How to Counter a Knife Threat: Bob Kasper: The Lost Tapes

Nobody has ever done combative knife tactics better than Bob Kasper. The Lost Tapes preserves Kasper's definitive modern American combative knife curriculum for generations to come. It carefully pieces together Kasper's lifelong study and instruction of knife combatives from years' worth of VHS home movies and seminar footage that had been boxed and stored in a shed after Kasper's untimely death.

Based on his teachings at the Gung-Ho-Chuan Association (GHCA), this video begins with the basics of stance and grip, covers brutal snap cuts and thrusts, moves on to the importance of startle cuts in your repertoire, demonstrates blade-blocking maneuvers and teaches stress draws to enhance action when one is under violent attack. Designed to enhance awareness and develop an appreciation of distancing, positioning, and unarmed skills, Kasper's vicious Street Series knife attack and defensive techniques use violent smash-and-slash reality-based training to mimic encounters most likely to be encountered in the streets.

The Lost Tapes contains some of the most true-to-life combative instruction ever seen in the Paladin Professional Action Library.

Available now from the Paladin Press Professional Action Library: http://www.paladin-press.com/product/Bob_Kasper_The_Lost_Tapes/Knife_and_swor...

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

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[5thprofession47]

Paladin Press, will this be a series of DVDs featuring Kasper or a stand alone?

[PaladinPress]

@5thprofession47 This DVD will be a stand alone product.

[mrblargmuffins]

This saved me from getting beaten up at school today. Except he dident have a knife just a fist, but it worked. Thanks alot guys.

[SEAMOKTactical]

Solid and Basic...the way it better be....no flash ...flash=DEATH!

[5thprofession47]

I watched the DVD last night. It's a solid resource and definitely a welcome addition to my library.

[PissedFechtmeister]

The thing I like about this clip is that it emphasizes concepts rather than techniques.

[danielskipp1]

@stillnessinmovement

i agree :D

i also recommend the "attackproof" guys

[danielskipp1]

How are we supposed to train? Full force chin jabs, throatstrikes, eyegouges, kicks to the knee, jointlocks, combat throws [against limbs, spine & head] and dim mak are impossible to execute without injury or the wearing of armour that nullifies the effect & so the technique. The modern trend of resistant badguys wearing suits of armour is all very good for some things but just is not realistic enough to dismiss or adopt techniques.

Silat & escrima players have "compliantly" trained to hi level

[stillnessinmovement]

some good choices and tactical lines.

but im gonna say, I much prefer Vladmir Vasiliev and the systema method of dealing w knives.

it's good to learn tactics and methods, but everytime I work that stuff, I find it works or it doesn't depending on what sort of training the other guy has had.

with the systema work is constantly improvised, and you really get a better capacity to react to an unpracticed situation, which of course, any real attack will be.

thanks for posting,

train well

[danielskipp1]

I would miss out the knee strike [everybody seems to think a knee to the guts/bladder/balls is a great fight stopper... i think it a waste of time, loses grounding and risks losing balance & falling] unless it was to their leg [faster, easier & safer]. Otherwise a great technique, as long as it is done perfectly. If they just want money of course it usually best to give it up but as someone was stabbed and killed by a hoodrat last week in the UK after giving up his cash you gotta play the odds.