Defense Against Attack With a Knife

Series Summary

You probably would not be reading this summary if you were not worried about getting attacked by a thug with a knife. Crime happens, and it is better to be prepared to defend yourself than to rely on the chance to run away or yell until someone shows up to help. Of course running away and getting help are much better options than actually having to defend a knife attack, but you may be in a situation when no one can hear you and the assailant is already too close for you to escape. What do you do? Ideally, you could politely ask the thug to wait until you can call up this site on your laptop and watch these videos and practice the moves. But muggers are not known for their patience, so better to watch these clips now and practice so you will be ready to fend off an attack.

In this free series of self defense videos, our martial arts expert talks about basic techniques to defend an attack with a knife. This is not an advanced martial arts training flick but an essential self defense video which uses moves that people with no martial arts belt at all can utilize in life-threatening situations. Tres Tew demonstrates different defense tactics based on how close an attacker is to you and where they are holding the knife. Kick an attacker if they are far enough away, but should they get in close, be sure to protect your neck and vital organs from the blade. Our expert will show you how. Even if someone has a knife to your throat, our expert will share the secret on how to get out of this terrifying situation. With well placed jabs and careful moves, you can even maneuver into a position to allow you to use the attackers knife against them! Watch Expert Village videos and be prepared for anything!

Video Transcript

"TRES TEW: Hi, I'm Tres Tew. I'm an instructor here at Yeshua's Ryu Martial Arts. I'm going to be teaching you about how to use open hands to defend yourself against the knife and this'll be on behalf of Expert Village. Okay in the next couple of videos we're going to talk about how to use your open hands to defend against the knife. Again taking into consideration the length of the knife, judging distance, using blocks and punches, kicks, evasion, disarming techniques, controlling techniques, everything pretty much under the sun, we're going to touch on. And also when you're training with this use rubber knives don't use real knives. Also you can find metal training knives that don't have an edge on them but they maintain their rigidity when you're doing disarming techniques. If you need to smack it, it'll fly right out of someone's hand. So, again, we're going to be going over all of this stuff and just enjoy."