I post these with a strong caution. They are GRAPHIC and for some may be quite disturbing. People are seriously injured and stabbed to death in various circumstances in the videos below. Fair Warning.
This is not "Knife Porn." They are 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 using and dealing with edged weapons - classical or contemporary - know what actual violence with them looks like.
In my career as a police officer, I attended many stabbings and dealt with the aftermath, and saw the video evidence of many more. I 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 other responding law enforcement.
There are plenty of notions out there in the "knife training community." In martial arts it is often worse, for people are allegedly practicing "self-cultivation" while avidly mimicking cutting and stabbing people with swords, knives, and other edged weapons without compunction, all the while lapping up asinine theories from their instructors and peers.
Many purveyors of this material are highly respected teachers in various martial arts domains, who should be embarrassed at their presumption. It is far more obscene, to my thinking, to practice such things in the manner described than it is to study the pain and sacrifice some have made and learn their lessons, so as to protect ourselves and our loved ones if such a horrific event befalls us.
Proper training should be more like what we see in these examples than it should be about "knife dueling," "timetables of death," "switches and timers" and other such nonsense.
- Chris
Las Cruces Officer Jonah Hernandez Deadly Stabbing
Ukrainian Soldier's Last Stand
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