Quote Originally Posted by Adrian II View Post
Why is running the sensible thing?

Is it always the sensible thing to run? In any threatening situation?
If somebody has a knife (even if you have one too) the sensible thing is to run.

When we did this training in the army, the first thing the knife instructor said was something along these lines: "Here is a universal truth: if you get in a knife fight, you are going to get cut. The guy who wins the knife fight is the guy who is best able to to see the sight of his own blood without going into shock."

To demonstrate, at the end of a week in which we had been doing nothing but practicing all kinds of fancy knife-fighting techniques for 7 hours per day, he let us "spar." He would take two guys, put them in the ring, hand them each a red magic marker, tell them to take off their shirts, and say "Okay troops, have at 'er."

Within about 5 seconds each fighter's torso and arms were covered with ink. And most of the wounds represented by those ink marks would have been more than most people would have been able to stand without freaking out.

This crap you see in the movies where guys are dancing around gracefully, parrying and slashing, is complete and utter crap. Get in a knife fight, you're going to get cut.