I always took the "you're gonna get stabbed in a knife fight" thing more as a warning for people not to involve themselves into one than as a reason not to defend yourself.
I got injured when i was working nightshifts at the german railroad service. We smelled paint from a depot, when we checked a guy jumped me from one of the containers. I blocked the hit with my right arm, got my baton out and whacked him (im a leftie), hit him in the area between neck and shoulder and he went down. Me and my colleague cuffed him and went through the protocol. When the police started procesing him we went and sat down for the first time on the platform where we had light to write our report. Suddenly my colleaque said: "Dude you are dripping". I checked my arm where i was dripping blood from, saw a cut through the security jacket and looked how deep it was. I looked straight through to what i assumed was my bone. Turns out the guy cut me with a knife and no one noticed until i did. The pain started when i took of my Jacket. The cut was from my watch to almost the elbow along the outer bone. Had to get alot of stitches and my muscles got fused together with a hot needle at the hospital. I went through the whole thing joking around and not really processing. It only dawned months later on me how scary the whole situation was. My recommendation is to stay fit and be aware where you are and where you are going, sometimes its worth changing the street side when you have a weird feeling about the people standing around there
I can confirm what this guy said. You often don’t feel (clean) cuts for quite a while. Lots of caveats, like when a nerve is cut, or a tendon… those HURT. A clean cut to a meaty part can be virtually painless, though.
@@johndee2990 Yeah I remember when my knee stumbled upon some underwater broken bottle or something, it felt more like I got kicked. And there wasn't pain at all, from beginning to when I got it bandaged at home. It has been quiet bleedy though so I was scared like shi
For me it was easier to not get cut because both times It was a guy with a gun. The time it takes to arm yourself can be everything. A suitable weapon right now beats a better weapon later.
My sifu gave us a knife lesson, first he had us wear white shirts to class, then made us fight with sharpies, then after we had all gotten marked up he gave the second part of the lesson. using a skin on pork shoulder, He pulled out a balisong and flicked it casually across a few times and then pulled the wounds open showing the 2 inch deep gashes he had left. "Your body is no different than this pork shoulder. I want you to look at the marks and imagine this cut at each mark." Stuck with my 16 year old self, 27 years ago and still fresh in my memory. Noone wins a knife fight.
One thing I really like about your reaction videos is that you never 'steal' the view from the original video. A lot of reaction video creators legitimately try to not 'steal' the view, but in the end they still fail because while the original video footage isn't used much, the point of the video is, and so there's still not much reason to watch the original. Thanks for being good at your craft!
Earlier this year, Paulo went on tour, teaching knife defence seminars in various places around the world. I have the opportunity to attend one of these seminars in the UK. Jesse's video cause the essence of the seminar, but a brief video will never fully compare to two days of intense experience. Not only was Paulo's instruction excellent but, himself, is a very good and humble individual and it was an absolute honour to get to meet and spend time with him.
I wholeheartedly agree, that video is one of the best lessons ive ever seen online on the realities of being attacked with a knife. Jesse is doing a great service by being an excellent student, seeking out many wise and experienced teachers, learning from them, and sharing these lessons with his audience.
“Just run away” is pretty incomplete advice. You have to BE AWARE and also create distance. Knives are incredibly effective AMBUSH weapons… if you can spot the ambush, you’re in a far better place. E: have to suggest Armchair Violence’s “knife defense” videos. He brings a really practical take to the subject, as well.
I have been practicing martial arts for about 10 years and when I saw this video the other day, I realized it was stuff I had struggled to sort out for myself over that whole time. I have used what he says in actual self defense situations and in defense of others as a manager at a facility for the homeless, including an incident where being aware of indexing allowed me to de-escalate the situation before the knife was pulled. Today I showed the video to my nephew and told him we will be practicing. Less than an hour later, I was happy to see you posted a reaction. Great timing!
I really enjoyed watching you "geeking out" about the video. Even though that video had already gotten so many views, it's your video that first got recommended to me, so thanks for posting this! When you said that the original video was great and worth seeing, I watched it first and then came to see the rest of your video, to see your thoughts on it.
The best way to reduce being harmed by a knife attack more than anything taught by combat experts is to leave abusive relationships. If you've been punched or slapped once by your partner once you're chance of being stabbed is immensely higher than someone living in a dangerous area.
I watch your channel for many years now and I'm still captivated. You're doing a great job and I love it. For the 'lack of self discipline' thing - I can relate. Still, you are uplifting to others. Think about that every now and then. Keep going. Many nerds are with you!
I absolutely love the philosophy behind any martial art. Because while you were talking about technique and people saying they're pointless. Its funny because I kinda both heavily agree and disagree. The point of techniques isn't about applying them verbatim necessarily. They are things to be used to enhance your fighting. Knowing in these scenarios where your strengths and weaknesses are and which technique would be used best. How and when to use them for yourself is where techniques really shine. For them to be drilled into your brain so you have a library of them in mind to initiate when the opportunity or advantage to them presents itself. Alone techniques mean nothing its how they are applied and used by their user but are not useless by any means. Technique is more about the mentality and mechanics of fighting than their practical use. Its like trying to fix a machine or using a program on the computer, you need to understand the parts at play in the situation so you can work or fix it the right way. In this way it would be like putting together a piece of furniture without instruction, yeah you can probably work it out and do it, had you read the manual though you would've had a better idea and got done with quicker. In my opinion I think things such as technique used as knowledge to apply to something is it's purpose. I could be wrong I am in no way a scholar nor have I trained in any martial arts. I have always wanted to but never worked it out, just talking about the methodology and philosophy behind fighting is fascinating. But from what I've learned from people and studied myself fighting is both equally a physical contest and a mindset that you need to use to reduce your chances of injury and defeat your opponent. Your mind is half the battle quite literally because if you falter or miscalculate you could be at best severely injured or at worst dead. Having this knowledge gives you a better chance overall, without technique you fight with hopes and dreams, gambling your life or others on dumb luck. Which is why someone with half the strength and size in some martial arts can take down opponents twice themselves because they know where they will just fail or where they have an advantage. In those cases you also know when you're outmatched in most ways and just need to run away safely. The key to fighting is knowing when to even engage into fights at all or disengage from an encounter you're beset in. The rest of it is when you don't have a choice and are trying to simply raise the chances of survival.
Yep. Techniques work better if you're drilled well in them and then you apply them in a mixup mindset instead of a predetermined flowchart that you follow all the time
Wow you were right about Paulo Rubio! He's created a method of teaching students how to teach themselves: simple rules of construction that allow the student to create any number of drills by which to practice any sort of technique or address any kind of deficiency. I'm getting into HEMA and martial arts generally in my thirties with no money, almost no space, and on my own, so that kind of framework is incredibly valuable. Especially because ultimately I do all this to prepare myself for an extremely unlikely hypothetical, so that in that event, I can maintain the perfect number of holes my body already has.
I’ve been following this guy since his video “I tried to stab a US Marine“ at least I think that was the name of the title. He is really impressive, really humble, and ready to learn. He even got me back into master Wong after he did a video with himwere master Wong showed his knife defense skills and they were legit.
I'm glad you made a video about this, I only watch content from known people like yourself or Schola Gladiatoria I dont watch garbage with names like "knife expert" at the start because its usually like, nothing content.
It's cool to see how much the youtuber circles I've been following separately for years are starting to intersect, but I guess it's not a surprising set of interests to have in common. I wouldn't describe his advice or training as trying to avoid getting cut at all costs though. Getting cut a bit isn't nearly as bad as getting cut fatally. Sometimes the safest thing you can do is accept a high likelihood of getting hurt, trading for a lower likelihood of getting killed. In most cases, you're better off avoiding either, and probably can; most people never end up in knife incidents. But like with a fistfight, fixating on not getting hit at all might not give you the best chance of making it out in one piece.
I can only add my recommendation to check out this video. I've had a lot of experience (4 decades) in close-quarters work, and he gives some very sensible perspectives and attitudes. My personal recommendation if this sort of topic is on your mind, would be to find a good traditional teacher in practical martial arts (Danzan Ryu is my favorite), and go do the real work to improve both your situational advantage in general, and your own moral/ethical character. The pursuit of proper character will do as much to keep you from harm as the skillsets themselves.
Your recomendation was absolutly neccessary for me , skall. I saw the thumpnail but did not want to watch another half-baked knife defense guy. So your recomdation made me put the video in my watch later list right now.
First rule of knife-fighting: dont Second rule of knife fighting: run away Third rule of knife-fighting: make sure your affairs are in order, cuz one of you is dying now, the other is dying later.
Literally the opposite of what the video is talking about. 1. The aggressor picks, you don't get a choice. 2. In real life altercations running away isn't an option in many cases. The "just run away, bro" line is stupid and unhelpful. 3. The dude literally points out that this is a defeatist mindset.
@@drexx4164 Not getting into a knife fight in the first place is the best option, logically... not getting stabbed is the best option, logically. However if someone is trying to stab you, it's going to be immediate, instant and you're not going to have much time to react - but if someone seems like they might want to stab you, you'll be able to work off that much better. It's not a 'defeatist' mindset to avoid getting stabbed... the instructor has avoided being stabbed and never has been, because you cannot win when the realistic outcome is both people lose.
@@6661313 that old adage is dead wrong. A poorly trained individual can close 20 ft in 1.5 seconds. barely enough time to unholster and fire. Since you will NOT be putting someone down in one shot you get to join them in the morgue as you get ventilated.
The true genius of this video was the thumbnail. It said: Running away is BS? I think so many of us clicked on it in rage and then stayed for the moment he said it. But he didn't. By the end we forgot why we started watching it in the 1st place. Genius ragebait move!
"It's more likely you might not even notice (that you've been injured)" I worked with a guy who got into a brawl with some armed thugs, and after the fight he's like "wtf where is all this blood coming from?"... turns out he'd been shot in the leg during the fight and didn't even feel it because of how amped out he was on adrenaline.
The Sherlock Holmes movies were really fascinating in breaking down fights in a clinical, step-by-step framework. If a person can do step 1 - clapping someone's ears, palm striking their windpipe, etc - then making a break for it makes an excellent step 2. Now that I think about it, I'm kind of astonished to never see those movies getting reviews or breakdowns on this channel. That being said, you open up about 85% of the parts of your body you'd rather not get stabbed in the process, so yeah, maybe lab that shit in an MMA dojo and see what works for you.
30y ago I was a bouncer. I guy passes me but the turns around and gave me a jab, it felt like a bad hit. I backed up and shouted for a colleague to help me. The guy ran away and my adrenaline levelled out, then I realized that he stabbed me in my collarbone right over my antistab jacket. It actually changed me a bit and I quit the work. One cm lower or higher would have been lethal.
I was involved in several knife fights. I always got hurt in some way. Had a near death experiences and stuff like that. After a while i realized that you don't have power. You can't win and won't. You have a chance to fight back but as long as you don't have some kind of weapon yourself then you don't have a chance. I got lucky several times, but i wouldn't play with it. I always carry a shillelagh with me. Gives me the edge of a chance.
i was stabbed with an ice pick in the leg while breaking up a fight, had no idea it happened until i went to fix my pants and felt it tug, thankfully it only hit muscle an emt removed it on scene and cleaned it. so i can understand not feeling an injury in the heat of battle.
2:00 a month ago I nearly got in a knife saw fight with a crook claiming I stole his backpack. He showed me 2 inches of his Bowie knife to try to intimidate me into surrendering my backpack and I responded by pulling out a Stanley wood saw from my coat. I walked back to the bus stop and the other guy apologized.
The "Is it quicker parts of the brain or does your body remember?" Neuroscience says Yes. While geographicaly we distinguish between the centeral and peripheral nervous systems, it doesn't seem like our bodies do. our conscious processes are largely in the brain, our reflexes have a simpler, shorter route. Our general nervous systems respond to repeated patterns and will adjust the thresholds along those pathways to make it easier to fire the peripheral nerves in the repeating pattern. It's functually similar to creating a "macro" in computer programming. This isn't even touching what hormones do to how our brain and peripheral nervous systems function when in danger. Until we get evidence otherwise, I think it's ok to talk about "training our body" and "muscle memory" is forgivable while somewhat misleading. Love your vids!
Its porrible that im misremembering, or that things have changed since i studied this, but I'm pretty sure those reflexes that happen without the signal having reached tour brain are set. They're things like "touch hot thing, pull hand away", they're not plastic. Muscle memory is a thing, but it's a thing that happens in your brain
Defense is about giving you a higher chance at survival, pretty much all defensive measures aren't impenetrable in real life, even tank armor can fail. But they give you a higher of a chance at living the next day.
I taught knife fighting and knife self defense for a while and there is a point to technique doesn't matter as much as acting and reacting, which is true of most martial arts. Watch a you teach a person to jav then watch pro boxers jab and its normally never exactly perfect technique. The bug thing in a knife encounter is to be armed in some way cause it makes the opponent much less likely to just attack. I also like incorporating low kicks like to the knee and shin.
If there’s a technique that’s still unlikely to work, just by the nature of being unarmed against a weapon, when you have no other choice that slim chance is still better than no chance. Of course, the best way to win a knife fight is always not to get in a knife fight, or get away from the knife fight.
I have been stabbed as well as cut in anger, IRL as it gets & I would agree with most everything the guy said. My main point of advice would be watch the hands & stay alert. If you can run you probably should but sometimes it just isn't an option.
Basically its mostly bout footwork when talking about knife "defense". BUT realistically when you get FORCED into a knife fight the only way your NOT getting cut, stabbed, or poked by the other guy's sharp thing it's GONNA be a mix of footwork and your personal abilities in checking an countering being attacked by something so potentially lethal. Its best to like said NEVER get in one in first place BUT that dont mean dont have ANY sorta response an ability to do these kinda things which would guarantee harm or Death due to being totally vulnerable. While may be good its training to the point of not needing to think was what the video "knife fighter" was trying to make. So basically its TRAIN an response that WILL work. An then rinse an repeat that over an over to mitigate the threat. Then up the difficulty to the point it's not an issue. Least thats the theory with bout everything
"getting an emergency alert on my phone" I think in reality it's probably easier to dodge a nuke than a knife. Up to 30 minutes warning vs a fraction of a second.
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1:14 - I mean ... getting cut versus getting stabbed in a vital area such as an organ or a vessel where blood loss becomes the deciding factor... I'd say - if you are deciding to not run and to face the opponent with a knife - to disarm them or incapacitate them in defence of yourself and others - you have to know that there's about a 95% chance no matter how knowledgable or trained you are that you will be cut. the training and knowledge and skill in maneuvering lessens the chance of those important areas getting cut - never to zero and at best the "unimportant" cuts never below like 60%. because unless you outrange with a force multiplier greater than the knife(aka gun, stungun, tazer that fires projectiles) you are putting yourself right up against the blade to neutralise the threat of it. all that said - the best defence is to not be there aka running. the other means of defence is incapacitating the threat with a "bigger stick" aka selfdefence weaponry such as maze, tazer, gun. anything but that is risk - you could actually have marine close combat experts get knifed by 15 year olds and the outcome be death.
I would never have watched the original video if not for this one. I've seen it pop up in my recommendations a lot (not surprising) but the thumbnail and title are so clickbaity I'd already written it off as garbage. RUclipsrs, take note.
With an exposed knife, you are accepting the likelyhood of the wound not the reality. So hey if it happens you keep fighting. Not to have that mind set is just asking for it in my experience. Besides they have a weapon and you don’t my first thing I taught my cousins is get anything to balance the situation or exit if you can.
As a Toronto paramedic who has had at least 1 knife attack victim (an 18 year old male) die on his stretcher from a single stab wound, I detest videos like that because they give people the false impression that they can physically defend themselves against knife attacks. How many more lives could you save if you were to instead train people in techniques of turning off their own egos, de-escalating aggression, and removing themselves from situations?
Self defense is weird because you are essentially trying to learn how to not get jumped and then trying to be such a superior fighter, even though you were jumped, you still "win" and then are able to deal enough damage to run away or delay long enough to get help. Majority of self defense should be situational awareness, avoiding high risk places and diffusing aggression but majority of self defense courses turn into learning superior combat skills to survive the ambush attack which is VERY low percentage.
You are on to it now I see. An honest question, have you ever, outside of martial arts practice, had any one lunge at you with a knife? I think survival is down to luck. All the treatises and all the practice in the world won't save you if someone else is just quicker and better than you, and you are not going to know that in advance. I have had someone close to me, come at me across the kitchen with a knife, in their defence they were under the influence of a prescription drug that was later withdrawn from the market. They did not know what they were doing, and neither did I, but the fact that I am still here means I must have done the right thing, and yeah I got out of the way and put a door between us until they calmed down. It was pretty surreal and I don't like to think about how else it could have turned out.
One of the basics that is almost never addressed when discussing or debating Street Issues as it were, is that of age. I'm a boomer and really bad health: what that means in real world terms is that flight is not an option for me. Further, I am not physically able to withstand the onslaught of another person my junior; I've got serious heart trouble, major spinal injuries, hip injuries, bad knees, and muscle problems, along with COPD and asthma! All the techniques in the world that are designed for healthy people aren't really going to help me pass the basic concept. Sadly, there are no Boomer Style instructors, no Geezer Gurus illustrating how to stay above ground, when confronted by some young punk thug who wants to do an Ugly. Edged weapons have their place for people such as myself in the millions of others like me. Unfortunately for us, no one seems to be out there addressing the types of techniques that we could utilize to our benefit. Quite frankly, you young'uns piss me off: far too many people doing RUclips videos consider us not worth consideration to be frank. Despite there being millions of us we don't exist. I carry a gun when I go out my front door, and I carry a blade, but I need to get a blade with a longer reach that is still usable, and then I need to learn how to utilize it using inside moves in order to make an efficacious defense of my limb in my life. So far, I haven't found a single RUclipsr who provides such information. Sad, but true. Cheers from the Oil Patch in Central Wyoming USA
I have been stabbed two different times. Stabbed in forearm through soft leather jacket by some young gang member i did not even feel that. We were severally outnumbered but won by hard acting, fake lunges and not giving and inch. I am pretty sure we would be dead if my fat friend did not have so charismatic and commanding voice. Second time i was stabbed in back when when defending some random female in alley who had her face smashed in wall by her boyfriend. Broke that guys leg from knee for sure and the female attacked after the guy just stabbed me in back! Pushed her away and left with loud fuck you and sure let the guy kill you next time. Felt something on back and there it was again. Stab wound and went to get stitched once again. Now when i have kids i will not take a part in anything and just call cops all day long. I will not risk anything. My family need me more and i cannot be hero no more.
Really clever person. Instead of getting into knife-fights, he teaches how to knife-fight. It's well known that consultants and couches get all the benefits and none of the risks and responsibilities of someone actually DOING something.
Would you rather he went round getting into knife fights? He doesn't teach people to encourage them he teaches them so they know how to survive if they ever happen
Avoid getting cut at all cost is probably the wrong approach to take still, though I agree if you can do that do. But if you can risk taking a 'safe' injury more deliberately believing it will let you win right now that has to be safer than avoiding it and letting the fight go longer - but again its possibilities.
I dislike all these knife guys showing grappling techniques. Yes, a mutual wrestle, where you are the better wrestler, is the safest place to be, but getting to that position is extremely difficult to do consistently. They seemingly spend a lot of time on the grappling, ie the easier part, and less time on getting there, the much much harder part.
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I always took the "you're gonna get stabbed in a knife fight" thing more as a warning for people not to involve themselves into one than as a reason not to defend yourself.
Really because I've seen videos of people get stabbed once and drop dead a few seconds later and the other person walks away unharmed.
Then it was a stabbing not a knife fight@@user-ue6iv2rd1n
@@user-ue6iv2rd1n yep better not to get in a knife fight at all if you can avoid it at every possible turn
@@user-ue6iv2rd1nis that really a knife fight at that point? Or just a stabbing?
I got injured when i was working nightshifts at the german railroad service.
We smelled paint from a depot, when we checked a guy jumped me from one of the containers.
I blocked the hit with my right arm, got my baton out and whacked him (im a leftie), hit him in the area between neck and shoulder and he went down. Me and my colleague cuffed him and went through the protocol. When the police started procesing him we went and sat down for the first time on the platform where we had light to write our report.
Suddenly my colleaque said: "Dude you are dripping".
I checked my arm where i was dripping blood from, saw a cut through the security jacket and looked how deep it was. I looked straight through to what i assumed was my bone. Turns out the guy cut me with a knife and no one noticed until i did. The pain started when i took of my Jacket.
The cut was from my watch to almost the elbow along the outer bone. Had to get alot of stitches and my muscles got fused together with a hot needle at the hospital. I went through the whole thing joking around and not really processing.
It only dawned months later on me how scary the whole situation was. My recommendation is to stay fit and be aware where you are and where you are going, sometimes its worth changing the street side when you have a weird feeling about the people standing around there
Good example of what I mentioned in the video. I'm glad you made it through that situation and hopefully healed well!
Hell yeah, my testosterone increased tenfold from reading this
I can confirm what this guy said. You often don’t feel (clean) cuts for quite a while. Lots of caveats, like when a nerve is cut, or a tendon… those HURT. A clean cut to a meaty part can be virtually painless, though.
@@paulpolito2001 You feel the Impact First, You think you got Punched, not Cut or Stabbed...
@@johndee2990 Yeah I remember when my knee stumbled upon some underwater broken bottle or something, it felt more like I got kicked. And there wasn't pain at all, from beginning to when I got it bandaged at home. It has been quiet bleedy though so I was scared like shi
Sifu Inosanto taught me 30 years ago there are NO knife fights, only knifings.
It's only a knife fight if both have one.
@@SkallagrimIt's only a knife fight when the tips touch.
@@Skallagrimlol. Love your content btw.
For me it was easier to not get cut because both times It was a guy with a gun. The time it takes to arm yourself can be everything. A suitable weapon right now beats a better weapon later.
@@kribblton only if we kiss
My sifu gave us a knife lesson, first he had us wear white shirts to class, then made us fight with sharpies, then after we had all gotten marked up he gave the second part of the lesson.
using a skin on pork shoulder,
He pulled out a balisong and flicked it casually across a few times and then pulled the wounds open showing the 2 inch deep gashes he had left.
"Your body is no different than this pork shoulder. I want you to look at the marks and imagine this cut at each mark."
Stuck with my 16 year old self, 27 years ago and still fresh in my memory.
Noone wins a knife fight.
I think that last line is true of most conflicts.... no one wins... what you are fighting for is to survive with the least amount of injury.
One thing I really like about your reaction videos is that you never 'steal' the view from the original video. A lot of reaction video creators legitimately try to not 'steal' the view, but in the end they still fail because while the original video footage isn't used much, the point of the video is, and so there's still not much reason to watch the original. Thanks for being good at your craft!
Earlier this year, Paulo went on tour, teaching knife defence seminars in various places around the world.
I have the opportunity to attend one of these seminars in the UK. Jesse's video cause the essence of the seminar, but a brief video will never fully compare to two days of intense experience. Not only was Paulo's instruction excellent but, himself, is a very good and humble individual and it was an absolute honour to get to meet and spend time with him.
I wholeheartedly agree, that video is one of the best lessons ive ever seen online on the realities of being attacked with a knife. Jesse is doing a great service by being an excellent student, seeking out many wise and experienced teachers, learning from them, and sharing these lessons with his audience.
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“Just run away” is pretty incomplete advice. You have to BE AWARE and also create distance. Knives are incredibly effective AMBUSH weapons… if you can spot the ambush, you’re in a far better place.
E: have to suggest Armchair Violence’s “knife defense” videos. He brings a really practical take to the subject, as well.
Yeah if they are already to close odds are you are going to have to go on the offensive at that point
I have been practicing martial arts for about 10 years and when I saw this video the other day, I realized it was stuff I had struggled to sort out for myself over that whole time. I have used what he says in actual self defense situations and in defense of others as a manager at a facility for the homeless, including an incident where being aware of indexing allowed me to de-escalate the situation before the knife was pulled. Today I showed the video to my nephew and told him we will be practicing. Less than an hour later, I was happy to see you posted a reaction. Great timing!
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I really enjoyed watching you "geeking out" about the video. Even though that video had already gotten so many views, it's your video that first got recommended to me, so thanks for posting this! When you said that the original video was great and worth seeing, I watched it first and then came to see the rest of your video, to see your thoughts on it.
Skall delivering that ethically correct reaction video
The best way to reduce being harmed by a knife attack more than anything taught by combat experts is to leave abusive relationships.
If you've been punched or slapped once by your partner once you're chance of being stabbed is immensely higher than someone living in a dangerous area.
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I watch your channel for many years now and I'm still captivated. You're doing a great job and I love it. For the 'lack of self discipline' thing - I can relate. Still, you are uplifting to others. Think about that every now and then. Keep going. Many nerds are with you!
I absolutely love the philosophy behind any martial art. Because while you were talking about technique and people saying they're pointless. Its funny because I kinda both heavily agree and disagree. The point of techniques isn't about applying them verbatim necessarily. They are things to be used to enhance your fighting. Knowing in these scenarios where your strengths and weaknesses are and which technique would be used best. How and when to use them for yourself is where techniques really shine. For them to be drilled into your brain so you have a library of them in mind to initiate when the opportunity or advantage to them presents itself. Alone techniques mean nothing its how they are applied and used by their user but are not useless by any means.
Technique is more about the mentality and mechanics of fighting than their practical use. Its like trying to fix a machine or using a program on the computer, you need to understand the parts at play in the situation so you can work or fix it the right way. In this way it would be like putting together a piece of furniture without instruction, yeah you can probably work it out and do it, had you read the manual though you would've had a better idea and got done with quicker.
In my opinion I think things such as technique used as knowledge to apply to something is it's purpose. I could be wrong I am in no way a scholar nor have I trained in any martial arts. I have always wanted to but never worked it out, just talking about the methodology and philosophy behind fighting is fascinating. But from what I've learned from people and studied myself fighting is both equally a physical contest and a mindset that you need to use to reduce your chances of injury and defeat your opponent. Your mind is half the battle quite literally because if you falter or miscalculate you could be at best severely injured or at worst dead. Having this knowledge gives you a better chance overall, without technique you fight with hopes and dreams, gambling your life or others on dumb luck.
Which is why someone with half the strength and size in some martial arts can take down opponents twice themselves because they know where they will just fail or where they have an advantage. In those cases you also know when you're outmatched in most ways and just need to run away safely. The key to fighting is knowing when to even engage into fights at all or disengage from an encounter you're beset in. The rest of it is when you don't have a choice and are trying to simply raise the chances of survival.
Yep. Techniques work better if you're drilled well in them and then you apply them in a mixup mindset instead of a predetermined flowchart that you follow all the time
I've seen this video. The most realistic knife instruction video I've seen ever. Definitely must watch
Wow you were right about Paulo Rubio! He's created a method of teaching students how to teach themselves: simple rules of construction that allow the student to create any number of drills by which to practice any sort of technique or address any kind of deficiency.
I'm getting into HEMA and martial arts generally in my thirties with no money, almost no space, and on my own, so that kind of framework is incredibly valuable. Especially because ultimately I do all this to prepare myself for an extremely unlikely hypothetical, so that in that event, I can maintain the perfect number of holes my body already has.
The loser of a knife fight goes to the mortuary, the winner goes to the hospital. That's to say: run away if possible
I’ve been following this guy since his video “I tried to stab a US Marine“ at least I think that was the name of the title. He is really impressive, really humble, and ready to learn. He even got me back into master Wong after he did a video with himwere master Wong showed his knife defense skills and they were legit.
I'm glad you made a video about this, I only watch content from known people like yourself or Schola Gladiatoria
I dont watch garbage with names like "knife expert" at the start because its usually like, nothing content.
It's cool to see how much the youtuber circles I've been following separately for years are starting to intersect, but I guess it's not a surprising set of interests to have in common.
I wouldn't describe his advice or training as trying to avoid getting cut at all costs though. Getting cut a bit isn't nearly as bad as getting cut fatally. Sometimes the safest thing you can do is accept a high likelihood of getting hurt, trading for a lower likelihood of getting killed. In most cases, you're better off avoiding either, and probably can; most people never end up in knife incidents. But like with a fistfight, fixating on not getting hit at all might not give you the best chance of making it out in one piece.
I can only add my recommendation to check out this video. I've had a lot of experience (4 decades) in close-quarters work, and he gives some very sensible perspectives and attitudes.
My personal recommendation if this sort of topic is on your mind, would be to find a good traditional teacher in practical martial arts (Danzan Ryu is my favorite), and go do the real work to improve both your situational advantage in general, and your own moral/ethical character. The pursuit of proper character will do as much to keep you from harm as the skillsets themselves.
Saw this video when it dropped and was impressed, it's refreshing to see a knife defense demo that tries to emulate reality.
Now this is a way to talk about a video without actually showing much of it. Great content as always
Your recomendation was absolutly neccessary for me , skall. I saw the thumpnail but did not want to watch another half-baked knife defense guy. So your recomdation made me put the video in my watch later list right now.
Just hope? Situational awareness major part: recognizing the danger. Only once had encounter and, maybe, lucky the surprise didn't freak me out.
First rule of knife-fighting: dont
Second rule of knife fighting: run away
Third rule of knife-fighting: make sure your affairs are in order, cuz one of you is dying now, the other is dying later.
Forth rule: get some running training/practice, otherwise you will run out of breath very quickly 🥺
Literally the opposite of what the video is talking about.
1. The aggressor picks, you don't get a choice.
2. In real life altercations running away isn't an option in many cases. The "just run away, bro" line is stupid and unhelpful.
3. The dude literally points out that this is a defeatist mindset.
@@farisca0 5th rule of knife fighting, be the one with the gun
@@drexx4164 Not getting into a knife fight in the first place is the best option, logically... not getting stabbed is the best option, logically.
However if someone is trying to stab you, it's going to be immediate, instant and you're not going to have much time to react - but if someone seems like they might want to stab you, you'll be able to work off that much better.
It's not a 'defeatist' mindset to avoid getting stabbed... the instructor has avoided being stabbed and never has been, because you cannot win when the realistic outcome is both people lose.
@@6661313 that old adage is dead wrong. A poorly trained individual can close 20 ft in 1.5 seconds. barely enough time to unholster and fire. Since you will NOT be putting someone down in one shot you get to join them in the morgue as you get ventilated.
I was one of those who already watched the video, really liked it and his method of practice is something I want to try myself too.
The true genius of this video was the thumbnail. It said: Running away is BS?
I think so many of us clicked on it in rage and then stayed for the moment he said it. But he didn't. By the end we forgot why we started watching it in the 1st place. Genius ragebait move!
I ignored it because of that 😅
That WAS a good video. Thanks, Skall!
Hey, I remember getting that Emergency Alert yesterday at lunch!
Thanks for bringing that video to my attention, well worth it.
"It's more likely you might not even notice (that you've been injured)"
I worked with a guy who got into a brawl with some armed thugs, and after the fight he's like "wtf where is all this blood coming from?"... turns out he'd been shot in the leg during the fight and didn't even feel it because of how amped out he was on adrenaline.
That's an interesting reaction. I'll make sure to check out the original video.
The Sherlock Holmes movies were really fascinating in breaking down fights in a clinical, step-by-step framework. If a person can do step 1 - clapping someone's ears, palm striking their windpipe, etc - then making a break for it makes an excellent step 2. Now that I think about it, I'm kind of astonished to never see those movies getting reviews or breakdowns on this channel.
That being said, you open up about 85% of the parts of your body you'd rather not get stabbed in the process, so yeah, maybe lab that shit in an MMA dojo and see what works for you.
30y ago I was a bouncer. I guy passes me but the turns around and gave me a jab, it felt like a bad hit. I backed up and shouted for a colleague to help me. The guy ran away and my adrenaline levelled out, then I realized that he stabbed me in my collarbone right over my antistab jacket. It actually changed me a bit and I quit the work. One cm lower or higher would have been lethal.
I was involved in several knife fights. I always got hurt in some way. Had a near death experiences and stuff like that. After a while i realized that you don't have power. You can't win and won't. You have a chance to fight back but as long as you don't have some kind of weapon yourself then you don't have a chance. I got lucky several times, but i wouldn't play with it. I always carry a shillelagh with me. Gives me the edge of a chance.
Good video that I already watched. One of the best I've seen.
Reminds me of *“Six Inches of Steel”:* Bowie Knife Instruction by Louis Juan Ohnimus.
i was stabbed with an ice pick in the leg while breaking up a fight, had no idea it happened until i went to fix my pants and felt it tug, thankfully it only hit muscle an emt removed it on scene and cleaned it. so i can understand not feeling an injury in the heat of battle.
The more complicated it is the more points of failure there are.
Good video man!
2:00 a month ago I nearly got in a knife saw fight with a crook claiming I stole his backpack.
He showed me 2 inches of his Bowie knife to try to intimidate me into surrendering my backpack and I responded by pulling out a Stanley wood saw from my coat. I walked back to the bus stop and the other guy apologized.
It was at 7:33 that Skall began to go "ooh pretty knife..."
We love a Skall video😤😤
I have watched Jesse's videos for years and have not subscribed. Not sure why, yet. I should probably do that.
I think I saw the thumbnail of that video and automatically assumed it might be bullshit but nice to see it's not. Will watch it myself
The "Is it quicker parts of the brain or does your body remember?" Neuroscience says Yes. While geographicaly we distinguish between the centeral and peripheral nervous systems, it doesn't seem like our bodies do. our conscious processes are largely in the brain, our reflexes have a simpler, shorter route. Our general nervous systems respond to repeated patterns and will adjust the thresholds along those pathways to make it easier to fire the peripheral nerves in the repeating pattern. It's functually similar to creating a "macro" in computer programming. This isn't even touching what hormones do to how our brain and peripheral nervous systems function when in danger. Until we get evidence otherwise, I think it's ok to talk about "training our body" and "muscle memory" is forgivable while somewhat misleading. Love your vids!
Its porrible that im misremembering, or that things have changed since i studied this, but I'm pretty sure those reflexes that happen without the signal having reached tour brain are set. They're things like "touch hot thing, pull hand away", they're not plastic. Muscle memory is a thing, but it's a thing that happens in your brain
Defense is about giving you a higher chance at survival, pretty much all defensive measures aren't impenetrable in real life, even tank armor can fail. But they give you a higher of a chance at living the next day.
I got into knife stuff because of GN and his videos he's awsome and knows his stuff
Kinfe fighting has to be pretty terrifying.
It is afterward. In the middle of one it's all adrenaline and you don't have the time to be terrified.
@LeonidasRex1 Good point I suppose I never had been in a situation like that
@@detailed_data4PSN I hope you never have to be in a situation like that.
@LeonidasRex1 Thank you I hope so too
Going on the juxtaposition that one doesn't learn to drive by getting in accidents, I find that the worst warriors get the most wounds.
21 seconds lets go XD saw the video already so im interested in your perspective on it too
9:18 lol wtf!? good video
finally i waited for this video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I taught knife fighting and knife self defense for a while and there is a point to technique doesn't matter as much as acting and reacting, which is true of most martial arts. Watch a you teach a person to jav then watch pro boxers jab and its normally never exactly perfect technique. The bug thing in a knife encounter is to be armed in some way cause it makes the opponent much less likely to just attack. I also like incorporating low kicks like to the knee and shin.
thx for video recommendation I had that video in my fead for days, but I thought it would be typical youtube click bait
If there’s a technique that’s still unlikely to work, just by the nature of being unarmed against a weapon, when you have no other choice that slim chance is still better than no chance.
Of course, the best way to win a knife fight is always not to get in a knife fight, or get away from the knife fight.
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You record this yesterday? I think our class was interrupted by that exact same alert.
I have been stabbed as well as cut in anger, IRL as it gets & I would agree with most everything the guy said. My main point of advice would be watch the hands & stay alert. If you can run you probably should but sometimes it just isn't an option.
Which btw the training of techniques also make one more confident & capable. Its 100% necessary imo.
That knife fight on the river in America was pretty accurate, everyone slashed and cut in 10 seconds. Yeah no, just run.
One of my absolute favorite FMA representatives. And one of my own mentors hates this guy lol.
0:34 - I took my totaly blunt dagger and pointed it against your to be ready if you would attack :D
Basically its mostly bout footwork when talking about knife "defense". BUT realistically when you get FORCED into a knife fight the only way your NOT getting cut, stabbed, or poked by the other guy's sharp thing it's GONNA be a mix of footwork and your personal abilities in checking an countering being attacked by something so potentially lethal. Its best to like said NEVER get in one in first place BUT that dont mean dont have ANY sorta response an ability to do these kinda things which would guarantee harm or Death due to being totally vulnerable. While may be good its training to the point of not needing to think was what the video "knife fighter" was trying to make. So basically its TRAIN an response that WILL work. An then rinse an repeat that over an over to mitigate the threat. Then up the difficulty to the point it's not an issue. Least thats the theory with bout everything
Lol those emergency alert tests are so annoying. always startles me and my cats.
"getting an emergency alert on my phone"
I think in reality it's probably easier to dodge a nuke than a knife. Up to 30 minutes warning vs a fraction of a second.
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I'll go with brave Sir Robin and run away.
1:14 - I mean ... getting cut versus getting stabbed in a vital area such as an organ or a vessel where blood loss becomes the deciding factor... I'd say - if you are deciding to not run and to face the opponent with a knife - to disarm them or incapacitate them in defence of yourself and others - you have to know that there's about a 95% chance no matter how knowledgable or trained you are that you will be cut. the training and knowledge and skill in maneuvering lessens the chance of those important areas getting cut - never to zero and at best the "unimportant" cuts never below like 60%. because unless you outrange with a force multiplier greater than the knife(aka gun, stungun, tazer that fires projectiles) you are putting yourself right up against the blade to neutralise the threat of it.
all that said - the best defence is to not be there aka running. the other means of defence is incapacitating the threat with a "bigger stick" aka selfdefence weaponry such as maze, tazer, gun.
anything but that is risk - you could actually have marine close combat experts get knifed by 15 year olds and the outcome be death.
1:13 Skall hiding from sunlight
What is a Skall?
I would never have watched the original video if not for this one. I've seen it pop up in my recommendations a lot (not surprising) but the thumbnail and title are so clickbaity I'd already written it off as garbage. RUclipsrs, take note.
It better not be "run away". Running is most likely not going to be an option.
Update : Hooray! Not lame!
With an exposed knife, you are accepting the likelyhood of the wound not the reality. So hey if it happens you keep fighting. Not to have that mind set is just asking for it in my experience.
Besides they have a weapon and you don’t my first thing I taught my cousins is get anything to balance the situation or exit if you can.
Damn, that guy is everywhere.
Fight, flight or freeze? Sad to say, I am a freezer.
As a Toronto paramedic who has had at least 1 knife attack victim (an 18 year old male) die on his stretcher from a single stab wound, I detest videos like that because they give people the false impression that they can physically defend themselves against knife attacks. How many more lives could you save if you were to instead train people in techniques of turning off their own egos, de-escalating aggression, and removing themselves from situations?
Self defense is weird because you are essentially trying to learn how to not get jumped and then trying to be such a superior fighter, even though you were jumped, you still "win" and then are able to deal enough damage to run away or delay long enough to get help.
Majority of self defense should be situational awareness, avoiding high risk places and diffusing aggression but majority of self defense courses turn into learning superior combat skills to survive the ambush attack which is VERY low percentage.
Just do the indiana jones defense.
We do actually store memory in other places than our brain
Having been stabbed before, it teaches you one thing: Don't get stabbed.
New Skallagrim video? It’s a good day.
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You are on to it now I see. An honest question, have you ever, outside of martial arts practice, had any one lunge at you with a knife? I think survival is down to luck. All the treatises and all the practice in the world won't save you if someone else is just quicker and better than you, and you are not going to know that in advance. I have had someone close to me, come at me across the kitchen with a knife, in their defence they were under the influence of a prescription drug that was later withdrawn from the market. They did not know what they were doing, and neither did I, but the fact that I am still here means I must have done the right thing, and yeah I got out of the way and put a door between us until they calmed down. It was pretty surreal and I don't like to think about how else it could have turned out.
Oh hey i just watched that video few days ago. algorithm is really a thing isn't it?
One of the basics that is almost never addressed when discussing or debating Street Issues as it were, is that of age.
I'm a boomer and really bad health: what that means in real world terms is that flight is not an option for me. Further, I am not physically able to withstand the onslaught of another person my junior; I've got serious heart trouble, major spinal injuries, hip injuries, bad knees, and muscle problems, along with COPD and asthma!
All the techniques in the world that are designed for healthy people aren't really going to help me pass the basic concept.
Sadly, there are no Boomer Style instructors, no Geezer Gurus illustrating how to stay above ground, when confronted by some young punk thug who wants to do an Ugly.
Edged weapons have their place for people such as myself in the millions of others like me. Unfortunately for us, no one seems to be out there addressing the types of techniques that we could utilize to our benefit.
Quite frankly, you young'uns piss me off: far too many people doing RUclips videos consider us not worth consideration to be frank.
Despite there being millions of us we don't exist.
I carry a gun when I go out my front door, and I carry a blade, but I need to get a blade with a longer reach that is still usable, and then I need to learn how to utilize it using inside moves in order to make an efficacious defense of my limb in my life.
So far, I haven't found a single RUclipsr who provides such information.
Sad, but true.
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The real question is, if someone attacks me with a knife, should I pull out my own?
Knife is sharp!!! Don't touch with soft sliceable bits!!!
Muscle memory
I wonder how's the chance of getting stabbed by the guy who has been peppersprayed
I mean he'll technically be blind and couldn't inhale well
I have been stabbed two different times. Stabbed in forearm through soft leather jacket by some young gang member i did not even feel that. We were severally outnumbered but won by hard acting, fake lunges and not giving and inch. I am pretty sure we would be dead if my fat friend did not have so charismatic and commanding voice. Second time i was stabbed in back when when defending some random female in alley who had her face smashed in wall by her boyfriend. Broke that guys leg from knee for sure and the female attacked after the guy just stabbed me in back! Pushed her away and left with loud fuck you and sure let the guy kill you next time. Felt something on back and there it was again. Stab wound and went to get stitched once again. Now when i have kids i will not take a part in anything and just call cops all day long. I will not risk anything. My family need me more and i cannot be hero no more.
Well I mean knives are no match for machine that throws rocks at supersonic speed
Really clever person. Instead of getting into knife-fights, he teaches how to knife-fight. It's well known that consultants and couches get all the benefits and none of the risks and responsibilities of someone actually DOING something.
Would you rather he went round getting into knife fights? He doesn't teach people to encourage them he teaches them so they know how to survive if they ever happen
23 Seconds lets go
Avoid getting cut at all cost is probably the wrong approach to take still, though I agree if you can do that do. But if you can risk taking a 'safe' injury more deliberately believing it will let you win right now that has to be safer than avoiding it and letting the fight go longer - but again its possibilities.
I watched this video. It was interesting. On a side note you look like you have dropped a lot of weight. I hope you are feeling healthier.
I dislike all these knife guys showing grappling techniques. Yes, a mutual wrestle, where you are the better wrestler, is the safest place to be, but getting to that position is extremely difficult to do consistently. They seemingly spend a lot of time on the grappling, ie the easier part, and less time on getting there, the much much harder part.
from an Expert, no need to say actual
Yes there is....there are many self proclaimed "experts" who you really should never listen to if you want to actually learn something
@@kevinpappers4494 if you want to learn something. No need to say actually lol
@Swordagrim ok that one i grant you😂👍