How to Defend Against a Knife Attack Using Israeli Martial Arts

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village, I'm Julio Rivera. And I'm Ricardo Belad. And we're here at Premier Martial Arts in New York City showing you Israeli martial arts. A knife defense first coming forward with a stab. Now, as he comes forward, I have to shoot my hips out of the way, getting my belly out of the way. If I get stabbed in the belly, the fight is probably going to be over. So he's come forward, I block and I move my hips away. Now from here I'm going to slide my arm up--my top arm slides up to his elbow. As I grab his elbow I'm going to pull his elbow towards me here. Okay, now I'm getting a grip on his arm. Now from here--if the knife is here--this guy just tried to stab me, so guess what, it's going into his back. Okay, right there. From there, I can knee him, pull the knife, and now I have the knife. If someone tries to stab me, he doesn't have good intentions. He's trying to kill me, so I have no problems about stabbing him with his own knife. Again, forward. Let's try it in real time now."