Knife-on-Knife and Multiple Opponent Knife Defense Strategies: Knife Training Methods and Techniques for Martial Artists, #8
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The Knife Training Methods and Techniques for Martial Artists series gives the martial arts interested person a solid background on the importance of the knife as a combat weapon, inspires the reader about the benefits of knife training, and provides detailed step-by-step instruction in how to manipulate and defend against a knife with speed, proficiency, and confidence.
Almost any martial art, traditional or modern, can be adapted to knife offense and defense without changing the basic principles of the art. Since the knife is a relatively small and lightweight weapon, many of the same moves and movement patterns you use in your empty-hand art are easily transferable to your knife techniques, and vice versa. The practical lessons you learn by adding knife training to your arsenal include quick reaction skills, physical and mental control, footwork and evasion tactics, distance control, and target precision.
Knife training gives you a decided physical and mental edge and opens new dimensions that will deepen your understanding of the martial arts. Knife-on-Knife and Multiple Opponent Knife Defense Strategies, the eighth book in the series, covers commonly taught knife strategies and the factors one must be cautious of when fighting multiple opponents. It discusses knife techniques against single opponents armed with a knife, with emphasis on the training benefits yet dangers of dueling with the knife. It ends with more than a dozen martial arts dummy and partner exercises for further practice and analysis.
The full series comprises the following books:
1. Knife Anatomy
2. Knife Carry and Deployment
3. Knife Grip and Manipulation
4. Knife Attacks and Targets
5. Knife Fighting Stance, Footwork, and Dynamics of Motion
6. Knife Defense Basics
7. Knife Defense Dynamics
8. Knife-on-Knife and Multiple Opponent Knife Defense Strategies
9. Knife and Empty-Hand Defenses Compared
10. Knife Training and Advanced Martial Arts Concepts
Save by purchasing books 1 through 5 in the special Knife Offense (Five Books in One) volume, and books 6 through 10 in the special Knife Defense (Five Books in One) volume.
Martina Sprague
Martina Sprague grew up in the Stockholm area of Sweden. She has a Master of Arts degree in Military History from Norwich University in Vermont and has studied a variety of combat arts since 1987. As an independent scholar, she writes primarily on subjects pertaining to military and general history, politics, and instructional books on the martial arts. For more information, please visit her website: www.modernfighter.com.
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Knife-on-Knife and Multiple Opponent Knife Defense Strategies - Martina Sprague
INTRODUCTION
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Whether on the news or in action movies, most of us have probably seen footage of a helpless person lying on the ground, attempting to protect himself, while a mob is kicking him repeatedly to the body and head. Victims of these types of attacks generally sustain severe injuries, and there is little they can do once they end up on the ground. Although not totally impossible, it is also exceedingly difficult for a cornered person to run to safety past a mob intent on doing harm. While most of us probably have an opinion about what should be done in a multiple opponent attack scenario, I believe it is fair to say that most martial artists have never been in a situation that required them to fight several people at once, and certainly not with a bladed weapon. This leaves us at the theorizing stage, tempting us to promote common ideas, such as line 'em up and fight one person at a time.
The intent of this book on knife-on-knife and multiple opponent knife defense strategies is to provoke you to think about and explore scenarios where you have a knife available but are facing multiple empty-handed opponents, and scenarios where you have a knife available and are facing a single opponent who is also armed with a knife, also called knife-on-knife scenarios. After practicing the techniques presented in this book, which may or may not work in these types of dangerous situations, you will find where the truth lies for you based on the training you have already acquired. Several techniques for practice and analysis are covered, which you can practice alone on a martial arts dummy or with a training partner, and which will assist you in building confidence, speed, efficiency, and timing. The techniques, attacks, and defenses offered in this book are meant for you to ponder; they are not meant to be definitive techniques on street fighting with a knife. Seldom if ever is there only one way to act and react in a knife encounter.
As explained in Book 1, the Knife Training Methods and Techniques for Martial Artists series has three objectives: The first few books focus on getting to know the knife, its strengths and weaknesses, and on manipulating and using it. The next few books focus on defending against knife attacks. The last few books focus on implementing empty-hand martial arts skills into your knife training, and include scenario-based exercises intended to bring your knowledge into perspective and give you a solid understanding of your strengths and weaknesses when faced with a knife-wielding assailant. Each book starts with an introduction. You are then given the lesson objectives, along with detailed information and a number of training exercises aimed at making you physically and emotionally ready to participate in traditional martial arts demonstrations involving a knife or, if fate will have it, in a real encounter. Remember that it is your responsibility to know and comply with all federal and local laws regarding the possession and carry of edged weapons.
BRIEF HISTORY
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Regardless of which martial art you study, you will probably touch on the multiple opponent scenario sometime in your training. More often than not, however, we assume that the fight, whether empty-handed or armed, will take place against a single adversary. Forms practice might assume multiple attackers, but each imaginary opponent is still dealt with one at a time. Rather than defending against a group, you will in fact defend against individuals. When given the chance to participate in a multiple opponent attack scenario in the training hall, the semi-realistic way in which you practice will probably make you feel overwhelmed, as though the techniques you have studied so diligently have suddenly become