I always took the "you're gonna get stabbed in a knife fight" thing more as a warning for people not to involve themselves into one than as a reason not to defend yourself.
My sifu gave us a knife lesson, first he had us wear white shirts to class, then made us fight with sharpies, then after we had all gotten marked up he gave the second part of the lesson. using a skin on pork shoulder, He pulled out a balisong and flicked it casually across a few times and then pulled the wounds open showing the 2 inch deep gashes he had left. "Your body is no different than this pork shoulder. I want you to look at the marks and imagine this cut at each mark." Stuck with my 16 year old self, 27 years ago and still fresh in my memory. Noone wins a knife fight.
Sounds like a good teacher. A lot of people cannot really process the idea of danger or injury until they either experience it or see a lifelike comparison.
Yeah, just like my sensei! Except he did a few demonstration swings with sharpies on a pig shoulder, and then made us fight with butterfly knives afterwards instead... well, his dojo did not last very long... (" -.-)
I got injured when i was working nightshifts at the german railroad service. We smelled paint from a depot, when we checked a guy jumped me from one of the containers. I blocked the hit with my right arm, got my baton out and whacked him (im a leftie), hit him in the area between neck and shoulder and he went down. Me and my colleague cuffed him and went through the protocol. When the police started procesing him we went and sat down for the first time on the platform where we had light to write our report. Suddenly my colleaque said: "Dude you are dripping". I checked my arm where i was dripping blood from, saw a cut through the security jacket and looked how deep it was. I looked straight through to what i assumed was my bone. Turns out the guy cut me with a knife and no one noticed until i did. The pain started when i took of my Jacket. The cut was from my watch to almost the elbow along the outer bone. Had to get alot of stitches and my muscles got fused together with a hot needle at the hospital. I went through the whole thing joking around and not really processing. It only dawned months later on me how scary the whole situation was. My recommendation is to stay fit and be aware where you are and where you are going, sometimes its worth changing the street side when you have a weird feeling about the people standing around there
I can confirm what this guy said. You often don’t feel (clean) cuts for quite a while. Lots of caveats, like when a nerve is cut, or a tendon… those HURT. A clean cut to a meaty part can be virtually painless, though.
@@johndee2990 Yeah I remember when my knee stumbled upon some underwater broken bottle or something, it felt more like I got kicked. And there wasn't pain at all, from beginning to when I got it bandaged at home. It has been quiet bleedy though so I was scared like shi
For me it was easier to not get cut because both times It was a guy with a gun. The time it takes to arm yourself can be everything. A suitable weapon right now beats a better weapon later.
One thing I really like about your reaction videos is that you never 'steal' the view from the original video. A lot of reaction video creators legitimately try to not 'steal' the view, but in the end they still fail because while the original video footage isn't used much, the point of the video is, and so there's still not much reason to watch the original. Thanks for being good at your craft!
I wholeheartedly agree, that video is one of the best lessons ive ever seen online on the realities of being attacked with a knife. Jesse is doing a great service by being an excellent student, seeking out many wise and experienced teachers, learning from them, and sharing these lessons with his audience.
"It won't make a difference if I recommend it" Skall, my dude, you're one of the few people on TH-cam who we actually respect because you know what you're talking about. Not like so many self proclaimed """experts""" on the internet. If you weigh in on something, we will listen. You've built up that respect and earned it.
More than that, he knows when he doesn't know what he's talking about and is willing to defer to people that know better. That's the real mark of a trustworthy source.
@Hieronymous_Flex Absolutely. There will always be idiots in the comments making WELL AKSHUALLY remarks who don't really know all that much about the topic. The Dunning Kruger effect be hitting them hard. (I have encountered those idiots in Skall's comments before, they're a dime a dozen.) There's a reason why the phrase "a true genius knows when to be quiet" exists and that is exactly how Skall acts. He knows when to weigh in and when not to weigh in, which is why we respect his input. We know that when he is commenting on something, it's because he has something worth listening to.
Earlier this year, Paulo went on tour, teaching knife defence seminars in various places around the world. I have the opportunity to attend one of these seminars in the UK. Jesse's video cause the essence of the seminar, but a brief video will never fully compare to two days of intense experience. Not only was Paulo's instruction excellent but, himself, is a very good and humble individual and it was an absolute honour to get to meet and spend time with him.
I have been practicing martial arts for about 10 years and when I saw this video the other day, I realized it was stuff I had struggled to sort out for myself over that whole time. I have used what he says in actual self defense situations and in defense of others as a manager at a facility for the homeless, including an incident where being aware of indexing allowed me to de-escalate the situation before the knife was pulled. Today I showed the video to my nephew and told him we will be practicing. Less than an hour later, I was happy to see you posted a reaction. Great timing!
“Just run away” is pretty incomplete advice. You have to BE AWARE and also create distance. Knives are incredibly effective AMBUSH weapons… if you can spot the ambush, you’re in a far better place. E: have to suggest Armchair Violence’s “knife defense” videos. He brings a really practical take to the subject, as well.
@@sexystealthninja Quite so. Sometimes the attcker doesn't give you a choice. Sydney "Cutchoo" Wilson, and Peter Liu had nowhere to retreat properly. And he couldn't let crazy knife Basketballer potentially go on a Maksim Gelman style rampage.
Yes. People often say that the best defense against any given threat is to run, but not many point out that it isn't always possible or viable. If the attacker is faster, they'll probably just catch up. And if a third party (especially a close friend or relative, or someone vulnerable such as a child) is also in danger, to get away would be to leave them on their own. There is no single best response to every threat (albeit being able to get away unharmed _is_ a better outcome on paper than getting into a fight where odds are you'll be injured in some capacity), it's all very situation dependent. The reason all four responses of fight, flight, freeze and fawn (along with any other relevant skills such as creating distractions, etc) exist is that each is optimal for its own specific situations.
I mean, one of the most important things to keep in mind when just thinking about this sort of thing is that reality is not a video game. The hypothetical 'attacker' in a self-defence scenario is not some mindless NPC who has to chase and kill you because you happened to get inside their aggro range. They're a person with their own wants and needs motivating them. If getting away is not an option, you have already lost the fight. Because in real life you simply will not get suddenly attacked by someone who had made it their goal to kill you and get an opportunity to respond. Because that only happens if you're facing a completely random attack by an unhinged psychopath who was looking for someone, anyone, to kill that day and you happened to wander into their path, in which case they will be on you and attacking you before you even have the opportunity to realise what happening.... In all other cases, in all cases where you're able to respond, the attack is not sudden. There will have been a sequence of events that occurred before it. There will have been opportunities to get yourself and others away and/or opportunities to de-escalate. If you end up in a fight and you have the opportunity to respond, it's because you let that happen.
i have a 5 inch defensive wound on my arm from someone that got frisky with a knife while I was unarmed. It went down DEEP, just shy of the tendons in my forearm, though those tendons were visible from the 2+ inch wide gaping wound. I got very lucky to not lose any functionality in my hand, but I do have a sizeable numb patch around the scar and going down my arm a bit. It gets weird sensations once in a while. When the weather starts getting cold, it aches a bit. Thinking about it can make it ache a bit. When it happened, it didn't feel like anything. Adrenaline is nuts. When I got away and saw this barely-bleeding gaping hole revealing parts of my anatomy I definitely prefer to stay hidden, like some kind of cross section from a textbook, revealing layers of skin and fat and muscle, it still didn't feel like anything. When the burliest EMT they had was using all of his strength to press the halves together en route to the hospital, still didn't hurt. Getting the lidocaine shots before they stapled it shut hurt more than the wound did. The cleaning they did before closing it felt gross, but not painful. The hurting didn't start in earnest until the healing did. And most of it came from the staples being tugged on! But god, getting those removed felt great. Like a persistent itch being scratched. They said the knife must've been deviously sharp, and that I was lucky for it. Whatever you say, doc Afterwards I couldn't play any of my sword fighting video games for weeks. Those memories just kept coming back. Picturing, in vivid detail, the gory wounds that would be created by each stroke of a blade against another duelist in warband or whatever. I did get over it, but this video gives me a minor case of squicks. All in all I'd rate it 0/10 experience. Except for the staple removing. I'd love to find a way to do THAT part again without needing to be assaulted with a bladed weapon or otherwise grievously injured
You have mentioned freezing up, and I have seen that first hand. When I was visiting Russia many many years go, our group got into some trouble with a drunk and/or high criminal. Our local friend tried to talk to him, which didn't work, and led to him getting stabbed in the leg. When he cried out "He stabbed me!" and started backing off, a woman from our group literally froze. The criminal started walking towards her with the knife and she just stood there. I had to grab and yank her away, and that's when she finally switched to flight mode. Then I started yelling to the rest of the group "Get out of here!" and went to help our injured friend. So that was a really scary situation, and I hope I'll never again have to deal with a knife fielding bad guy. Eventually it was a happy end though. Our friend's wound wasn't serious, he got out of the hospital after a few days, and since he was working for a fairly powerful and influential person, the case got fast tracked, the perp "turned himself in", at least according to the official report, and our friend got a significant payment.
One of the main benefits of training is the physical "vocabulary" (for lack of a better word) that it gives you. The individual techniques may not be directly useful, but the underlying way of moving, the intuitive understanding of how the human body moves and how to manipulate it, the ingrained defensive reflexes, they all are at least closer to the real point of training.
I really enjoyed watching you "geeking out" about the video. Even though that video had already gotten so many views, it's your video that first got recommended to me, so thanks for posting this! When you said that the original video was great and worth seeing, I watched it first and then came to see the rest of your video, to see your thoughts on it.
I watch your channel for many years now and I'm still captivated. You're doing a great job and I love it. For the 'lack of self discipline' thing - I can relate. Still, you are uplifting to others. Think about that every now and then. Keep going. Many nerds are with you!
I always took the "you will get cut" as prepare to sacrifice your arm to safe your head, it's better to get stabbed in the hand/arm than the head/neck when you can't avoid it. I have been stabbed, an accident, the knife hit the bone and it was basically painless and that wasn't even a fight-flight-freeze situation. That 5-7cm deep, 2cm wide stab wound hurt less than any cut I ever got. Body reacts a lot differently to a surface level wound than to ones that could actually be dangerous to you. You can definately feel something, but definately something yoiu could miss in a fight. Like my clothing snagged on something and I bumped a corner, something like that.
The best way to reduce being harmed by a knife attack more than anything taught by combat experts is to leave abusive relationships. If you've been punched or slapped once by your partner once you're chance of being stabbed is immensely higher than someone living in a dangerous area.
I watched Jesse's video initially, and really appreciated it. Then, hearing all these established channels endorsing the video really helps me by confirming it's accuracy
The true genius of this video was the thumbnail. It said: Running away is BS? I think so many of us clicked on it in rage and then stayed for the moment he said it. But he didn't. By the end we forgot why we started watching it in the 1st place. Genius ragebait move!
It's cool to see how much the youtuber circles I've been following separately for years are starting to intersect, but I guess it's not a surprising set of interests to have in common. I wouldn't describe his advice or training as trying to avoid getting cut at all costs though. Getting cut a bit isn't nearly as bad as getting cut fatally. Sometimes the safest thing you can do is accept a high likelihood of getting hurt, trading for a lower likelihood of getting killed. In most cases, you're better off avoiding either, and probably can; most people never end up in knife incidents. But like with a fistfight, fixating on not getting hit at all might not give you the best chance of making it out in one piece.
I’ve been following this guy since his video “I tried to stab a US Marine“ at least I think that was the name of the title. He is really impressive, really humble, and ready to learn. He even got me back into master Wong after he did a video with himwere master Wong showed his knife defense skills and they were legit.
after having trained in freestyle Karate which had multiple other forms of martial arts integrated into it..... and included weapons use and defence we trained a lot with all kinds of melee weapons, and the irony is it saved my life so many times, repetition can help so much in deciding the outcome to almost any conflict.... and although I had the years training behind me, you can still become wounded by the other person... either they are quicker than you, stronger than you, or you are injured already which is why I got stabbed in the back of my left shoulder when an incident kicked off... and the body language I'd saw a mile off, the attacker was fairly predictable for the most part.... he started trying to take my head off using a broom with an aluminium handle.... now as those who know these things can bend and break and I needed to disarm him as quick and as soon as possible, especially as there were people around who were not issues... who could have gotten hurt. i did a forearm strike through the handle aimed at the side of his neck to at least incapacitate or disarm, though during this he grabbed the now loose and very sharp other end and shoved it in to my left shoulder... I never felt anything... adrenaline and the heat of the situation dulls the senses and pain... oddly I never felt anything for hours or even days later either, the piece of metal went in about 1-2 inches into my shoulder luckily it didn't nick anything vital especially anything to cause a serious bleed. and normally stuff like that is something I'm more trained with, however I wasn't even at 60% of my usual capabilities... I had fallen down the stairs 3 nights before and badly bruised my spine so movement was very restricted.... and while he did get that one hit in... his confidence in his attacks were becoming less and less like he was as sure of himself so every aspect of the video IS the most TRUE and REAL description of an actual real life encounter with any weapon, knife or whatever tbh the body language, the mind set, the emotion, the desperation, every aspect on point and glad someone actually made one to set the reality back to where it should be, hollywood has for a long time also a number of content creators too... have distorted reality of a serious scenario in favour of selling their brands and I hate the idea that no matter what you do you are going to get cut anyway... my training we always knew the risk, but trained to reduce or remove those risks....
Wow you were right about Paulo Rubio! He's created a method of teaching students how to teach themselves: simple rules of construction that allow the student to create any number of drills by which to practice any sort of technique or address any kind of deficiency. I'm getting into HEMA and martial arts generally in my thirties with no money, almost no space, and on my own, so that kind of framework is incredibly valuable. Especially because ultimately I do all this to prepare myself for an extremely unlikely hypothetical, so that in that event, I can maintain the perfect number of holes my body already has.
I can only add my recommendation to check out this video. I've had a lot of experience (4 decades) in close-quarters work, and he gives some very sensible perspectives and attitudes. My personal recommendation if this sort of topic is on your mind, would be to find a good traditional teacher in practical martial arts (Danzan Ryu is my favorite), and go do the real work to improve both your situational advantage in general, and your own moral/ethical character. The pursuit of proper character will do as much to keep you from harm as the skillsets themselves.
This is awesome! I'm glad you found it and commented on it. I saw it a while back but wasn't sure if it gave valid information. Now, I know. Thank you!
"It's more likely you might not even notice (that you've been injured)" I worked with a guy who got into a brawl with some armed thugs, and after the fight he's like "wtf where is all this blood coming from?"... turns out he'd been shot in the leg during the fight and didn't even feel it because of how amped out he was on adrenaline.
Been hurt by weapons before and my subconscious completely took over to end the threat. It was like I was watching myself third person in slow motion. Pretty weird.
i was stabbed with an ice pick in the leg while breaking up a fight, had no idea it happened until i went to fix my pants and felt it tug, thankfully it only hit muscle an emt removed it on scene and cleaned it. so i can understand not feeling an injury in the heat of battle.
When i was in Afghanistan we got into a firefight, we won the day and when i was getting to a better position my buddy stopped me and grabbed my left arm to look at it, he then stated dude you've been hit, I looked at my forearm and sure enough there was a furrow about a quarter inch deep that ran from just above my wrist to about a third of the way down my outer forearm, we wrapped it up and pushed on, it started to hurt while we were wrapping it up
Recent studies suggest that 'muscle memory' doesnt actually happen in the brain but through neural processes in the various parts of the body responding
I absolutely love the philosophy behind any martial art. Because while you were talking about technique and people saying they're pointless. Its funny because I kinda both heavily agree and disagree. The point of techniques isn't about applying them verbatim necessarily. They are things to be used to enhance your fighting. Knowing in these scenarios where your strengths and weaknesses are and which technique would be used best. How and when to use them for yourself is where techniques really shine. For them to be drilled into your brain so you have a library of them in mind to initiate when the opportunity or advantage to them presents itself. Alone techniques mean nothing its how they are applied and used by their user but are not useless by any means. Technique is more about the mentality and mechanics of fighting than their practical use. Its like trying to fix a machine or using a program on the computer, you need to understand the parts at play in the situation so you can work or fix it the right way. In this way it would be like putting together a piece of furniture without instruction, yeah you can probably work it out and do it, had you read the manual though you would've had a better idea and got done with quicker. In my opinion I think things such as technique used as knowledge to apply to something is it's purpose. I could be wrong I am in no way a scholar nor have I trained in any martial arts. I have always wanted to but never worked it out, just talking about the methodology and philosophy behind fighting is fascinating. But from what I've learned from people and studied myself fighting is both equally a physical contest and a mindset that you need to use to reduce your chances of injury and defeat your opponent. Your mind is half the battle quite literally because if you falter or miscalculate you could be at best severely injured or at worst dead. Having this knowledge gives you a better chance overall, without technique you fight with hopes and dreams, gambling your life or others on dumb luck. Which is why someone with half the strength and size in some martial arts can take down opponents twice themselves because they know where they will just fail or where they have an advantage. In those cases you also know when you're outmatched in most ways and just need to run away safely. The key to fighting is knowing when to even engage into fights at all or disengage from an encounter you're beset in. The rest of it is when you don't have a choice and are trying to simply raise the chances of survival.
Yep. Techniques work better if you're drilled well in them and then you apply them in a mixup mindset instead of a predetermined flowchart that you follow all the time
30y ago I was a bouncer. I guy passes me but the turns around and gave me a jab, it felt like a bad hit. I backed up and shouted for a colleague to help me. The guy ran away and my adrenaline levelled out, then I realized that he stabbed me in my collarbone right over my antistab jacket. It actually changed me a bit and I quit the work. One cm lower or higher would have been lethal.
While the cxhannel shouted out does not need it, us the viewers do! Looking for channels with genuine content is quite hard these days, so thanks for showing me one. :)
Jessie Enkamp's video was excellent. If I'm not protecting a person or property, I have zero problem with trying to break contact and booking it, because I don't have anything to prove to some random attacker(s). Sometimes that's just to get to more favourable ground, a more public place, or separate members from a group. It's not just turning your back and booking it though. You have to be able to break contact and create some distance or you don't run. Unless your dealing with some highly trained psychopath or high on drugs and/or the voices in his head are telling him to smite the demon in front of him, chances are the guy with the knife is scared and just as stressed out as you are. People in fights can freak out, forget their training, make mistakes they'd never make in the dojo, and often go into shock without even getting struck.
a lot of people also forget that with enough understanding of biomechanical functions and how the body works. it is also highly possible to also come up with new techniques that could work effectively if executed right. this takes a lot more time though because it requires studying how the body responds to various different things. but when You do this You can also learn more about your personal limitations and also tailor the styles and methods to your own body and size and aspects. this increases the capability of making successful techniques that could work for you directly as a person. as they are not just based on Biomechanics but also your personal biomechanical layout as well and how it will respond to that of other people. after all these existing techniques that we already know and are aware of all came from somewhere. based on knowledge training and study so it is very possible to create your own personal iterations that work better for you as a person and to make entirely new techniques as well. and this applies to any weapon or combat style not just knives.
A friend of mine who studied Kajukenbo A long time ago at least. He told me something that one of his instructors had told him who studied under a prominent Siakalli instructor. Among to train nine fighters one goes to the morgue one goes to the hospital. In other words if you’re finding somebody that knows what you’re doing, you’re gonna get cut. And odds are someone’s gonna get killed. If you’re fighting somebody that doesn’t know what they’re doing, well dumb luck trumps everything.
I'm glad you made a video about this, I only watch content from known people like yourself or Schola Gladiatoria I dont watch garbage with names like "knife expert" at the start because its usually like, nothing content.
Your recomendation was absolutly neccessary for me , skall. I saw the thumpnail but did not want to watch another half-baked knife defense guy. So your recomdation made me put the video in my watch later list right now.
2:11 when I got stabbed I was actively being jumped so I couldn’t tell a difference between being hit or stabbed while my adrenaline was pumping… after it stopped I found out by losing a lot of blood.
The place i used to take martial arts had a very practical and pragmatic approach, one of the things we learned was a bit of knife fighting. The main thing my instructor kept hammering home was "knife fighters don't tend to live very long." and the goal was always to avoid the fight if possible, not escalate to weapons if possible, and if it's unavoidable hopefully know enough to get away from the situation alive.
just saw Jessie's video in my feed, not familiar with him so I just rolled my eyes at another "realistic knife defense video." will watch the whole thing with your recommendation tho, the shout out is not in vain
There is this interview with a serial killer who told the interviewer that contrary to his peers, who aimed at vital organs when stabbing and either waited for the bleedout or the instant kill, he always said he aimed for the inferior abdominal area, closest to the bladder, to completely incapacitate the enemy, then move in for the kill. He was stabbed multiple times, even by multiple assailants while in prison with shivs, and he said the fact he knows their enemies would come for the vitals meant he knew how to protect them at all costs, and barely lived his fights. If you doubt this, ask any doctors about the nerves in that region; its brutal how casually mentioned this and the number of scars are testament to his stories.
Something I feel that a lot of people don't understand about martial arts is that it isn't about being the best fighter or being invincible is to give you tools to be more likely to survive a really bad situation. The best defense is to try to avoid bad situations overall but sometimes bad things happen so many martial arts techniques in the training simply gives you a little bit better muscle memory and more tools in your toolbox in case something goes very poorly. The best defense is to avoid things like I said before but sometimes you can only mitigate what's going on so it would be better to take an injury than to be dead and the training to some extent will help you with these circumstances heaven forbid your find yourself in them and you can't get away. This is also something I stress people who say why I just carry a gun well guess what so do I but many attacks happen without you even realizing what's going to happen even with being observant and you don't always have time to get your weapon out to defend yourself so you should probably have a back-up plan.
Why I think it's good idea to first go slowly and try to learn a "perfect" technique in knife defense is that you can focus on the basics. Keeping your weight down, how you should move, where your hands should go etc. When those things start to become automatic you ramp it up gradually. Your opponent can use more speed, different attacks, start to resist your techniques and so on. I feel like it's really hard to get to that second stage without going through the first. The problem is that a lot of martial arts schools leave it at that first stage and say you've got it. And yeah, there are a lot of bullshido knife defense techniques that would absolutely get you killed. That's another reason to ultimately go extra hard in knife defense. To find out what works and what doesn't.
If you havnt, check out the self defence championship season 2! It’s not too serious it’s mostly just guys having fun. But there were some very interesting performances in the locked room knife defence scenario. One guy got on the ground and pulled guard, another guy decided “offense is the best defense.” It’s certainly interesting
All the talk about what and how to practice, muscle memory, etc. resonates a lot with my drumming practice. In drumming, technique isn't crucial, many legendary drummers have reached the top with "sub-optimal" technique, but it does help a ton. Experience on the other hand is paramount. No para-diddle drill is going to teach you how to make your grooves and fills tasty.
I looked up the training place, and it is a private business in an upscale neighborhood that rents out the test space to all and sundry, not just government forces . Around the time they were running a public (bleep)-survival seminar with that expert as a featured teacher .
Many "self defense experts" are adamant - if an attacker has a knife, the best defense is run. I do not agree with that, we need to learn how to defend ourselfs against cold weapons, not run, cause there can be many reasons why you can't run...
7:00 truly respectful of skall. unlike many other ytubers who blatantly just plays (steals) the whole video of someone else and calls it "reacts" video.
i always thought it was more about not being scared of getting cut, you try to stop it but don't let the fear of it paralyze you or force you into a position where they can grab you because you over avoided it or over focused on the the knife, the blade will come close to you, you may get small cuts and you will need to be in a position where you can get cut by it within moments when fighting someone holding one, if it gets close to you don't try to then make distance at all costs just so you can see if and how badly you were cut, avoid getting cut but if you are cut that is not yet the focus the focus is on surviving, and while a cut can kill you, lack of focus will kill you much faster.
2:05 This is the most terrifying thing about knife attacks. There was a case a few months ago of a guy who was charged and convicted for the death of man he had stabbed. There's a video of the entire altercation and he stabs two people and they didn't know. The man who died was stabbed in the stomach and bled out before he even knew he was dying.
2:04 i got ran over by a bull when i was 20. He hit me, the ground hit me, i rolled under the truck that was blocking most of the lane, rolled back out, jumped up and ran after the bull to help the two guys ahorseback get him where he was supposed to be. When i got back to the truck, and climbed in to move it, my right leg started to hurt. Pain i had never experienced. Hairline fracture of the tibia about 1.5 inches below my knee. It was a month before i could walk without pain. Adrenaline is a helluva drug
I really like Guro Paulo's, Ed Calderón's and Scott Babb's approach (in the singular, because they share the same spirit) regarding contemporary knife fighting as a counter-ambush skillset that goes way beyond the knife part. 99,9% of the knife attacks we could get into nowadays are ambushes and, therefore, you NEED to see the attack coming WAY BEFORE it starts and simply avoid it at all costs. BUT, when you can't avoid it (people overestimate the average joe's running cappacity and also forget that some people have family members to protect with their own life), you must basicaly pray and "spray" agressiveness through logical, as-deadly-as-possible, extreme close quarters strikes. It's nice how some Libre's and Guro Paulo's techniques can be found on Arditi and british WW1 knife fighting sources, even tho their main study sources are CCTV footages and adapted filipino martial concepts.
I've had the pleasure of meeting Ppaulo during his trips to the US to train with my primary instructor, Todd Fossey. He's a very knowledgeable expert and I trust what he has to say when it comes to knife defense.
Mate of mine got stabbed once while working as a bouncer. She felt a slight impact, but assumed it was just a glancing punch, and thought nothing more of it. When she got home, her mother pointed out that she was bleeding. Fortunately, not a deep wound and no serious damage, but she was annoyed that it had ruined her shirt.
I did watch that video. I thought it was really good. Those drills they demonstrate. Would be pretty easy to implement in personal training. Even after only just watching the video.
Many people I know who have been stabbed did not notice until after the incident. One guy he thought he was being punched, then he noticed his back was all wet.
It does also depend on where it hits. Been stabbed on three separate occasions. First two I absolutely did not feel it because they got me in my gut and luckily missed anything vital. Only found out after waking up in hospital, since I collapsed a few streets away after running from what I thought was a mugging. The third one I was very much aware because she nicked my hip when she got me, and that hurt like an absolute bitch.
@Emerald_Wolf Oh, if I even had bad friends presents at the time, probably wouldn't have been stabbed. The first time I was a homeless teenager, the second was after work when I was walking home. Just complete random acts of violence that would have been anyone else if someone was present. The third time is was because I did something stupid and tried to help a woman who was screaming for help in an alley. It just turned out it was just a ruse to have someone show up for her to knife and rob. Hip aches like crazy when it rains but otherwise the stabbings have been the least of my injuries.
If I get into a situation that the person has a knife, I run no matter what! The times when people have been agro at me there has been markers/pointers to the situation going pear shape. In all cases moved away to de-escalate or ready to run away.
i think a lot of his tips about indicators are applicable to HEMA as well. Also the reverse-blinking drill - could be really good for HEMA and making your defenses into instincts
My teacher just came at us out of nowhere, we didn't even see the knife we were just getting cut, and stabbed. He was teaching us that it's very rare that someone is going to wave a knife around and start swinging. If someone really wants to hurt you you most likely won't see it coming. I think that's important to teach because we're taught how to defend attacks that will probably never happen, and then were left unprepared for s real attack.
The "Is it quicker parts of the brain or does your body remember?" Neuroscience says Yes. While geographicaly we distinguish between the centeral and peripheral nervous systems, it doesn't seem like our bodies do. our conscious processes are largely in the brain, our reflexes have a simpler, shorter route. Our general nervous systems respond to repeated patterns and will adjust the thresholds along those pathways to make it easier to fire the peripheral nerves in the repeating pattern. It's functually similar to creating a "macro" in computer programming. This isn't even touching what hormones do to how our brain and peripheral nervous systems function when in danger. Until we get evidence otherwise, I think it's ok to talk about "training our body" and "muscle memory" is forgivable while somewhat misleading. Love your vids!
Its porrible that im misremembering, or that things have changed since i studied this, but I'm pretty sure those reflexes that happen without the signal having reached tour brain are set. They're things like "touch hot thing, pull hand away", they're not plastic. Muscle memory is a thing, but it's a thing that happens in your brain
Worked contracted security many years. Prior infantry in the army, state level wrestling in highschool, pursued boxing post military. You will get cut up, stabbed, or scraped up in this close of combat. I'm by no means any kind of expert, but I've been in enough close combat scenarios to tell you: keep yourself fit. The ability to maintain distance and general instinct through training experience will make the difference between life and death. I'd fight a man, sword to sword any day, before I went against a man with a knife and I'm unarmed. Scary shit. Carry a gun if you can depending on where you live. You don't want to experience trying to defend against a knife. There is no shame in running. Live to fight another day.
I actually pay attention to this guy's take on knife fighting as part of my German Dagger and longsword training, which I do as part of my SHTF doomsday prepper defense program; When the societal collapse happens and everyone's out of ammo because no more is being made, people in droves will go either bare handed and/or start using melee weapons in hand. People will for example be using nail spikes to turn baseball bats into maces, and turning their wallet chains into all manner of chained fighting weapons with any number of striking weights attached to the ends. So, me being a proud American who is of German descent, I train in the medieval knightly HEMA's of 14th nd 15th century Germany. My main weapons are the German Longsword of Johannes Liechtenauer/Sigmund Ringeck, the companion dagger, and a LOT of Ringenkunst war wrestling (albeit that I also include a robust study of triangle chokes and WW2 U.S. Navy military boxing to add key striking and choking techniques to my overall fighting ability). This is how I hope to be ahead of the game when it comes to fighting my way out of the city amidst the anarchy chaos in the streets as it all plays out around me. Thank you.
I think a cool way to review a video is to refer to certain segments of said video in time stamps. If you want to keep the reaction part in you could react without displaying the video then refer to the time stamp you want to comment on.
Thanks for analyzing my video with Paulo! Stay tuned for part 2 🔥
That's so exciting!
Really glad to hear there'll be a follow-up. The first one was interesting and informative.
Nice one brad
Can't wait. Video 1 was awesome stuff.
Saw the video its amazing
I always took the "you're gonna get stabbed in a knife fight" thing more as a warning for people not to involve themselves into one than as a reason not to defend yourself.
Really because I've seen videos of people get stabbed once and drop dead a few seconds later and the other person walks away unharmed.
Then it was a stabbing not a knife fight@@user-ue6iv2rd1n
@@user-ue6iv2rd1n yep better not to get in a knife fight at all if you can avoid it at every possible turn
@@user-ue6iv2rd1nis that really a knife fight at that point? Or just a stabbing?
@@user-ue6iv2rd1n well then that one short video is a perfect thing to base all your life-and-death choices on, eh?
My sifu gave us a knife lesson, first he had us wear white shirts to class, then made us fight with sharpies, then after we had all gotten marked up he gave the second part of the lesson.
using a skin on pork shoulder,
He pulled out a balisong and flicked it casually across a few times and then pulled the wounds open showing the 2 inch deep gashes he had left.
"Your body is no different than this pork shoulder. I want you to look at the marks and imagine this cut at each mark."
Stuck with my 16 year old self, 27 years ago and still fresh in my memory.
Noone wins a knife fight.
I think that last line is true of most conflicts.... no one wins... what you are fighting for is to survive with the least amount of injury.
He's right.
Sounds like a good teacher. A lot of people cannot really process the idea of danger or injury until they either experience it or see a lifelike comparison.
he sounds a lot like my old Martial Arts instructor, as he had similar methods of teaching a vital lesson
and it's those lessons you never forget....
Yeah, just like my sensei! Except he did a few demonstration swings with sharpies on a pig shoulder, and then made us fight with butterfly knives afterwards instead... well, his dojo did not last very long... (" -.-)
I got injured when i was working nightshifts at the german railroad service.
We smelled paint from a depot, when we checked a guy jumped me from one of the containers.
I blocked the hit with my right arm, got my baton out and whacked him (im a leftie), hit him in the area between neck and shoulder and he went down. Me and my colleague cuffed him and went through the protocol. When the police started procesing him we went and sat down for the first time on the platform where we had light to write our report.
Suddenly my colleaque said: "Dude you are dripping".
I checked my arm where i was dripping blood from, saw a cut through the security jacket and looked how deep it was. I looked straight through to what i assumed was my bone. Turns out the guy cut me with a knife and no one noticed until i did. The pain started when i took of my Jacket.
The cut was from my watch to almost the elbow along the outer bone. Had to get alot of stitches and my muscles got fused together with a hot needle at the hospital. I went through the whole thing joking around and not really processing.
It only dawned months later on me how scary the whole situation was. My recommendation is to stay fit and be aware where you are and where you are going, sometimes its worth changing the street side when you have a weird feeling about the people standing around there
Good example of what I mentioned in the video. I'm glad you made it through that situation and hopefully healed well!
Hell yeah, my testosterone increased tenfold from reading this
I can confirm what this guy said. You often don’t feel (clean) cuts for quite a while. Lots of caveats, like when a nerve is cut, or a tendon… those HURT. A clean cut to a meaty part can be virtually painless, though.
@@paulpolito2001 You feel the Impact First, You think you got Punched, not Cut or Stabbed...
@@johndee2990 Yeah I remember when my knee stumbled upon some underwater broken bottle or something, it felt more like I got kicked. And there wasn't pain at all, from beginning to when I got it bandaged at home. It has been quiet bleedy though so I was scared like shi
Sifu Inosanto taught me 30 years ago there are NO knife fights, only knifings.
It's only a knife fight if both have one.
@@SkallagrimIt's only a knife fight when the tips touch.
@@Skallagrimlol. Love your content btw.
For me it was easier to not get cut because both times It was a guy with a gun. The time it takes to arm yourself can be everything. A suitable weapon right now beats a better weapon later.
@@kribblton only if we kiss
One thing I really like about your reaction videos is that you never 'steal' the view from the original video. A lot of reaction video creators legitimately try to not 'steal' the view, but in the end they still fail because while the original video footage isn't used much, the point of the video is, and so there's still not much reason to watch the original. Thanks for being good at your craft!
I wholeheartedly agree, that video is one of the best lessons ive ever seen online on the realities of being attacked with a knife. Jesse is doing a great service by being an excellent student, seeking out many wise and experienced teachers, learning from them, and sharing these lessons with his audience.
Skall delivering that ethically correct reaction video
Sustainably sourced.
"It won't make a difference if I recommend it"
Skall, my dude, you're one of the few people on TH-cam who we actually respect because you know what you're talking about. Not like so many self proclaimed """experts""" on the internet. If you weigh in on something, we will listen. You've built up that respect and earned it.
More than that, he knows when he doesn't know what he's talking about and is willing to defer to people that know better. That's the real mark of a trustworthy source.
@Hieronymous_Flex Absolutely. There will always be idiots in the comments making WELL AKSHUALLY remarks who don't really know all that much about the topic. The Dunning Kruger effect be hitting them hard. (I have encountered those idiots in Skall's comments before, they're a dime a dozen.)
There's a reason why the phrase "a true genius knows when to be quiet" exists and that is exactly how Skall acts. He knows when to weigh in and when not to weigh in, which is why we respect his input. We know that when he is commenting on something, it's because he has something worth listening to.
Earlier this year, Paulo went on tour, teaching knife defence seminars in various places around the world.
I have the opportunity to attend one of these seminars in the UK. Jesse's video cause the essence of the seminar, but a brief video will never fully compare to two days of intense experience. Not only was Paulo's instruction excellent but, himself, is a very good and humble individual and it was an absolute honour to get to meet and spend time with him.
Shit. I never knew he came to the UK. Have you been to any other knife defence seminars? If so, how were they?
I have been practicing martial arts for about 10 years and when I saw this video the other day, I realized it was stuff I had struggled to sort out for myself over that whole time. I have used what he says in actual self defense situations and in defense of others as a manager at a facility for the homeless, including an incident where being aware of indexing allowed me to de-escalate the situation before the knife was pulled. Today I showed the video to my nephew and told him we will be practicing. Less than an hour later, I was happy to see you posted a reaction. Great timing!
Homeless Shelters are dangerous for everyone involved - Learned from Experience
“Just run away” is pretty incomplete advice. You have to BE AWARE and also create distance. Knives are incredibly effective AMBUSH weapons… if you can spot the ambush, you’re in a far better place.
E: have to suggest Armchair Violence’s “knife defense” videos. He brings a really practical take to the subject, as well.
Yeah if they are already to close odds are you are going to have to go on the offensive at that point
@@sexystealthninja
Quite so.
Sometimes the attcker doesn't give you a choice.
Sydney "Cutchoo" Wilson, and Peter Liu had nowhere to retreat properly.
And he couldn't let crazy knife Basketballer potentially go on a Maksim Gelman style rampage.
Yes. People often say that the best defense against any given threat is to run, but not many point out that it isn't always possible or viable.
If the attacker is faster, they'll probably just catch up. And if a third party (especially a close friend or relative, or someone vulnerable such as a child) is also in danger, to get away would be to leave them on their own.
There is no single best response to every threat (albeit being able to get away unharmed _is_ a better outcome on paper than getting into a fight where odds are you'll be injured in some capacity), it's all very situation dependent. The reason all four responses of fight, flight, freeze and fawn (along with any other relevant skills such as creating distractions, etc) exist is that each is optimal for its own specific situations.
@@yokaipinata1416Yeah I tried running away from getting jumped ended up tumbling down hill and still got beat by 5 guys😅
I mean, one of the most important things to keep in mind when just thinking about this sort of thing is that reality is not a video game.
The hypothetical 'attacker' in a self-defence scenario is not some mindless NPC who has to chase and kill you because you happened to get inside their aggro range. They're a person with their own wants and needs motivating them.
If getting away is not an option, you have already lost the fight. Because in real life you simply will not get suddenly attacked by someone who had made it their goal to kill you and get an opportunity to respond. Because that only happens if you're facing a completely random attack by an unhinged psychopath who was looking for someone, anyone, to kill that day and you happened to wander into their path, in which case they will be on you and attacking you before you even have the opportunity to realise what happening....
In all other cases, in all cases where you're able to respond, the attack is not sudden. There will have been a sequence of events that occurred before it. There will have been opportunities to get yourself and others away and/or opportunities to de-escalate. If you end up in a fight and you have the opportunity to respond, it's because you let that happen.
i have a 5 inch defensive wound on my arm from someone that got frisky with a knife while I was unarmed. It went down DEEP, just shy of the tendons in my forearm, though those tendons were visible from the 2+ inch wide gaping wound. I got very lucky to not lose any functionality in my hand, but I do have a sizeable numb patch around the scar and going down my arm a bit. It gets weird sensations once in a while. When the weather starts getting cold, it aches a bit. Thinking about it can make it ache a bit.
When it happened, it didn't feel like anything. Adrenaline is nuts. When I got away and saw this barely-bleeding gaping hole revealing parts of my anatomy I definitely prefer to stay hidden, like some kind of cross section from a textbook, revealing layers of skin and fat and muscle, it still didn't feel like anything. When the burliest EMT they had was using all of his strength to press the halves together en route to the hospital, still didn't hurt. Getting the lidocaine shots before they stapled it shut hurt more than the wound did. The cleaning they did before closing it felt gross, but not painful. The hurting didn't start in earnest until the healing did. And most of it came from the staples being tugged on! But god, getting those removed felt great. Like a persistent itch being scratched. They said the knife must've been deviously sharp, and that I was lucky for it. Whatever you say, doc
Afterwards I couldn't play any of my sword fighting video games for weeks. Those memories just kept coming back. Picturing, in vivid detail, the gory wounds that would be created by each stroke of a blade against another duelist in warband or whatever. I did get over it, but this video gives me a minor case of squicks.
All in all I'd rate it 0/10 experience. Except for the staple removing. I'd love to find a way to do THAT part again without needing to be assaulted with a bladed weapon or otherwise grievously injured
You have mentioned freezing up, and I have seen that first hand. When I was visiting Russia many many years go, our group got into some trouble with a drunk and/or high criminal. Our local friend tried to talk to him, which didn't work, and led to him getting stabbed in the leg. When he cried out "He stabbed me!" and started backing off, a woman from our group literally froze. The criminal started walking towards her with the knife and she just stood there. I had to grab and yank her away, and that's when she finally switched to flight mode. Then I started yelling to the rest of the group "Get out of here!" and went to help our injured friend. So that was a really scary situation, and I hope I'll never again have to deal with a knife fielding bad guy.
Eventually it was a happy end though. Our friend's wound wasn't serious, he got out of the hospital after a few days, and since he was working for a fairly powerful and influential person, the case got fast tracked, the perp "turned himself in", at least according to the official report, and our friend got a significant payment.
One of the main benefits of training is the physical "vocabulary" (for lack of a better word) that it gives you. The individual techniques may not be directly useful, but the underlying way of moving, the intuitive understanding of how the human body moves and how to manipulate it, the ingrained defensive reflexes, they all are at least closer to the real point of training.
I really enjoyed watching you "geeking out" about the video. Even though that video had already gotten so many views, it's your video that first got recommended to me, so thanks for posting this! When you said that the original video was great and worth seeing, I watched it first and then came to see the rest of your video, to see your thoughts on it.
I watch your channel for many years now and I'm still captivated. You're doing a great job and I love it. For the 'lack of self discipline' thing - I can relate. Still, you are uplifting to others. Think about that every now and then. Keep going. Many nerds are with you!
I always took the "you will get cut" as prepare to sacrifice your arm to safe your head, it's better to get stabbed in the hand/arm than the head/neck when you can't avoid it.
I have been stabbed, an accident, the knife hit the bone and it was basically painless and that wasn't even a fight-flight-freeze situation. That 5-7cm deep, 2cm wide stab wound hurt less than any cut I ever got. Body reacts a lot differently to a surface level wound than to ones that could actually be dangerous to you. You can definately feel something, but definately something yoiu could miss in a fight. Like my clothing snagged on something and I bumped a corner, something like that.
What do you call a medieval amphibian? A Skallamander!
Which amphibian is the worst swimmer? A Rockodile!
? , Skallameleon, Skallizard
@@GenJuhru Chameleons and lizards are both reptiles, not amphibians. The Skameleon or the skalliazard would be medieval reptiles
@@slacker2016 Medieval reptiles? Skallindwurm :)
You’re a good man, Skallagrim. Way to look out for your fellow content makers and putting your input in successfully.
Now this is a way to talk about a video without actually showing much of it. Great content as always
The best way to reduce being harmed by a knife attack more than anything taught by combat experts is to leave abusive relationships.
If you've been punched or slapped once by your partner once you're chance of being stabbed is immensely higher than someone living in a dangerous area.
Girls named Stacy, Redheads and Hairdressers.
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I've seen this video. The most realistic knife instruction video I've seen ever. Definitely must watch
I watched Jesse's video initially, and really appreciated it. Then, hearing all these established channels endorsing the video really helps me by confirming it's accuracy
The true genius of this video was the thumbnail. It said: Running away is BS?
I think so many of us clicked on it in rage and then stayed for the moment he said it. But he didn't. By the end we forgot why we started watching it in the 1st place. Genius ragebait move!
I ignored it because of that 😅
@@reptiloidmitglied2930 Hahaha me too! Had it on my You Tube everytime i refreshed and never klicked it.
It's cool to see how much the youtuber circles I've been following separately for years are starting to intersect, but I guess it's not a surprising set of interests to have in common.
I wouldn't describe his advice or training as trying to avoid getting cut at all costs though. Getting cut a bit isn't nearly as bad as getting cut fatally. Sometimes the safest thing you can do is accept a high likelihood of getting hurt, trading for a lower likelihood of getting killed. In most cases, you're better off avoiding either, and probably can; most people never end up in knife incidents. But like with a fistfight, fixating on not getting hit at all might not give you the best chance of making it out in one piece.
I’ve been following this guy since his video “I tried to stab a US Marine“ at least I think that was the name of the title. He is really impressive, really humble, and ready to learn. He even got me back into master Wong after he did a video with himwere master Wong showed his knife defense skills and they were legit.
Thank you for putting this video up. This all needs to be said.
Saw this video when it dropped and was impressed, it's refreshing to see a knife defense demo that tries to emulate reality.
after having trained in freestyle Karate which had multiple other forms of martial arts integrated into it..... and included weapons use and defence we trained a lot with all kinds of melee weapons, and the irony is it saved my life so many times, repetition can help so much in deciding the outcome to almost any conflict....
and although I had the years training behind me, you can still become wounded by the other person... either they are quicker than you, stronger than you, or you are injured already which is why I got stabbed in the back of my left shoulder when an incident kicked off... and the body language I'd saw a mile off, the attacker was fairly predictable for the most part.... he started trying to take my head off using a broom with an aluminium handle.... now as those who know these things can bend and break and I needed to disarm him as quick and as soon as possible, especially as there were people around who were not issues... who could have gotten hurt.
i did a forearm strike through the handle aimed at the side of his neck to at least incapacitate or disarm, though during this he grabbed the now loose and very sharp other end and shoved it in to my left shoulder...
I never felt anything... adrenaline and the heat of the situation dulls the senses and pain... oddly I never felt anything for hours or even days later either, the piece of metal went in about 1-2 inches into my shoulder luckily it didn't nick anything vital especially anything to cause a serious bleed.
and normally stuff like that is something I'm more trained with, however I wasn't even at 60% of my usual capabilities... I had fallen down the stairs 3 nights before and badly bruised my spine so movement was very restricted.... and while he did get that one hit in... his confidence in his attacks were becoming less and less like he was as sure of himself
so every aspect of the video IS the most TRUE and REAL description of an actual real life encounter with any weapon, knife or whatever tbh the body language, the mind set, the emotion, the desperation, every aspect on point
and glad someone actually made one to set the reality back to where it should be, hollywood has for a long time also a number of content creators too... have distorted reality of a serious scenario in favour of selling their brands
and I hate the idea that no matter what you do you are going to get cut anyway...
my training we always knew the risk, but trained to reduce or remove those risks....
That WAS a good video. Thanks, Skall!
Wow you were right about Paulo Rubio! He's created a method of teaching students how to teach themselves: simple rules of construction that allow the student to create any number of drills by which to practice any sort of technique or address any kind of deficiency.
I'm getting into HEMA and martial arts generally in my thirties with no money, almost no space, and on my own, so that kind of framework is incredibly valuable. Especially because ultimately I do all this to prepare myself for an extremely unlikely hypothetical, so that in that event, I can maintain the perfect number of holes my body already has.
I can only add my recommendation to check out this video. I've had a lot of experience (4 decades) in close-quarters work, and he gives some very sensible perspectives and attitudes.
My personal recommendation if this sort of topic is on your mind, would be to find a good traditional teacher in practical martial arts (Danzan Ryu is my favorite), and go do the real work to improve both your situational advantage in general, and your own moral/ethical character. The pursuit of proper character will do as much to keep you from harm as the skillsets themselves.
Thanks for bringing that video to my attention, well worth it.
This is awesome! I'm glad you found it and commented on it. I saw it a while back but wasn't sure if it gave valid information. Now, I know. Thank you!
The pre-attack behaviour section was SO GOOD. HUGE recommendation for people to watch through the whole video.
I went, I watched, I couldn't agree more. Great recommendation. 👍
"It's more likely you might not even notice (that you've been injured)"
I worked with a guy who got into a brawl with some armed thugs, and after the fight he's like "wtf where is all this blood coming from?"... turns out he'd been shot in the leg during the fight and didn't even feel it because of how amped out he was on adrenaline.
Ohhh nooo Skalla forced me to watch an Epic Video.
Please never Stop.
Thanks for the recommendation.
Going on the juxtaposition that one doesn't learn to drive by getting in accidents, I find that the worst warriors get the most wounds.
Been hurt by weapons before and my subconscious completely took over to end the threat. It was like I was watching myself third person in slow motion. Pretty weird.
i was stabbed with an ice pick in the leg while breaking up a fight, had no idea it happened until i went to fix my pants and felt it tug, thankfully it only hit muscle an emt removed it on scene and cleaned it. so i can understand not feeling an injury in the heat of battle.
When i was in Afghanistan we got into a firefight, we won the day and when i was getting to a better position my buddy stopped me and grabbed my left arm to look at it, he then stated dude you've been hit, I looked at my forearm and sure enough there was a furrow about a quarter inch deep that ran from just above my wrist to about a third of the way down my outer forearm, we wrapped it up and pushed on, it started to hurt while we were wrapping it up
Recent studies suggest that 'muscle memory' doesnt actually happen in the brain but through neural processes in the various parts of the body responding
I absolutely love the philosophy behind any martial art. Because while you were talking about technique and people saying they're pointless. Its funny because I kinda both heavily agree and disagree. The point of techniques isn't about applying them verbatim necessarily. They are things to be used to enhance your fighting. Knowing in these scenarios where your strengths and weaknesses are and which technique would be used best. How and when to use them for yourself is where techniques really shine. For them to be drilled into your brain so you have a library of them in mind to initiate when the opportunity or advantage to them presents itself. Alone techniques mean nothing its how they are applied and used by their user but are not useless by any means.
Technique is more about the mentality and mechanics of fighting than their practical use. Its like trying to fix a machine or using a program on the computer, you need to understand the parts at play in the situation so you can work or fix it the right way. In this way it would be like putting together a piece of furniture without instruction, yeah you can probably work it out and do it, had you read the manual though you would've had a better idea and got done with quicker.
In my opinion I think things such as technique used as knowledge to apply to something is it's purpose. I could be wrong I am in no way a scholar nor have I trained in any martial arts. I have always wanted to but never worked it out, just talking about the methodology and philosophy behind fighting is fascinating. But from what I've learned from people and studied myself fighting is both equally a physical contest and a mindset that you need to use to reduce your chances of injury and defeat your opponent. Your mind is half the battle quite literally because if you falter or miscalculate you could be at best severely injured or at worst dead. Having this knowledge gives you a better chance overall, without technique you fight with hopes and dreams, gambling your life or others on dumb luck.
Which is why someone with half the strength and size in some martial arts can take down opponents twice themselves because they know where they will just fail or where they have an advantage. In those cases you also know when you're outmatched in most ways and just need to run away safely. The key to fighting is knowing when to even engage into fights at all or disengage from an encounter you're beset in. The rest of it is when you don't have a choice and are trying to simply raise the chances of survival.
Yep. Techniques work better if you're drilled well in them and then you apply them in a mixup mindset instead of a predetermined flowchart that you follow all the time
30y ago I was a bouncer. I guy passes me but the turns around and gave me a jab, it felt like a bad hit. I backed up and shouted for a colleague to help me. The guy ran away and my adrenaline levelled out, then I realized that he stabbed me in my collarbone right over my antistab jacket. It actually changed me a bit and I quit the work. One cm lower or higher would have been lethal.
The loser of a knife fight goes to the mortuary, the winner goes to the hospital. That's to say: run away if possible
Kinfe fighting has to be pretty terrifying.
It is afterward. In the middle of one it's all adrenaline and you don't have the time to be terrified.
@LeonidasRex1 Good point I suppose I never had been in a situation like that
@@joseph-socialist.bsky.social I hope you never have to be in a situation like that.
@LeonidasRex1 Thank you I hope so too
While the cxhannel shouted out does not need it, us the viewers do!
Looking for channels with genuine content is quite hard these days, so thanks for showing me one. :)
Jessie Enkamp's video was excellent. If I'm not protecting a person or property, I have zero problem with trying to break contact and booking it, because I don't have anything to prove to some random attacker(s). Sometimes that's just to get to more favourable ground, a more public place, or separate members from a group. It's not just turning your back and booking it though. You have to be able to break contact and create some distance or you don't run. Unless your dealing with some highly trained psychopath or high on drugs and/or the voices in his head are telling him to smite the demon in front of him, chances are the guy with the knife is scared and just as stressed out as you are. People in fights can freak out, forget their training, make mistakes they'd never make in the dojo, and often go into shock without even getting struck.
a lot of people also forget that with enough understanding of biomechanical functions and how the body works. it is also highly possible to also come up with new techniques that could work effectively if executed right. this takes a lot more time though because it requires studying how the body responds to various different things. but when You do this You can also learn more about your personal limitations and also tailor the styles and methods to your own body and size and aspects. this increases the capability of making successful techniques that could work for you directly as a person. as they are not just based on Biomechanics but also your personal biomechanical layout as well and how it will respond to that of other people. after all these existing techniques that we already know and are aware of all came from somewhere. based on knowledge training and study so it is very possible to create your own personal iterations that work better for you as a person and to make entirely new techniques as well. and this applies to any weapon or combat style not just knives.
Saw the video its amazing. Thanks to you for proceeding to spread information like this
Hey, I remember getting that Emergency Alert yesterday at lunch!
That is quite the endorcement. Thank you.
Good video that I already watched. One of the best I've seen.
A friend of mine who studied Kajukenbo A long time ago at least. He told me something that one of his instructors had told him who studied under a prominent Siakalli instructor. Among to train nine fighters one goes to the morgue one goes to the hospital. In other words if you’re finding somebody that knows what you’re doing, you’re gonna get cut. And odds are someone’s gonna get killed. If you’re fighting somebody that doesn’t know what they’re doing, well dumb luck trumps everything.
I'm glad you made a video about this, I only watch content from known people like yourself or Schola Gladiatoria
I dont watch garbage with names like "knife expert" at the start because its usually like, nothing content.
Your recomendation was absolutly neccessary for me , skall. I saw the thumpnail but did not want to watch another half-baked knife defense guy. So your recomdation made me put the video in my watch later list right now.
2:11 when I got stabbed I was actively being jumped so I couldn’t tell a difference between being hit or stabbed while my adrenaline was pumping… after it stopped I found out by losing a lot of blood.
The place i used to take martial arts had a very practical and pragmatic approach, one of the things we learned was a bit of knife fighting. The main thing my instructor kept hammering home was "knife fighters don't tend to live very long." and the goal was always to avoid the fight if possible, not escalate to weapons if possible, and if it's unavoidable hopefully know enough to get away from the situation alive.
I was one of those who already watched the video, really liked it and his method of practice is something I want to try myself too.
just saw Jessie's video in my feed, not familiar with him so I just rolled my eyes at another "realistic knife defense video." will watch the whole thing with your recommendation tho, the shout out is not in vain
There is this interview with a serial killer who told the interviewer that contrary to his peers, who aimed at vital organs when stabbing and either waited for the bleedout or the instant kill, he always said he aimed for the inferior abdominal area, closest to the bladder, to completely incapacitate the enemy, then move in for the kill. He was stabbed multiple times, even by multiple assailants while in prison with shivs, and he said the fact he knows their enemies would come for the vitals meant he knew how to protect them at all costs, and barely lived his fights.
If you doubt this, ask any doctors about the nerves in that region; its brutal how casually mentioned this and the number of scars are testament to his stories.
Something I feel that a lot of people don't understand about martial arts is that it isn't about being the best fighter or being invincible is to give you tools to be more likely to survive a really bad situation. The best defense is to try to avoid bad situations overall but sometimes bad things happen so many martial arts techniques in the training simply gives you a little bit better muscle memory and more tools in your toolbox in case something goes very poorly. The best defense is to avoid things like I said before but sometimes you can only mitigate what's going on so it would be better to take an injury than to be dead and the training to some extent will help you with these circumstances heaven forbid your find yourself in them and you can't get away. This is also something I stress people who say why I just carry a gun well guess what so do I but many attacks happen without you even realizing what's going to happen even with being observant and you don't always have time to get your weapon out to defend yourself so you should probably have a back-up plan.
Why I think it's good idea to first go slowly and try to learn a "perfect" technique in knife defense is that you can focus on the basics. Keeping your weight down, how you should move, where your hands should go etc. When those things start to become automatic you ramp it up gradually. Your opponent can use more speed, different attacks, start to resist your techniques and so on. I feel like it's really hard to get to that second stage without going through the first. The problem is that a lot of martial arts schools leave it at that first stage and say you've got it.
And yeah, there are a lot of bullshido knife defense techniques that would absolutely get you killed. That's another reason to ultimately go extra hard in knife defense. To find out what works and what doesn't.
If you havnt, check out the self defence championship season 2! It’s not too serious it’s mostly just guys having fun. But there were some very interesting performances in the locked room knife defence scenario.
One guy got on the ground and pulled guard, another guy decided “offense is the best defense.” It’s certainly interesting
I didnt realize you were a fellow Canadian! But I get the exact same noise, so I checked your profile lol
All the talk about what and how to practice, muscle memory, etc. resonates a lot with my drumming practice. In drumming, technique isn't crucial, many legendary drummers have reached the top with "sub-optimal" technique, but it does help a ton. Experience on the other hand is paramount. No para-diddle drill is going to teach you how to make your grooves and fills tasty.
I looked up the training place, and it is a private business in an upscale neighborhood that rents out the test space to all and sundry, not just government forces . Around the time they were running a public (bleep)-survival seminar with that expert as a featured teacher .
I have watched Jesse's videos for years and have not subscribed. Not sure why, yet. I should probably do that.
Weird, been seeing that video in my recommended for a week, and now one of the folks i'm subbed to is recommending it, funny time line this one.
Many "self defense experts" are adamant - if an attacker has a knife, the best defense is run. I do not agree with that, we need to learn how to defend ourselfs against cold weapons, not run, cause there can be many reasons why you can't run...
7:00 truly respectful of skall.
unlike many other ytubers who blatantly just plays (steals) the whole video of someone else and calls it "reacts" video.
i always thought it was more about not being scared of getting cut, you try to stop it but don't let the fear of it paralyze you or force you into a position where they can grab you because you over avoided it or over focused on the the knife, the blade will come close to you, you may get small cuts and you will need to be in a position where you can get cut by it within moments when fighting someone holding one, if it gets close to you don't try to then make distance at all costs just so you can see if and how badly you were cut, avoid getting cut but if you are cut that is not yet the focus the focus is on surviving, and while a cut can kill you, lack of focus will kill you much faster.
2:05 This is the most terrifying thing about knife attacks. There was a case a few months ago of a guy who was charged and convicted for the death of man he had stabbed. There's a video of the entire altercation and he stabs two people and they didn't know. The man who died was stabbed in the stomach and bled out before he even knew he was dying.
2:04 i got ran over by a bull when i was 20. He hit me, the ground hit me, i rolled under the truck that was blocking most of the lane, rolled back out, jumped up and ran after the bull to help the two guys ahorseback get him where he was supposed to be. When i got back to the truck, and climbed in to move it, my right leg started to hurt. Pain i had never experienced. Hairline fracture of the tibia about 1.5 inches below my knee. It was a month before i could walk without pain. Adrenaline is a helluva drug
Adrenaline and the capacity of human bodies to continue going when shit hits the fan is crazy. Glad you’re (hopefully) fully recovered from that.
I really like Guro Paulo's, Ed Calderón's and Scott Babb's approach (in the singular, because they share the same spirit) regarding contemporary knife fighting as a counter-ambush skillset that goes way beyond the knife part.
99,9% of the knife attacks we could get into nowadays are ambushes and, therefore, you NEED to see the attack coming WAY BEFORE it starts and simply avoid it at all costs. BUT, when you can't avoid it (people overestimate the average joe's running cappacity and also forget that some people have family members to protect with their own life), you must basicaly pray and "spray" agressiveness through logical, as-deadly-as-possible, extreme close quarters strikes.
It's nice how some Libre's and Guro Paulo's techniques can be found on Arditi and british WW1 knife fighting sources, even tho their main study sources are CCTV footages and adapted filipino martial concepts.
I've had the pleasure of meeting Ppaulo during his trips to the US to train with my primary instructor, Todd Fossey. He's a very knowledgeable expert and I trust what he has to say when it comes to knife defense.
Nice to see a youtuber talking about a personality he likes, instead of a video bashing one, that so many youtubers make nowadays.
Great recommendation thanks skal!
Mate of mine got stabbed once while working as a bouncer. She felt a slight impact, but assumed it was just a glancing punch, and thought nothing more of it. When she got home, her mother pointed out that she was bleeding. Fortunately, not a deep wound and no serious damage, but she was annoyed that it had ruined her shirt.
21 seconds lets go XD saw the video already so im interested in your perspective on it too
We love a Skall video😤😤
Just watched the original video. Thank you for this excellent recommendation. Those training drill techniques are awesome for HEMA or any martial art.
Good video man!
1:13 Skall hiding from sunlight
What is a Skall?
Just hope? Situational awareness major part: recognizing the danger. Only once had encounter and, maybe, lucky the surprise didn't freak me out.
I did watch that video. I thought it was really good. Those drills they demonstrate. Would be pretty easy to implement in personal training. Even after only just watching the video.
Many people I know who have been stabbed did not notice until after the incident. One guy he thought he was being punched, then he noticed his back was all wet.
It does also depend on where it hits. Been stabbed on three separate occasions. First two I absolutely did not feel it because they got me in my gut and luckily missed anything vital. Only found out after waking up in hospital, since I collapsed a few streets away after running from what I thought was a mugging.
The third one I was very much aware because she nicked my hip when she got me, and that hurt like an absolute bitch.
@@insertname3977 You need new friends mate.
Seriously though hope you recovered well.
@Emerald_Wolf Oh, if I even had bad friends presents at the time, probably wouldn't have been stabbed. The first time I was a homeless teenager, the second was after work when I was walking home. Just complete random acts of violence that would have been anyone else if someone was present. The third time is was because I did something stupid and tried to help a woman who was screaming for help in an alley. It just turned out it was just a ruse to have someone show up for her to knife and rob. Hip aches like crazy when it rains but otherwise the stabbings have been the least of my injuries.
The video is awesome, everybody should watch it.
If I get into a situation that the person has a knife, I run no matter what! The times when people have been agro at me there has been markers/pointers to the situation going pear shape. In all cases moved away to de-escalate or ready to run away.
i think a lot of his tips about indicators are applicable to HEMA as well.
Also the reverse-blinking drill - could be really good for HEMA and making your defenses into instincts
That's an interesting reaction. I'll make sure to check out the original video.
My teacher just came at us out of nowhere, we didn't even see the knife we were just getting cut, and stabbed. He was teaching us that it's very rare that someone is going to wave a knife around and start swinging. If someone really wants to hurt you you most likely won't see it coming. I think that's important to teach because we're taught how to defend attacks that will probably never happen, and then were left unprepared for s real attack.
The "Is it quicker parts of the brain or does your body remember?" Neuroscience says Yes. While geographicaly we distinguish between the centeral and peripheral nervous systems, it doesn't seem like our bodies do. our conscious processes are largely in the brain, our reflexes have a simpler, shorter route. Our general nervous systems respond to repeated patterns and will adjust the thresholds along those pathways to make it easier to fire the peripheral nerves in the repeating pattern. It's functually similar to creating a "macro" in computer programming. This isn't even touching what hormones do to how our brain and peripheral nervous systems function when in danger. Until we get evidence otherwise, I think it's ok to talk about "training our body" and "muscle memory" is forgivable while somewhat misleading. Love your vids!
Its porrible that im misremembering, or that things have changed since i studied this, but I'm pretty sure those reflexes that happen without the signal having reached tour brain are set. They're things like "touch hot thing, pull hand away", they're not plastic. Muscle memory is a thing, but it's a thing that happens in your brain
Worked contracted security many years. Prior infantry in the army, state level wrestling in highschool, pursued boxing post military. You will get cut up, stabbed, or scraped up in this close of combat. I'm by no means any kind of expert, but I've been in enough close combat scenarios to tell you: keep yourself fit. The ability to maintain distance and general instinct through training experience will make the difference between life and death. I'd fight a man, sword to sword any day, before I went against a man with a knife and I'm unarmed. Scary shit. Carry a gun if you can depending on where you live. You don't want to experience trying to defend against a knife. There is no shame in running. Live to fight another day.
One thing is certain, in a knife fight it is better to be the one with the knife than to be the one without the knife.
I actually pay attention to this guy's take on knife fighting as part of my German Dagger and longsword training, which I do as part of my SHTF doomsday prepper defense program;
When the societal collapse happens and everyone's out of ammo because no more is being made, people in droves will go either bare handed and/or start using melee weapons in hand. People will for example be using nail spikes to turn baseball bats into maces, and turning their wallet chains into all manner of chained fighting weapons with any number of striking weights attached to the ends.
So, me being a proud American who is of German descent, I train in the medieval knightly HEMA's of 14th nd 15th century Germany. My main weapons are the German Longsword of Johannes Liechtenauer/Sigmund Ringeck, the companion dagger, and a LOT of Ringenkunst war wrestling (albeit that I also include a robust study of triangle chokes and WW2 U.S. Navy military boxing to add key striking and choking techniques to my overall fighting ability).
This is how I hope to be ahead of the game when it comes to fighting my way out of the city amidst the anarchy chaos in the streets as it all plays out around me.
Thank you.
I think a cool way to review a video is to refer to certain segments of said video in time stamps. If you want to keep the reaction part in you could react without displaying the video then refer to the time stamp you want to comment on.