Self-Defense Against an Underhand Stab

Video Transcript

"Hi I am Jason Jeannette with Elite Martial Art in Middle, Tennessee on behalf of Expert Village. This is defense from an underhand stab. I don't usually deal with this one a whole lot. I just can't see myself doing that but we have had some issues with someone getting severely injured in our area trying to stop a mugging so we are going to deal with that today. He's coming from underhand stab and I am doing the same outside defense that I do for any type of strike from anywhere but here I am adding to it so I am getting my hips out away from the blade. Because even if they are hitting me this way there is a screw driver or a knife or something there and I need to haul off and hit. To stop this I want to grab on to this and immediately turn this on to a grappling match as much as possible. I would like to say for people who have students who do any grappling that after they get the technique have the person fight it for them. Have them turn it to a wrestling match. Don't do it the same way every time. Have them go through all the options of what is going to happen and make it be sloppy in a real fight. From here I'm just going to try to send hi to his face with an arm bar type of situation, just pulling back and just dropping my weight on his arm. From here I will just lay my knee on top of his weapon hand, T-shirt chokes, or whatever I need to do depending on the situation."