Martial Blade Concepts founder and chief instructor Michael Janich explains why MBC is a conceptual personal defense system as opposed to a technique oriented system.
Thank you for all of the videos you have made I own the 2 critical skills of damithurt silat 1 and 2. I also own fighting folders and forever armed the improvised weapons system. I like how you scale down things put emphasis on physiological potential and have a solid set of about 5 or 6 concepts that are interchangeable in each of your videos but the videos do not get repetitive or stale because you always add new variations and applications of the concepts as it pertains to the topic covered. I am really a huge fan of your instructional style.
Read a article about this in 2009. It's not about a kill shot it's about getting away..and not getting charged by the district attorney. sound tactical theory and stopping power
Thank you sir! Clear and usefull words for the blade. And there is a chance that you and the assailant make it oput alive. Ethical and legally less difficult. By the way I do not find it complicated at all. It is easy to learn, easy to use, and you can have fun perfecting it for a long time. This kind of training is pure gold - if you are willing to dig ist. Deep respect. silk
Mike makes some great points especially (get off the couch and train). I don’t agree with everything within MBC. But, again.. listen to Mikes points. You can take what he says and blow it off being an armchair quarterback or.. get up and try it. He’s been at this for a long time. Touched hands with a lot of folks over the years..
@zwan94 Both. A simple slice into jeans might not penetrate into the leg. He is penetrating with a stabbing motion first, then slicing through the muscules.
I really like the fact that you train in Ts and jeans... because I've been attacked twice in my life and neither attacker waited for me to put on fighting pajamas LOL.
stuff looks pretty good, but it still seems to rely more on fine motor skills that have to be conditioned over time. I'm not sure that under the pressure of a determined attack you will be able to resort to them... with that in mind I respect the dude, he obviously knows his stuff
The techniques are not concerned with what's ethical or legally defensible. Striking to disable biomechanical targets (nerve/tendon/muscle) is simply the quickest and most reliable way to prevent someone from delivering bodily harm to you. Some systems emphasize targeting major blood vesels, but even with a severed major vessel, a human can continue to fight for several seconds. Whereas a biomechanical cut causes immediate disability of the limb served by the injured nerve, tendon or muscle.
@ Brassassmonkey Depends where you live. i highly recommend looking up the laws of your local state. Tennessee youre allowed to carry a four inch blade and lower i believe. Depends on your location as well such as schools, etc. Im sure just looking up online will tell you alot :)
True. Cut a biomechanical target, and the limb is disabeled. The beauty of the techniques in this video is - as far as I am any judge in these matters - that cutting the arm makes it impossible for the assailant to hold a weapon AND it is legally defensible. And I have seen enough good men go through a great legal ordeal, although they clearly acted in self defens. So if you train you One Reflex Singel Response techniqu it should disable AND be legally defensibel. peace
First off, good video i really like the concept of your style but there are a few things that arent either right or im getting it wrong. If you lean back like that isnt there the posibility that its goin to hit anyway? like if he takes a step forward, next thing, most people i saw with a knife never swung it in that way where you go way to far, they always do many rapid stabs if the first one (most hidden and unexpected) doesnt hit
Question on your targeting. Once you block and slash the triceps, you target the leg with the idea of dropping him or rendering the leg useless, and causing a potentially fatal cut to the leg artery. but once you have him blocked and before you move to attack his leg, a clean straight shot to the side of the neck is open or in a reverse grip , a slash along the entire neck . Is there a reason for the preference?
With your arm or hand monitoring his arm, and blocking it from swinging back, it is going to be easier to strike down low for your next shot. Also, the neck shot is more likely to be fatal, and Janich is teaching for self defense. Stop the threat, you don't have to kill, and be aware of the legal ramifications of all your actions.
I agree it's not very difficult all you have to do is put your knife out there in the general area of his forearm if he runs into the blade he's cut and the fight unless he's drunk out of his mind, the fight is over !
If ... IF there is no other choice - and no choice can I will admit that cover a lot of scenarios, so If by my best nstinctive judgement at that moment there is no other choice to save my liefe, my family`s life or perhabs a strangers life - the I agree, the i would rather take my chances with 12 instead of my guarantee with the 6. However, I want to practice so that I can shift my chances so that it will be less probable that I will have to face 12 or be caried by six. Peace silk
ParkourEh move forward and block/or move to the side depending on if it's a straight or round attack, and block if you can't move at all (like a bus seat or something) and immediately get out of that position to somewhere more open or try to smother the knifemans weapon.
@halfhausaman I'm still here LOL (I ran both times.. Kicked the dude in the nuts the first time and ran... I'm a better sprinter than martial artist :) )
Never seen anyone attack with a knife by slashing and freezing in place. I have scars to prove it. Dance moves don't approach the reality and brutality of an edged weapon assault.
