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Originally Posted by richardw
Moving backwards or sideways can get you hurt. First, backwards means you cannot see what you might trip over, and you cannot see obstacles or people behind you. Moving sideways only means the attacker has only to change direction. He will be moving faster than you can in taking diversionary movement. Better to learns how to parry an attack. See my post above for a link to a thread where I explain how I was trained in the Corps to respond to a knife attack. I know it works.
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I disagree. While not everyone can effectivly move backwards, space/distance creates time, increased time to react/defend. Moving sideways causes your threat to slow down to change direction, again creating more time to react/defend. The best examples are football players and boxer/fighters.
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