Knife defences in taijiquan KarambitKnives,com
qcreek11
May 04
A video discussing knife defences in taijiquan (tai chi chuan). From the Academy of Traditional Fighting Arts (see and blogger Dan Djurdjevic (see
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SMOOTH AND SKILLED nice taiji application BUT WHEN i worked againts a straight knife thrust the most reliable tech.All I could use was open hand / forarm block then sieze and lock as one move ment . THE GREAT DANGER WAS THEIR SPEED A fastmovement AND RESTAB. i would apply right arm to his right arm . ALSO BECAUSE OF THE DANGER/ nervous tension I would stick to just one tech. For the staight knife thrust .
Very good techniques.
Sigh. Twenty years of practice, sparring, and trial-and-error; and apparently all I've 'discovered' on my own is basic Taijiquan knife defense. Anyway, so many critically important concepts in this video, explained quickly, clearly, and concisely. Thanks for sharing.
One of the best knife defense and disarm that Ive ever seen. Nice one!
Dan you're a wonderful teacher. Would love to train with you sometime. What are the ropes on the wall back there? How do you use them?
Very very cool dan. Thank you!
Lots of people miss the fact that isolated movements for training purposes create room for the "what if" scenario. Applied quickly you can disarm the attacker. It all depends on your quick reflexes. In general you are happy if you see the knife. If you don't, no martial arts training will help. Only luck.
Defending against a knife attack is very tricky its so fast and so many angles of attack i myself have a rubber knife at home i have people attack me a lot of ma techniques ( knife defense) go out the window i feel its so important to pressure test things especially knife defense and attack i try to keep things simple distance management Footwork circle away from the knife hand low line kicks and parry the knife hand also other striking options like kicking to the head or body or punch to the face with proper timing that is either way there's no easy answer also improvised weapons a belt a chair hide behind a car ect…
Dan, as a retired police/correctional superior (1974-1998) I have been stabbed once and slashed twice. I have also seen the aftermath of dozens of knife/edged weapon attacks which occurred in correctional facilities. In almost all of these type of attacks the person attacked was stabbed on average 4 times before before knowing what was happening as the attacker never displayed his weapon and or was attacked from behind or from the side. The one time I was stabbed it was from behind, he came around from behind and stabbed me in the chest. Luck was with me as the shank was of poor construction and broke against my sternum. The two slashing incidents were razor blade attacks. One was I was slashed across the chest and the other he slashed at my face. In both incidents these were ambush type attacks. The one where he slashed at my face, in reflex I put my left hand up to fend off the strike and was cut through the pinkie finger to the bone. Once again luck was with me as the first spurt of arterial blood hit him in the eyes blinding him allowing me to retreat behind a locked door and radio for assistance. In neither incident did they show their weapon before the attack. On a couple of other occasions when my attacker did display a weapon I used a metal folding chair to defend myself and beat him unconscious.
Excellent! That's how you use forms. They're like packages; you break them open and extract their contents.
A lot of people do forms and think that they're learning martial arts. But really, unless you extract the meaning
of the forms, you are limiting your own potential. Great video, don't listen to the ignorance in the
comment section.
let me calculate 30 years experience. i dont see a warning to disarm a knife is life risky.
give your training Partner the duty in one second with a color pen to hit you five times on a white tshirt. i guess the tshirt will be never clean after. all other is not realistic.
Nice. Unlike most knife defense "experts" you've taken the time to learn how people actually attack in the real world and analyzed your defenses accordingly. Technique 2 is especially good. You'll be interested to know that #2 is one shown in 500+ year old European combat manuals and at least 1 barreterro manual from the 19th century. So I think you can say with some confidence that it will save your life.
in this video it seem like you are practicing too
Nice presentation, Dan !!
I see that there are several 'experts' that are complaining.
Oh well, maybe if they were in a REAL knife attack, they'd wished they'd paid attention rather than complain !!
I routinely pour scathing criticism on most martial art and self-defence knife defence videos… it is not trolling, it is well deserved criticism in an effort to disillusion the public and teachers of the terrible teaching in this life-and-death field. Usually it fails, but that is vain pride for you.
Your vid, however, I am happy to relate, gets only praise. 😉 I like it. TaiJiQuan is great and your vid is sound. Freeform noncooperative sparring, at variable speeds, is needed to make these moves trainable to work for real but the techniques and principles are sound. Nice. Thank you.
+Calogero Fiore I see you decided to put me in a playlist with "no touch" types and other bullshido peddlers. Well played sir. I can see giving you the benefit of the doubt as a sensible human being was a mistake. Your zero content, 3 subscriber, puppet channel clearly exists simply to troll. I am so very sorry I wasted my time replying to you. It's so sad that people like you feel you have to lash out at sincere, honest practitioners who put themselves out there – especially when your attacks are fended off verbally with such ease. It's also easy to be a critic and an expert when you have put nothing of yourself out there; when you can throw stones from behind a veil of anonymity. The internet is truly a sad place when it allows people like you to treat others in a way you would never treat them if you met them in the street. Or maybe you would? I suspect there would be a picture or video of you if the latter were the case – the absence of either speaks of your cowardice. And does not lend an iota of credibility to your "viewpoint" (whatever that might be).
Omg, surprised.. it's simillar with what i've been training in Indonesian Silat Kuntau, Filipino Eskrima,And Wingchun, a lil bit simillar but With different style of Martial arts, Respect
nice one but to realy do a feeling of a knife attack you should do it whit a real knife…becouse intention and emotions are much more difrent…the fear is the worst enemy
Doesnt a two inch gash from a knife attack on the hand or forearm give you an a close approximate of a 1:30 seconds before succumbing to shock? Once enough adrenalin takes over the system then the oppenent can overcome the victim due to shock. I hear how law enforcement take this as a kind of rule of thumb and perhaps why they are particularly sensitive to shoot a knife wielding person so quickly.
Practical principles here. I'll try these out.
Thanks. And if you read the article on my blog for which this video was filmed, you'll see that I say that "unarmed vs. knife" isn't much better than "unarmed vs. gun". However this doesn't stop the fact that every day, across the globe, thousands of people successfully defend against both knife and gun attacks. Sure – some, like Guy Mezger, get cut. But they prevail. Saying that there is no guaranteed (or even likely) defence against a knife is not the same as saying there is NO such defence.