I believe this is one of the last techniques I learned before my Am Kenpo studies ceased, I always remember the two things my instructor told me about knife situations: A - As you showed, always give them the back of your forearm, not the inside. And B - its a knife so expect to get cut. That way if/when it happens, its not a complete surprise. Great video as always, sir.
Thanks for your comment, David. Yes, it is best to use the back of the hand when defending against a knife. In reality, you would want to disarm the knife much earlier in the technique, rather than checking and striking over and over.
@@davidfausel9029 As a black belt in Modern Arnis, my FMA training allows me to see gaps in the Kenpo club and knife techniques so I use these perspectives to improve my Kenpo and those of my students. In Kenpo, our focus is on category completion for our weapons techniques and thus we often do not follow the rule of control, disarm, and technique when doing our Kenpo techniques.
This technique is very interesting to me. I have always loved the opening move, and I think the ending is solid too. I wonder if the checking and striking in the middle is necessary or a good idea though. Would it be better to do just the opening and ending?
Great comment. Since the weapons rule is control, disarm, technique, the problem with Raining Lance is that we keep checking repeatedly, instead of disarming the knife early, the latter of which is a safer and more effective option.
