Knife fighting defensive drill

This is video from a knife fighting course I teach that is comprised of 10 lessons. The particular class is from Lesson 4 which deals with knife defense. We start lesson 4 by introducing 4 basic blocks (a chopping defense that impedes the attacking limb, also know as a stop) and "hollowing". From there we advance the "stops" into "slips" which are more of a slash which allows you to defend with a combination of angles which increases our ability to effectively follow up with a counter-attack and we advance this defense to include lateral movement. From there we introduce the butterfly cut (knife-double-tap), then bringing the support hand into the fight using catching, trapping, checking and striking in conjunction with a slipping butterfly cut defense (this takes many hours of classes). We then change things up a bit and work on a "linear defense" for those times when we can't move the centerline with lateral movement. From there we combine the defensive with the counter-attack and that is what we are doing in this video.

Specifically, we are drilling a Zone-2 defense against the 12 angles of attack from an attacker using a lead hand Chinese grip.

Throughout the lessons we are attacking from several different knife fighting styles. In this course we endorse fighting with the knife in the lead hand (i.e: same side hand as the foot we have furthest forward) so we get a lot of work in that stance, but all defensive drills must be repeated against lead hand modern (forward) grip, then rear hand modern grip, then lead hand Chinese (reverse) grip, then rear hand Chinese grip. This way, when you face one of these styles (grips) you are not only familiar with them as a defender, but you are inherently familiar with them from the attacker's perspective.

All these reps means that you are not just learning a knife fighting style, but rather you are having a knife fighting style ingrained into your being.

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[jerkwitha3]

Your comments about how different real knife attacks are from sport are great. Totally agree with those even though my observation has been that the attacker changes a lot when the defender seems unarmed vs seems armed.

I can see how your experience with actual encounters is passed on in your instruction. You describe a very realistic attacker.

Your foot work and center line discussion has a lot in common with teachings in historical fencing manuals.