> Which leads me to the same question I had at that moment: how reliable are these techniques in a real-life setting? We know that Andre Lignitzer was a great s

> Which leads me to the same question I had at that moment: how reliable are these techniques in a real-life setting? We know that Andre Lignitzer was a great sword master, but how often did he face attackers trying to stab him in the face? Martial arts is about raising the probability of your opponent dying before you. So if two people had knives, the person trained with knife fighting would more than likely be better off than the person who didn’t have raining. ... but what’s also been taught in different schools of Kung Fu, is if they have a knife and you don’t have anything - run!