[Gambatte Karate]

Ok, so MOST of us have done it in the past or currently. What did you find worked best for you?



For me, I would try to "line them up" so I only had to worry about one person stabbing me. If that was not possible, I would take ahold of the closest one who would almost always either stab or slash at me and grab their slashing/stabbing arm and throw them into the next closest person. Then I would take out the third person when they stabbed at me with an aikido type motion/movement. If they are stabbing, then I would step back with my right foot. This moves my body out of the way of the knife. Then I would wrap my left arm around their arm and control the knife with my hands. I would then step around in a clockwise motion with my left foot taking them off balance. Then I would step my left foot BACK behind my right foot in a COUNTERCLOCKWISE motion taking the person down and remove the knife from them. Stab them and move on to the next two again who would now be recovered from hitting eachother and again up and ready to attack me. That was the most common defense I used as well as the most effective.


When they would try to slash at me, I would step back and wait for the first slash to pass, then close the gap and perform an armbar and take them down and remove the knife.

I had more than one occasion when the two first attackers recovered rather quickly and tied to get me from behind which was when the side kicks and back kicks came in handy.