[Rickshaw]

I've only been to a couple classes run by an instructor who teaches private corporations, various militaries, law enforcement, and who studied in Israel with the IDF so the direction I'm coming from is thinking that the attacker with the knife is trying to kill you, not rob you, sexually assault you, or whatever. Thus the techniques would be different, plus the technique I described is mostly for if someone has already drawn their knife on you and is holding it at their side where you can simultaneously take control of the wrist and punch them in the throat, following it up with a myriad of techniques all with the goal to take out the attackers will to fight.

So DrDoUm we're discussing two different perspectives, therefore there's really no right or wrong, and I can understand where you're coming from with wanting to break the confrontation and escape. I just feel that someone under attack would be safer in neutralizing the attacker. For instance pinning him to the ground and holding his own knife to his throat until help arrives.