[Person Isac]

Originally Posted by joelr

No, nothing works against a knife, even a gun isn't going to help you every time. Many police officers have been stabbed after shooting a knife weilding assailant who was standing 30 or even 50 feet away. Once they run at you, even if they have suffered a mortal shot, they still have time to surprise you and stab you. I guess the exception is a head shot. But I saw a demonstration of how quickly the knife guy can close the distance even after being shot and it throws off your shot too.

Even krav maga is probably going to fail, it takes insane skill to apply those moves to someone who is quick with a knife. You've got to run.
It's also extremely rare to be attacked by a knife, usually they just want your $$. You've got to give them your $$, even if you know Krav Maga.

I didn't say anything about knives other than that I was showing footage of Jason Chambers being poked with one. If someone in the video says something, it doesn't necessarily mean that I have the same opinion. I just like to link to interesting content.

As for Krav Maga, there are legit cases of it being successful against knife attacks. Saying "X works, Y doesn't" is generalizing. I do agree though that it probably won't and you do have a very high chance of getting cut up, even if you have a knife too. The only case that comes to mind right away was about an Israeli soldier who was attacked by an insurgent and the soldier was extensively trained and armed with a pistol. Hardly the typical David and Goliath self-defense piece.

We could say Karate works or doesn't work because Oyama from that fourth video once killed a man with a single punch but the man did not have a knife. It's not really important. He's dead anyway.

The majority of crimes where a woman is attacked does not involve a knife fight from West Side Story.
It's a sexual assault where you either are good at jui jitsu and can submit the attacker or are at gunpoint and really just have to try to avoid that situation or take a risk and try to escape as soon as confronted.

True that knives are not often involved in rapes. I never said they were. Personally, I don't believe that submitting the guy is the best option. Maybe if you softened him up with something like an eye-gouge, an ear-tear, a blow to the trachea or a very hard nutshot first but I personally would not tell someone to use sport martial arts in a serious situation. If you know Jujitsu, break something or maybe choke him out if you're very confident.

And yeah, cheese it ASAP.

Being aware of your surroundings is really important. A woman was raped in Beacon Hill years ago but the attacker was lingering around her door, had she seen him she could have kept walking, there were other people on the street coming home from work too so there was an escape route possible.

Here, I agree. Being aware of your circumstances is probably more important than actually knowing how to fight.