re: Knife Fighting Class

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The first lesson you need to learn about knife fighting is you’re going to get cut.

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Natan Levy, the UFC fighter, did a shank tank challenge where you see many times you get stabbed in 30 seconds in a cage with knife wielding opponent. Trying to see if you can survive.

He basically brought the fight to them with punches and kicks. The opponent is left defending instead of trying to cut you. He even broke the dudes rib with a back kick. The guy laid down and quit. Obviously, it helps when you’re an elite level striker!

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Instructors do not teach much of anything in offense due to liability. For instance, they teach a tap to the throat instead of actually crushing the esophagus

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My instructor was a Marine so he was more the "crush the esophagus" type

But we never did anything dealing with offensive weapon stuff... only defense with weapons.

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Filipino martial arts instructor

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No one "wins" a knife fight.

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That’s my understanding and normally the biggest knife is better you can just bludgeon the guy to death if ya can’t poke em to death.

In my days at LSU I was in a class with Master Yoon when a new student asked the best defense against a knife attack.

Yoon replied “Ah! Knife attack. Use Heel and Toe Defense! Turn other way and put heel and then toe on ground one after other until you no longer see man with knife.”

Say that story with a Korean accent for more funny points.

You want to be a part of a cutting crew?

Don’t blame me if you end up hearing someone wanting to die in your arms tonight.

dupe post

Nobody wins a knife fight. One guy might lose less but both lose.

If someone pulls a knife and you don’t have distance and a gun, run.

Bill Rapier of Amtac Shooting teaches integrated combatives classes that include blades. I don’t know that he does any knife specific classes.

He does a lot with Sayoc Tactical which I believe is blade specific. I don’t know anything about that world other than having done stuff with Bill and hearing him talk about it.

From what little I know all of those guys and Sayoc generally is a very serious community and I highly doubt they deal much with people who are just casually interested. Not a slight, it’s just a lot of pros from what I’ve deduced.

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Knife Fighting Class

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There are a lot of good running groups around town that you can join and that will about cover it. Nobody with half a brain thinks there’s a legitimate way to win in that situation.

There’s a great video on YouTube of John Lovell, ex-army Ranger, college (?) wrestler, and solid grappler, fighting someone with a marker and pretending it’s a knife and he would’ve gotten cut to absolute shite if it were real. If that guy can’t handle a knife fight there’s just not a legitimate way to get good at it