Knife Defense

I returned to the studio after being gone for almost a whole month! It was good to be back, especially on a day that the herd wasn't there. The class was very small and was almost just an open floor class. When the class ended Kristi came up to Tiger. "I need to practice knife defense." she said.
"Go talk to Man Cub, he's going through all of them now." she responded, then walked away. Kristi looked over in Man Cub's direction. He was indeed going through all the knife defense with Coconut.
She sighed, "I don't want to do knife defense with Man Cub..."
"You can do it with me" I said. "I'll only be able to be an attacker, but it will give you more of a chance to practice."
"Okay! Lets go!" she said. We walked over to Man Cub and Coconut. "Can we practice with you?" Kristi asked.
"Sure" Man Cub said, "We'll just go through all of them slowly." And thats what we did. Kristi was still having a hard time with it though. "Here, I'll show you." Man Cub said. "Bandit, attack me." I did so. He grabbed my arm, "So you stop it right here behind your ear..." he demonstrated, "Then, you walk in toward them, shove their arm back the other way..." BAM! I was on the ground. "Now, I flatten her hand on the ground, pushing on her elbow with my chest... take the knife and kill her!" he finished slitting my throat. I lay on the ground as Man Cub got off of me. He then grabbed my hand and pulled me up, or basically threw me back to my feet. Thats one of his favorite things to do with me since I'm so light.
"You make it look so easy!" Kristi complained.
"Here, Bandit will attack you, and I will walk you through it slowly." Man Cub suggested. I went to stab Kristi, who caught my arm. She then did the whole defense move with Man Cub talking her through it. "Good," he said as soon as I was dead. Then threw me back on my feet.
"You're lucky." Coconut told me. "He usually just freight trains me."
"Yeah! Freight train is fun!" Man Cub exclaimed. "Somebody attack me!"
I ran up with a knife and slow motion stabbed him in the head. He didn't do anything. There was a collective "ooooh...."
"You just died, sir..." Coconut said.
"Well... I have a skull of steel!" he defended. "Anyway, attack me!"
I then attacked him from over-head again. I was on the ground before I even registered that I was falling. I think he was being especailly rough on me to get his reputation back up after getting killed. I felt the inside of my upper arm start to hurt as he slit my throat. Man Cub got off of me as Kristi said, "Oh my gosh! That was fast!"
I lay broken on the ground. Man Cub explained, "I am the train, she is the victim" he motioned to me on the ground as I started getting up, glaring at him. "A train doesn't stop its momentum when something is in front of it." he continued ignoring me. Then he looked at me.
"Ow?" I said sarcastically.
"Look at her arm! It's all red!" Kristi said. I looked at my arm, and it was indeed all red.
"Sorry..." Man Cub said.
"Thats okay." It's impossible to not forgive him with his sad face. Jerk.
"Good, now get back on the ground." He said smiling. I sighed, then returned to the ground. "Now, Kristi, you have to do lethal right?"
"Yes Sir." She responded.
"Okay then, I'm going to show you all the lethal points on the neck." He said kneeling next to me with a knife as I lay on the floor. Creepy, huh? He then started just moving the knife back and forth across my neck, making it feel really weird.
"Stop it!" I said smacking his hand away. "My neck is not your orchestra instrument!"
He laughed and continued with his lesson. "You can go right along the jaw line..." he said lining the knife up with my jaw line, then pulling it across in one swift movement. "Dead! And you get these nice black lines on your throat." he finished, running his finger across the new black line on my neck.
"Quite touching my neck!" I said shoving his hand away. He knows I hate it when people touch my neck.
He laughed again and went on again, "Anyway, you can also just slit right across the front of the throat... its better if you can sever the windpipe..." he did the same swift movement across my throat. "Now, roll over on your stomach, Bandit."
I sighed and then complied. My face was in the mat, and it was really awkward having people touch the back of my neck...
"So, on the back of the neck you can just cut straight across..." he did "... severs all the tendons, she can't lift up her head."
"Awww..." came my muffled voice from the mat. Kristi and Coconut laughed. "Or..." Man Cub continued, " They don't really teach this one, but I like it."
"Oh no..." I thought.
"Just stab right in between their vertebrates." I felt the point of the knife come down on the back of my neck.
"Ooooh..." I heard Coconut say. I then felt Alex get up. I continued to lay face down for a while.
"It's okay," I heard Man Cub's voice say, "You're alive now!" He grabbed my hand and threw me to my feet.
Man Cub and I then switched partners, so that I was with Coconut and he was with Kristi.
"Sabumnim Man Cub is mean." Coconut whispered to me.
"I know." I said holding up my arm, which was still red. "Trust me I know." Man Cub then looked over and glared at us.
"Okay!" he continued after a few times practicing that same move. "We're moving on! Bandit, attack me, underhand this time." So I did. He blocked the knife with an x-block, then swung my arm over his shoulder. "Here you break the arm, then... you're just supposed to turn and throw them to the ground." Which he halfway did, until I felt all the joints in my arm lock. I stopped on my knees and put my free hand on the ground.
"Aaaah...." I said in a quiet shaky voice, so it wasn't quite a scream.
"Then if you want to be mean..."
"Which he is right now... he IS!!" I told Coconut and Kristi.
"... you put them on a koga hold right here instead of just throwing them." Then he kicked me in the face. "Huh..." he said, still locking one of my arms in place. "I can't really remember what comes after this one..." Suddenly, without warning he twisted my arm into another awkward position and got down on his knees behind me.
"Oh my gosh!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING???" I screamed closing my eyes against the pain, my head on the ground.
"Hmmm.... interesting..."
"AAAAHH!!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"
"Am I supposed to be doing goose neck on this one?" he asked himself, tightening the lock.
"AAAAAAHHH!!! STOP!! STOP!! STOP!! I need to write 3 essays with this arm tomorrow!!!" I had an AP lit test the next day.
"I'm just trying to figure this out..."
"Man Cub you are EVIL!!!" It literally felt like my arm could break. "AAAHHH!! AAAHH!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING???" This was a new hold for me.
Kristi and Coconut were just looking at us. "Stop!! Stop!!" Kristi pleaded. "That looks like it hurts!!!"
"It does! It DOES!!!" I cried out.
Man Cub was still contemplating, then saw Tiger walking by. "I'll ask her!" He said, releasing me and running over to her.
I, still on the ground, streatched out my liberated arm and started rubbing it. "AAAh" came the shaky staccoto voice again. Coconut came over and patted me on the head as I rolled onto my back. I just nodded, accepting the jesture.
Man Cub came over and offered me his hand. I took it and he again threw me to my feet.
"You pretty much broke my arm!!" I accused.
"Well, you weren't tapping out!" He said in his own defense. It then occured to me that tapping out hadn't even crossed my mind. What was wrong with me?
"I was screaming in pain... shouldn't that count?"
He just shrugged.
Yep, thats pretty much how knife defense goes.