, and that means he is going to have to extend his arm. If you can body hug that arm, you might take a few slices, but you have immobilized his knife at least to some degree, and maybe you can get free and run, but at least you have more time to scream.

The things I've shared here are desperate measures, they are strategies that you pull out of the hat after the fit hits the shan. They happen after you should have been prepared, if you get my drift. If you are serious about how to knife fight, the best place to start is a good martial arts school.

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Fighting with a knife is dangerous. Be sure the course you take has well founded concepts with good instruction. The Blinding Steel Course at Monster Martial Arts is the best..