How do you defend yourself when attacked by multiple offenders?

Question

When you are by yourself and are attcked by 3, 4, 5 or more muggers etc...

Answer 1

Well I learned Aikido and we were trained to defend against multiple attackers. whether i could pull it off now is a different matter. guess i would whack them with my walking stick

Answer 2

- Run as fast as you can

- Take out the leader and hope the others will back off

- Take out the first one you can and get them in a hold and tell the others to back off or you will break something (fingers, etc)

- Try and get into a situation where they can only attck you one by one eg doorway stair well

Answer 3

speaking form hard experience.

its not like the movies. multipul attackers will without exception, will over welm you fast if they are dedicated to their action.

your only chance is to down the leader immediately and hope the others will back off. ( not to likely though).. your best defence is retreat since most use weapons these days.

my combat instructor was the man that trained me to 5th drgree level. he once said this in answer to my question about if i'm attacked by someone or a group e with a knife:

if someone attacks me with a knife they will have to cut me in the **** cause that is all they will see as i run away.

he went on to say if you cant run do your best to fight past the attackers then run like hell.

if you cant do that good luck

Answer 4

I still remember the line from one of the Karate Kid movies, "The best defense is not to be there." Avoid the situation and you'll be safer. Don't go places alone at night, avoid areas known to have higher crime rates, general common sense things.

Or you could take the attitude of Marine Corps General "Chesty" (because of all his award ribbons on the chest of his uniform) Puller. When he and his men were surrounded in battle and it looked hopeless to everyone else he said, "Good. We've got them where we want them. Now it doesn't matter where we shoot, we'll hit the enemy." They prevailed in that battle because of his attitude.

Answer 5

I don't see how you can defend yourself effectively in this situation. The best thing would be to avoid this and pray you are never in this situation. Prevention is better than cure.

Answer 6

hard to do , but take the biggest one and sort him out before, the others, if he does not, go down then run like the clappers.away, from dark streets,

Answer 7

depends on your size but and how aggressive you are speed is of the essence if you go in you have got to mean to hurt them big time o Queens bury rues

Answer 8

the best way you can.avoid getting in a bad situation but if it happens and you aren't at home,fight as fast,hard and dirty as possible to do whatever it takes.if in your home it's easy.shoot them all.

Answer 9

Try and knock hell out of the little one first and use him as a weapon

Answer 10

Flamethrower works well.