391 - Aide-mémoire: May '23 week two
Survival fighting and knife defence workshop content and notes
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Tuesday 09_05_23
Preparation
Safer ways of falling
Standing
Ground movement
Dangers of rolling
Comparing tactics vs stand over aggressors - some look great but waste time and end with you getting your head kicked in, be clear about taking the fight to the aggressor immediately.
Unarmed skills
Following on from last week’s “countering ambush” material, here I looked at what happens next when the fight is very much on.
The aggressor is throwing possibly multiple punches at you as a set up for either taking you to the floor or landing a haymaker.
The group worked on countering this attack and preparing for the scenario work that followed.
Grappling
Ramming the aggressor - gross motor tactics for ploughing through the aggressor on your way to escape.
What may happen if this doesn’t work.
The scramble for first contact and control
Pinning - the race to get control of the arms and neck and pin the aggressor for follow up striking or restraint.
Various offensive tactics from this position - they are not going to just lie there after all! - striking, limb trapping, crushes, chokes and pain compliance.
Grappling involving knives
As an introduction to this following material, we referenced ideas that are discussed in this article below.
The whole of the remaining time was dedicated to exploring the same grappling scenario as before but with a very big twist - the presence of a blade.
Trainees were forced to abandon all planned tactics and fight to control the weapon as it appeared at various stages of the confrontation.
As with all similar scenarios, as soon as the blade appears …or is felt, chaos ensues.
Establishing contact and control can be extremely challenging, especially on the ground.
Here, a trainee’s entire repertoire of nastiness will be showcased as a way of either dealing with the aggressor’s defence of their own weapon or in contrast, the aggressor’s support and retention of the weapon with everything available to them.
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