Self-defense against attacker with weapons:
The goal of Krav Maga weapons defenses is to minimize injury from that weapon, to control the weapon, and to strike as hard and fast as you can to cause maximum damage to your attacker until either they release the weapon or you have an opportunity to disarm them. That is accomplished through an acronym called "R.C.A.T."
R.C.A.T. stands for "Redirect, Control, Attack, Takeaway" and it refers to the steps, in order, of how to successfully defend yourself against someone with a weapon. It applies to most, maybe 95% of armed adversary encounters and how to defend yourself.
1. Defend against Attack with Stick
When the stick comes at you from the top, you close the gap and strike him straight to the face. Then your knee is going to attack him into the groin, isolation of the arm with the weapon, extract the weapon, strike him and open up spaces. Watch the video to learn the steps, you can start watching the video from 0:23 seconds.
2. Defend against Attack with Knife
When the knife comes out and you see the knife you are gonna come to a basic stand when your hands are tight to make yourself as small as you can, to force him into a smaller target. When he stabs, your defense is moving yourself off the line of the strike, so as the body blocks which is off the way, and there is the insurance that's gonna come from your arm, making sure it cannot come through you. With the block together there is a grab and a punch, a continuation of a kick to the groin and take away the knife.
Watch the video to learn the technique step by step; you can start watching the video from 0:26 seconds.
3. Defend against Threat with a Gun
When you see a gun, there's two motions that are going carry out. First is off the line of fire, which is by far the most important piece of this motion. At the same time you can isolate the weapon; you are going drive the gun away from innocent civilians, potentially into the attacker, so the gun will go down, and at the same time there's a punch to his face. Barrell into him, and you are gonna maintain the maximum amount of weight that you can downward and towards the ground. His instant reaction is to start moving backwards, and if the gun is down towards the ground, it will make it a lot more difficult for him to do, once the punch comes in, you are going to come back to the horns of the weapon, try to rotate it, pull it out, throw a fresh round into chamber, and end up in a full distance from center mass.
Watch the video to learn the procedure step by step; you can start watching the video from 0:28 seconds.
TIP: If you decide to fight, you utilize every ounce of speed, aggression and overwhelming physical force that you can muster to put yourself in a more advantageous position. Be smart about it, your wallet isn't worth your life, your phone isn't worth your life, your car isn't worth your life. Your life however is worth your life, if they want to remove you to a secondary location, if they want to bound your hands, if they haven't left after being given your material possessions, you do what you need to do.
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