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Upvote for the Monty Python reference. That and the probability that this guy would just get stabbed/sliced/diced/paralyzed trying to fight off a real knife attack. The exaggerated way his attacker comes at him with the knife reminds me of Jim Carrey... "like a lot of beginning students, you attacked me wrong."

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Lurch is right from personal experience. When I was a kid I wore a buck knife and had a friend who was into martial arts, he took them for years and thought he was pretty good. The night I met him I showed him with a closed knife I could get through it and about a year later he tested the theory with someone else on a trip to NYC and got a punctured lung for his effort.

It's nice to know how to have a chance if forced to but a lot smarter to run or avoid it in the first place.

I always love it when people in Gi and Hakama start talking about street defense. :-)

And again here is the probem of the attacker who freezes as soon as the defender starts his technique. "Sir? Could you show me again how to break his elbow when he is doing his very best to pull his knife back out of you grasp (The knife he waved around like a nunchuck instead of just stabbing you multiple times)?

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