Reality

This video can be looked at it so many different ways, but I want to focus on the self defense aspect of it. You see a lot of "self defense" videos and "knife defense" videos that look like this:

@selfdefensegoat Knife Defense When an Attacker Has You Trapped. Just run is always the best self defense advise especially when a knife is involved, but what do you do when you can't run. Video made with @Budo Brothers #selfdefence #selfdefense #fma #knifedefense #kevingoat #attack #pinned #trapped ♬ original sound - Self Defense with Kevin Goat

Or like this:

 

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People in the fighting community know, actually, let me take that back, people in the fighting community who aren't suckers know, when it comes to "knife defense," there really isn't any. The best thing to do is run, and when you can't run, you have to commit to whatever attack you're going to do. All those "moves," don't work because a knife attack is so fast and so close that you're on the ground half way dead by the time you realize you've been cut. 

Anyone looking for self defense needs to get real self defense training which is full hard contact sparring, because in a self defense situation, the attack isn't going to go easy on you like your "training partners." If you don't go full contact, to get the sense of violence from someone who actually wants to hurt you, then you're building a false sense of confidence and you're going to get hurt, then start crying about how all that money you spent on "self defense" was wasted.

As for the video, the victim should've took his girl and ran away, as far and fast as he could. The victim was even able to touch the attacker, which, in a self defense scenario, he should've went full on violence until the attack either ran or couldn't fight anymore.

Terrible loss of life.