How to Improvise Shields for Knife Attack

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TRES TEW: Hi, I'm Tres Tew. I'm an instructor here at Yeshua's Ryu Martial Arts. I'm going to be teaching you about how to use open hands to defend yourself against the knife and this'll be on behalf of Expert Village. Now I have several items on my person and right around me. They can be used as shield if it ever comes to a knife attack. The first one, rolled-up newspaper is great. Let's kind of roll it up and you can use that to kind of swat at knives, swat at faces, it's a great shield, also can be used if someone stabs you kind of throw into their face whatever. Also, we've got the hat. This can be used. You simply cup you hand into the hat and turn it over like this with the bill as you can see this protects the inside of my hand and with this I can kind of catch a blade with that and that very effective, if you're hand-eye coordination is pretty good, otherwise you don't want to use this. But probably second effective, you got a jacket all you got to do take and wrap this around your arms very quickly and you can use this with your forearm to block. It's not going to cut all the way through. In the medieval ages a lot of their armor were just padded cloth and that pretty much that's what this is. I'm just kind of using it to shove the knife attack out of the way and counter. Always if you're using a shield you want to follow up with something fast because you don't want to keep having to use that shield because, again, it's not a real shield. It's improvisational and you're just using whatever you can to keep yourself from getting cut. Also, we have the chair. The bottom and the back side of the chair can be used very effectively. Someone comes at you with a knife and you just stick it up and they may end up stabbing all the way through it and at that point you just turn it and then you've got their knife to take out and go after them. Also the points of the chair can be used to kind of ward them off and the back end of the chair can be used to butt several different things. But again a chair is a very effective shield. You want to keep your body close or excuse me, not too close enough where the knife is there's a gap so where a knife can puncture through but not too close and if you can you want to stick it out to meet the knife. So that's a couple of improvisational shields that you can use to defend yourself against the knife.

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