[UA] Knife Fights? (was Re: [UA] Superskills

[Daniel Solis]

I don't think it's so much taking the knife out of the
hand of the attacker as much as it is
kicking/punching/cutting off the hand so as to make
the attacker drop the knife.

--- Kintaro Oe <kabael at SoftHome.net> wrote:
> 
> >The way I think about knife fighting is this. 
> Imagine that I'm holding an
> >uncapped black sharpie permanent marker.  You're
> wearing an expensive white
> >tuxedo.  Do you REALLY think there's a reasonable
> chance that you can get
> >the marker away from me without getting ink on your
> clothes or your hands?
> 
> Wouldn't that depend more on relative levels of
> skill more than anything 
> else? I can easily see a trained fighter take a
> knife from my hand before I 
> could even say "Come get some!" Certainly not a
> simple or reliable thing, 
> but I would think it's possible.
> 
> 
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