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I received very limited knife fighting training but lots of gun training. Rule one is: Don't bring a knife to a gunfight. Guns, all types and variety and plenty of them beats the best knife training in the world.
I have taken Escrima for a few years. Only touched the basics/intermediates during that time. I can not compare it to fencing since I have never fenced. Would love to though. But it is heads and tails different from Chinese sword forms.Just wondering if anyone out there has taken classes to actually fight with a combat knife?
I have heard over and over that knife fighting and sword fighting are very similar, and sword lessons will translate to a certain extent to knife fighting.
To that end I have been taking classical fencing lessons as well as Aikido Iado lessons.
Anyone have any thoughts?![]()
This is true to a degree, however, test prove that inside 20 feet the knife wins vs. a undrawn firearm.I received very limited knife fighting training but lots of gun training. Rule one is: Don't bring a knife to a gunfight. Guns, all types and variety and plenty of them beats the best knife training in the world.
I cartainly do appreciate rule #1 (I authored that rule! LOL), but reality is; you may not always have a gun on you, but you can almost always have a knife on you.I received very limited knife fighting training but lots of gun training. Rule one is: Don't bring a knife to a gunfight. Guns, all types and variety and plenty of them beats the best knife training in the world.
A friend of mine spent 12 years in prison (don't ask) but he told me that taking off your shirt and wrapping one of your arms was the way that knife attacks were defended against in the pen. So it looks like you accidentaly did the right thing, thank goodness!:thumb:Heres a lil tip ill give ya.
One night I was out with my misses and we were walking home from the movies and I had my jumper wrapped around my arm because it was starting to get a lil warm. As we were walking we almost got killed from a man with a knife, and the jumper blocked the knife, he tried to cut me but my arm with the jumper stoped it, maybe the knife was blunt or something? but it worked. Thankfully we didnt get hurt :thumb: maybe try it out?
21 feet or less, the knife fighter will gut the gun fighter before he can get the gun out of it's holster and aimed.I received very limited knife fighting training but lots of gun training. Rule one is: Don't bring a knife to a gunfight. Guns, all types and variety and plenty of them beats the best knife training in the world.
Not necessarily. If you are good, it's not even likely. However, you should be mentally prepared for it. Anything can happen in a knife fight.Just remember in an actual knife fight, your going to get cut, plain and simple.
Huh???? A knife will win against a un-drawn gun at any distance, Who conducted this test.... did they walk up to people with Concealed weapons and stab them???This is true to a degree, however, test prove that inside 20 feet the knife wins vs. a undrawn firearm.
Good luck with your training.
This is taught in Law Enforcement training. I think it was originally a military study back in the Fairbairn-Sykes days.Huh???? A knife will win against a un-drawn gun at any distance, Who conducted this test.... did they walk up to people with Concealed weapons and stab them???
Just google 21 foot rule or search youtube. You will see the truth.Huh???? A knife will win against a un-drawn gun at any distance, Who conducted this test.... did they walk up to people with Concealed weapons and stab them???
In a situation when i am free to do so and feel threatened or in the event of SHTF... I will have my weapon out ANY TIME a stranger starts to get near me and I will be ready...
as many have said... do not bring a knife or a sword to a gun fight