Best martial arts in defending yourself knife attacks and guns?

But really like 90% of the curriculum is shovel fighting, backflipping hatchet throws and raiding moving buses.

 

I guess you can judge a book by its cover....since the author name is there

 

It is not so much about the martial art, as it is about the principles that are taught.
Example: Tim Larkin's target focused training teaches you that instead of trying to play
tug-of war with the knife or gun, strike to the throat and he will stop.
His teaching is very controversial to laymen because he teaches to stop violence with
violence. He has been in real kill or be killed combat. He was a navy seal. He is great.

 

I don't see it as controversial, just extremely overpriced !!!

 

It is the same Tim Larkin that was just on the cover of blackbelt magazine.
why do you always assume so much in this forum?
No, he believes in talking down the situation. He says it is when you have no choice.

 

I've done it, not been stabbed though but that's not due to training just luck.

Back when i did it I got told, by my teacher, to go to Canada spend sometime with Vlad and get permission/certificate thingy, to start my own study group. In the grand scheme of things though that actually means very little.

So whilst not being any major player I think I've seen some of it.

Never liked the knife defence always felt too risky with not enough control, not to mention all the problems with floppy training partners.

Got some good stuff from the art but if you are set on learning it I feel it's probably better suited to learning after you have a solid grounding elsewhere.

Some of the drills and physical fitness stuff was good, break falling was very good, IMO.

I'm no expert though but I wouldn't go back to it.

 

i am wary of people recommending arts that they have not taken nor have they been directly exposed to.

as for sambo, i have attended a seminar or two. sambo rocks.

 

Arkadiy Stepankovskiy died not necessarily because of his system, but because of poor situational awareness. Agreeing to meet other individuals at night behind a closed business is a bad idea. For his troubles he got badly beaten and then shot to death (he wasn't stabbed, the other fellow he was with was though). I hate to armchair quarterback, but a little foresight goes a long way.

As for Tim Larkin - anyone who gets ousted as a fraud for pretending to be a SEAL gets no respect from me. And his TFT system is basically just rehashed SCARS.

 

Do you have a link to that story?

 

Which one?

 

The one that you said -- As for Tim Larkin - anyone who gets ousted as a fraud for pretending to be a SEAL

 

This might help too.

http://www.socnet.com/showthread.php?t=47063

 

The Stepankovskiy story link would be interesting too.

It could be a case of lack of awareness caused by a case of over confidence.

 

Or as it seems, classic case of Martial artist who helps a friend in dire need and things go sour.
Gunner to far for disarm, etc.

 

What do you know about it?

If anyone thinks that any training makes them stab proof, hit proof, will never fall over or can't ever be taken to the ground...then they have either never done any training outside of a computer game or train at a very poor school.

From personal experience I know our training is effective, but outside of outright prevention, it's all about damage limitation when you get into a situation, especially when weapons are involved

 

Did someone mention Tim Larkin?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.....no

What's next? Jim Wagner? Captain Chris? Lieutenant X? Ashida Kim???

 

please tell me some snake oil selling fake self defence guy actually billed himself as Lieutenant X ?