Knives are one of the most common types of weapons around, and also the most deadly. Knife attacks are often quick, close, and unpredictable, making them very dangerous. Learning how to defend yourself against a knife attack is a crucial part of learning Self Defense and an important skill for anyone to have. To survive a knife fight, you need to know what one looks like, and how to shut one down. 

What Do You Need to Know About Knife Attacks

You do not need a license to carry a knife, making it far more likely that you might encounter one than a gun or another weapon. Knives are tricky to defend because they are easily concealed. Usually, an attacker will wait until the very last minute to reveal their weapon, often starting the fight with their empty hand to take their victim unawares.  In fact, most survivors of Knife Attacks say that they only realized their assailant had a blade after they had already been stabbed or slashed. That is why knowing how to shut down any kind of attack, armed or otherwise, is vital.

            Forged Krav Maga focuses on practical ways to survive a knife attack, because fancy techniques are very unlikely to work. Unless you’re Jason Bourne, a knife altercation will probably look a lot more like an ambush than a back-and-forth sparring match. The important thing to know isn’t how to dodge and counter a person wielding a knife, but rather how to get in close and shut down their weapon. And that’s only if running away isn’t an option. Running away should always be your first line of defense. But if you can’t run away! Then you need to learn how to shut down the knife attack!

Realistic Knife Training

             In Krav Maga classes, students learn how to react quickly to attacks from different angles, use an attacker’s energy to control their weapon, and remove themselves from the situation. There are many directions a knife could come from: above, below, straight on, diagonal, etc. Knife attacks are broken up into ‘angles’ that each have their own set of defenses. After blocking the attack and shutting it down, students must then learn to take control of the weapon to make sure the attacker can’t simply wind up and try again. It may sound counterintuitive, but removing the space between the attacker and the defender is the key to shutting down an attack. In Krav Maga classes at Forged Self Defense, much emphasis is put on the ways that you can control someone from close range, also known as ‘clinch-fighting.’

            These skills are put into practice through stress drills, where students work the techniques in non-conventional formats designed to help them build up their reaction times and work under pressure. Eyes-closed drills, fighting in the clinch to control a knife with a partner, and group pad drills with spontaneous knife defenses thrown in are just some of the ways that the stress of an attack can be mimicked in the safe class environment. Working with friends and peers makes these types of drills more fun than scary, while still helping students visualize real-world situations that they can apply their training to.

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