[Gambatte Karate]

WC_Lun, you bring up a great point which I mentioned to my students last night. I asked them how many of them were more apprehensive to attack me when they saw that I had just disarmed their classmate. All hands shot up. I then asked them how many of them thought an attacker out on the street would feel the same way. Again, all hands shot up.

I feel that out on the street, the attacker has different forms of courage. In a knife attack, the courage is usually contained within the knife. Take the knife, you steal the courage.