Valkie wrote on Nov 16
th, 2018 at 12:57pm:
I trained in martial arts for 18 years
I fought competitively for 6 of those years.
We regularly practiced hand to hand knife fighting and self defence against knife attacks.
I was club champion, undefeated, for 8 years in knife fighting.
I woukd not have attempted to disarm a madman.
Two reasons
Firstly , you have no idea what he is going to do.
We trained and trained and trained some more, but generally it was the inexperienced fighters that got past our defences by doing something so stupid that it was not expected. He would not fight or use the weapon as it should or logically be used.
The attack this terrorist used was so poor it was almost laughable.
No sane or competent person attacks with downward attacks like that, it leaves him open to attack.
In most knifings, the attacker comes at you fast and hard stabbing continually at the primary body mass, stomach, chest etc, it's over before it began and the only strategy is to back off and distance yourself until you can effectively defend.
Go for the legs, kick the knees, avoid closing.
The second.
How many weapons did he have?
We know now he had the one, but what if he had 2 or 3 secreted about his body.
You might get the first one but not see the second until it was sticking out of your belly.
He might have had other weapons, they just didn't know.
The cops, in my opinion, did a reasonable job
Although a trunchon blow delivers at the nutcases hand woukd have effectively disarmed him, but we then have reason two to consider.
In the end, the cop did what he was trained to do and the only sensible thing.
He shot the nutcase.
He has nothing to answer for and any weekend warrior who thinks it could have been done differently obviously has never had a knife fight.
Valkie is correct,
actually you missed an important tip which I can tell everyone.
One of the best defenses against a knife is to
hold up a chairso that the 4 legs of the chair get in the way of the attacker.
The police batons would have been adequate in the hands
of a Bruce Lee type expert but they were just new cops.
Also - a madman swinging a knife around is very scary -
one cut to an artery and you're dead!
The cops should really have just shot him instantly &
not played around as they did.
It could have ended up as a dead policeman tragedy.