Scott Sonnon Knife Drills for Coordination

[TurtleDude1959]

This is awesome, its as good a knife video I have seen

[sliverfox40]

very impressive video .

[TheWarriorScholar]

excellent!

I think he just covered a years worth of training material in 5 miutes

[peeott]

cool knife drills but whats with the japa beads?

[kainai2099]

Is there a, preferred, basic blade to start with, or is it simply personal preference?

[donoraen]

@kainai2099 Its going to depend on your hand size and grip style.

[Milpower]

What kind of knife is he using?

[stickmaster2000]

Nice knife dextirity drills.

[gurujlj]

Very nice Scott...Looks very similar to Indonesian Silat, knife play! Great job!!! =)

[mapleleafmenace]

Guys, the music is Hanuman Chaleesa by Krishna Das. Thanks to a friend of mine and his Shazaam-equipped phone. :)

Fantastic track, and good coordination drills. A buddy of mine just told me about coach Sonnon, but after watching his youtube stuff I am inspired to completely revamp my workout regime. Props and thanks for sharing, Scott!

[SurveyofFilmMusic]

Coach Scott, this is my favourite video of you. ...hands down!

[o0gairrick0o]

Thanks for the share!

[MatchburnLux]

Thanks...and the music...You're Great Dear Warrior

[Naga7206]

Guru Sonnon, you truley are an inspiration to all martial artists regardless of style or dogma, terima kesih

[RDPproject]

Watching this and listning to the music....all quite hypnotic.

[randyds5]

this video helped me ALOT in my knife training. thanks for posting

[ballen900]

this was impressive. thanx for posting

[JingShenKuoshu]

Scott, I am a Kinesiologist using martial arts to convey Functional Fitness. I have been following your knowledge for years and you constantly impress me. Would you be interested in coordinating a seminar with myself and BOSU Fitness. Very Impressive - A truely Rare Martial Scientist. You deserve much respect and appreciation

[mattkuhlmann]

Coach Sonnon, you are always suprising me, that was beautiful.

[AntiHero12109]

Martial artist since 94 and let me say, this is one peaceful video, great flow, beautiful music, not what I normally am interested in, but great video. Little movements like that actually really help with knife fighting and kali.

[luntrarurazvan]

its ...perferct...good mouvie..ths

[NuatMom]

Hey folks, ever hear of "Shaolin"? That might put the whole "Buddhist/weapon" concern in to context?

Kata is kata.

You'd probably think this "pretty" if done with a wooden staff.

BTW, it says "for coordination".

Who's even to say that he's a Buddhist, maybe he's just a slave to trends, (anyone notice my Kabbalah bracelet?)

[Attilahollo9]

Jobbew, havn't u ever heard about Buddhist warrior monks????

[Attilahollo9]

I think the way of martial arts starts understanding fighting.Every beginner goes true the inner struggle that we fought with ourselves.That's more bloody and ugly than anything.A real life and death match with ourselves. If we win than we can start learning the true art and mentally and spiritually develop. Weapon is only just a tool to archive that. Make a 1000 cuts with a katana or stick or whatever. One's get familiar with a weapon gets familiar with himself as well.

[randyds5]

indeed

[ProfessorOKaine]

Amazing and lovely!

[jobbew]

....not by denying it's existence -I'm a martial artist myself- but to do refuse to take refuge in some forms of it. Knife fighting creates so much suffering, it always gets plain ugly.

My viewpoint is that some things I wish not to use,regardless the consequence, regardless the situation.

I think we -martial artists- have a responsibility here. What's the RMAX point of stance here: Can you please comment on this?

Jobbe

Netherlands

[w1ngchung]

While the knife strikes a nerve with you, others feel the same about the gun, the sword or all martial arts in general. As a martial artist yourself, there is no doubt some aspect of what you study that others will consider "too far" since it involves the potential for violence or even death. You can not learn to defend yourself from a knife attack without learning to handle a knife yourself. This study does not condone violence against others but encourages understanding and self protection.

[stecha2]

So you would not use the knife against someone who attacks the people who you love?

BTW recon that the art piece doesn't mean expression....

If you train a martial art you train how to hurt people...you can talk about BUDO and selfperfection ....but if you trained 500 times in a kata to break a joint you have just done this...trained to break a joint. Broken joints are plain ugly too. Broken skulls from people who fell on concrete after getting punched...plain ugly...VIOLENCE IS PLAIN UGLY!!!

[randyds5]

i agree

[jobbew]

The combination of both a knife and the buddhist symbols in this vid makes me wonder -and a little worried I guess- about the

viewpoint of RMAX on violence in general and knife violence in specific. Can you please comment on that?

Im asking because I associate buddhism -among aother things- with maintaining an ethical stance towards violence, not by denying it's existence -I'm a martial artist myself-

but... (continued)

[jobbew]

The combination of both a knife ánd boeddhist (?) religious symbols makes me wonder -and a little worried I guess- about the ethical point of view of RMAX towards violence in general, and knife violence in specific. Can you say something about this?

I'm wondering because I personally associate buddhism with an effort to take an ethical stance against certain types of violence. Not by (continued in next part...)

[STEVIEKROON]

What's the intention please, I realy enjoy the flow/moves, but somehow find it hard to embrase something like Knife-fighting.

Thank you,

Jan

[MasJudt]

Nice. Reminds me of my Malabar teacher Steve Gartin. Love the music too - who performs that track?

[Combatant123]

Is there anything this guy cannot do?  Awesome.

[thelifeuwant]

"TWO THUMBS UP!"

:)

[thelifeuwant]

"TWO THUMBS UP!"

:)

[bitememan]

that is so cool

[Fit2Flow]

Nice Flow, my friend.