Not a fan of using kicks, you get cut there, you can't run, and if by accident he slices your artery its not going to be good.
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If you're wearing carhartts tho then it's okay.
The point of the thread was in situations where you cant run
80% of 'self-defense' gurus make money by running confidence games because 80% of practical self-defense can be fit into a single simple conversation; situational awareness at all times. If you are in a disadvantageous situation and you can't abscond, you fucked up a long time ago.
They run confidence games because it's a lot harder to make money off of just single consultations though; you want repeat business, so you host live action roleplaying for people to enjoy and feel like they are doing stuff and making progress.
Practical combat sports can get repeat business, because most tend to involve facets of martial activity where it's both useful and possible to spend time practicing with liveness.
Practical combat sports don't seem as sexy or comforting as words like 'self-defense' or 'reality based' though, because there are lots of people who don't really know what they want or what they are really asking for, who think they know what they really want and what they are asking for.
They also include more competition from people who know what they are talking about, and have easier and popular methods of getting information on how good someone actually is (competition formats, regular sparring, et cetera), making it harder to rely on bullshit artistry alone as your sole business plan.
Anyone teaching practical combat sports can upgrade themselves to a better than average self-defense instructor with the power of single simple conversation consulting on top.
like if you have someone with you who could not also outrun the perp, otherwise yes you could both run. But if they cant and you had to face and fight then there needs to be a plan and some preparation.
Even if you carry, within a certain range there isn't going to be time to withdraw
Yes maybe you get cut but perhaps you can control where like outside of forearm then try to finish with the other hand.
The simple reality is, if you're trying to tangle with someone who is armed and you are not armed, there is no realistic outcome that does not include you getting stabbed somewhere.
Your only realistic options are, carry your own weapon, or improvise a weapon from your surroundings.
Someone who expects to deal with people who are going to be armed is someone who is going to be armed themselves. Basic common sense. (Which is to say, people like soldiers, security guards, police officers, et cetera.) If they are smart they are going to be teamed up with fellow members of their gang as well, for the benefit of numbers.
There are a few things that can be regularly practiced that can be relevant to such a person, things such as weapon retention against someone getting grabby, balancing for staying on your feet in scuffles, taking down and pinning someone getting unruly, and so on.
Too much, a whole cottage industry in fact, of 'self defense' instruction is done from the perspective or predicated on the assumption of someone who is unarmed or otherwise arbitrarily disempowered in some way, such a momentous presumption that is uncritically accepted as a given for specious reasons.
A big part of that reason is people preying on misleading common people's intuitions for risk management; "we're just focused on considering what the worst case scenario is; if you are prepared for the worst case scenario, everything else is prepared for by default right?".
Not teaching things that people will actually be doing in their actual jobs in actual situations is the real worst case scenario.
