Are you ready to protect yourself against a knife attack like this? This officer shows us that the “stand and deliver” method of shooting someone in a knife attack isn’t great Active Self Protection. He shows us instead a better method!

Original video and news story of the knife attack on the officer available here: https://get-asp.com/52b2

What does this video teach us about defending ourselves against 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 knife attacks that begin at close distance, and have the empty-handed skills to defend ourselves.

Want to learn more? There are 6 additional lessons, 3 class starters for instructors, and links to more information about this knife attack on our website: https://get-asp.com/52b2

Attitude. Skills. Plan.

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

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