Taikyoku Araki-ryu Pac NW

  I post these with a strong caution. These are GRAPHIC and for some may be quite disturbing. People are stabbed to death in various circumstances in the videos below. Fair Warning. These are not intended as Knife Porn. They provide representative examples of how actual fighting - more often simply assaults - with edged weapons occur. I feel that it behooves those of us who purport to be practicing effective methods for dealing with edged weapons - classical or contemporary - to know what actual violence with knives looks like.  I served twenty eight years as a police officer, attended many stabbings and dealt with victims, seen the video evidence of many more, have had friends and colleagues stabbed, including one who suffered what a medical examiner said would have been fatal wounds during a chaotic ground fight with a suspect had he not been mistakenly killed by a responding deputy.  There are a lot of notions out there in the "knife training community." In the martial...