Thread of Documented Weapon Attacks

[kmyoshi]

I’ve posted many threads regarding attacks with knives, machetes, swords, guns, etc. and decided it may be better to keep it all in one thread. my only request is if it is a graphic video, please put a disclaimer in your post.

For this video, it is a robbery that takes place inside an elevator.
The perp has probably done this multiple times before as he is very calm and calculating. He goes into the elevator about the time that the door is closing, not giving his target much of an opportunity to leave the area. He is also in her personal space and unless she was watching his hands the entire time, no time to react
There is no blood seen in the video but there is a stabbing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a_7E9sPDr0

[ninja-dinosaur]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79JaoAk8j8g gang steals a bottle of alcohol….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhV9xTPRvaI machete fight in the hood. notice how they swing the machete in front of them side to side using a small wrist movement, instead of just hacking and slashing. how could someone burst in and control the weapon that way?

another fight, but this one is more hack and slash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrKPDnjSTHA

my instructor said you cant do the baseball bat/stick defense against machetes, you can get your arm and/or ribs injured if you do. any thoughts on this?

btw all these videos are from my country. this doesnt happen where i live but sometimes you have to venture to other places in the city 😀

[kmyoshi]

quote NiNja_Dinosaur:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79JaoAk8j8g gang steals a bottle of alcohol….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhV9xTPRvaI machete fight in the hood. notice how they swing the machete in front of them side to side using a small wrist movement, instead of just hacking and slashing. how could someone burst in and control the weapon that way?

First, I have very limited knowledge of bladed weapons combatives so this is just my observations. The small wrist movements is keep the weapon in motion which allows the wielder to attack in quick spurts, but also to mask the attacks [feint], similar to how in TKD the stance has a lot of movement/switching stance to keep your opponent guessing. In this instance, there is no opportunity for you to burst in to control the weapon. With FMA (once again limited knowledge…) if you have knife on knife, you would try to attack the blade (therefore the hand) so that you can cause damage and either knock the weapon out of the hand right away, or continue to whittle away at the hand until it is no longer useable. You can do the same with the machete, although it may not be as light and quick as a knife, you have a reach advantage.

quote NiNja_Dinosaur:

another fight, but this one is more hack and slash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrKPDnjSTHA

my instructor said you cant do the baseball bat/stick defense against machetes, you can get your arm and/or ribs injured if you do. any thoughts on this?

Depends on the way the attack is. If they are quick slashes like the one in this video, you won’t be able to. However, one of the guy looks like he was able to trap the arm holding the machete, but he took a few hits before that. I’m curious how much damage he took because the resolution is bad. I thought he got stabbed through the shoulder. Again, I think the best course of action for this is to attack the arm holding the weapon. If its unarmed vs. machete, space is your friend and your enemy. On one hand you won’t get hit, but a machete attacker knows that and will keep on coming forward. Better to get something that can put space between you and the attacker or do something (like throwing a chair, brick, etc. at them, and while they’re busy flinching from it or dodging it or getting hit by it, close the distance…

[ninja-dinosaur]

ah ty for ur input 🙂
there was another video too that i saw a while back, but cant find it anymore. it was from my country too. 2 guys knife fighting each other, they got injured pretty bad. they were grabbing the knife with the blade facing down, like ice pick hold, but they werent doing the overhead stab…they were just doing quick and short frontal/downforward strikes. sorry, its hard for me to describe it well >< but the attacks looked like inside attacks, almost like throwing a jab without fully extending the arm. i guess 360 wouldnt work in that scenario? would have to do insidedefense then? but their arms moved too fast, they seemed hard to control @_@

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