This is a delusional take. Your karate class hasn’t prepared you to survive - let alone “stop” - a knife attack and the sooner you disabuse yourself of that notion the better.
They told us what the person below says for a gun -- just give them what they want if it's not your body.
If someone is standing, making threats, blocking your exit, and you've had training, there are techniques to use to disarm them.
I know this because I've done it at least once in the real, and many times in practice before I stopped doing Tang Soo Do.
The key is to keep an eye on their hands/pockets and move in close, get control of the hand, and then either twist until their tendons are gonna snap or... jam their own knife into their leg/side.
It wasn't a smart move, but I had a lot of people block the door and abuse me when younger, so nowadays when someone does it I'm not inclined to de-escalate them one iota.
"at least" once? sounds legit.
> The key is to keep an eye on their hands/pockets and move in close, get control of the hand, and then either twist until their tendons are gonna snap or... jam their own knife into their leg/side.
More cap than a lids store.
if you see a knife, run the fuck away.