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<blockquote data-quote="RedTonic" data-source="post: 5626520" data-attributes="member: 98994"><p>So, I'll just pipe in with my one year of knife fighting experience--did it during kickboxing. Our instructor was an odd dude and insisted we learn knife fighting before unarmed knife defense. What I got from it is that I never, ever want to be in a knife fight.</p><p></p><p>Barring throwing your knife or doing something sneaky, in a straight fight, the guy with the longer reach will basically always win. I'm just 5'7"; I sparred with gentlemen between 5'9" and 6'6"-ish, IIRC. (This was a pretty formative, and informative, point in my life, so I do remember it pretty well despite intervening years.)</p><p></p><p>The fighter A with longer reach will have better success at keeping his shorter-reach attacker B away from vital points, even if A takes a number of wounds. Those wounds are likely to be mainly superficial (considering lethality--even if a tendon is cut, you're probably not going to die from it). Meanwhile, A is more likely to be able to touch B in B's special soft lethal places. </p><p></p><p>My A beat me around the head and in general was extremely effective at keeping me from doing more than attacking his wrists. Being battered and stabbed is an awful way to be.</p><p></p><p>Now, when I sparred with someone within my size category, things were more even, but possibly even more grisly (had we been using normal knives).</p><p></p><p>You can more or less get longer reach in one of two obvious ways: 1. be bigger! 2. use a longer weapon!</p><p></p><p>If I had to fight a guy with a knife... I'd just run away, personally.</p><p></p><p>So, in terms of damage, it's easy enough to say, with an already abstract system, that the dagger's restricted damage potential is related to the number of superficial wounds likely to be given before a lethal strike.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RedTonic, post: 5626520, member: 98994"] So, I'll just pipe in with my one year of knife fighting experience--did it during kickboxing. Our instructor was an odd dude and insisted we learn knife fighting before unarmed knife defense. What I got from it is that I never, ever want to be in a knife fight. Barring throwing your knife or doing something sneaky, in a straight fight, the guy with the longer reach will basically always win. I'm just 5'7"; I sparred with gentlemen between 5'9" and 6'6"-ish, IIRC. (This was a pretty formative, and informative, point in my life, so I do remember it pretty well despite intervening years.) The fighter A with longer reach will have better success at keeping his shorter-reach attacker B away from vital points, even if A takes a number of wounds. Those wounds are likely to be mainly superficial (considering lethality--even if a tendon is cut, you're probably not going to die from it). Meanwhile, A is more likely to be able to touch B in B's special soft lethal places. My A beat me around the head and in general was extremely effective at keeping me from doing more than attacking his wrists. Being battered and stabbed is an awful way to be. Now, when I sparred with someone within my size category, things were more even, but possibly even more grisly (had we been using normal knives). You can more or less get longer reach in one of two obvious ways: 1. be bigger! 2. use a longer weapon! If I had to fight a guy with a knife... I'd just run away, personally. So, in terms of damage, it's easy enough to say, with an already abstract system, that the dagger's restricted damage potential is related to the number of superficial wounds likely to be given before a lethal strike. [/QUOTE]
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