21 feet to save your life!!!

[Alex Le Chef]

Fastest gun in the world - YouTube

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[DrDoUm]

Originally Posted by pancakedestroyer

Rushing the guy, also stupid. You put yourself in his area.[...] The best defense to a guy pulling a knife is run. If he runs you let him.

In my initial post i quoted Brian's statement about "conversationnal" distance, so my posts were refering to that kind of situation. Again, all I'm saying is that this kind of technic is taught in self-defense classes, obviously considering that you use it if you don't have any safer option.

Originally Posted by MadMorbius

Sorry, but I must have missed the "two different perspectives" one can be considering while being approached by an individual armed with a knife...

What's meant by "two different perspectives" is the difference between a civilian being attacked as opposed to a police officer in service, a soldier during warfare, etc... There are obviously various situations involving knife attacks. Is running away ALWAYS the only option? I doubt so.

The rest of your post is mostly a caricature, I get that nobody has super powers. However, there's a difference between reading minds and situationnal awareness... One may not believe in the need to train in self-defense, considering that it's best to simply avoid dangerous situation. But the point to self-defense trainning is actualy to avoid those situations, and knowing what to do if you can't avoid them. I'm talking about self-defense specific classes, not necessarily martial arts, because martial arts serve another purpose than just plain self-defense.

I'm far from "knowing it all" about the subject thought, but I have an interest and I like to share opinions about it.

[Brian McIlmoyle]

Originally Posted by Deadpool

This should be use to train all officers who respond to knife calls.

Shocknife - YouTube

A nice toy.. but not all that robust.. they tend to break in training

[Grudge]

or you could be this guy:

12 shots 3 seconds with reload

[Alex Le Chef]

Originally Posted by multitech

or you could be this guy:

12 shots 3 seconds with reload

yeah were is the akimbo master now