How to Use the Hanging Log for Tomahawk Training: The Fighting Tomahawk

A uniquely American weapon, the tomahawk has been used in warfare from 18th century colonial skirmishes to the modern battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. In this groundbreaking video, veteran Dwight McLemore has taken the painstaking research that made his book "The Fighting Tomahawk" such a best-seller and adapted it to video, showing not only how the tomahawk was used during the Colonial era, but also how it can be used as an almost unbeatable self-defense tool today.

In addition to the hard-and-fast tactics of tomahawk fighting, McLemore takes you through the history of the weapon and its evolution from the ball-headed war club that made the American Indians such feared hand-to-hand fighters to the razor-sharp field axe and beyond. The fighting techniques taught include learning basic grips and angles, mastering footwork that will always put you at the most advantageous position to attack, striking at close range, combining cutting and chopping, surprising your opponent with low-line kicks, and much more. He also includes dangerous live-blade work, sparring, and throwing of the weapon to give you the combat skills any frontiersman would have.

The pioneers didn't bother with martial arts dogma, and neither should you let this video teach you how to fight like a true American warrior.

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• Maj. John L. Plaster
• Mark Hatmaker
• Michael Janich
• Joseph Simonet
• Capt. W.E. Fairbairn
• Bob Orlando
• Col. Rex Applegate

[PaladinPress]

@GOBRAGH2 I will try and locate an email address for the author and then I can present your questions to him. Thank you very much for the comment.

[PaladinPress]

@GOBRAGH2 Hi, GOBRAGH2, here is what we have for the author's bio:

Dwight C. McLemore is a retired combat arms officer with the U.S. Army and is an accomplished bladesman and instructor. He is renowned for his vast knowledge of Bowie and big-knife fighting and has more than 18 years of experience in self-defense and martial arts. The owner of the School of Two Swords, McLemore is rated expert level with the American Knife Congress, is certified in kung fu and holds 1st dan in kendo.

[GOBRAGH2]

This is a excellent video as this weapon is of interest to me. What got the video authors interested in this weapon?

Are tomahawks standard issue to the infantry in the US military? Or is that a special forces only weapon?

Do any of the video participants have a combat archery video keeping in theme with the transition from using a bow to a tomahawk? Or a combination of those weapons with one in each hand?

[PaladinPress]

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