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Where did you learn to knife fight? Your off hand is used for blocking. At least that's what they taught us in gym class.
block a knife blade not dodge the blade
I don't like bleeding.
Sadly, bleeding is part of it. As an old Sensei of mine said, "no one really wins a knife fight. You just lose less."
My old sensei said something similar:
If you get into a knife fight, one of you is going to the hospital, the other is going to the morgue.
Your old sensei is smart.
You don't try to block the blade with your hand/arm, you post, grapple or block their arm with your arm, and even if you take the blade on your arm, it's better to take a blade to the arm than to the chest, if you need to take it somewhere.
That's why you wrap your leather jacket around your arm.
You don't guard from a knife with flesh. You guard with Cloth. A cloth is best because you're bound to have more of that on you than armor... So cloth with enough slack can give you enough... Power disarm a knife. Or shoot them.... That works.
That and, if I have to, I'd rather block a knife with my arm than with my chest.
Just shoot the nigger.
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