How to Defend Against a Knife Attack by Multiple Opponents

Often, when being attacked on the street, you may encounter multiple attackers with weapons and need to know how to avoid injury when defending yourself. An attacker armed with a knife may seem intimidating, but a Bushido practitioner knows that because of the close proximity necessary for knife attacks you can defend against multiple attackers in much the same way as against a single attacker.

Difficulty: Challenging

Instructions

1. Put your hands up by your head immediately if an attacker is holding a knife to your throat or body. Putting your hands by your head will make your attacker feel more comfortable and less nervous, while also giving you the ability to better use your hands in defense.

2. Note which hand the attacker is using to hold the knife. If the attacker is holding the knife with his right hand, you will want to move the right side of your body backward out of reach.

3. Grab the attacker's hand with your hand as you back up. If the attacker is holding the knife with his right hand, you will grab his hand and wrist with your left hand, keeping your right hand in the air to use for defense.

4. Pull the knife hand down hard and grab the hand with your free hand, pushing the knife hand toward the attacker's body and pinning the wrist.

5. Use the leverage of the wrist grab to push the attacker's knife up towards his own head. From here, you can either use the knife to threaten the attacker or cut the attacker and then maintain control of the hand and knife to threaten other attackers.

6. Hold the attacker's knife arm in front of you and keep his arm locked with a strong grip on his wrist and knife. Using the knife in his own hand, fight off other attackers and use his body to block. When you are able to pin the attacker against a wall you can disarm him.

7. Keep attackers in line when fighting multiple individuals. Try to keep an attacker between your body and other potential attackers at all times.

Tips & Warnings

• Stay as far away from knife attackers as you can at all times. Most people will not fight by holding a knife out far from their bodies because their strikes will be less forceful and it is easier to disarm them. Avoid getting close to or turning your back on knife attackers even if Bushido techniques allow it.
• Never allow multiple attackers to approach you from different sides of your body.
• Never attempt to engage in a fight with attackers using knives or other weapons unless you are an advanced Bushido practitioner or other martial artist trained in street techniques and have no other options for escape without personal injury.

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