There was a huge furor in the news about cops who shot a knife-wielding kid to death. People who say the kid wasn't a threat should be forced to watch this.

FYI, the other subtitles are in Polish - although the part at the end should make that obvious.

WARNING!--some VERY graphic photos of knife injuries beginning 5 min, 30 seconds into video.

i want to stretch that warning quantummushroom gave. disturbing images ahead...

This video disguises itself as a warning, but i think it´s made by some freaks just to show how invincible they think they are with their knives. I think the music chosen strengthens my opinion.

I hate it.

The simple fact is that in a unprovoked and unwarned knife attack when the assailant has the intention to kill or seriously harm you then there is no chance of survival, however well trained you are. The Judo champion who got stabbed in the back is a perfect example of this, I have never been trained to deal with a knife attack from behind because that kind of attack is not one that can be defended against.

However, there are several factors that do influence your chances of success in your favour. The first is that if you do have forewarning of the attack then you are very lucky indeed because now you can utillise defense techniques. If you are being mugged for example, then if you really have to, there are several effective blocks and counters that are effective even at short range (guess what: that's what they are designed for!). Most attackers who give you warning will not have any real technique in using a knife which makes it much easier to defend. Skilled knife fighters will never reveal their weapon untill neccessary.

In the video they showed the oficers drawing a pistol against an attacker. There were several things wrong there. In the second example where the female officer had the chance to draw her sidearm and fire 2 shots then she would have survived. Much the same as it is not possible to carry on after sever knife wounds, being shot will drop an opponent instantly. Despite what movies would have you believe, the attacker could not have continues the attack even with the momentum that he had. Second, if I were in charge of training those police I would not advise them to draw their weapon at such short ranges. A baton is much more useful in that situation because it can be used to defend yourself rather that simply attack.

I'm not aquainted with police training methods but as a martial artist I believe that there are ways to defend yourself in any sitaution where you can see the weapon, given sufficient skill and knowledge. Unfortunatly it is the kind of skill that requires years of training to aquire, and the general public (even most military personnel etc) will never have that.

Good video. I tried to add NSFW to the title, but I couldn't. Somethings broke.

think the guy in the video got it right (Vunack?). run away or avoid getting in a knife fight in the first place. read martial arts forums and people are talking about getting in fights. i havent been in a fight since high school and even then it was a joke. i dont work at a convenience store and i'm not a cop, dont go to nightspot meat markets. voila, won't ever get stabbed unless it's by someone i know.

I have to agree, I think this is just a bunch of knife freaks showing how bad-ass the knife is.

Also, I've lived 45 years now, and never have been in a fight. Never even close to getting into a fight. Of course now, having said that I'll probably go out tomorrow and get killed by some knife psycho.

Informative video to be sure, and interesting. I'm upvoting it, but I have a small question....what is with the playing of the bongos? Didn't that seem strange? Should we fear people carrying around bongos with magic-markers now?

Upvote for mostly truthful, although for better information and training the Dog Brothers have got their heads on straight when it comes to melee weapons defense, even if I think they're a tiny bit nutty when it comes to their full-contact stickfighting and such. Weapons can be defended against unarmed, but it's not easy, it needs to be trained realistically, and even then the odds are against you.

The best title for one of their DVDs is "Die Less Often."

http://www.dogbrothers.com/

To be honest, I think such weapon training is only really useful for police, and even then it's not as helpful as preventative/precautionary training.

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