Kung Fu Downward Knife Slash Defense

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Dan Schmidt from the Chinese Martial Arts Center in Seminole and today in this clip we are going to be showing you proper self defense against downward knife slash. So if you see somebody is about to stab you overhead, don't stand still and try to block too close to the body. The best thing to try to do is get low and block up as high as you can. From here you are going to grab, step behind as you bend the arm, put your hand on the back of their elbow and using the wrist and your hand on the elbow, pull straight down this way. This will pop the shoulder out of joint so they stab in, block up, get close, you want to grab, start bending as you step all the way behind it as much as you can. So leg behind their leg, pull straight down on the wrist and back. One more time, you see him coming overhead, drop, block right on the wrist, grab, bend, step behind, pull straight down. So once more, they stab, block, grab and press. That is self defense against a downward knife stab."