These are excellent knife fighting drills. I particularly like your advice on deliberately training in unfavorable environments, where the ground is uneven, possibly unstable or slippery, and filled with materials that can hurt or injure you should you fall. Training for single AND multiple opponents coming at you from different directions, combining unarmed combative maneuvers with cuts and thrusts are vital tactics to practice. Lastly, I value greatly ypur emphasis on attacking the opponent's hands and eyes, which I think most so-called "knife fighting experts" neglect. Grrat lesson as always!
Thank you for the video and instructions. You make excellent points in training and defensive drills. Self defence drills are usually practiced in a gym with comfortable clothing and environment. Your instructions are more practical and realistic for defence. Thanks again.
With knife fighting and fighting + a knife... Where do you stand on sacrificing the free hand for yet another blade/implement? I guess, is there much benefit to dual wielding, a knife in each hand? Maybe one in the grip you are demonstrating, and the other in a underhand/reversed grip
@@TommyMooreww2combatives The FS is strictly for fighting. But, soldiers use their knives for food preparation, dressing wild game, opening wooden crates etc. etc. The K-Bar has proven itself to be a good field knife AND it can slice as well as puncture your enemy.
Thanks for taking the time to present yet another informative video Mr. Moore, well done. Are you familiar with the line of AMTAC blades there are several different sizes, I personally will be purchasing the 'NorthmanX' (the upgrade to the 'Northman') there are two other larger sizes but 'NorthmanX' works best for me. There are numerous videos on them as well as a web site so I won't list hem here. I discovered your videos after viewing your 'primer on SAPS' which is great.
I can say that if you stab someone its like stabbing a sack of dirt, or a sack of water. Or so they say... Its best to do it when they are not aware of the knife. Pulling a knife can also have the opposite effect of having someone running away. If someone is not convinced you want to hurt them, or he or she is brave for death, you may have to use the knife to get out. Which may not be the outcome you were looking for. Also, stabbing someone in one country for self defense can make you the victim of someone trying to attack you and you had to fend it off by using any means necessary to stop the assault (those are the new laws of Turkey (2014), and yes that also means you can use an item that is illegal to posses. Also even if you start a fight, and you run away and someone comes after you, and then you stab that person. Its a new event, the person came for your life, and you had to protect yourself. I talked to some guy that had studied law, and ive read the law while it was new, for such a controversial country. The most liberal laws on this topic ive read. But they are fair. You could even demand money of the stabbed person for attacking you. You have to live with the things you have done: you are a stabber.). It it can send you straight to jail for premeditated murder while you were the one taking a knife with you for self defense. It could even have you end up on death-row. Really the country makes all the difference. Its terrible, that it was not your decision, it was you or the other person, and if you use only your hands, you can easily die, you stab, and now you are the criminal. What a cruel deed indeed. So if you had to do the deed to get to safety, it may be best to just get out ASAP and dont look back. Dont think any of it, the guy may not have been hurt after all, or so you say/think. And dont go back to that scary place with these scary attacking people... I mean, with one stab someone can end up dead. So you better be on the right side of the law if they come to get you. I know that in some countries, they dont value your life, you are disarmed, and if you punch back, its jail time. Greetings, Jeff
