A knife attack is potentially the scariest of all defensive encounters. Have you trained to do what you must in the moment against a knife attack? It’s an important part of Active Self Protection!

Original video of the knife attack and news stories with more details available here: https://get-asp.com/i6t7

What does this video teach us about defending ourselves from a knife attack?

1. It’s important to be trained and ready to protect yourself against a knife attack as it is against an attack with a firearm. FBI homicide data says that about 4 times the number of people are killed with handguns as with knives, but since gunshots are about four times more fatal than knife wounds, it means the number of attacks are probably similar! (if you look at the FBI data, hands and feet kill a lot of people, too!) This leads us to the principle that we must be ready for a knife attack that begins at close distance, and have the empty-handed skills to defend ourselves.

Want to learn more? There are 8 additional lessons, 3 class starters for instructors, and links to more information about this knife attack on our website: https://get-asp.com/i6t7

Attitude. Skills. Plan.

(music in the intro and outro courtesy of Bensound at http://www.bensound.com)

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