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 arts it is often worse, for people allegedly practicing for "self-cultivation" avidly mimic 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, in my thinking, to practice such things in the manner described than it is to study the pain and sacrifice some have made in real life events and learn the lessons, so as to protect ourselves and our loved ones in such an event.
Proper training should resemble the things below more often than it should embrace "knife fighting," "timetables of death," "switches and timers" and other such nonsense.
- Chris
Las Cruces Officer Jonah Hernandez Deadly Stabbing
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