![]() Knife Guy is in full Jets vs Sharks, Dance Dance Revolution mode, and at some point, he’s wounded and starts leaving blood on the street with every step. The two dance around quite a bit, with Machete Guy making it clear that he’s going to do Knife Guy if Knife Guy doesn’t back off. There’s another guy with his coat wrapped around his left arm holding some kind of large Bowie knife or navaja whom we’ll call Knife Guy. There’s a guy in a black coat we’ll call Machete Guy who has, natch, a machete. The video depicts what is kind of a classic “knife fight” in the sense that neither party wants to have it, at least at first. (If the YouTube link included here is broken, it’s because the video was found in violation of YouTube’s Terms of Service.) ![]() I saw a YouTube video of a knife fight in Raval (in Barcelona) recently of the type to give Cold Steel executives manufacturing boners as they try to determine how to market the blades in question. There is nothing exciting or romantic about getting cut up with a knife. ![]() The topic of “knife fighting” was always about self-defense using a blade as a force multiplier… but the latter is an ungainly amalgam, whereas the former sounds exciting and even romantic. The fact is, none of us were ever destined to become leather-cuff-wearing, devil-may-care street samurai. If you’ve stayed with the topic you now look at “knife fighting” as a passé terminology at best - and completely obsolete at worst. If you’re old enough to have started your “knife fighting” education before the Internet age, chances are good you developed opinions about the topic based on magazines like Fighting Knives and mail-order catalogs like Delta Press, Loompanics, and of course, Paladin Press.
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