How to Block to Disarm Attacker With Knife

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. Now, I'm going to show you how to use an X block to disarm your opponent. Nick. Your opponents coming in with a straight thrust. He's probably going to be pretty close to you if you want to use this one. So what you're going to do as soon as he comes in and thrust, Okay, go ahead. Pull back. What you're doing, you're throwing your hips back and your feet back in at the same time, pushing down with an X block. From here, you're kicking the inside of the leg right here and rolling this over to a wrist lock. From here, take away the knife; just kind of roll it out of the hand. And you can either use this to strike. You can get rid of it. You don't want to do any damage. Kick the inside of the leg, stomp it down, hand on the shoulder and then you just place that knee right there and you've got either an arm bar or a shoulder crank you want right here. Now, let's say, you're a cop or something and you need that other arm. You want to take that other hand out if he's not compliant. He won't give you that other arm. All it takes is that "Come on man, give your arm. Give me your arm. You're going to give me your arm, swinging around back, all right. Come on." That's all it takes. And you're in prime position for cuffs. So come on up, go over that X block one more time, this is the most important part. He comes in with the thrust and you're flinging back, keeping your vitals and everything intact and flinging out right here going to the wrist lock. And that's how to disarm someone starting off with an X block."