How to Use Hoodie to Defend Knife Slice

Video Transcript

"Tres Tew here. I'm an instructor at Yeshua's Ryu Martial Arts and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to be showing you how to use your jacket or your hooded sweatshirt in a defense situation. Now, using your jacket in the shield/grappling tool way, Nick is going to come in with a thrust and we are going to block it down just like this. Using this, we may catch the blade a little bit. That's why we have the shield. Once we push down, we are coming under just like this and wrapping up and disarming. From here, we can go straight into choking or whatever. We've still got our legs to attack with. We can punch, we can let go of the jacket and just kind of throw him down. Grab him by the neck and throw him down. Keep him from attacking us again. But again, go ahead and grab your knife. We are going to go over that one more time. Blocking down, wrapping around just like this and then reaping out just like this, okay? So, it's a very circular motion. You wrap it and then pull back and that's where he loses the knife. Then you reap it back this way, and he's completely lost it at that point. So that's how to use your jacket in the shield/grappling way to defend yourself against a knife thrust. "