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I'm partially gaucho(from southern brazil), btw, although I didn't really grow around the culture I grew up in a city.
Anyway, I think that both sides are wrong in this case. I see some knife advocates saying all knife disarms are stupid but at the same time many of the techniques are indeed stupid. To hurt somebody with a knife, especially with a cut through clothing isn't that easy, sometimes I see these knife instructors doing little quick slashes showing how easy it is to cut somebody, but they're wrong.
At the same time I see self defense idiots where the guy holding the knife stands still and let himself be disarmed.
I think that some simple disarm techniques or techniques to maintain distance like using a chair or something are valid. The deadliest knife attacks though are surprise attacks. Where you think you're facing an unarmed attacker and he pulls a knife you didn't even see
I know what you mean. I've seen some modern knife systems that just reek of Bullshido. They do dozens of flashy cuts while the guy pretending to be the attacker freezes like a mime.
Any instructor that's teaching his students to slash to the body is an idiot. Slashing is best used to target the arteries and veins, specially the one in the neck. Slashing the body doesn't make any sense.