I (24m) am 6’6" tall. One of my female friends who’s 5’5" told me that my height makes my belly particularly vulnerable in case if I get attacked with a pocket knife, for example. Why is it so?

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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    21 days ago

    You seem to have a lot of questions regarding stabbing, knifes, rapiers, belly wounds… Maybe get some martial arts or self-defense expert and ask them! Generally you’d find them in some club or sports event and less so in random corners of the internet.

    If you’re 6’6" you’re in for a lot of stupid questions and statements. How’s the weather up there… Do you play basketball… How tall are you… Wow, you’re tall… And a myriad of other silly comments. I guess this is just one of those conversation starters.

    Usually these don’t make sense. But are some form of compliment, an (awkward) way to get a conversation going, etc.

    I’d say the proper way to defend against a knife attack to your belly is either have a massive belly so the blade can’t reach your organs, or bring a gun and shoot them first. Or do it like Crocodile Dundee. Or just run away. All of that can be done at any body height.

  • 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Unless you have disproportionately small arms, I don’t know why she would think that. It’s not like my arms are disproportionately shorter to the rest of my tall-ass body. They fall around the same place as a short guy’s would and I can block as well as anyone else at my level in the martial arts classes I’ve taken.

    Also you seem oddly fixated on belly related attacks and wounds. Are you in danger of being stabbed or thinking of stabbing someone else?

  • DABDA@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Is this a novelty account or something, what’s with the fixation on your belly? You’ve been milking this subject for 2 months.

    • kevintheharry@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Not seen the other posts, but maybe the question has not been answered or the answer they are looking for hasn’t been said

      • AmidFuror@fedia.io
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        3 months ago

        So he was wondering in two other posts about belly wounds from swords and asked if being tall made him more vulnerable. And then by coincidence a coworker told him that being tall made him vulnerable to being stabbed in the belly by a pocket knife? And he didn’t know what she meant by that but had asked others the same question a month earlier?

  • Ziggurat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Honestly, if someone pulls a knife you’re fucked anyway. I like to say that the best sport for self defence is track running. Less risk of being injured, and no risk of dealing with legal consequences of injuring someone.