If you are ever attacked by a weapon without training, the results can be devastating. If you have training, the results can be mitigated. Most authorities say that when you are attacked with a knife or longer sharp weapon, it is almost guaranteed that you will be cut. Of course everything depends on the circumstances. Examples are: How far away you are when attacked, what direction the attack is coming from, how much advanced warning you have, etc.

Weapon defenses per se are not often taught in our school but rather we counsel avoidance. Real life is not like movies. Wing Tsun is very economical in movement, that is, shorter, smaller movements give Wing Tsun practitioners that advantage. Even so, we occasionally introduce some Filipino Escrima principals into weapons defenses because Filipino Escrima is a weapons-based system and is easier to learn the ideas behind weapons defenses. A defender can use any handy piece of hardware, spoon, fork, chair, wrench, in place of an Escrima stick or blade using the same principles.

In general though, defense against a weapon is highly dangerous and avoidance is still the best policy.

Sifu Keith Sonnenberg

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