"Body Assist" against the knife

[tallgeese]

I think both are pretty valid, it depends on teh strengths of the individual pratitioners as to which you fall into more extensively. Personally, lots of the cruicible stuff depends heavily on stirking the individual into submission and less on controling the weapon hand.

The Krav work focuses on attacking the weapon and taking it. Personally, of the two, I like the Krav work a bit more.

However, best case for me is to simply control the weapon and not worry about disarm. Once I control the arm to a degree, THEN I can beat him into a pulp. Then the weapon tends to come lose on it's own better.

This is all based on the fact of course that I can't disengae and escalate weponry and get to a firearm or other weapon to even things out a bit.