Carrying for Self-Defense

[dayuhan13]

Originally posted by cds1
(If I really knew how to defend myself maybe I wouldn't feel a need for a knife for SD, but learning self-defense skills takes more time commitment that dropping a knife in your pocket.)

In the time you taken to do research on knives, purchase them online or from a B&M, and post your question and thoughts in this forum, you could have learned valuable techniques from a combatives instructor in your area. You've commited thought and money towards SD, which both took some time to formulate and earn, so why not commit the time.

You've commited putting a potential SD tool in your pocket which is itself, from the topic of your thread, a greater commitment. Had it not been, you wouldn't have had the foresight to ask for opinion or advice. Even taking the time to go to the local Y to get some boxing lessons will supplement whatever natural skills you possess. Skills like driving, using a computer, even simple writing, all necessities in modern life, have taken some commitment of time and effort. If SD isn't a necessity great enough to warrant the sacrifice, some other SD tool other than a knife should be sitting in your pocket.

Dayuhan

 

[Alien Edge]

At the time I was slicing bread in the dining room with a large breadknife. I put the knife down and ran outside - unarmed - and broke up a violent street fight between her boyfriend and her ex, mostly by placing myself in between them and using psychological methods to calm them down and persuade them to stop fighting.

Humans in general can be illogical. You could have been breaking up foreplay and the girl could have turned on you thinking you may be threatening her boy friend. No good deed goes unpunished. Look before you leep. You should be THINKING phone/cell phone - 911 before stepping in the middle.

Taking out a knife unnecessarily can cause you to have to use it unnecessarily.

If you are the only one standing there with a knife, you may be considered the aggresser or the target of the day.

 

[cds1]

...You should be THINKING phone/cell phone - 911 before stepping in the middle...[/B]

I did. I told my wife to call 911, and then I ran outside. At first I thought there was a woman being attacked, because all I heard was the woman screaming. Then I saw two guys exchanging blows and smashing heads into windshields of parked cars.

By the time the police got there one of them could have been seriously hurt. At one point one of them came after the other with a broken glass bottle.

And BTW - this happened in London. After they had all left, a scrawny looking cop shows up - just as unarmed as I was.