Sunday, April 27, 2008

Get Your Blog Listed on Toplist

Hey ,
I came across a site that lets you list your Martial Arts blog,
if you have one ,just use the button and get listed!!
Lots of interesting reading on different martial arts.
Jerry

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Knife Defense Technique April 2008

Hi All,

Have you ever seen the victim of a knife attack ?
Most of the time the person being attacked, (if they don't know what they are doing)
will try to stop the attack by putting up their hands and trying to grab or block the
knife ! They wind up getting cut repeatedly on the hands ,arms etc.
If you can it's better to just run and get away!!

If your a martial artist you may want to learn and practice this technique.
A person is approaching you he has a knife in his right hand and is reaching out with
his left hand to grab you. He wants to grab you with his left hand and stab you with a straight
thrusting motion with the knife in his right hand. You step to your right with your right foot
on a 45 degree angle into a right half horse stance,blocking and grabbing his left wrist on the outside with your left hand ,now turn toward his arm into a left half horse and strike his
elbow with your right forearm (this hyper extends or breaks his elbow) now bring your arm
over his and right backhand strike to his throat (you hit him with the hard part of your arm
just below your wrist)reach over and grab his right shoulder with your right hand,straighten
your right arm against his throat, this will choke him.(you pull his left arm against your chest
at the same time),he should have dropped the knife by now .



The lesson here is you don't have to go after the hand that's holding the knife.

You fight the whole person,by stepping to the opposite side you remove yourself from the
opponents" kill zone" and put him in your" kill zone". Make sure you control the opponents
left arm and keep it straight, this prevents him from turning toward you with the knife hand.

Have fun practicing this, this move is very deadly go slow.

Peace , Jerry
If you don't know how to use angles in a fight, go here and buy my book,
The Use of Lines ,Angles and Circles in Hand to Hand Combat

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