mercop
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Time to stir the pot again- in my limited experience the most common offensive and defensive cut is the angle one traveling from high right to low left for a right handed person. While making this statement I am of course not taking into account "shankings' that are typically executed buy grabbing the victim with the weak hand and then stabbing with the strong hand, most often from the rear right flank area of the victim.
It has also been my experience that you need a "clearing" cut while drawing an edged weapon during and altercation before you can physically stab. I also believe that these clearing cuts are more effective if they come up and under into your assailants body instead of from over the top and out to the side. This tends to not only back them up but also puts them back on their heels slowing a subsequent attack.
Another thing that people seem to fail to take into account when planning to stab during a self defense situation is loosing your knife in your attacker after the first stab. It is not uncommon at a homicide scene to find someone with a butcher knife stuck in them. It is not because the person who stabbed them left it as a calling card but rather they were unable to remove it.
My final $.02 on it are this, you are way more likely to get a chance to slash during and altercation and drawing a knife in fight usually requires at least one cut/slash. IMHO slashing with motivation and violence of action are your best failsafe technique if you are forced to use and edged weapon to defend yourself. Nobody lets a cat scratch the hell out of them while thinking to themselves "well at least he is not biting me?"
You will have to excuse me if I seldom engage in the best knife/gun for self defense discussions. My mindset is this, a snubby that goes bang every time and any decent folder you can open with one hand will get you home safe if you have the mindset and training. Carrying only those will also encourage you to AVOID anything that would require bigger medicine.
Your thoughts in relation to this subject?
It has also been my experience that you need a "clearing" cut while drawing an edged weapon during and altercation before you can physically stab. I also believe that these clearing cuts are more effective if they come up and under into your assailants body instead of from over the top and out to the side. This tends to not only back them up but also puts them back on their heels slowing a subsequent attack.
Another thing that people seem to fail to take into account when planning to stab during a self defense situation is loosing your knife in your attacker after the first stab. It is not uncommon at a homicide scene to find someone with a butcher knife stuck in them. It is not because the person who stabbed them left it as a calling card but rather they were unable to remove it.
My final $.02 on it are this, you are way more likely to get a chance to slash during and altercation and drawing a knife in fight usually requires at least one cut/slash. IMHO slashing with motivation and violence of action are your best failsafe technique if you are forced to use and edged weapon to defend yourself. Nobody lets a cat scratch the hell out of them while thinking to themselves "well at least he is not biting me?"
You will have to excuse me if I seldom engage in the best knife/gun for self defense discussions. My mindset is this, a snubby that goes bang every time and any decent folder you can open with one hand will get you home safe if you have the mindset and training. Carrying only those will also encourage you to AVOID anything that would require bigger medicine.
Your thoughts in relation to this subject?