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

[Gregory Paul Stolze]

At 02:51 PM 02/10/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>
>
>Gregory Paul Stolze wrote:
>
>> It's possible to take a knife away from someone and not get cut.  This
>> contradicts what I've heard from just about every reputable martial arts
>> expert I've consulted.
>
>    Huh. Well, the martial arts community is a big one. I've heard that
too, but I also saw one of
>my first sensei do it. He had one of his students come at as hard as he
could, (he picked the crazy
>student for this), then he took the fake knife away. Very fast and smooth.
Not a lot of room for
>error, either. 

It's not impossible, just very unlikely.  The smarter the guy attacks, the
harder it is to get the knife, too.  How did the crazy student attack?

-G.

(We can take this off list if people get bored.)

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