Self-Defense - Tip#10

If you think that knife attacks look anything like those typically seen in martial arts classes—you can be dead wrong.

Real attacks, by people who are familiar with a knife's properties and true potential, are a blur of short, noncommitted stabs and cuts that are practically impossible to stop.

An attacker, with any idea of what he/she is doing, will overwhelm you with a hail of cuts that will start at the nearest body part and end in a vital target. Within a second you may lose your fingers, have severed tendons of your arms, and be finished with a stab to your eye, or throat, or trunk.

If someone has taught you to block knife cuts and stabs, or to grab a knife-holding hand, you need to see the reality of these types of scenarios. The best defense is to move away from the attacker as fast as possible and/or use objects between you and the attacker.