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506 - Training diary: Knife defence, the "first event", and the problem with combinations

506 - Training diary: Knife defence, the "first event", and the problem with combinations

From 27/08/24 Private training

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Above: While at work, being confronted by a rushing knife attacker. No martial arts, no techniques, just the pure instinct in the moment to use his bike to block the charging street taxation agent may well have initially saved this London man’s life although he was stabbed moments later for trying to grapple and retrieve the bike, which as a delivery rider, represented his livelihood.

Meanwhile in the fuzzy, warm security of the training room, we were studying knife defence…

A simple training drill - realistically anything but simple but theoretically it is at least - first block a single knife slash and then deliver a counter strike.

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