- Gurkha looks enemy in the eye from 200 yards, Gurkha looks at his knife, Gurkha looks back at his enemy, enemy drops dead just to save a lot of bother *
And weren’t the train robbers basically unarmed? If I recall, they had fake pistols and puny little knives, and he faced them off in a narrow train car where they couldn’t gang up on him.
They make a valid point. Someone with a knife will cut the hell out of someone with a holstered firearm up to about 20 feet. Ask any police officer. They will tell you they would much rather face someone with a gun vs. someone with a knife.
I always thought knife tapping and disarms were fun to practice, and knife-on-knife sparring was good for training footwork, distance, lines of attack and such. But when it came to practical self defense I thought it most useful to work on efficient draw and repeated slash and stab of selected targets - against individual and multiple opponents.
Adding another data point. I have been in one knife fight where the opponent had a foot long knife and I was unarmed. I could not run away because I did not want them to get back the rifle I had just taken from them and shoot more people. They obviously were untrained with the knife.
I am confident any basic knife defense technique would have worked very well as they were swinging the knife as easily as if it was a training exercise in a martial arts class. Fortunately for me as I was remembering my training and preparing to disarm her, she went too far on the follow through of a swing and stabbed herself in the leg. Fight over.
So, I would say the results probably have more to do with how experienced the aggressor is than anything else.
Your totally a Jedi–admit it, you made her stab herself.
Funny thing, had I done the defense technique properly it would have caused her to likely stab herself just where she did. She just cut out the middle man and did it herself.
It is fortunate that your opponent was an uncoordinated moron.
With a weak mind.
These qualities in your opponent provide a great advantage in any type of fight. Personally, those are the top two things I consider in selecting an opponent.