Compas fighting?

Me and a group of friends (including women) are preparing for a bodyguard carreer. Most of the burglers in the city use knives as their main weapon of inspiring fear and subduing (fire weapons are illegal). As few can beat us in a street fight, we are now concentrating on the knife part training, and want to make it as real as possible. We found that compases have a very small area of contact and also don't go more than a centimeter deep in the skin. But you can still see the blood spot on the T-shirt if you get hit! (as with the knife, but on a much smaller scale).





I wanted to ask a specialist's opinion if there are any safety concerns (especially for women!) - regarding a compas fight. We bath the needle in a spirit bottle to remove viruses and we only "stab" in the belly (and for males in chest as well).

Compas fighting?
You know there are other training knives you can use that will leave marks on clothes without injuring each other. What you are doing is totally ridiculous. The potential for serious infection is very real. Whether it be a scrape or puncture, if it breaks the skin surface your at risk. And it doesn't matter if you bath it. Thats not proper sterilization. And being stabbed with any thing that is not surgical grade steel complicates the matter. Staph infections can kill you. Use some common sense!
Reply:Use a piece of chalk or something if you can't afford training knives. Sticking yourselves with a compass is asking for an infection or tetanus. Try downloading some knife defense videos from the web and train together using them.
Reply:If you want it to be realistic, then why are you only going for the belly and chest. If I was to attack someone with a knife, I would not stab them period, its too easy for a trained person to simply dodge the stab attempt, put one hand on the wrist holding the knife, and hit my elbow in the direction its not supposed to bend with their other forearm. Thats stops me dead in my tracks, not only do you have my knife, but know I have a broken arm.





So I would use an underhand grip on the knife, the one where the dull side of the blade rests on my forearm, and use slashing movements. This way if you dodge and I miss you the first time, you'll have to be real quick because then I could easily stab you on the way back. Or hit you with my other hand. But I would use rubber knives, they sell them in martial arts magazines, and are life size and pretty cool to train with. And no body gets their skin punctured at all, and youd be able to do more realistic training.





Also, since you guys cant carry guns, why not seek out the use of an ASP? Every bodyguard or any kind of guard for that matter has easy access to an ASP. To get one though you'll need proof of your job as a guard. But there will always be a safety issue in any kind of physical combat training you do, but as for viruses or diseases. Have everyone get a tetenis shot and maybe other vaccine shots as well. Hepatitic B or C can get in your system from the transfer of blood, wether its injested through your mouth, maybe you have some on your hands and you rub your eye, etc.





So yeah be as careful as possible, go with the rubber ones.