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Originally Posted by mineistaken
While I agree that there is no point (even for pro fighters) to try and fight someone with a knife (as opposed to running etc), this guy says that he could defend if he knew that he was going to do that move (as demonstrated in the beginning). And no chance of defending if he does not know when/how he will use that knife. So my question - wouldn't it be smartest way to grab that knife hand (or do whatever) as soon as he saw knife in hand (as opposed to listening to confrontation from someone holding a kife)?
If he could grab it like that first move, he could do something along those line if there was no move at all (just words and knife in steady hand).
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There is a reason there are 1000s of martial arts, all full of ancient and supposedly "battle tested" wisdom (they aren't) and all promising to stop attackers, disarm them, incapacitate theme etc and only basically a couple that exist in real world, full contact fighting like the UFC/MMA world (Muay Thai/BJJ/Wrestling).
The short answer to your question is "no". No, you can't just "grab the.....". How are you going to "grab the..." when the attacker is going to react to your movement towards the weapon?
You are talking about the equivalent in training of playing a world class piano concerto in terms of skill. Except, in this case, you only get one chance to get it right. You get it perfectly right and you take control of the weapon to incapacitate them or you die.
You can "grab the...." after doing it 10s of 1000s of times over years with multiple partners to develop the speed, timing and accuracy of the movement and to have skills to brutally follow up with something that will break them... all of which assumes a well designed training program, great coaching and feedback, endless repetition and a fierce determination on the part of the student to correct himself and relentlessly drill.
Only people who train fantasy martial arts and watch action movies, think they "can just grab the..."
Real confrontation is messy and chaotic and random/unpredictable.