Paul Vunak Filipino Knife Concepts 

Guro Paul Vunak, you have done so much for Filipino Martial Arts I consider you an honorary Filipino.

Paul Vunak already explained everything back than. It took me years of different martial arts to realise it was already here. :-)

This is why this man is one of if not the most intelligent, and dangerous martial artist/fighter in the world. There is a reason the U.S. Navy SEALs contracted him and now his legacy carries on in the Naval Special Warfare Combat Fighting Course.

I love his explanation on energy flow/pressure/sensitivity. To me, that is also one of the things about FMA and similar arts that beats a lot of concepts out there. You could have a 6'4 350 pound bodybuilder try and attack this little 5'6 135 pound Filipino guy and if the little guy knows the right arts and philosophies, he could butcher and plant that huge dude on the ground. A brilliantly impeccable philosophy.

I have these on the old VHS video tapes, great teachings...

HOLY SMOKES! THOSE SUM REAL DEEP CUTS MR. VUNAK MADE ON THAT HAM. It really opened my eyes as to how dangerous a knife cut can be. Thanks guys! :P

That was an 80s thing, you kids wouldn't understand. Back then because of the huge influence of karate and ninja and kung fu movies, people were completely wrapped up in those high kicks. Cops in LA were being knocked out by people throwing spinning crescent kicks. High kicks were amazingly effective because nobody knew how to deal with them at the time. Now, people do know how to deal with them and they are never used. At some point in the future, they will become useful again.

a little tip for everyone learning self defense and in life. don't forget to breath.

Best knife fighting video on RU-vid

Nice you the man with the knife.

This is an old very old video. His concept and logic is sensible.

Anybody interested should check out 15th century Sicilian Stiletto fighting. Exact same movements.

i like this guy

Feed the knife back out of politeness lol

...he is saying that you are not as prepared in a civilian situation "like going grocery shopping, going to work, going out, etc." and the people that were actually going to war were cut to pieces. Now mind you most people who threaten you with a knife don't know what your doing but someone trained in Eskrima is quite deadly, especially considering the Filipino warriors killed hundreds of american soldiers when the Americans had guns, and the Filipino had only knives.

@2:11 NEVER FORGET THAT... When considering if a fight is worth being in. Pride heals slow..but a hell of a lot faster then cut tendons or a stab wound.😉 Always question if your defending your safety or your pride❤

Fascinating. Did lots of martial arts, never seen anything like this. Biomechanics etc. awesome.

I like this, makes sense

The man, the legend...Paul Vunak ❤

Outstanding

hes really a great teacher, really dedicated to business of teaching the knife strikes... and hes cute too :)

I think I just spot the major difference from all these knife fighting styles like Silat and Wing Chun. Silat, because they use edged weapons, chase the hands. Interesting.

wow... i admire this. i am a filipino and i really liked this knife fighting style very effective in street fighting.

Many Filipino martial artist have a magic spell

he knows his stuff..... he also really likes drums...like really!:)

First rule of knife fighting: DON'T. Second: If possible, run. Third: You are goung to get cut Forth: Your opponant should not know you have a knife until he is cut

the jkd people were years ahead

I strongly agree

@jamiirali1 in filipino kali, they use hands to disarm the knife, not kick it.

Some of my most fond memories was training with Mr Cruise from Paul's school

@rockstarr469 he mentioned it for only a few seconds, but the rule is to grab an equalizer. 'hot coffee' for instance. A fancy movie example of this is the Bourne Identity, which was a 2 inch knife against a ball point pen.

amazing how much knowledge this guy has. And still very likeable. No Bs behavior

i just saw this vid of paul vunak now but i love him already...

I just came across this. He's the first guy I heard of to teach to cut the arm instead of the body or face. It makes sense.

He's probably like 50 now lol. All these videos he filmed in the late 1980's. After that it said he was invited by the US military to Virginia to teach SEAL Team members hand-to-hand combat.

i love the opening statement " knife fighting is scienctific" thats right we dont study martial arts you study martial science

1:25 It does work sometimes. I remember there was a fight happened in our area, it was a machete vs a knife. What he did was he sacrificed his arm, then he grabbed the guy with a machete and stabbed him in the torso multiple times then ran. The guy with the machete died.

I wish you showed the open hand defense techniques.

Dang Paul was young there.

I am not talking about some war. I am talking about day to day things like going grocery shopping, going to work, going out, etc. Obviously in a war situation i would have more then just a gun etc.

Superb

All these videos convince me of is that in an altercation, I would be dead 😆

thank you for dispersing the FMA.

Best video I seen so far

Great knife fighting video.

@copypacercopypacer im well aware of that my comment was towards kicking at a blade holding opponent. i practice fma/silat so im aware of how a disarm is carried out.

This guy is awesome. Is he still teaching?

Wow looking at this now it looks substandard.

yeah sikaran/pananjakman are simutaneously used in conjunction with the hand/blade but the kicks are very low and not the above the waist as we see here. now if they were done to give the knife practitioner target practice against a high kick then i can dig it otherwise i personally wouldnt do it.

He did this all the while coked up

Is there any technic to disarm the knife attacker or knock out him when we are unarmed..

as i stated if done to give the knifer target practice then cool but trying to kick someone with a knife is rather risky.the only kicking i would be doing would be kicking rocks while running away from a knifer and im talking fast like as in being in third place behind the flash and superman.even in the mid 80s when i was in california kicks above knee were frowned upon in jkd/kali so unless those cops just didnt know how to fight i certainly wouldnt have tried a high kick in the street...

he must eat alot of steaks and roasts

The thing is it is...

any good videos when you don't have a knife?

The Fighting Nife Very Dangerous... If You Can Scap..Will be Win

Tons don't listen to Jack Frost, just search Paul vunak

i trained knife figthing with my grand father , but then i realised to away from knife holder as far as possible since

Then someone tried robbing your house considering most people don't carry a 12 gauge in public, a handgun sure. But a shotgun...no.

Dude, that subtle foot work when he was explaining the 5 knife angles. You can tell when something is muscle memory. Actually had the street safe series of tapes. Loved'm. When 99% of all taught MA in america was utter garbo, this guy was already legit.

I am now prepared to handle a guy with 2 machetes! :D Hurray for learning!

haha...i remember well that vids, i owned them in the early 90s...can anyone tell me what happens with Vunak now?

Love the way we get a whole series of traps and counters in the instruction section...none of which appear in the sparring section, only rudimentary blocks, parries and cuts, followed by gross motor moves, knees and elbows. Why bother with all the unworkable traps and locks. Stick to the cuts and parries and spar, spar, spar.

If you can do it, bring a rifle, a handgun back up with a bolo or a knife. Use your primary weapon, the rifle. if it malfunctioned draw your secondary weapon, the handgun; and if it malfunction, unsheath your bolo or knife.

I can’t believe people take this dude seriously

then you run XD or hide

Be smart enough to keep your distance lol

Very good techniques at the beginning (hand as main target and not trying to block an attack with your unarmed hand) until you get stuff like around 6:42 where the guy on the right reaches out with his unarmed hand to block or parry the opponents hand and then tries to kick (good ways to "de-fang" yourself). There was no need for him to do that. He sacrificed his hand and then leg instead of using his own knife. Blocking/parrying/locking techniques should be saved for scenarios where the attacker happens to get in too close and you have no other choice but to try and deflect or lock their knife hand. And the same goes for the guy throwing out kicks at 6:48. If the opponent had paid attention he would have sliced his foot or ankle instead of moving away from the kick each time. That was terrible fighting and should have been pointed out by Paul as a bad mistake for the sake of the viewers.

Duelo a muerte con cuchillos xd

in sparring and of course real life. maybe he allows it in sparring but i have his advanced knife fighting and archive dvd and in both the guys are kicking at a bladeholding opponent. im sure he doesnt advocate it in the street but my personal opinion is i wouldnt do it but thats just me.

wow genius

0:24 wtf walks aroud with a short sword, let alone against someone with two short swords.

DO NOT stab a person after you disarm that person, it will lead you into BIG troubles with the law! The video show combat to the death and that has nothing to do with self-defense!

LOL, Bargaining Position...

If you're opponent happens to have a karambit blade just turn and run or find an improvised weapon quick.You have zero chance against a karambit.You don't even need to be an expert knife user to be dangerous with a karambit.It's razor sharp,cuts in 3 different directions(both edges and the pointy tip) and it's a hook blade....Very deadly

80's level VHS

that isnt true it depends where you live in the philippines for example i live in the city.. so its rare to see someone carrying a knife they will probably carry a small little swiss army knife but thats it most of the muggers here dont know how to fight and they use ice picks as shanks.. my friend has been mugged before they threatened him with a sharpened screw driver to the neck he kicked him in the balls and ran btw i'm filipino.. and i do practice Eskrima

you are probably right to some degree. but what i dont understand is why are we even arguing in the first place..

@rockstarr469 Not really. And if you go by what this guy says, you'll never find one. The way guys like this teach is that you ALWAYS carry a knife. Which of course isn't helpful to our friends over in the UK, since I'm under the current impression blades are illegal over there. Not to mention they treat it like EVERYONE is a prized knife fighter. Just find something you trust, and find a friend. Get some twigs, and find out if it works.

????????What????

@joexxv hey, it's better than nothing. Some of thsoe guys will still fuck someone up.

Perhaps you are ignorant to the fact if your search paul vunak you will find the majority of his videos are non knife related and hand to hand instead.

i love everything but the guys kicking at a blade carrying opponent. kicking opens one to a nasty femoral shot.

Assuming he's telling the truth about that many people train special forces people. They bring in a number of personnel to train their people, and they develop their own program. Right now it seems Eskrima is the flavor of the month. I train with the Self Defense Company and weapons fighting is kept more simple and deadly.

"knife fighting" isnt the core of filipino martial arts .... huge blades (machetes) are. sticks were used to disguise the old moro people's training from the spaniards.. .. the knife concepts were later on added to the system because in modern times no one carries huge ass 15 inch bolos anymore so the modern "masters" started to incorporate the knives along with the sticks(machetes). although these concepts might work they are just CONCEPTS..

and u can't use the hand gun in a market 'coz u might kill somebody not ur enemy. right? LOL

so how come all that complicated nonsense he was teaching from 00:00 till 06:40 is not seen when they spar with knives?

technically all the filipinos then were moro they only became "regular" when the spaniards came in and forced christianity onto them you are right there are some moro tribes that the spaniards couldnt get to because of terrain such as those in the far north and in the south therefor the spaniards only ruled from the center of the island i.e luzon and visayas the couldnt get to the tribes in the mountainous areas but long before the spaniards all filipinos were muslim and moro

If they were Moro, they wouldn't have to hide their martial arts from the Spaniards because the Spaniards barely ruled them. You must mean regular Filipinos, because then they'd have reason to hide training in martial arts lest they be charged with insurrection.

Seems cool but i can't help but laugh at what he's doing while they spar at 7:50 on

Haha that’s pork not beef

This is really dated. We know now what a person can handle when being cut. Even badly. He doesn't know what he's talking about.