Kicking a knife-holding hand
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Following my article " Dealing with knife attacks ", I want to make an admission: I once thought that it was a good idea to kick knives out of people's hands. Now I didn't actually teach this: I don't think I have ever held a class where we practised this as a "technique". But I did use this scenario in a couple of demonstrations many years ago. Why? I suppose that at the time I thought it created a bit of atmosphere. Bring out a knife and the audience perks up. I also suppose I had in the back of my mind that it might work tolerably well: I'd seen it demonstrated so many times over decades of training that it was just "part of the furniture": kicking a knife-holding hand seemed quite plausible. Of course, you'd never do it with a bare foot - but then again, when are we bare foot? On the beach? Generally we wear shoes in daily life. And I suppose a part of me thought: "Yeah - thick rubber and leather are going