I am not sure I understand what you mean by leading with your blade, not the hilt or hands. Would you please elaborate? Sure! The most extreme example to point it out would be cutting a wrath strike from ox. You have to let the point come around back behind you. When you do that, you have to keep y...
Anyone have a drill idea or similar thoughts on protecting fingers and knuckles. The weekly bashing to my hands is getting old, but I dont want to just get thicker gloves and pretend to correct the problem. Obviously my hands, sword, arms etc. are not in the correct postition or they would not be g...
What seems funny to me about the difference in the Europeans and the Asian world is that in the 1500's , the average heights were relatively the same, but the European weapons were much longer. From swords to daggers and every weapon in between. Things that make you go hmmmm. I believe that on aver...
I am looking for that information in the source works...some kind of advice to stay out of directly in front of the guy...but understandably sometimes you cannot help it, and most likely end in a clinch-AP We look at the clinch the same way we look at the bind. You don't fight from it, it is a very...
Geesze, guys good discussion, the only point I wanted to add as well, is that in general we don't see guys grabbing knives from the clinch, when we are assaulted in Law Enfocement with knives. The suspect usually does not have a plan and the attack is more emotional than pre-cognitive. Due to that ...
It does not appear he contemplates a draw from the clinch, although his ideas could be adapted to that circumstance, as could anything in the manuals. Indeed, the ideas of all the old masters could be used in that circumstance, I think. The only "clinch" the manuals appear to take into ac...
The best source of what to do when you are attacked with a knife is in Fiore, Talhoffer, Meyer and Marozzo. I wouldn't trust anybody who tells you they know what to do unless they couple it with a claim they've studied those masters. That stuff is simple and straightforward, and I am convinced that...
I can understand using lethal force in self-defense against a choke, although I’d be more inclined to turn to some tactic more legally defensible then a knife. While there’s nothing wrong with knowing how to counter an attack by the application of a weapon it is also sensible to develop the ability...
Anyone else have any interesting grappling drills they use to develop attributes? Have one of you get on your back and the other get on top, chest to chest. The guy on the bottom tries to get on top, and the guy on top tries to keep the bottom guy down. The catch is this is a "no hands" d...
As an interesting note to think about, most of the "combat cultures" had a sport for of wrestleing that involved two men standing, and the winner is the man that can take the other off his feet while remaining on his.
There was no "humor" in my post at all, nor was it tongue in cheek. If I was ever assaulted and put in a headlock, to the best of my ability this is exactly what is happening to my assailant. This is just good self defense. It was short because a lot of the "good stuff" really is...
Pull out your knife and cut through his femoral artery. He will go out before you do, especially if you can tuck or anything else that keeps him from sinking it right off the bat.
If you can't reach his groin, cut through the elbow joint.
I would guess the big WW that people do comes from Goliath, but when this interpretation came about, and this is the way a lot of people still seem to do it, there was a lack of full understanding that some of the strikes were really to long point, so they kept cutting through (like a buffalo) inste...
