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Originally posted 2010-03-05 17:51:25. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Video with the 12 knife attacks:

When using the knife the are several spots on the body, that are better to attack then others.
The 12 Knife Attacks teaches you these spots and also how to shift the grib fast, so you know two ways of holding the knife:

1. The first grib, you are holding the knife kind of like the Eskrima stick. This grib is good for attacks, but not so good to defending your self….
The way some might hide this grib (the knife) would be behind your leg, following the leg….

2. The second grib, is a reverse grib where the knife blade follows your arm. This is good on the defense, but not so good to attacks as the first grib (nr. 1)……
The way some might hide this grib (the knife) would be behind your arm, following the arm….

Both gribs has its strong sides and its weak sides, this is why its important to learn how to shift between both gribs fast, below is a video where i show the shifting the grib:

When you look at the picture in the top, you will also notice that there is 4 attack angles (even that the most used is stabbing towards the stomach). These are the angles you could get attacked from with a knife:

1. From above….
2. From your side….
3. From the other side….
4. Below or straight inwards…..

We use above when we train technique, to train defense against all the angles. This is me showing a knife technique with a student:

We will then later test our technique in the sparring, when we use Sparring remember to have palms inwards so you dont get cut on your wrist…..

This is a video of two of my student doing Knife vs. Knife Sparring (note: They are both beginners):

This is a video of two of my student doing Empty Hand vs. Knife Sparring (note: They are both beginners):

Below is some videos about Knife attacks:

Originally posted 2009-09-11 10:23:35. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

1. Holding the tip of the knife:

2. Holding the end of the knife:

3. Holding the balance point of the knife:

We use the defensive stand/Water position to throw from, later on you can combine it with Naturel stand/Earth position to better hide the technique…..
Remember when you throw you elbow points at your target and you dont throw like a baseball, but you have to throw it straight…

Here is some videos of my training Knife throwing:

Originally posted 2009-09-09 09:58:44. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

I just got my instructor degree under Grandmaster Nick Elizar within Nickelstick Balintawak, GM. Nick has been known to create some of the best Eskrimadors within Cebu, his unique style is mixing both long range and close range Eskrima together with a modern JKD like look on want works and does not works, he always keeps it real and streetwise with lots of dirty tricks….