FOR ALL THE RUNNING MEN!
If the man has a ax and he knows how to throw those mofos…you are screwed…
…As I said before.Shoot Them.
I assumed there was a presumption in the question that you could not easily run, you did not have a weapon, you were not surrounded by 50 of your closest friend, and airstrikes were unavailable.
The whole “shoot them” response is cute and all (like the “run away”) response. But it’s a given to any life threatening situation. And unless the question specifies that there is a gun available, one should assume the poster is looking for an unarmed response.
Otherwise this gets silly. My response to everything becomes “run away”. If you can’t “call an airstrike”. If you can’t “have your buddies shoot them” etc.
hehe
Hmm, I am kind of partial to Martial Joe’s idea myself and I try not to stay out of axe swinging situations. One time, however, I was at a Renaissance Fair and a friend of my uncle(both work at them) jokingly swung an axe at my head. It was a dull blade and it was moved fairly slowly, but it was still a wee bit(okay a lot) scary. I guess depending on how close you are and the type of axe, I would say duck and then leg sweep or punch his knee cap. Something along those lines. Then pick up the axe and castrate the bum! BTW, why are guys swinging axes at you
Jesus guys, no means no.
JWT
If you pr!ck us, do we not bleed? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that the villany you teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction. MOV
Thanks, Jerry!
You are 100% correct. Do you guys really always carry a gun on you wherever you go? Here in the United States, I believe it is illegal to do that, even if you have a license to own the gun.
Well if you are from a distance you cant jam them so you have to do something.I dont have a gun and i prolly never will.But if this happend to me(remember from a distance and he knew how to throw it) i would try and get behind a car or something large and maybe throw rocks and try and escape.If i had the gun it would be the best idea but I dont so id do what i said above.I said all this because Jerry is right but if i had a gun i would pull the trigger.Maybe a knife but i dont know how to throw knives.But im sure alot of you do.
Jerry,
Do you not realize what you wrote in your first post on the subject?
Nevermind, I give up.
Bloody Hell.
“I put forth my power and he was broken.
I withdrew my power and he was ground into fine dust.”
-Aleister Crowley, The Vision and the Voice
Before I completely give up on the subject, let me explain why you run towards him.
It’s because that’s the way he’s facing. If you run towards him, you force him to first turn and then give chase or reattack or throw it or whatever. If you turn and run: dead. If you run to either side: dead. Run into him when he winds up for the swing, pop him (preferably in the eyes), and run. And I still suggest taking the axe from him. It’s not all that hard, even if his grip is wide on the handle. You jsut need to learn how to twist it out of his hands.
Okay, I’m gone.
“I put forth my power and he was broken.
I withdrew my power and he was ground into fine dust.”
-Aleister Crowley, The Vision and the Voice
Yes Sam (not that you are here still) I am quite aware. I suggested going inside the swing aginst a person using an axe like a baseball bat. Not against all situations. It is not a universal solution because there is not always an “inside”.
Okay, I couldn’t resist…
Okay, without getting too silly with this, I still stand by my suggestions because of what Martial Joe said. As someone who has competed in ax throwing competitions, and was okay at it until I gave it up, I say the person is going to throw it at you if you don’t take out the eyes before running. Without taking the thing from him, that’s your best bet that he’s not going to throw it.
The original post was about axe disarms, and I presented a method for getting in there to perform a disarm, though I did not present any specific disarm. I fact, I suggested running instead. But there are several different disarm options that present themselves from the position I suggested taking. It is not my fault that you are too blind to see them and instead have decided to attack an honest answer to a question by saying it’s not the only solution. Obviously, it is not the only one, and I never stated it was. However, what I did present was something the person who asked the question might identify with instead of using esoteric terms he may have never heard of before.
Secondly, why in the world would I take the guy on when he hasn’t swung the thing? Running at him before he has actually attacked would go down the way you described, but then again I never suggested doing anything like that, did I
“I put forth my power and he was broken.
I withdrew my power and he was ground into fine dust.”
-Aleister Crowley, The Vision and the Voice
I think you might want to reread my posts. I reread yours and have come to the conclusion that one of us is not understanding the other, as you are making counter-arguments to things I have not said.
If you look at my post near the top of the page, you’ll find I was taking issue with your suggestion on the basis that some methods of using an ax would invalidate it. When this question was first poised, I asked for more detail and made some suggestions based on a few assumed scinerios. The reason is your tactic changes based on those. Your suggestion is good against someone swinging an ax like a bat. Against any other realistic scinerio I come up with it’s suicide.
And yes, I’ve played out weapon on weapon against an axe wielding opponent who had thought out how to use the axe and was trying to win (haven’t tried it “for real” and hope never to).
ax stuff
I had a guy swing a camping hatchet at me once.
I know it’s a little different…
but with a battle ax it’s heavy.
Move, redirect it back into himself…
it’s pretty easy to dodge, but if you don’t you get a nasty blow/cut
MOVE!
“Survival of the fittest: If you lose you weren’t fit. Sucks to be you.”
“it’s pretty easy to dodge, but if you don’t you get a nasty blow/cut”
A badly used anything is easy to dodge. A well used anything is difficult to dodge. And I was referring to a wood axe in my discussion. A battle axe is used differently than either (and there is a great deal of varition in battle axes.
Quit your job as a lumberjack
“Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we’ll just stop looking elsewhere.”
Run. Run like hell.
Fear…Fear attracts the fearful…The strong…the weak…the innocent…
Fear is my ally
Come-on Goku. That’s only one of the terribly obvious non-answers. Don’t forget “shoot them”, “run them over”, and “Have your friends fight them with their atomic ray guns”.
You forgot…
What about a nuclear attack, huh…huh?? :rolleyes:
Fear…Fear attracts the fearful…The strong…the weak…the innocent…
Fear is my ally
Use anything you can as a weapon (dirt, car, sword,etc.) whatever takes the s.o.b out.
If that doesn’t work, then run away screeming like a little girl.
“You can take my life, but not my confidence.”- LoSifu Chin Siu Deck