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lol No, they would be killed. A 5th degree BB means nothing in a fightI'm speaking more to things like Kali, Krav Maga, Combatives although there are forms of Karate even that train how to disarm weapons and groin strikes/eye gouges, Kenpo for example train with weapons and knives with plastic blades etc, even ITF TKD teaches from a perspective of dealing with an attacker that's trying to kill or injured you.
The thing is many of the people that pick fights nowadays especially have no intention of having a fight, this new generation of street thug is all about stabbing, if you think about Karate for example the Kata is a combination of blocks and strikes and the purpose of the strikes is one hit kill so your training block and in some cases trap a hand holding a knife, while boxing can work in those situations the emphasis is not on dealing with an attacker trying to kill you.
Karate in it's original form was intended for these situations I'm talking about a master of Karate, I mean someone who is like a 5th degree and up can pull off the blocks and strikes in the Kata effortlessly if someone were to try to stab a 5th degree BB in Karate I have no doubt they would disarm the knife and severely injure the attacker. Our focus is different you train for the competition and I did to a degree I competed in BJJ a few times, but my focus has become solely self defense and real life situations, I also have firearm training and if I happened to be in a dangerous situation for some reason I would wear a stab vest and I plan on learning knife disarming skills as well. My focus is no longer winning a fight but self preservation.
TMAs have the purpose to fight in anything goes fight but they don't know what they are doing... they don't train with aliveness, that gives you the timing. The best Karate people are those who are champions in their point fighting, they develop timing with that
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