Thank you guys for the work you put in to these videos. Im remembering a good friend of mine who got me into training for self defense, and your videos were some of the first he ever showed me. He passed away in late 2021. I went slack on my training long before he passed but I've rediscovered you guys after six years of letting my training and reflexes go slack, and these videos reminded me of him. So with my brother in mind, I'm gonna start watching and training again. Thank you guys.
I am a USCCA member. I have martial arts experience and taught for many years. Many of your excellent magazine articles stress caution and insistence upon getting good training concerning handguns. But I cringe at the unarmed self defense ones, and the knife fighting ones in particular. It takes years of training to perform some of the techniques. At :58 for example, being able to accurately time the slap of the assailant's hand/wrist (after allowing his hand/knife to pass through without making contact with you) opposite of your other hand making a cutting motion, is not something for beginners to attempt. Moreover, what is being defended against here is a very slow attacking motion by the attacker. Your magazine allows for only still photos of unarmed self defense techniques, making it understandable that the attacker is "frozen" in various positions while the defender performs certain actions. Here however, a viewer with little knowledge/training will observe the defender describing and performing defensive techniques, all the while the attacker is doing nothing to alter his attack or defend against the defensive moves. My concern is that too many viewers may assume that they can, with a little practice, successfully defend themselves from a knife attack after viewing the "ease" with which the defender demonstrates his techniques. With all sincerity and with respect for your fine magazine, I urge you to cease attempting to instruct readers/viewers in self defense techniques. More experienced students who are receiving great training in person will find it of little value. Lesser experienced students or casual observers may be deluded into believing they can perform such techniques, and get themselves hurt very badly.
Very well said! I have had a discussion with the USCCA about this very thing. Really the idea that someone will attack you and you will defend yourself with a knife like some Bruce Lee movies is ridiculous. There is a very good reason that videos of people defending themselves with guns, mace, tasers, and pretty much anything other than a knife are easy to find. Believing a pocket knife is good for anything beyond opening a toy for your kid for 99.9% of people is dangerous.
@@nimbly1693 as an instructor I whole heartedly disagree a knife is the oldest tool on earth for a reason it works knife training should progress like all other skills a beginner or untrained can still use a bladed weapon to devastating consequences the difficulty is proper priority in training in the words of zorro the pointy end goes in the other guy I can promise a knife fight isn't going to look like a movie but in the Philippines and Indonesia they are alot more common the technique he's using is from the Philippines
@@jamesmitchell6619 I have looked pretty hard. Finding a person whose effectively used a knife in self defense, aside from scaring the perp off, is almost impossible.
@@nimbly1693 my aunt is from a small town in Philippines and her stories would curl your hair lack of TH-cam videos isn't exactly absence of evidence it's lack of documentation go find any silat instructor
@@jamesmitchell6619 The existence of instructors isn't evidence that knife fights are a thing. And it's not just TH-cam. Anywhere you look online for examples of people successfully using a pocket knife to defend themselves there's practically nothing. Even if that's entirely wrong, the idea that someone is going to gain useful information on how to actually do it from this choreographed video explanation is laughable.
I understand you can knock someone off guard and get 2 strikes in... But don't you think the "bad guy" could do the same thing? Or at least try to attack back, before your third move? seems pretty unrealistic to me.
Of course you have to anticipate a reaction from opponent, however in these types of vids, the demonstrator is slowing down alot to show you what he's doing. In full speed, he could complete that whole sequence in one continuous motion. Once you start your flow, you continue until the opponent is down, no pauses.
Thank you guys for the work you put in to these videos. Im remembering a good friend of mine who got me into training for self defense, and your videos were some of the first he ever showed me. He passed away in late 2021. I went slack on my training long before he passed but I've rediscovered you guys after six years of letting my training and reflexes go slack, and these videos reminded me of him. So with my brother in mind, I'm gonna start watching and training again. Thank you guys.
I am a USCCA member. I have martial arts experience and taught for many years. Many of your excellent magazine articles stress caution and insistence upon getting good training concerning handguns. But I cringe at the unarmed self defense ones, and the knife fighting ones in particular. It takes years of training to perform some of the techniques. At :58 for example, being able to accurately time the slap of the assailant's hand/wrist (after allowing his hand/knife to pass through without making contact with you) opposite of your other hand making a cutting motion, is not something for beginners to attempt. Moreover, what is being defended against here is a very slow attacking motion by the attacker.
Your magazine allows for only still photos of unarmed self defense techniques, making it understandable that the attacker is "frozen" in various positions while the defender performs certain actions. Here however, a viewer with little knowledge/training will observe the defender describing and performing defensive techniques, all the while the attacker is doing nothing to alter his attack or defend against the defensive moves. My concern is that too many viewers may assume that they can, with a little practice, successfully defend themselves from a knife attack after viewing the "ease" with which the defender demonstrates his techniques.
With all sincerity and with respect for your fine magazine, I urge you to cease attempting to instruct readers/viewers in self defense techniques. More experienced students who are receiving great training in person will find it of little value. Lesser experienced students or casual observers may be deluded into believing they can perform such techniques, and get themselves hurt very badly.
Very well said! I have had a discussion with the USCCA about this very thing. Really the idea that someone will attack you and you will defend yourself with a knife like some Bruce Lee movies is ridiculous. There is a very good reason that videos of people defending themselves with guns, mace, tasers, and pretty much anything other than a knife are easy to find. Believing a pocket knife is good for anything beyond opening a toy for your kid for 99.9% of people is dangerous.
@@nimbly1693 as an instructor I whole heartedly disagree a knife is the oldest tool on earth for a reason it works knife training should progress like all other skills a beginner or untrained can still use a bladed weapon to devastating consequences the difficulty is proper priority in training in the words of zorro the pointy end goes in the other guy I can promise a knife fight isn't going to look like a movie but in the Philippines and Indonesia they are alot more common the technique he's using is from the Philippines
@@jamesmitchell6619 I have looked pretty hard. Finding a person whose effectively used a knife in self defense, aside from scaring the perp off, is almost impossible.
@@nimbly1693 my aunt is from a small town in Philippines and her stories would curl your hair lack of TH-cam videos isn't exactly absence of evidence it's lack of documentation go find any silat instructor
@@jamesmitchell6619 The existence of instructors isn't evidence that knife fights are a thing. And it's not just TH-cam. Anywhere you look online for examples of people successfully using a pocket knife to defend themselves there's practically nothing. Even if that's entirely wrong, the idea that someone is going to gain useful information on how to actually do it from this choreographed video explanation is laughable.
Great video and love what you guys do
What about if the enemy is trying to stab you not a slash?
Great instructor👍
I love these knife videos
That was very good, I always learn something from you.
I understand you can knock someone off guard and get 2 strikes in... But don't you think the "bad guy" could do the same thing? Or at least try to attack back, before your third move? seems pretty unrealistic to me.
Excellent!
would you be worried about that side and then his knife coming back to you in a backwards motion? Tactically?
Of course you have to anticipate a reaction from opponent, however in these types of vids, the demonstrator is slowing down alot to show you what he's doing. In full speed, he could complete that whole sequence in one continuous motion. Once you start your flow, you continue until the opponent is down, no pauses.