"I do know that there are really just two underlying philosophies of knife fighting: the Realist School, which holds that any time you fight someone who knows what he's doing you are going to be cut, so you should prepare for it (these are the guys you see wrapping their leather jackets around their left forearms before a fight), and the Idealist School, which believes you should devote as much energy as it takes to keeping yourself from being cut at all. By never, for example, having a nonstriking part of your body be forward of your blade...
On principle - and because I have a tiny hospital gown instead of a leather jacket - I lean toward the Idealist School. Of course, I also lean toward having a knife, which at the moment I don't."
~ Josh Bazell, Beat the Reaper
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