Krav Maga Self Defense Techniques : Edge Weapons Techniques for Krav Maga

This is Steve “The Dragon” Jimenez along with Heath Jones. In this segment we are going to go over on edge weapon. Now in our combat as there is also in our self defense there is what we call a 360 defense. 360 defense are blocks for unorthodox swings or punches may be a swing with an edge weapon or a swing with a blunt object. So from here we use defenses here and here and now here as well. So coming straight down or coming straight up or over the top. The person can have a knife behind is back and I have no idea this gentleman has a knife and I was just standing here, “you know just kind of take it easy.” I don’t want any problems here, I just want to go home to my family and the attack comes from here boom! straight up I am going to make a defense. I don’t know what he has in his hands. I am going to make the exact same defense. Think about a knife. The knife attack is a crime of passion this is why you never hear of anybody of dying or being attacked with one stab. You have multiple hundreds of stabs 50, 40, 200 stabs and the person is dead. So it’s a crime of passion. So when this gentleman comes in with the weapon the attacker he is not going to come in with just one and then he is going to come in attacking. So we have to attack the attack when it comes so this defense is here. So when we attack the attack I come here boom! I catch him at his weakest point right here. Notice how my hand will run through his face here. So I am coming here with the counter attack at the exact same time, so nice and slow coming in (boom) right to the face here and making a solid defense. My elbow needs to be in a 90 degree position. If I am extended out like this he is going to come down and fillet me. If I am inside here, weak on the inside he is going to come down and stab me in the hand. I want to make a a good 90 degree defense I am attacking wrist to wrist. I am hitting his wrist trying to break his wrist. I want to hit him so hard and if the knife pops out that would be good thing for me. Here is the strike from here he is at his weakest right here. I am going to come back driving the hand back down to the back pocket right here. Real nice slow control. I am going to come right here, driving knees, knees, groin kick, soften him a little bit more and if he still has the weapon and it is still in his hand. I am going to take a step back, bringing the weapon towards me coming up breaking the wrist coming straight down, raking the weapon out, now its mine right here.