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is already underway when our video
starts to see the guy who's facing us
has a knife in his hand against three
armed attackers against the side of his
car and he is looking both ways trying
to figure out who is doing what and
trying to get in his car guy jumps at
him when he does but he gets a good
slash at the guy and now he's going to
change to a long hold on the knife and
that's going to make those guys go nah
i'm not interested in this dude no more
he's going to chase him off and get in
his car they decide it's not worth it
we're going to think about lessons all
right if you carry a defensive knife
which one do you carry leave me a
comment and let me know what you prefer
i carry firearm every day i think it
would have been a better tool here as
well but i know a lot of people carry a
defensive knife whether it's a folder or
a fixed blade instead how about you a
couple of things at the beginning here
number one i think a knife against three
attackers is not a great tool i mean
it's just a very limited tool worked
here but it wouldn't be my first choice
i think having a firearm would be my
preference number two multiple attacker
engagements very difficult but if you
have a force multiplier especially if
they don't you might be able to get
yourself into a place that their force
advantage evaporates and they decide
that they have better things to do with
their day number three the big part here
is you notice he's got two on either
side of him one in front of him but he's
done something pretty good here which is
have his back to the car so that that
way at least they can't get him from
behind he's not completely encircled so
if you can though i would strongly
prefer to stack them one behind another
and maneuver but he got into a place
where he can't so sometimes you just
gotta fight with where you are
now he has that knife held in a short
held grip and so he's trying to look
back and forth and see who's doing what
but notice here he's looking this way
looking that way trying to keep these
guys off of him and when he looks away
from this guy to his right as soon as he
looks away that's when the guy is going
to come in and get after him i do love
here though that our defender is trying
to get to a barrier he's trying to get
away from danger and to safety by
getting inside his car however i think
he's going to have a hard time with that
because to get in and get the door
locked it's going to take him more time
than he reasonably can expect to have
and so he's not going to get there here
so as soon as he turns away that's when
the dude runs after him this is why in
these kinds of attacks you want to keep
if you possibly can from having one guy
on either side of you because eventually
the guy's going to go hey when he turns
his head the other way i'm going to
close this distance now the prevention
of that best one is to keep the guys on
one side of you so that you can
barricade them you can blockade them if
you cannot do that here i think when you
go towards one person when you look at
them go towards them to give you a
little bit more space now i think it's
interesting here and this is one of the
limitations of the short hold when
you're trying to use a knife defensively
because that that slash didn't really do
anything because of the design of the
knife so if you are trying to stick it
deeply in somebody because they are very
close to you then that short hold can be
very effective but it really limits your
range generally speaking as a defensive
tool we use a long held knife if we are
trying to use it to keep people off of
us for exactly this reason that it
doesn't look like it did him any serious
damage here and didn't really deter him
all that much either that's why when our
guy changes the knife to his long held
and that long held means that the blade
is coming from his thumb side versus the
short help where the blade is coming
from his pinky side that's when all of a
sudden his range extends and now he has
more range than any of the bad guys do
with their fists so their force
advantage has evaporated
i'm not saying a short hold is bad all
the time i'm just saying from this
perspective we can see that that long
hold on there really changed their minds
oh man if that guy comes at me again or
i come at him i'm gonna end up stabbed
pretty good and that's when they decide
nope it's not worth it and this you know
sheep has too many too much teeth and
i'm not going to mess with him good job
on that part
last thing here i'd say is the attitude
trumps everything this guy had attitude
for days and he would not be a victim
and whatever i don't think he's got
crazy knife fighting skills or whatever
he had enough skills enough plan
incredible attitude to cover his asp